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Marines opened fire on a home during a misunderstanding between troops and police.
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 atmosphere was tense at the intersection in South Minneapolis where ICE officers shot and killed a woman in her car.
Witnesses said it looked like she was trying to turn around.
Federal authorities said she was driving at ICE agents.
ICE officers had already dispersed by midday, but local and county police were on the scene as a large crowd gathered and chanted.
Wren Kleinfelter lives just across the street, and for hours after the shooting, the victim's SUV remained rammed against a utility pole.
We don't want like this happening in our neighborhood to our neighbors.
She says she saw the woman pulled from the vehicle.