Furor erupted across the US after immigration agents on Saturday shot and killed a second person in Minnesota, escalating tensions over the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.
Video footage appeared to show authorities firing on the man, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and American citizen, at least 10 times after they removed a gun from his waistband, contradicting the White House’s account of the incident.
More than 60 CEOs called for “immediate de-escalation,” and Democrats could partially shut down the federal government this week by blocking homeland security funding.
For weeks, federal agents have been “visibly unprepared to handle the policing situations their presence created,” The New York Times wrote.
The latest shooting, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune, “upended any sense” that tensions would ease.