Federal immigration agents shoot dead a man in Minneapolis
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
For the second time this month, there's been a fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in the US city of Minneapolis. Local police said a thirty-seven year old man, who's believed to be an American citizen, had been killed.
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(Picture: A person holds a placard as federal agents use tear gas to disperse people gathered near the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:15.4 | There's been another fatal shooting on the streets of Minneapolis |
| 0:18.9 | involving immigration and customs enforcement or |
| 0:22.2 | ICE agents. The Democratic governor of Minnesota, Tim Wals, has described it as horrific and |
| 0:28.3 | sickening. Police chief, Brian O'Hara, is appealing for calm and has asked protesters at the |
| 0:34.2 | scene to disperse peacefully. He told reporters the man killed was 37, white, |
| 0:41.0 | a resident of Minneapolis and a US citizen. He's not yet been named. It's still a moving story, |
| 0:47.8 | but this is how it unfolded today. Just after 9 this morning, the incident happened. Video footage |
| 0:53.9 | was captured by people nearby. |
| 0:56.4 | A man can be seen being wrestled to the ground by what looks like five, maybe six ice agents. |
| 1:03.1 | Then a shot or shots can be heard. |
| 1:06.1 | A crowd had already gathered, and as protests continued, |
| 1:10.0 | ice agents were videoed firing tear gas at them. |
| 1:18.2 | Well, one anonymous demonstrator wearing a mask spoke to reporters from the scene of the shooting. |
| 1:24.7 | We've been doing nothing but following the law, peacefully observing, and then they decide to |
| 1:29.7 | gang up and kill one of us. |
| 1:32.0 | What happened this morning is they tried to go into a restaurant. |
| 1:35.3 | The restaurant didn't let them in, and a peaceful observer was recording them, and they |
| 1:39.9 | decided to get aggressive with that peaceful observer, and then when there were six, eight of them |
| 1:44.1 | on top of one person, they decided to shoot them with that peaceful observer, and then when there were six, eight of them |
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