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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe photo seems to disprove DHS's narrative
This is the man who was shot. This is a screengrab from a video that was taken by someone driving past in a car moments before the shooting. This was right as they were starting to take the guy down. You can see that he has a phone in his right hand and is (likely) filming.
I do not have the video available, although I have seen the video that this still comes from. This photo came from Reddit.

DHS said:
"At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted."
https://abc7news.com/post/minneapolis-shooting-today-federal-agent-reportedly-involved-gov-tim-walz-says/18463609/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol-involved-shooting-reported-minneapolis
DHS also said that he had no ID (which is not a crime). Meanwhile local officials report that the man had a legal permit to carry. So he may have been "with" a 9mm handgun, but the the photo above, taken moments before the altercation which led to the shooting, does not show the man brandishing a weapon.
Edited again to add: The video has now been posted and can be seen on Bluesky (DU link here):
https://democraticunderground.com/100220965013
This is another screengrab from the video. Watch the video and you can clearly see that the man had nothing in his left hand as officers started to shove him, prior to wrestling him to the ground. This was not about trying to disarm somebody who was threatening them.

Kid Berwyn
(23,377 posts)Obviously a threat to NAZIs.
yellow dahlia
(4,955 posts)MagickMuffin
(18,108 posts)Murdering people is going to become the norm, because this maladministration wants us dead.
leftstreet
(39,125 posts)Oh this poor guy and his family/friends
yellow dahlia
(4,955 posts)I'm so sad and SO angry.
Prairie Gates
(7,364 posts)herding cats
(19,977 posts)I dearly hope the firearm enthusiasts take note of just how fucking fast those rights flew out the window here.
It appears ICE twisted his constitutional rights into a valid reason to assault and murder him.
yellow dahlia
(4,955 posts)RobinA
(10,475 posts)if a gun. Maybe.
liberalla
(10,875 posts)Need to find out if he was right or left handed.
He may have had a gun on him, but it wasn't visible (at least while he was standing up recording)
This is so so so fucked up!
Solly Mack
(96,522 posts)That looks like a phone to me, but my eyes could be lying to me.
yellow dahlia
(4,955 posts)Now people are beaten and executed for filming the out of control jackboots.
Solly Mack
(96,522 posts)wolfie001
(7,245 posts)Yet every horse-with-wings comment by a racist redneck is posted. FUCK MSN!!!
SunSeeker
(57,732 posts)Looks like a $30 PopSnap pocket camera by Vivitar from Target or Walmart.
I bought a cheap $30 Vivitar PopSnap pocket camera for my son for travel, and found it can record really good video, so long as you insert a 32GB or 64GB SD card in it so it has the memory to record the video(s). Very handy for recording ICE. And it is super compact, it will easily fit in a shirt pocket, under a hat, etc. I am sure there are similar cameras on Amazon as well.
That way, you don't risk your phone. My whole world is on my phone. No way would I want Trumps Nazis taking my phone. They can have my PopSnap.
Attilatheblond
(8,399 posts)Might have to dig them outta my old tech drawer, charge 'em up and check 'em out for serviceability.
Solly Mack
(96,522 posts)EdmondDantes_
(1,441 posts)The strict camera devices don't let you do that without connecting to another device.
SunSeeker
(57,732 posts)The already hyper-real shit is just getting realer and realer.
Hugin
(37,550 posts)I cant quite make out what the cosplay toy says below POLICE. The alt-klan member would be better off without it. Any shot would bounce around in there like a golf ball in a hurricane.
yellow dahlia
(4,955 posts)And perhaps he was executed for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a gun.
leftstreet
(39,125 posts)JHB
(38,004 posts)But in a world where cameras are counted as guns, I guess you can "block" an entrance from 10 yards away.
spanone
(141,161 posts)dalton99a
(92,516 posts)highplainsdem
(60,464 posts)- but you have to click on the part of the video saying it can't appear off Bluesky to reach the Bluesky post with the video.
highplainsdem
(60,464 posts)Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.
— Democratic Women of South Orange County (@dwsoc.bsky.social) 2026-01-24T17:24:14.392Z
orangecrush
(28,901 posts)Hope22
(4,504 posts)And if we tried that?
wolfie001
(7,245 posts)Pigs.
Safe as Milk
(212 posts)just like Diddling Donny.
If there was a weapon "found" on his person, find the registration data, confirm ownership. Even so, gun ownership does NOT demand that the owner be shot and killed.
AverageOldGuy
(3,439 posts)From this moment on, when referring to the organization formerly known as "ICE," refer to them only as "Gestapo." No more "ICE." And if you wish to refer to Stephen Miller as "Hermann Göring" . . .
Not familiar with the Gestapo, here is the Wikipedia article (footnotes and references are in the Wikipedia article).
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead of being exclusively a Prussian state agency, the Gestapo became a national one as a sub-office of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo; Security Police). From 27 September 1939, it was administered by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). It became known as Amt (Dept) 4 of the RSHA and was considered a sister organisation to the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service).
The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents, ideological dissenters (clergy and religious organisations), career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews.[4] Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germanyand from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree (German: Nacht und Nebel)simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody.[5] Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens. During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Holocaust. After the war ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials, and several top Gestapo members were sentenced to death.[6]
Justice matters.
(9,501 posts)But, but, but... "Nazis, Nazis, Nazis... the "Nazi card" when they use "Nazi methods" in plain sights.
Living in Canada, Cuba, Panama, Columbia and Greenland in 2026 Feels like living in Poland in early 1939.
Living in the US Feels like living in Germany in 1933.
Link to tweet
LuckyCharms
(22,084 posts)James48
(5,113 posts)Bovino needs to be fired.
Noem needs to be fired.
Stephen Miller needs to get fired.
Donald Trump needs to be fired.
LuckyCharms
(22,084 posts)right to fucking jail.
So goddamn infuriating.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,695 posts)
IronLionZion
(50,905 posts)they don't want their murders recorded. Cruelty is the point. They want to discourage protestors.
ICE-holes are the violence.
ashredux
(2,881 posts)This is most likely what happened
.They wrestled him to a ground, one of the yahoos yelled gun and then they shot him
I bet a lot of money thats how it was.
These guys are not trained, theyre just a bunch of assholes who used to be in prison because they storm the capital
littlemissmartypants
(32,049 posts)We had whistles. They had guns.
💧💔
MayReasonRule
(4,028 posts)
Historic NY
(39,735 posts)Watch the guy reach in and grab the gun and run away
Adam Mockler has it fram by frame
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SunSeeker
(57,732 posts)
When ICE pushed another protestor wearing a red backpack to the ground, he appeared to try to help her up as ICE pepper sprayed him. ICE proceeded to beat on him and then shot him. The woman filming is sobbing. Horrific.
Video is on reddit, and being played on MSNBC now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1qluz6q/another_angle_of_the_minneapolis_shooting_taken/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button