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Since an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Macklin-Good last week in Minneapolis, more ICE agents have been deployed.
Community members have increased their protests of the massive surge in immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities, blowing whistles, yelling, and filming ICE officers.
ICE has responded with aggressive tactics, using tear gas, pepper balls, and flashbangs to disperse crowds.
The lawsuit alleges the surge is, quote, creating dangerous and chaotic circumstances.
Hundreds of community members have joined neighborhood watch groups to track federal immigration officers and observe them when they detain people.
So when officers exit their vehicles, observers are there soon after honking horns, blowing whistles and recording.
Protesters and federal officers have clashed again in Minneapolis, this time after ICE officers hit a vehicle with their car.
The officers eventually used tear gas to disperse the crowd and left without detaining anyone.
NPR reached out to ICE for comment on the incident, but did not hear back.
The lawsuit alleges the surge is, quote, creating dangerous and chaotic circumstances.
Hundreds of community members have joined neighborhood watch groups to track federal immigration officers and observe them when they detain people.
So when officers exit their vehicles, observers are there soon after honking horns, blowing whistles and recording.
Protesters and federal officers have clashed again in Minneapolis, this time after ICE officers hit a vehicle with their car.
The officers eventually used tear gas to disperse the crowd and left without detaining anyone.
NPR reached out to ICE for comment on the incident, but did not hear back.
In a statement, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans said the U.S.
attorney for the District of Minnesota had, quote, reversed course.