Immigration agents policing protests in Minneapolis spark safety and training concerns
AP News • • nation
Key Points:
- Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics, including pointing rifles at protesters, deploying chemical irritants, and forcibly removing people from vehicles, escalating tensions after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an immigration agent.
- The federal government is increasingly relying on immigration officers, who typically lack specialized crowd-management training, to handle protests—a role traditionally managed by local police with more experience in de-escalation and public order tactics.
- Experts and civil rights groups warn that these federal tactics violate de-escalation standards, risk escalating violence, and have led to a lawsuit seeking to limit federal agents' use of force and interference during protests.
- While DHS claims ICE officers receive extensive training in conflict management and de-escalation, criminology
