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A U.S. federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, federal officials said.
The shooting took place about 7.2 kilometres north of where an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7.
No official information from local law enforcement agencies was immediately available, but the City of Minneapolis said on X that it was “aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in north Minneapolis.”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on X that federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot, DHS said.
After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and all three started attacking the officer, according to DHS.
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