"Shortly after 7 P.M. on Wednesday, January 14th, Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, received a call at home from his police chief, Brian O'Hara. "ICE shot somebody again," O'Hara said. Minneapolis was in the midst of an unprecedented influx of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. It had been a week since one of them, Jonathan Ross, shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, throwing the city into a state of fear and havoc."
"Frey had just changed into "soft pants," thinking he might have a night at home with his wife and two daughters. Instead, he listened as O'Hara described the details of another shooting. Federal agents had pursued a man, later identified by ICE as a Venezuelan named Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, in a highway chase on I-94. Sosa-Celis eventually crashed on a street in North Minneapolis, exited his vehicle, and, amid some kind of tussle with federal agents, was shot in the leg."
"He then ran into a nearby house, where a woman inside had what O'Hara described as "an anxiety attack." "Get ICE out of there," Frey told him. Federal agents were still outside the home. Sosa-Celis had not received medical attention, and was refusing to come out. "I was really frustrated," Frey told me recently. "I mean, one, they just shot somebody. And, two, their presence will only further inflame the situation.""
Jacob Frey is governing Minneapolis amid a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed in the city. One ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, killed Renee Nicole Good, creating fear and unrest. A week later ICE agents chased Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who crashed on I-94, was shot in the leg during a tussle, and sought refuge in a North Minneapolis home. Crowds gathered; officers and ICE used tear gas; a tear-gas canister filled a car and a six-month-old baby was carried out apparently unconscious. Frey ordered ICE removed from the scene, worried that federal presence would inflame tensions and obstruct medical aid.
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