"Federal officers in Minneapolis used teargas and eye irritant against activists on Tuesday as the Department of Homeland Security announced it was carrying out its largest operation in DHS history, deploying hundreds of border agents on top of the thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents already in the city. A DHS official told CBS News that there were currently 800 Customs and Border Protection agents and 2,000 ICE officials in the Minneapolis area as tensions have risen in recent days."
"The surge comes on the same day several federal prosecutors in the state and in Washington resigned in protest over the justice department's decision not to hold a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis. The government's immigration crackdown is next headed to a federal court where Minnesota and two mayors are asking a judge to immediately suspend the operation."
"Gas clouds filled a Minneapolis street near where Good was fatally shot in the head by an immigration agent last week. A man scrubbed his eyes with snow and screamed for help while agents in an unmarked Jeep sprayed an orange irritant and drove away. It's common for people to boo, taunt and blow orange whistles when they spot heavily armed agents passing through in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets,"
"Who doesn't have a whistle? a man with a bag of them yelled. A person washes out his eyes after teargas was deployed by federal agents. Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images Brita Anderson, who lives nearby and came to support neighborhood friends, said she was incensed to see agents in tactical gear and gas masks, and wondered about their purpose."
The Department of Homeland Security deployed what officials called its largest operation, sending hundreds of Customs and Border Protection agents and roughly 2,000 ICE officials to Minneapolis. Federal officers used teargas and an orange eye irritant against activists and bystanders near the site where Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an immigration agent. Several federal prosecutors resigned in protest over the decision not to pursue a civil rights investigation into Good's killing. Minnesota and two mayors requested a federal judge immediately suspend the operation, and neighborhood residents responded by booing, blowing whistles, and expressing anger at heavily armed agents.
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