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A U.S. Immigration and<\/span> Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Video<\/a> and eyewitness testimonies<\/a> have already circulated widely. There can be little doubt that this was a cold-blooded killing, for which there is no justification.<\/p>\n An ICE agent shot point-blank into the windshield of a car, killing the driver. The woman was believed to have been taking part in some capacity in a protest against ICE\u2019s huge gestapo-style operation in Minnesota, which began at Donald Trump\u2019s behest this week<\/a>. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota member of Congress, said the victim was \u201ca legal observer.\u201d<\/p>\n Given ICE\u2019s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance<\/a> grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing was all but inevitable.<\/p>\n It is a reminder, too, at the beginning of Trump\u2019s largest anti-immigrant operation to date, that this force makes everyone in the country less safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is not the first ICE shooting, and it is not the first time a civilian has been killed during a vile anti-immigrant operation. According<\/a> to gun violence investigations in The Trace, federal agents have shot people 14 times since last January, killing at least four; on multiple occasions, officers shot at people observing ICE raids and people attempting to drive away.<\/p>\n The Minnesota slaughter is not so much a first, but a particularly shocking example for being captured on video from more than one angle.<\/p>\n The Minnesota slaughter is not so much a first, but particularly shocking for being captured on video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n Footage of the incident posted online shows the victim\u2019s car blocking a relatively quiet, snow-covered street. ICE agents in a truck wanting to drive down the street pull up and exit their vehicle. One agent tries to aggressively open the driver\u2019s car door and reach into the front window. The driver briefly backs up and clearly tries to drive away.<\/p>\n At no point is any federal officer put in any danger. Nonetheless, another officer pulls out a pistol and immediately shoots directly into the windshield.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As an eyewitness resident on the scene told<\/a> Minnesota Public Radio, \u201cShe was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in \u2014 like, his midriff was on her bumper \u2014 and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times.\u201d<\/p>\n Donald Trump\u2019s administration has already begun to flagrantly lie about the incident. Contrary to ample available evidence, the government said the ICE agent \u201cfearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.\u201d<\/p>\n The Department of Homeland Security statement also said that the slaughtered driver \u201cweaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them \u2014 an act of domestic terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense,\u201d Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a press conference. \u201cHaving seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n It is, of course, bullshit \u2014 bullshit atop the ocean of bullshit that federal authorities have spewed out<\/a> for months when attempting to frame a brutal, masked army of jackboots as imperiled<\/a>, brave heroes.<\/p>\n On numerous occasions judges have<\/a> dismissed<\/a> cases in which ICE agents accused people whom they shot of attempting to ram officers with vehicles. The victim in Minneapolis, shot multiple times in the face for trying to drive away, will have no day in court.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n