Clashes continue in Minnesota over tactics of federal immigration agents

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Clashes continue in Minnesota over the tactics of federal immigration agents.
State officials have called on the Trump administration to pull back.
Those pleas have been met with the threat of more force.
ABC's Olivia Rubin has the latest.
Protesters clashing with federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
Today, President Trump seemingly backing off from his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act
and send in troops to the American city.
But still warning the option remains on the table.
It's been used a lot.
And if I needed it, I'd use it.
I don't think there's any reason right now to use it.
But if I needed it, I'd use it.
It's very powerful.
No president has invoked the Insurrection Act in more than three decades.
But today, President Trump writing, quote,
if and when I am forced to act, it will be solved quickly and effectively.
You will be identified. You will be arrested.
Protesters taking to the streets since the killing of Rene Good last week,
which the Trump administration says was justified.
Local leaders now calling for ICE to leave.
But the head of DHS telling ABC that's not happening.
Secretary Noem, do you have any plans to pull out of Minnesota?
No plans to pull out of Minnesota.
Now a newly released document from the Minneapolis Fire Department detailing Good's injuries.
Saying when they got to her, she had two apparent gunshot wounds to her chest,
one apparent gunshot wound to the left arm and a possible gunshot wound to her head.
And now a Liberian man arrested last weekend after immigration agents were seen using a
battering ram to break down the front door of his home has been released.
DHS saying in a statement he was here illegally with a quote lengthy rap sheet
and a 2023 final order of removal.
A judge ordered 37 year old Garrison Gibson released last night,
but his lawyers say he was detained again this morning when he checked in with immigration
officials.
But now he has since been released once again.
And the Department of Homeland Security in a statement today saying it's rioters
and agitators that led to an incident involving a family who says their infant was hospitalized
when federal officers deployed tear gas at their car.
Family though says they were heading home from a basketball game.
In New York, Olivia Rubin, Channel 6 Action News.
