Trump views video of Minneapolis ICE shooting and defends agent’s account

President Trump told New York Times reporters in the Oval Office that a 37-year-old woman who was shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis had tried to “run over” the officer and asked an aide to pull up video to support that conclusion hours after the shooting.

Mr. Trump said he did not like the shooting but added, “I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either,” and called the episode “a vicious situation.” An aide, Natalie Harp, brought a laptop to show a slow‑motion surveillance video as Mr. Trump maintained the woman had attempted to run down the agent; he also returned to criticisms of illegal immigration. At a Minneapolis news conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking” officers and that the agent “used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.”

Details of the shooting were disputed: state and local officials described federal accounts as “propaganda” and “garbage,” and reporters said the social media videos were unclear. Tom Homan, the administration’s border czar, told CBS News he would not judge from circulating video, saying, “Let the investigation play out, and hold people accountable based on the investigation.”

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