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Shootings in Minneapolis and Portland spur protests over federal enforcement operations after

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    -96% Very Left

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49% : The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
48% : Hundreds protested Thursday night at the ICE building.
45% : Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and the city council called on ICE to end all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed.
42% : READ MORE: What we know so far about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis Just as it did following Wednesday's shooting in Minneapolis shooting, the Department of Homeland Security defended the actions of the officers in Portland, saying it occurred after a Venezuelan man with alleged gang ties and who was involved in a recent shooting tried to "weaponize" his vehicle to hit the officers.
40% : Officer identified in records The federal agent who fatally shot Good is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and ICE, according to records obtained by AP.
33% : Woman killed by ICE agent was mother of 3, poet and new to Minneapolis Early Friday, city crews removed makeshift barricades made from debris including garbage cans and Christmas trees that blocked streets in the area of Wednesday's shooting to keep streets open, but Minneapolis officials said they would not remove the memorial the community created there.
31% : MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the U.S. Hundreds of people protesting the shooting of Renee Good marched in freezing rain Thursday night down one of Minneapolis' major thoroughfares, chanting "ICE out now" and holding signs saying, "killer ice off our streets."
30% : It provoked an immediate response in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people turning up to the scene to vent their outrage at the ICE officers and the school district canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.
26% : Walz says Minnesota must play a role in investigation into ICE's killing of Renee Good "I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making," Vance said, noting that the officer who killed her was injured while making an arrest last June.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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