Trump's DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September. Here's what to know.
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Federal immigration officers have shot 12 people since September as the Department of Homeland Security has ramped up deportation operations around the country. In the latest shooting on Jan. 24, a federal agent killed Alex Pretti, 37, just weeks after the fatal shooting of Renee Good, also 37. Both were U.S. citizens and Minneapolis residents.
In the majority of the shootings, including Good's, officers have fired into cars — a tactic that law enforcement authorities and policing experts have been trying for decades to curtail.
The vehicle shootings raise serious concerns among policing experts about the rapidly expanding deployment of DHS personnel into American communities, where officers are regularly captured on video clashing with immigrants who are in the country illegally as well as citizens who protest the arrests.
The shootings “are not one-offs,” said Jim Bueermann, the former police chief in Redlands, California, who now runs the Future Policing Institute, a research group. “This is clearly developing into a pattern and practice of how they deal with people in the enforcement of immigration laws, and to me that’s the most alarming thing we’re seeing.”
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