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Before ICE shooting, immigration agents repeatedly used deadly force

When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed 37-year-old in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, it was not the first time that federal officers have killed civilians since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration enforcement campaign.

Federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months, according to news reports reviewed by . In September, Silverio Villegas González, a father who worked as a cook, was killed while reportedly trying to flee from officers in a Chicago suburb, WBEZ reported. In December, a border patrol agent . And on New Year's Eve, an off-duty ICE agent used his service weapon to shoot a man in Los Angeles, California, . Authorities said the man had .

Agents have . The Trace, the nonprofit news organization covering gun violence, has counted more than a dozen such shootings. In some cases, the victims survived, including a woman who suffered . The Border Patrol officer who shot her appeared to brag about it in a text message, later presented in court evidence. The message reportedly read, That shooting happened as part of , an immigration enforcement campaign in which federal agents fanned across Chicago, similar to what they are doing in Minneapolis now. The administration has also conducted large-scale blitzes in , and .

According to , in the last four months federal officers have fired on at least nine people while they were in their vehicles, like Good. In those cases, authorities said the drivers were attempting to use the vehicles to strike an officer. In Wednesday’s shooting, Department of Homeland Security officials said Good had attempted to run over officers in “an act of domestic terrorism.” and quickly disputed the federal description of the incident after they said they had viewed a video of the shooting.

In addition to shootings, federal immigration officers have pointed their guns at activists and bystanders. Illinois State Rep. Hoan Huynh said while he was trying to alert community members about the presence of immigration officers and inform them of their rights, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

A pregnant Illinois woman told she thought her life was about to end when a federal agent pointed his gun through her car window, after she honked her horn to alert people ICE was nearby.

In another incident in Chicago, a combat veteran alleged in a court filing that a federal officer said “ while pointing a handgun at him.

The Department of Homeland Security has routinely defended the shootings as necessary to protect officer safety. However, video and witnesses have disputed their accounts in many cases. After federal immigration agents fatally shot González — the cook in Chicago — during a traffic stop, Homeland Security claimed an officer was seriously injured. Body-camera video, however, captured the agent saying it was “nothing major,” according to .

A lawyer for Marimar Martinez, the woman shot five times in Chicago, said body-cam video contradicts the government's account that she drove towards officers , according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Assault charges against Martinez were dropped. A judge has ordered that the video be .

After reviewing a video of Wednesday’s shooting in Minneapolis that he said seemed to contradict federal officials’ accounts that the driver was attempting to run them over when they shot her, Walz posted on social media, “

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