Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey did not mince words when addressing the public about an ICE officer who gunned down a woman during an immigration operation Wednesday.
“To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey said during a fiery press conference after the shooting.
“Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite,” he added.
Frey was just one of numerous leaders who sounded off as footage of the shooting emerged, which captured an ICE agent firing at a 37-year-old woman who tried to speed off in her SUV in the direction of one of several ICE agents ordering her out of her vehicle.
The woman was a protester attempting to block ICE officers carrying out an operation in the middle class neighborhood, Department of Homeland security for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement, which accused her of attempting to kill the officer.
“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” McLaughlin said in an X post.
But Mayor Frey disagreed, and called the ICE agents the real terrorists.
“People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long term Minneapolis residents that have considered so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead. That’s on you,” Frey said.
“And it’s also on you to leave. It’s on you to make sure further damage, further loss of life and injury is done,” he added, promising to “work towards justice.”
Other local lawmakers also expressed their outrage.
“I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine,” said Gov. Tim Walz on X. “The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
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US Sen. Tina Smith (D, MN) said the victim was a legal resident.
“A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile,” she wrote on X.
“ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety. Please be safe Minneapolis,” Smith added.
And firebrand leftwing Minneapolis Rep. Ilhan Omar echoed them all.
“ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city,” she wrote.
The Trump administration, however, has remained firm in its position.
“Domestic terrorism,” White House chief of staff Stephen Miller wrote on X.
