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President Trump responds to fatal shooting of American citizen by ICE officer in Minneapolis

APTOPIX Immigration Enforcement Minnesota A bullet hole and blood stains are seen in a crashed vehicle on at the scene of a shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) (Ben Hovland/AP)

On Wednesday, a Minneapolis woman was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. The shooting was caught on camera.

Federal officials claimed it was an act of self-defense, but the city’s mayor described it as “reckless” and unnecessary.

President Donald Trump, in a social media post, said he’d viewed video footage of the incident and criticized the woman who was shot as acting “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting” and “then violently, willfully, and viciously” running over the ICE officer.

The president also described another woman seen screaming in the footage of the incident he viewed as “obviously, a professional agitator.”

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“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital,” Trump said of the ICE officer.

WARNING: THE VIDEOS BELOW ARE GRAPHIC AND CONTAINS VIOLENCE AND STRONG LANGUAGE. THEY SHOW THE MOMENTS BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER THE SHOOTING.

“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE.”

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