Tensions rise in Minneapolis as officials trade blame after shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Footage from the streets showed protesters shouting, blowing whistles, filming ICE officers with their cellphones and calling for them to leave the city amid bursts of tear gas and stun grenades.
43% : He said that he hoped to force ICE out of the state through a lawsuit he and other Minnesota officials filed Monday.
42% : U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche referred to the protests in Minneapolis on Wednesday as an "insurrection" and blamed the unrest on Walz and Frey, who he said were "encouraging violence against law enforcement" in a situation that has escalated since the fatal shooting of Renée Good last week by an ICE officer.
41% : " At an earlier news conference the mayor described an "impossible situation" in which Minneapolis's 600 police officers are at times finding themselves at odds with some of the approximately 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have been deployed to the city.
38% : Good's family has hired attorneys to investigate her killing by an ICE officer, including one of the attorneys who represented the family of George Floyd, the Black man whose killing by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 also ignited national protests.
31% : " Tension between protesters and ICE agents has intensified since Good's shooting last week on a residential street where neighbors were monitoring and protesting immigration enforcement activity, stirring national outrage across the political spectrum.
30% : Frey said an ICE agent shot the man, and city officials demanded that ICE "leave the city and state immediately." The Washington Post could not immediately confirm details of the incident or the identity of the person who was shot.

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