Federal agents detain man on Lake Street as Minneapolis activists confront ICE

Federal immigration agents detained a man along Lake Street in Minneapolis on Wednesday as activists and journalists who had been trailing the agents converged on the frozen street corner and confronted them. Witnesses described S.U.V.s full of masked agents pulling up alongside cars carrying activists and journalists, agents in military-style uniforms pointing pepper spray, and a crowd of whistle-blowing volunteers filming as the agents surrounded a man in a hoodie at a bus stop, put him in the back of a car and left.

The detainment came amid sustained protests in the city after the killing of Renee Good; thousands attended a march, there have been school walkouts and daily demonstrations outside the federal building, and many immigrant-owned businesses along Lake Street have stayed closed from fear.

Volunteers say they drive in shifts, report suspected ICE vehicles to neighborhood group chats, and are instructed to record interactions and not obstruct arrests. The Trump administration has said the operation is aimed at combating fraud in Minnesota, and Mr. Trump and other federal officials have asserted that the ICE agent who killed Ms.

Good acted "in self-defense," statements Minnesota officials have rejected; a New York Times analysis of videos of the shooting contradicts the administration’s account.

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Politics, Ice, Minneapolis, Lake Street, Renee Good, Donald Trump