ICE shoots Minn. protester seemingly trying to ram them, left trys to create new George Floyd

by Monica Showalter 

You would think Minneapolis's leaders would do all they could to try to salvage their city's riot-prone image in the wake of the George Floyd debacle. But you'd be wrong.

Here's the latest idiocy coming out of what looks like a sad situation for a leftist woman lacking reasonable judgment around police operations, according to the New York Times:

A federal officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation Wednesday, as the Trump administration intensified a crackdown on illegal immigration. Details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials.

 

Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said in a statement that an agent had opened fire after a woman “weaponized her vehicle” in an attempt to kill federal officers. Mayor Jacob Frey called her account “bullshit” in a news conference, describing the shooting instead as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”

Well, no, it was not bee ess, and anyone looking at the videos on X can clearly see that it looked like a protester ramming ICE agents in the course of their duties, using her car as a weapon, and an agent or agents firing back through the windshield, which can only be done from the front. To any reasonable observer, that's self-defense, even as it led to an unfortunate ending for the leftist.

None of this has stopped the radical left, led by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, fromfrom over-reacting. Frey shrieked profanity at the television cameras to keep things whipped up.

According to the Times:

Mayor Frey described the shooting as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.” He took issue with the federal government’s description of the shooting, describing it as “bullshit,” saying that he had viewed video of the incident.

He went toilet-mouth on national television, too:

It's like he's trying to whip up a riot, another burn-a-thon against Minneapolis's ever-diminishing businesses for Gov. Tim Walz's wife to open her windows to inhale.

As if that is in Minneapolis's interest.

This isn't leadership, it's collaboration with leftists, rioters, and terrorists, and effectively calling on them to deliver more.

It's highly probable that they will, looking to make themselves a new George Floyd as fraud hearings over Somali theft of billions in state and federal funding makes headlines.

And worse still, Frey was issuing de facto threats about people getting killed about a week ago, instead of doing all he could to tamp down the raging leftists.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents the area, preferred to go the liar's route to this event, sounding like a mendacious left-wing lawyer:

A legal observer, she claimed, which suggests she probably knew these obstructors.

Ahem. Omar didn't explain why the 'legal observer' was acting illegally. Any real legal observer knows not to interfere with lawmen as they go about their duties, let alone not try to ram anyone with a car.

But Omar's got a mob to whip up, too, so the lies come easy.

Obviously, another disaster is in store for Minneapolis's battered business owners. The rage-protests are already being set up, and Frey will cover himself by wanly calling on them to be peaceful, which knowing them, is unlikely to happen.

The left has the press on its side, but even that is a tattered weapon with all the X videos going around showing different sides of the ramming incident indicating self-defense.

Yes, it's sad for the protestor, but these things inevitably happen, given that lawmen don't know right off the bat if the person ramming them with their car and ignoring orders to stop is armed, a cartel leader, a human smuggler trying to escape justice, or a mere leftist trying to escape responsibility for reckless actions.

That doesn't excuse Minneapolis leaders, truly among the worst in the country, for taking measures to ensure more rioting in their city from out-of-control leftists. They'll get it, and then where will Minneapolis be?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/ice_shoots_minneapolis_woman_trying_to_ram_them_leftists_try_to_create_a_new_george_floyd.html