News from Minnesota: "Federal agents lied about why they shot a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis. Their story quickly fell apart."
It is likely that we will hear for years of stories about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "overreach" in the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. Here is a story from the Minnesota Star Tribune:
"Hours after an ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis in January, the Department of Homeland Security spun a narrative that the victim had it coming.
He and two other men “ambushed and attacked” the federal officer with a snow shovel and broom handle, the agency claimed on social media, prompting the agent to fire in self-defense.
The next morning, [then-]DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down, denouncing the incident as an act of `attempted murder' on law enforcement. Her agency published mugshots of all three men arrested in connection with the alleged assault, casting them as `violent criminals.'”
None of it was true.
