Shouts of 'Go arrest ICE' as crowd gathers near fatal shooting scene

Mara H. Gottfried, Pioneer Press on Jan 7, 2026

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MINNEAPOLIS — A crowd of people gathered in sorrow and anger Wednesday, shouting at local law enforcement, “Go arrest ICE,” in the hours after a federal agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Wednesday their agents are investigating jointly with the FBI.

Crime scene tape and barricades blocked off the area of the morning shooting near 34th Street and Portland Avenue, with Minneapolis officers and Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies on the other side, through the afternoon. A Minneapolis officer told people they were there to protect a crime scene investigation.

After police left the area, some people marched to downtown Minneapolis. They shouted “ICE out now” outside the federal courthouse.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Wednesday morning that she, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Gov. Tim Walz “are pushing hard for a local investigation, which is the only way to ensure full transparency and review by our office.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the officer shot the woman after she “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle.”

But community and religious leaders who spoke near the shooting site said that’s not what happened.

“It is unacceptable,” said Mira Altobell-Resendez with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee. “They are so much more afraid of us than we are of them, and they’re the ones with the guns. That is not protection. It’s shameful.”

The woman who was killed “was just out here doing everything that she could to protect our community, showing what Minneapolis is really made of,” Altobell-Resendez added.

Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota chapter, said bystander video that’s been circulating showed him, from “what we can see, … probably the worst possible scenario of ICE being involved in shooting an innocent person.”

He pointed out there were witnesses and multiple angles of videos, “which means the truth will eventually come out very clearly and undisputed.”

Archbisop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis asked people to join him in praying for the person who was killed.

“We continue to be at a time in this country when we need to lower the temperature of rhetoric, stop fear-filled speculation and start seeing all people as created in the image and likeness of God,” he said in a statement. “That is as true for our immigrant sisters and brothers as it is for our elected officials and those who are responsible for enforcing our laws.”

Ellison, in a later statement, urged people to protest peacefully: “We’re right to be heartbroken and angry, but we cannot give Donald Trump the excuse he wants to continue escalating this violence against Minnesotans.”

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