Newly released video undermines ICE account of Minneapolis migrant shooting

Minneapolis has released a video showing the lead up to the shooting of a Venezuelan migrant in January that appears to contradict Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents accounts of the incident. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had initially said an officer shot a man in the leg after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle . Federal charges against two migrants involved were then dropped in February after ICE officials said two officers appeared to have made false statements. Footage from city-owned cameras, released on Monday, appears to contradict the original account on the length of the struggle and the DHS claim that an agent was struck with a snow shovel. The newly released video is dark and grainy and shot from a distance. It shows only a struggle between two men - one who appears to toss aside a shovel before any contact is made - and ICE agents. The footage shows one man running up the street, chased by another. He falls, gets up, and keeps running toward the house. The three men then briefly struggle on the ground. One of the men, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, was shot in the leg during the interaction. After the 14 January incident, the DHS issued a
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