A federal officer shot and wounded a man in Minneapolis Wednesday night, exactly one week after Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in the same city.
The shooting occurred after officers attempted to conduct “a targeted traffic stop” just before 7 p.m., the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on X. They stopped a man from Venezuela, who authorities said is undocumented, but he sped off and crashed into a nearby parked car before taking off on foot.
An officer pursued him, but when he reached the man, two more people emerged from a nearby apartment building with a snow shovel and a broom. DHS said all three of them attacked the officer.
“Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired defensive shots to defend his life,” DHS said, adding that he was struck in the leg.
Both the officer and the man who was shot were taken to the hospital. The other two individuals involved in the incident are in custody.
“This attack on another brave member of law enforcement took place while Minnesota’s top leaders, Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, are actively encouraging an organized resistance to ICE and federal law enforcement officers,” DHS said in a statement.
Officials in Minneapolis called for calm in wake of the shooting, which unfolded about 10 miles away from where 36-year-old Good was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7. Tensions in the city have been running high in the days since, with regular demonstrations protesting the federal government’s increased immigration enforcement in the area.
Mayor Jacob Frey during a press conference Wednesday night compared the number of city police, a figure that is around 600, to the 3,000 federal immigration and customs enforcement officers deployed there.
“This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in,” he said. “We are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to protect order.”