"Video shows bystanders watching (and heckling) federal agents. A truck with flashing lights pulls up; the driver and a second agent jump out and rapidly approach a burgundy SUV blocking the road, and the driver appears to tell a woman to get out of her car. The SUV reverses briefly, then starts to move forward. A third officer then fires several shots. The car veers away before crashing."
"The car veers away before crashing. According to a witness who spoke to the Minnesota Star Tribune, a doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died."
A federal immigration agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis after firing into a moving vehicle during an enforcement operation targeting alleged welfare fraud among Somali immigrants. Bystander videos show agents approaching a burgundy SUV that briefly reversed then moved forward as a third agent fired several shots; the vehicle veered away and later crashed. A doctor who tried to help was kept back by federal agents, and an ambulance was blocked by law-enforcement vehicles so paramedics reached the victim on foot. An initial Department of Homeland Security statement made inaccurate claims that the scene involved 'violent rioters' and that the driver 'weaponized her vehicle.'
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