Minnesota’s police shooting board is independently investigating this week’s shooting by a federal officer of a target in an immigration arrest.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said its investigators “processed the scene” of what it termed a “use-of-force incident” involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
“This will be an independent BCA investigation,” the bureau said on social media.
Homeland Security said officers were trying to arrest a migrant when he fled in his vehicle, crashed it, then ran toward a home. One officer caught up with the man, who resisted, and they wrestled him to the ground when two others ran out of the home and began beating the officer with a snow shovel and a broom handle.
The migrant got free and joined in the beating, so the officer fired his gun, striking the migrant in the leg, according to federal officials.
The scene devolved into mayhem later in the night as demonstrators trashed vehicles and clashed with police.
This new shooting came a week after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good during a confrontation on a Minneapolis street.
That shooting, captured in detail on video, has deeply divided the nation.
President Trump’s supporters say Good’s refusal to comply with commands to get out of her vehicle, which then lurched toward an ICE officer, justified the shooting.
The president’s opponents say the video suggests Good was trying to drive away and the officer could have gotten out of the way without firing.
Federal officials revealed this week that the officer suffered internal bleeding from being struck by the vehicle.
The BCA initially said it was part of the probe into the Good shooting, then said it was withdrawing after being sidelined by the feds.
