Donald Trump posted a wild set of false and misleading claims about today's Minnesota ICE shooting in a bid to distract attention from the incident.
Video of the incident showed at least five agents wrestle the man to the ground, before 10 shots rang out.
Before the shots, one officer is shown repeatedly hitting the man in the head with an object thought to be a pepper spray canister. The agents back away from the man after the first shot, with at least two officers seen with guns drawn.
The video ends with ICE agents walking away as the man lays motionless on the pavement.
Minneapolis Police confirmed a 37-year-old man died an hour after the shooting in South Minneapolis.
The Department for Homeland Security (DHS) claimed the man shot yesterday had been “armed” and that he had “violently” resisted attempts to disarm him.
But a second video clip uploaded later shows that in the moments before he was shot, he was holding a phone and filming ICE officers. No weapon is visible in his hands, and he is seen backing away from an officer who shoved him towards the pavement.
And a second angle of the shooting, which emerged later, shows the victim was neither brandishing a weapon nor violently resisting before being shot.
He appears to be stepping in to help another protester who had been shoved to the ground by an ICE officer. A second officer is seen repeatedly firing pepper spray into the victim’s face at point blank range before he’s wrestled to the floor.
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Donald Trump posted a wild set of false and misleading claims about today's Minnesota ICE shooting in a bid to distract attention from the incident. Video of the incident showed at least five agen...