"There was a lot of tear gas, and flash bombs going off, but it was pretty subdued. I did not have a mask, so I didn't go into the area with the tear gas. I went to a place about a block away, where there was a line of ICE agents separated from a pretty small crowd of protesters by some police tape. And what struck me about that scene was that I didn't see any local law enforcement where I was."
"A truck from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state forensics unit, arrived and went through the police line to the other side. Many people in the crowd were remarking on that, because the whole thing with the Renee Good shooting was that they didn't give the B.C.A. access to the scene. But it felt very different from when I was in Los Angeles, in June."
A federal agent shot a man in the leg during an immigration-enforcement operation in north Minneapolis; federal officials said the man had been evading arrest. Protesters quickly gathered and confronted ICE agents and were dispersed with tear gas and flash-bang devices. Observers reported a line of ICE agents separated from a small crowd by police tape and an apparent absence of local law enforcement at the observed location. A Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension truck and state forensics unit entered the scene past the police line, drawing attention given prior BCA access controversies. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act against Minnesota officials over the unrest.
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