When Susie Hayward heard that a woman had been shot and killed by an immigration agent in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday, she rushed to the scene to bear witness. What she found was “anger, grief and tear gas”.
“The federal government has declared war on Minnesota,” said Hayward, a minister at Creekside United Church of Christ in south Minneapolis. “We need to get them out of here. We need them to stop terrorising our community.”
Minneapolis is still reeling from the death of Renée Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during an altercation in a residential neighbourhood of the city, in an incident that has provoked outrage across the US.