In a dramatic turn of events in Minneapolis on Monday night, protesters clashed with law enforcement outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, as seen in wild footage capturing the chaos. This unrest followed the controversial shooting of Renee Nicole Good, sparking tensions that escalated into a volatile confrontation.

The demonstrators, expressing their outrage against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resorted to launching fireworks at officers, resulting in a tense standoff. In response, law enforcement deployed tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd, leading to multiple arrests as officers moved in to regain control of the situation.

Footage from the scene shows officers pinning protesters to the ground and escorting them away in handcuffs, amidst a barrage of insults and expletives hurled by the demonstrators. The building, which serves as the ICE regional headquarters, was heavily barricaded during the confrontation.

This incident is part of a series of protests that have erupted across the Twin Cities over the past week. Demonstrators have been vocally demanding the removal of federal immigration officials from the state, underscoring the growing unrest surrounding immigration enforcement policies and practices.

Similar scenes have played out around the Twin Cities over the past week as people have taken to the streets demanding federal immigration officials leave the state.

On Sunday, video showed officers arrest a man inside of a home in Minneapolis after pepper spraying protesters who confronted the federal agents on the street. The protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in an attempt to disrupt the operation.

About an hour away in St. Cloud, hundreds of protesters and ICE agents clashed Monday in the parking lot of a strip mall that’s home to several Somali-owned businesses, according to the Star Tribune.

The crowd swelled after a local Somali news network posted a live video on social media, drawing more people to the mall.

More than 2,000 arrests have been made in Minnesota since law enforcement launched a major immigration operation in the beginning of December, according to Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

Some 2,000 immigration agents have been deployed to the North Star state, with another 1,000 on the way.

Protests exploded in Minnesota after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Good, a 37-year-old mom of three, on Jan. 7 after federal officials claimed she used her car as a weapon and endangered an ICE agent during an operation in Minneapolis.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem labelled Good as “domestic terrorist.”

Ross is unlikely to be criminally charged in the fatal shooting and the Justice Department is not expected to open a civil rights probe in Good’s death, sources told the New York Times.

This could change, however, as the investigation unfolds, the sources added.

Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and US Sen. Tina Smith said separately Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.

Protests also kicked off in Portland Oregon after Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents shot two people during a traffic stop.

Officials said that the married couple have ties to the vicious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and were shot after they “weaponized” their car while fleeing the stop.

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