DHS officials privately express shock at department’s immediate response to Minneapolis shooting

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/politics/minneapolis-shooting-noem-dhs-reaction

DHS officials privately express shock at department’s immediate response to Minneapolis shooting

Multiple Department of Homeland Security officials privately expressed shock Wednesday over the department’s immediate response to the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, seeing it as a break from precedent that generally points to an investigation before reaching a firm conclusion.

Multiple current and former Homeland Security officials initially privately questioned the officer’s conduct, though cautioned that the preceding events remained unclear and stressed that an investigation was necessary.

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