'This is taking a turn': Minneapolis protest escalates as ICE fires pepper balls

Protesters and federal agents faced off in Minneapolis the morning after an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed an American woman during a raid in the city.

Multiple videos captured the as-yet-identified ICE agent fire three times into a vehicle driven by 37-year-old Renee Good, who was killed, and federal agents fired pepper balls into a crowd of protesters Thursday morning shortly after day break in a tense confrontation, reported CNN's Ryan Young.

"So this is really taking a turn here," Young said from the scene. "They were blocking the front of this facility, and now these agents have responded by trying to walk in their own cars, and they are starting to use some pepper or tear gas agents to move parts of the crowd. You can hear them saying, 'Shame,' and so this has really just all taken place in the last three minutes or so. So this has taken definitely an escalation. This gate is, one of the gates they were trying to block to stop Border Patrol and ICE agents from getting inside, and then at some point there was a notice to give a clearing, and when that clearing happened, these agents showed up and you see them armed, and that is a less than lethal weapon here that they're shooting pepper balls toward the crowd."

"They've cleared a certain section, but now as you see them, they're sort of retreating back, back toward their main gate here," Young added. "But this is definitely taking more of a offensive stance from the Border Patrol agents. That's happening right in front of us."

Young reported a short time later that one of the protesters had been taken into custody and the network's photographer captured video of the man being placed into handcuffs and led away.

"You see how upsetpeople are getting and you seehow angry folks are," Young reported. "This crowdis on the edge when it comes tothe tactics that are being used.We are not sure why they decidedto identify this man as someonethey needed to take intocustody, but obviously this is asecond person that they havegone after into this crowd.There were a lot of women whogot pushed down to the ground,which made more of the men inthe crowd get upset and pushedback. We saw a physicalconfrontation where a man puttwo hands and shoved one of theagents in the chest that, madethe agents respond with moreforce, and as you can hear thecrowd now saying, 'Shame.' But atleast they've stopped shootingpepper balls at this point,which really – oh, and they'retaking this man away right now."

"So as you see this, they'veactually asked for the – oh, nowthey're pushing again," Young continued. "This isreally – oh, they're firing pepperballs. So as you see that smokecoming back our direction – I gotyou, Effie. I have my arm aroundour photographer here becausethis crowd is shifting on thisice. There's a lot of pushingand shoving, and people are veryangry. We have some peopleopening their jackets andsaying, 'Shoot me here, shoot mehere,' and that now they'repulling back. The man theyarrested in this direction overhere, falling back to the gatethat we talked about before.They have bear spray, as well, that they're using."

"Look atthis right here," he added. "They're goingafter someone else, so you canfeel the anger of this crowd.People want to hit these agents.Some people started throwingsnowballs at them. This agentobviously fell and had to beretrieved by his fellow agentsas they pulled him back. So thisis all unfolding as the angercontinues here."

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