I don’t even know what else to add to this headline. This is so fucked up and tragic scary and infuriating and it will in no way slow the resistance.

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    7 days ago

    Now the protestors were rioters and the victim was trying to run over officers and she was shot four times in the face ‘defensively’ 🙄🙄🙄

    12:14 p.m. | Minnesota activates emergency ops center

    The State Emergency Operation Center has been activated. For reference, this is the multi-agency team that crops up during major incidents. You’ll remember it from the post-George Floyd murder

    11:50 a.m. | ICE says agent, ‘fearing for his life’, kills protester

    Federal authorities say an ICE agent, “fearing for his life” killed a woman during a confrontation Wednesday in south Minneapolis.

    City officials are expected to speak at 12:15 p.m.

    The ICE statement says, in part:

    “Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.

    “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

    “He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.

    “The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. Thankfully, the ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.”

    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them

      Like fuck, she was just trying to get away. At worse one of the police was forced to sidestep.