This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

On Wednesday, an ice agent shot and killed a woman in her vehicle on the streets of Minneapolis.

Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam immediately accused the woman of committing an act of domestic terrorism.

Then President Trump posted a misleading video of the affair and blamed it on the victim in truly vile terms. Officials in Minnesota are flatly disputing the official federal government

account of the shooting, calling it a reckless act by

out-of-control ICE agents. We think the danger of this moment is hard to overstate. They are now

heavily armed government militias roaming the streets of U.S. cities. They've been given free

rain by Trump and Nome, and they appear unbound and unaccountable.

So we're working through all of this with New Republic contributing editor Felipe de laos,

who writes well about the need for ICE accountability.

Felipe, good to have you on, man.

Nice to be here with you, Greg. I wish it was under better circumstances.

It's pretty fucked. So as of this recording, the authorities haven't released this woman's name.

The government is saying she weaponized the vehicle against ICE agents and that they killed her and justified self-defense.

But videos of the event that are floating around online seem to show that the agent in question

fired into the vehicle from the side at close to point

blank range after the vehicle had driven past him. And it was going pretty slowly. Filippe, can you

bring us up to date on what we know here? Sure. So this was all part of, you know, a kind of a surge to

Minneapolis and Minnesota more broadly that is kind of

broadly part of the fascination that the administration currently has with that state and city

for a number of reasons, including, you know, this kind of story about the, you know, the welfare

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