WATCH: Gov. Walz holds briefing after ICE agent shoots and kills woman in Minneapolis

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist on Wednesday during the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major American city — a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city's mayor described as "reckless" and unnecessary.

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Videos taken by bystanders and posted to social media show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road and trying to open the driver's side door. Seconds later, the car drives away and a different ICE officer standing in front of the car fires at least two shots toward the driver. The SUV knocked the officer back but not down. The car then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they'd seen.

The shooting marks a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major American cities under the Trump administration. The killing was at least the fifth in a handful of states since 2024.

This story is developing and will be updated.