ICE agents shot the man several times after they first brutally wrestled him onto a sidewalk, 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.
In the footage, the man does not appear to have a gun in his hands.
"Thank God we have the video footage. According to ICE, these (agents) were heroes defending us," Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said at a press conference.
What they say is bullshit, it's nonsense and lies.
37-year-old nurse
The man shot to death was a 37-year-old nurse who lived in the city. He was born in Illinois and was a U.S. citizen with no known criminal record. According to his family, he was active in the protests against ICE.
He felt that the protests were a way to show care for others, his father told the AP news agency.
The location of the shooting - at a bus stop on a popular restaurant-filled street near downtown Minneapolis - was, according to the television channel CBS, "total chaos" for a few hours, with police using large amounts of tear gas to disperse a few hundred protesters.
"We are under attack. We cannot accept this. The world must act," protester Joy, a woman in her 50s, told CBS.
The National Guard is called in.
All available police officers in the city were called to duty Saturday. The protest at the scene of the shooting has also been designated an "unlawful assembly," giving police greater authority to act.
Governor Walz says he has also called in the National Guard to assist the police during the protests.
The shooting is the third in three weeks in Minneapolis involving ICE.
Mother of three, Renee Nicole Good, 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 by an ICE agent.
Saturday's shooting came the day after massive protests against ICE in Minneapolis, where thousands braved bitter cold to demonstrate. The day had also been designated a day of mourning in Minnesota.
