ICE agent shoots woman in the face.

[Eyesopenwideawake]

It had to happen; in Minneapolis a woman in a car was shouting at the multiple ICE agents. One tried to open her car door, she started to drive away and was shot 2 (3? 4?) times in the head.

Trump is blaming her. Fucking hell.

EDIT BY MNHQ - Though the footage of this incident is in the public domain, we have removed the link originally included in this thread as we believe it could cause distress.

Why are you so literal. The roots of Mumsnet are British and that will never change. It is not exactly left field to think people don't want to be bombarded with this hateful, extreme right wing propaganda when they visit a site named, "Mumsnet".

America used to be a beacon of hope. The land of the free. Now it feels like it’s turning its back on Europe and threatening Greenland and Canada. Is this what American people really want for their country?

You now have a city threatening to bring out the National Guard to protect its citizens from government officials. What will happen if Trump wangles another term?

I bet all of this is going to be a killer for tourism
to
America.

If anything he made the vehicle more dangerous because it was now out of control.

It was a lose - lose situation for her. She was trapped. It was going to end baldy for her either way. It was also misogynist murder, I rather think if this had been a white middle class male driver he would have got out of this alive.

It doesn't matter whether she was local or drove there to support the protests. She didn't do anything illegal. The victim blaming in this thread is wild.

Agreed, the slaivating, trigger happy right wing US Trump supporters on this thread are rather lowering the tone with their wild victim blaming and incitement to violence.

Yep @EasternStandard - think you're being a bit pass ag here.

You know what I'm saying.

And if you genuinely don't ... I rest my case on the differences.

Why did she attempt to drive off? She had been part of the protest so knew she was confronted by ICE officers. They had instructed her to stop, but instead she tried to drive off?

I have an American friend whose DS is learning to drive and apparently it's drilled in to them, that if ordered to stop by any law enforcement officer, they must immediately comply and do exactly what they're told.

The poor woman knew she was confronted by notoriously trigger happy, knuckle dragging ICE agents. So why risk not doing exactly what they told her to do?

Just stop trying to drive people off because they have different views. If something happens o/s I want to hear from people there.

If you don’t want that take it up with mnhq or see if there’s a site that limits posting locations.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/07/us/video/minneapolis-woman-fatally-shot-by-ice-witness-video-digvid

This is a former FBI agent breaking down the various bits of footage if anyone wants to look at that.

True. But similar training and guidance in many places in the US says don’t stand in front of a car and shoot the driver to stop it. If shooting the tyres is out as an option, then so is shooting the driver.

I do appreciate that the split second you are in a situation is very different to being able to watch it on a video after the fact. But this quite difficult to explain away the officer walking away from the scene, the police being told that the only injured person was the woman when they turned up and the victim being denied medical care.

She shouldn’t have driven off but maybe she panicked and probably thought as an American citizen they should have no beef with her. They could have done a million and one things to apprehend her that didn’t involve shooting her in the face

According to the witness evidence, they were shouting at her to move. Perhaps that's why she moved.

Totally agree @Pinguuuus

No longer a beacon of hope but one of genuine despair.

No desire to visit there anymore either .

Yep you’ve got it idk what you’re insinuating or whatever. If you don’t like US related threads there’s an easy way to avoid them.

Utter fucking garbage! Do you think we can’t see what happened? Christ. What’s wrong with you that you would even try defend this? FFS.

I would suggest you rewatch because that is bullshit right there.

They were apprehending illegal immigrants. But at least you admit that you cannot just interfere with federal agents like that

Why did she think she had any right to intervene? Who gave her that idea? She didn’t just stand on a sidewalk with a sign. She used her car to block them and then (maybe inadvertently maybe not) drove towards one.

The two key pieces of advice I have always drummed into my children are to get out of a building as quickly as possible at the first sight of fire and never do anything that could be interpreted as aggressive or evasive in the presence of an officer of the law.

It’s plain as day that she hit nobody and was shot for driving off.

You all know a mother died? As a result of a law enforcement guy not being trained properly to de escalate a situation ?
A mother.
Of a 6 year old.
And this is a forum for mums.

and you're chatting very calmly about a mother being shot in the face 3 times...

'Move' as in Move your car? Or 'move' as in get out of your car?

Such a heart breaking tragedy.

Trump and Vance are of course defending the ICE agent - this is the new world we're living in.
The the fact that the shooter, covered his face and just gets into his vehicle and drives off from the scene should not bode well for him, but in this new era who knows if justice will be served by the courts.

I'm so upset and sickened by this - her death as a young boy's mum as well as Asshat now saying she was trying to hurt the officers. WHEN is this going to be stopped? The fact he is getting away with these LIES is horrifying.

The Trump supporters who i have seen blindly supporting Trump on multiple threads are scary. They don't even see it, how they defend him no matter what.

Breitbart and other Trumpian news sites will be doing the whole character assignation on her. We can be sure of that.