President Donald Trump has reacted to footage of an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman in Minnesota on Wednesday, January 7. In a social media post, the president defended the actions of the officer and called the female driver “a professional agitator” and “very disorderly.” Video of the incident shows a group of ICE agents confronting a vehicle in the middle of a street. The car then moved forward, at which point an ICE agent fired three times into the vehicle, killing the driver.
Donald Trump says ICE Agent acted in “self-defense”
“It is a horrible thing to watch,” the president said of the video on Truth Social. “The woman screaming was, obviously a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
Trump then stated that the officer was “recovering in the hospital” after the incident. The president then blamed “the Radical Left” as the reason behind the rising altercations with ICE agents across the country. He calls for people “to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the woman of trying to “run them over” and said the ICE agent “fired defensive shots,” per USA Today.
The identity of the female driver has not yet been released by authorities.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said he is preparing a warning order for the possible mobilization of the Minnesota National Guard in response to the shooting. “From here on, I have a very simple message,” he stated. “We don’t need further help from the federal government. To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”
Democrat Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, also countered Trump’s claims, believing that the woman was attempting to drive away from the ICE agents. “They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense,” he said at a news conference. “Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bull****.”
