ICE agents shot a man several times after they first wrestled him brutally to the sidewalk and then slowly moved away from him, footage from the incident shows.
Greg Bovino of the Border Patrol said at a press conference that the man intervened when ICE was about to arrest a "criminal immigrant" and that he was armed and resisted. His description of the events contradicts some of the available footage.
An outraged Mayor Jacob Frey said at his press conference, "This is not how it has to be."
"I just saw a video where six people indiscriminately jump on a man," he said, addressing Donald Trump directly:
This is your moment to act as a leader. Put America first. Put Minneapolis first. End this operation and I promise calm will return.
Trump: Arrogant rhetoric
Trump responded on Truth Social by publishing a picture said to be the dead man's gun.
"The mayor and governor (Tim Walz) are inciting rebellion with pompous, dangerous and arrogant rhetoric!" he wrote, claiming that the city will only be safe when ICE has done its job.
The location of the shooting - at a bus stop on a popular restaurant-filled street near downtown Minneapolis - was, according to CBS, "total chaos," where police used large amounts of tear gas to disperse a few hundred protesters.
"We are under attack. We cannot accept this. The world must act," said protester Joy, a woman in her 50s, to CBS.
Friday a day of mourning
All available police officers in the city have been called to duty. The protest was also designated an "unlawful assembly," giving police greater authority to act.
The shooting is the third in three weeks in Minneapolis involving ICE. Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three, a U.S. citizen, was shot to death by an ICE agent on January 7. On January 14, a Venezuelan man was shot in the leg.
Saturday's shooting came the day after large protests against ICE in Minneapolis. The day had been designated a day of mourning in Minnesota.
Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the man shot was a 37-year-old American citizen with no known criminal history who lived in the city.
