"The clips are filmed from different angles. Some are zoomed in, making them indecipherably grainy, and others are slowed down. Some are 20 seconds while others are longer, sandwiched by commentary from users on social media platforms like X, Bluesky, Reddit, and TikTok. Each video - depicting the moment an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shoots and kills a woman in Minneapolis - is ever so slightly different, but the gunshots ringing out and the wailing bystanders are the same."
"The shooting occurred just days after federal officials said they were sending thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota, following a viral YouTube video alleging fraud in social services. (The video provided little evidence of its claims.) Even before it was clear what had happened in the shooting, federal officials had readied their version of events. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said it was "an act of domestic terrorism" on the part of the woman who was shot."
Multiple videos capture the moment an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shoots and kills a woman in Minneapolis, recorded from different angles and varying lengths. Some clips are zoomed and grainy, others slowed down, with commentary from users on X, Bluesky, Reddit, and TikTok; the gunshots and bystanders' wails are consistent across versions. The shooting occurred days after federal officials announced deployment of thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota following a viral YouTube video alleging social-services fraud, which provided little evidence. Federal officials publicly presented a prepared account of the incident before facts were clear; Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the act "an act of domestic terrorism."
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