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So here’s what I know on the facts so far:
1. A local ICE watch group claimed the victim was affiliated with them (I don’t know whether she was monitoring or protesting when this occurred. A group showed up to protest, but I don’t know if she was with the group or just happened to be in the area).
2. She was in the middle of the street sideways for unknown reasons (possibly in an attempt to block the road).
3. She waved some cars by her.
4. ICE for some reason approached the car and gave conflicting orders while attempting to open her door.
5. One of the ICE agents (the one who later shot her) decided to position himself in front of the car (like a fool, IMO).
6. She moves the car forward and the agent in front of the car shoots her once, then a few more times after the car passes by.
I don’t think we know for sure if the agent was actually hit or not. I believe the people saying he was hit are referencing this video. It was unfortunately a post from a partisan source, but it’s the only one I could find slowed down from this angle:
IMO, the footage is too grainy to tell whether he was actually hit, but it certainly got very close to him.
Here’s another slomo video from a different angle that shows the position of the shooter (agent pulls his gun at the 4 second mark):
Both do show that she did eventually turn right.
*Also want to note that I don’t endorse the opinions in the tweets. I just think they were the best videos.
Here’s a good article with multiple eyewitness accounts:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
IMO, the most concise and inclusive witness account of events in the article:
Caitlin Callenson said she was walking down Portland Avenue with her partner when she saw who she assumed were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
“They tried to zoom their car out of the snowbank but were just stuck,” she said.
She said other ICE vehicles showed up, leading neighbors to believe it might be an ICE enforcement action. People showed up, and some began blowing whistles.
“People in our neighborhood have been terrorized by ICE for six weeks. We want our neighbors safe, and so when we see a group of ICE vehicles, people in the community are showing up and saying, ‘This is not OK,’” she said.
Callenson said one person — the woman who was shot a short time later — drove her vehicle perpendicular to the lanes of traffic on Portland Avenue, south of the ICE vehicles. By that point, Callenson said, the vehicle stuck in snow had been freed.
“Some of them were leaving, and they just went around her, but ICE gave her orders to leave, while at the same time, another ICE person said, ‘Get out of the car,’ and he reached for her door handle. And then there was an ICE agent in front of her vehicle. So it was difficult for her to leave, as she'd been ordered to do,” Callenson said.
“She turned her steering wheel toward the right. The person was grabbing her door handle, the ICE officer who was in front of her vehicle shot once from the front and twice from the side, hitting her maybe three feet away at the max. Because she was shot, and she was already trying to leave, her foot was on the accelerator, and she crashed into a telephone pole.”
We do know from the videos that the person grabbing the door handle was not the one that shot her, but the rest of the facts seem to line up with what we see in the video (although I’m not sure how she could see which way she had her steering wheel turned, especially since the tires were in forward position until the shooter pulled his gun, as seen in video #2).
Just trying to get the objective facts out there with minimal subjective opinion. I personally am trying hard not to make any snap judgments yet one way or the other. I just hope that there’s a fair trial and conviction if the courts deem one is warranted.
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