Illegal Venezuelan migrant shot after mercilessly ambushing fed agent with snow shovel: DHS
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Via: vic-eldred • 10 months ago • 85 commentsBy: Story by Caitlin McCormack
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An illegal Venezuelan migrant was shot in the leg by a federal immigration agent after he allegedly fled during a traffic stop, then “ambushed” the officer and beat him with a snow shovel Wednesday night, the Department of Homeland Security said.
The suspect — in the US illegally, according to DHS — was behind the wheel when he tried to get away from federal immigration officers, but crashed into a parked car, the agency said.
He then tried to escape on foot before the officers pinned him to the ground, according to an X post from the agency.
While the man allegedly continued to struggle with the officers, two other people emerged from a nearby apartment and mercilessly attacked the agents with a snow shovel and broom handle, the department said.
In the chaos, the Venezuelan migrant was able to wriggle out of the officer’s hold and also allegedly started striking him, according to the post.
The officer, “fearing for his life,” shot the Venezuelan man in the leg, DHS said.
The officer and the injured suspect were both treated at a nearby hospital, and the two attackers were taken into custody, DHS said.
DHS alleged that the suspect they were originally apprehending is an illegal immigrant who entered the US in 2022.
Multiple sources told the Minnesota Star Tribune earlier Wednesday evening that a series of gunshots rang out in tandem with a car chase that tore through part of the Twin Cities.
KARE reported that federal agents swarmed around North Lyndale Avenue and 25th Avenue, which is near a 21-acre park, just before 8 p.m. local time.
A photographer with the outlet observed at least one ambulance leaving the area.
Protesters later swarmed the shooting scene, but were kept at a distance by police tape, which the unruly crowd tried to tear down, according to the Star Tribune.
Law enforcement then tossed canisters of chemical irritants at the protesters, who in turn tossed chunks of ice at federal agents, according to the paper.
The City of Minneapolis shared a post on X saying it was “aware of reports” of the “shooting involving federal law enforcement” and was “working to confirm details.
The Minneapolis Police Department issued a similar statement as the city, acknowledging it was “aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis.”
The department was “working to confirm additional details.”
The shooting comes just one week after Renee Nicole Good, 37, was gunned down by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross after she allegedly tried to “weaponize” her vehicle against federal agents at a protest near her Minneapolis home.
Good was killed at 34th Avenue and Portland Avenue – just over six miles away from the site of Wednesday’s shooting.
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"The officer, “fearing for his life,” shot the Venezuelan man in the leg, DHS said."
My advice for all the illegal migrants and progressives is don't interfere with law enforcement operations, don't block traffic, don't attack ICE Agents, and follow lawful orders.
You mean you shouldn't throw snowballs at them, because they will kill you? Better tell the kids.
What is basically Trump's private army of paid punks and social misfits are causing chaos on the streets of Minneapolis attacking and detaining anyone who disrespects their authority. What could possibly go wrong. Nevermind people are being deported to who knows where without due process. The worst part is that ICE is making it impossible for the real police and other law enforcement to do their jobs. What does this remind you of? In the last hundred years? Seriously, who and what?
Throwing anything at law enforcement officers is a form of assault.
Where are the police in blue cities?
Very valid point.
As a nation, we are in a period of self inflicted pain, almost all of which could be avoided if people considered your question beyond its rhetorical sense.
It's as though we believe consequences of actions are purely mythology.
We're going to deport 30 years worth of illegal aliens in 8 months... What could possibly go wrong?
We're going to deploy hastily trained officers into high stress duties. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm going to drive several hours to obstruct LEOs as they carry out their duties, refuse to follow their instructions and then drive recklessly while they are close to my car. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm going to beat an armed LEO with a shovel. What could possibly go wrong?
I've followed a group of rioters who have kicked down the doors to the US Capitol while Congress is in session and armed guards are on duty. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm in the middle of a riot and the city is on fire. I see a vigilante carrying an AR 15, so naturally I'm going to beat him with my skateboard. What could possibly go wrong?
Personally, I can't help but think that some of these young white kids have lived lives so insulated from the consequences of actions that they don't realize that those consequences exist.
But if you're over 50, you're damn sure old enough to know better.
In Minneapolis the mentally challenged chased the police chief and about a dozen or so officers away from a riot location.
The police chief could be heard saying’Hey don’t hurt us. We are on your side’
BTW that was satire to our leftist friends but really good chance he did say it though
How about a wrapped donut because they looked hungry? Imagine that, getting shot in the head for throwing a wrapped donut at them.
LMAO!!!! The same place that said terrorist Ross was ran over by Mrs. Good...which clearly never happened. Keep on drinking that kool-aid!
Everyone knows you can't hurt someone by swinging a snow shovel at them. Another case of attempted murder by the fascist cops who are part of an organization Trump created and are enforcing laws Trump made up.
This on top of most leftists crying that LE needs to shoot in the leg. This LEO did this, but we will still hear crying from the left.
Apparently getting beat by a shovel does not constitute any self defense. He is supposed to just lay there and take it.
The best way to end all of this?.........
Have the leftist politicians call off their mentally ill goons and ICE will be able to reduce the need for reinforcements and be able to conduct searches with small teams....Leftists won't even know.
They never did, or cared, until Trump.
Now, they've chosen the path of insurrection because their reptilian brains have to reflexively oppose anything Trump does.
I hope Trump institutes the insurrection act in Minnesota. The leaders there are certainly inciting violence then crying that it is the right that needs to tone the rhetoric. There are too many mentally challenged people engaging in the violence and obstruction of ICE and they need to be stopped.
If one of them can show a conservative calling for the assault, taunting, obstruction of ICE when they are doing their Congressional given duties given in the immigration act of the 1950s and the ICE formation law in 2003, I will stand corrected and admit I was wrong.
The governor of Maine says she has learned ICE and Border Patrol are heading there soon . Turns out Somalian communities are ICE magnets. Since you dont want to blame Trump for a damn thing can we at least blame him for the social misfits he hires to do his bidding, aka his cabinet.
Does ICE enforce Federal law?
Are Somalis above it?
Remember, Joe Biden, to your cheers, opened the borders (literally tearing down fences) to ensure millions of illegals could roam free across the country. Now that mess is being cleaned up. If the cleanup bothers you, blame Biden and his enablers who created the mess.
If ICE goes to Maine to visit the Somalians living there, will you at least admit that particular ethnic group is being targeted?
Didnt think so.
Donald Trump is not ethically , morally, psychologically or intellectually fit to be president of the United States. He's also a criminal who tried to overthrow the government. Why would anyone have anything good to say about him? Its maddening.
ICE is coming to Boston as well.
We don't really have a Somali "community" here, but we do have a racist mayor. Let's see what comes for Boston.
He was elected President. Remember John, "elections have consequences!"
If there's a large community of illegals living in a sanctuary state that refuses to turn criminals over to ICE, are the criminals exempt from federal law because of their "ethnicity?"
Why do you insist on rewarding those who flout federal law?
Yes they do, and the GOP
G od O wfull P eepulls
party should be done away with as it is obvious they do not respect the Constitution of this nation and hide their heads in the sand whenthey hear the TRUTH about this mentally challenged ingrate who fcks them over daily whilst they defend and support his asinine asz irregardless of about anything.
Release the EPSTEIN FILES pedo protector !
I don't believe too much that comes from this administration, and if the guy swung a snow shovel then prosecute him to full extent of the LAW, but sending out inexperienced improperly trained and not fully vetted agents to do a racist presidents bidding in a shock and awe campaign against blue citizen areas is just so blatantly wrong and against what this country formerly stood for. This POS can't vacate that Temo gold flake Walmart capital fast enuff for the benefit of ALL AMERICANS and the WORLD !
A lot of people think it has already been done away with.
We did.
Why won't the Clintons show up to testify before congress?
I'm sure Susan Rice is one of them. Too bad that they lost power.
The democrats seem to be going back to their secessionist roots.
Really Vic ? Less than 1% !
Most transparent Administration ever, remember ? cause that's what they tell you, and you obviously believe it.
How can you not see how this POS constantly lies to you and yet, you are still eager to believe and carry his water...?
Answer the question:
Where is Bill & Hillary?
In the meantime, we have elected democrat officials openly calling for insurrection against police and law enforcement and the media plays it down.
Why are we not arresting mayors who are inciting violence?
Very close to inciting insurrection with their speeches. Mimicking the language of their intellectual ancestors, the southern fire-eaters
Urging protests against ICE agents carrying out the law and having local police stand down must equal insurrection!
That's what 1% is in Trumpville?
Tell us exactly how many documents on Epstein exist
If the dementia boy president Biden and his DEI hire, along with the completely stupid Mayorkis did not open the borders to millions of everyone and anyone, we would not need the increase in ICE agents we are seeing today.
If the morons that are obstruction and engaging in violence towards ICE agents were not doing so, we would not need the surge to Minnesota with the extra agents protecting the ones doing the immigration enforcement from the mentally challenged lemmings that are doing the obstruction and assaults on ICE.
Can you point out a group of white illegals, or white illegals that are committing massive fraud across the country?
I don’t care what color they are. If they are illegal they need to go
Hardly surprising given recent discoveries.
How the Hell would I know. If Comer were a legit serious rep i'd say they should be there, but with some of those going to question the Clintons, that were subpoenaed to testify and didn't show up themselves, makes it hard to take them seriously. How about Trump come testify ? He is the guy mentioned the most so far by Epstein.
How about Trump allows Bondi to release the damn files that wer esupposedly on her desk last February ? How about some justice for over a thousand youg girls who were victimized by Trumps 'friends' he told Taylor Green he was protecting ?
Trump is the one withholding the files that the entire House and Senate with one exception voted to release, and then he even signed it into LAW! WTF Trump, is a pedo protector
The other incredibly dangerous thing ignorant clowns like Jeffries and Walz are doing is threatening ICE agents and other Trump admin officials with arrest when they are out of power. We already saw round 1 with the lawfare against Trump. Now they are casting their threats wider.
I know progressives object to the history of western civilization in favor of the history of trans genderism in 18th century south asia, but these fools might want to open an actual history book at least once. The final nail in the coffin, what led Caesar to cross the Rubicon with the army, was the certainty that his enemies would arrest him as soon he gave up power. Lawfare had become so endemic, he knew that relinquishing power meant, at the least, exile and humiliation and likely death. The type of people who accumulate power don't like that, so he didn't give up his army. Now the dumb dumbs are threatening an armed branch of the government force with jail should they ever obtain power. They might not like that either.
Should be obvious, but when you threaten to destroy people, sometimes they won't let you destroy them.
Sounds like you are giving Trump and his cronies an excuse to cancel 2026 elections, WTF ?
Trump is the vengeful payback smack, who has violated so much as he has littl Pamela Joe under his fungus ridden smelly Big Toe.
That's fckd up, know matter how it was meant!
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Has threatening mass incarceration of your opponents ever worked out for a republic?
Let me guess, they are eating dogs and cats there too?
Why won't trump?
It's another form of expression / S
This ICE officer needs more range time.
Or maybe
I could never be a cop. I have no idea where US law enforcement finds the patience and restraint when dealing with thugs and violent leftwing protestors.
I'm shocked.
So do all Americans that oppose tyranny by fascist government.
The title of this seed reads like a title from The Onion...
It's the New York Post, America's bastion of clickbaitery.
You already lost the argument.
That must mean I am ready to join you and your team.
I thought you were told never to join us?
No part of this story resembles journalism beyond “DHS said.”
Real journals is like those at the New York Times bury the fact the illegal assaulted the ice agent with a deadly weapon in the last paragraph of the story, hoping their readers don’t have the endurance to learn the most important facts
You never had one to start with.
My advice is to read the article. [deleted][✘]
I think adding the word mercilessly gave away the game. Yesterday a woman was dragged out of her car by six ICE and thrown to the ground and kneeled on. Was she "mercilessly" treated ?
What was she doing BEFORE being removed from the car?
Driving.
FALSE:
"The screaming woman who was filmed being pulled from her car by ICE agents in Minneapolis has been identified as a tech guru and LGBT and racial justice activist who describes herself as a “friendly neighborhood deniable asset.”
Aliya Rahman, a software engineer with a lengthy background in coding, has backed policies for police-worn body cameras and also has prior ties to multiple advocacy groups, including a decade-long history with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Rahman was thrown into the spotlight after viral footage showed federal agents breaking her car window and yanking her out on Tuesday after she apparently blocked ICE vehicles during a protest — less than a week after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot nearby."
Woman dragged from car by ICE in Minnesota ID'd as LGBT and racial justice activist | New York Post
How many times do the Chicago Police ask someone to get out of their car? 1,2,5,10, Pretty Please with sugar on top?
You are mouthing her LinkedIn profile.
So she's an activist, that is not illegal.
But, my question is was she treated "mercilessly" ?
If she defies a lawful order, you put yourself at risk of being treated mercilessly!
Leftists here were told she was driving so they had no chaoice to go with that narrative. Most of them know no other way.
This is what I mean about ignoring facts.
READ:
after she apparently blocked ICE vehicles during a protest
No part of that is a crime. Nor is any of it something that would be known to agents in the field.
Any evidence for this? And even if true, that doesn’t sound like something that would justify the kind of force described.
you agree then that she was treated mercilessly.
The kind of force described is the point.
The targets of that force, the incalculable number of people who actually feel compassion for other human beings, is the point.
The message being sent is not about law enforcement, it is about intimidation.
ICE wants people to understand that doing nothing at all, standing still, being a witness, looking like you might not comply, is enough to justify violence, disappearance, destruction of property, invasion of private space, and total loss of bodily autonomy.
That is not incidental. It is how terror functions.
In that sense, these ICE agents are modern analogues of the Klansmen and the police forces that enforced segregation in Birmingham, Selma, and countless other Southern cities: Agents of the state or its tolerated auxiliaries were empowered to keep a targeted population “in its place.”
The people cheering this on are not historically novel. They are the same moral actors who rationalized lynching Emmett Till, who murdered college students for trying to register voters, and who bombed a church and killed Addie Mae Collins.
Some understood exactly what they were doing. Many did not. Most were simply relieved to have someone else to blame and grateful that the violence was being carried out in their name, but not by their own hands.
History shows that systems like this do not collapse because their defenders suddenly grow a conscience. They collapse when the reality of what is being done can no longer be denied, when euphemisms like “worst of the worst” fail to obscure that the target is simply whoever those in power decide is undesirable at the moment.
That recognition has always come late, and at a terrible cost.
In every era, most people tell themselves they are not responsible because they are not the ones holding the baton, the rope, or the gun.
So we must actively ask ourselves, ask our neighbors, ask our friends and loved ones, at what point does passive support stop being ignorance and become complicity?
How much damage, death and destruction has historically been done before that line is finally acknowledged?
Does it always have to be that much?
What absolute, delusional dogshit. How do progressives even stay out of the hospital from patting themselves on the back so hard? The performative posuturig about how pure their intentions are is just so over the top. Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker at their height seemed incredibly humble and self-critical compared to the sanctimonious progressive, who never misses a moment to tell you just pure their motives are and how evil those who oppose them must be.
Let's cut the crap. You don't care about the thousands of Americans who have been killed by illegals let loose in this country by the policies you actively support. How many Americans are dead because "sanctuary" cities wouldn't cooperate with ICE and deport violent criminals? How much compassion for the Laken Riley's of the world do you actually feel? How much time and money have donated to help the victims of the crimes you helped make possible? If not why not? Don't they deserve compassion? Compassion isn't just virtue signaling about enlightened you are to your fellow travelers, it should mean taking accountability for the damage you've done and trying to prevent others from suffering/.
Steve Bannon is trying to start a race war. What is your position on that?
Steve Bannon is a piece of shit.
ICE is not in Minnesota because it is the most dangerous place in America, they are there because there are Somalians there. Trump hates Ilhan Omar. She came from Somalia so he hates Somalians. He is much easier to understand than you think. When ICE goes to Maine it wont be because Maine is a dangerous place, it will be because there are Somalians there. You'd think they are eating the cats and dogs or something.
It's a corrupt state that refuses to cooperate with ICE. All sanctuary cities/state will get their turn. There's not much more to it than that.
ou'd think they are eating the cats and dogs or something
No, we know Minnesota and the loonies in ICE watch are protecting child rapists and amazingly enough, some people don't think they should remain in the country to prey upon others. At least, to speak like a progressive, that's what those who actually care about others think.
That is not a response to what I wrote. It is a response to a position you invented.
After a short conversation with my AI assistant, I have come up with the following response:
So to be clear, are you denying that there are meaningful parallels between opposition to the civil rights movement and ICE actions today, even when those actions involve arresting or detaining people based on perceived status, inability to immediately prove citizenship, or mere association or sympathy rather than individualized evidence of wrongdoing?
You want to talk about victims. Fine. Then answer this plainly.
At what point does enforcing immigration law stop being law enforcement and become intimidation of an entire population, including citizens, based on fear rather than individualized suspicion?
That question is not sanctimony. It is the minimum required in a society that claims to be governed by law rather than force.
Remember, we still respect your rights.
Kind of a one trick pony aren't ya?
Would you prefer being called nazi, white supremacist, Hitler, garbage, deplorable, etc?
I was thinking that. I had to check it wasn't satire.
Sorry, but I no longer consider DHS to be a reliable source.
Maybe start with a name of literally anyone involved in this alleged story. Witnesses? Video evidence? Testimony from medical officials? A photograph of the injured agent or his injuries?
I’m not yet at the point of claiming that this story is made up, but so far, very little evidence supports the assertion that any of it is true.
We’ve got an ambulance at the scene. Ok. Anyone in that ambulance? Anyone related to this story?
Which hospital? Treated for what?
They have an administration that has told hundreds or thousands of lies, and then they wonder why some reasonable people dont believe them.
I am going to say it is well within the realm of possibility that the Administration, in toto, has told hundreds of thousands of lies by this point.
“Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal which essentially says there is no United States... It would make everyone in America poorer... Right-wing people would love an open border to bring in all kinds of people to work for $2 to $3 an hour." - Bernie Sanders 2015”
How far we”ve come since 2015. Now most democrats refuse to acknowledge any reality whatsoever as they wage an insurrection against the government in support of foreigners who attack LEOs.
Obama’s response: No, that's not an option.
it’s like watching something from another era…. A democratic president defending the rule of law. Obama flipped on this and the party lost its collective mind
And the right wing lost their minds over it.