A statement released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and read live on FOX News indicates that the agent who shot a man in Minneapolis Saturday fired “defensive shots.”
The statement says agents were “conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault.” While conducting the operation, a man approached “U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun.”
Officers tried to disarm the man but he “violently resisted.”
A photo released by DHS and published by CNN shows the 9mm handgun which was found at the scene where federal agents in Minneapolis shot the armed man.
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Breitbart News reported that man succumbed to his wounds.
CNN noted that the shooting came “amid very high tensions on the ground
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