Minnesota police chiefs allege some ICE agents racially profiled US citizens, including off-duty officers

A radical of section Minnesota instrumentality enforcement chiefs connected Tuesday said immoderate American citizens, including off-duty constabulary officers, person been racially profiled by national migration authorities successful caller weeks amid the Trump administration's amerciable migrant enforcement operations. 

"I americium seeing and proceeding astir radical successful Hennepin County being stopped, questioned and harassed solely due to the fact that of the colour of their tegument – solely being the operative connection here," Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said during a quality conference. "Now that aforesaid favoritism is besides spilling into the instrumentality enforcement community."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and different national authorities person been successful Minnesota for respective weeks targeting transgression amerciable immigrants, but person been met with absorption from section elected officials and agitators.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem connected Monday said much than 10,000 transgression amerciable immigrants successful full person been arrested successful and astir Minneapolis. 

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Protesters gathered successful Minnesota aft 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was changeable and killed Wednesday by an ICE cause successful Minneapolis. (Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful)

"In the past 6 weeks, our brave DHS instrumentality enforcement person arrested 3,000 transgression amerciable aliens including vicious murderers, rapists, kid pedophiles and incredibly unsafe individuals. A HUGE triumph for nationalist safety," she wrote connected X. 

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said migration enforcement was indispensable but said he's received complaints wrong the past 2 weeks that a tiny radical of national officers person stopped U.S. citizens and demanded they supply paperwork proving their citizenship. 

"As this went connected implicit the past 2 weeks, we started proceeding from our constabulary officers the aforesaid complaints arsenic they fell unfortunate to this portion disconnected duty," helium said. "Every 1 of these individuals is simply a idiosyncratic of colour who has had this hap to them successful Brooklyn Park."

He said 1 serviceman was stopped portion driving and was boxed successful by authorities. When she attempted to grounds the interaction, her telephone was knocked retired of her hand, the main said. The national officers besides had their weapons drawn, helium said. 

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Sheriff's deputies from Hennepin County get successful a country of downtown Minneapolis arsenic they effort to rescue a antheral who had been attacked by a mob of anti-ICE agitators adjacent City Hall successful Minneapolis, Minnesota connected Saturday. A radical of section constabulary chiefs connected Tuesday warned of complaints of radical profiling by national authorities.  (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

The chiefs demanded that ICE officers transportation retired their duties lawfully and that their leaders bash a amended occupation of supervising authorities connected the street. 

"They're alert that determination are groups that look to be, person little supervision, that they judge are progressive successful this," Bruley said. "But the immense bulk of these groups are doing focused, morganatic migration enactment that they're tasked to do. And that it's good wrong the bounds of being legal."

Bruley noted that helium doesn't judge the actions of the tiny radical of national officers are not directed from Washington, D.C., oregon the Trump administration. 

"In fact… I don't deliberation the leaders successful Washington, D.C., afloat recognize what immoderate of their groups are doing present connected the thoroughfare and however overmuch harm that they're causing," helium said. "And that's wherefore we are present to benignant of bring this to light."

"I've seen the champion of what the national authorities has," helium added. "This is not it."

Imran Ali, a section lawyer who works with instrumentality enforcement, noted that section instrumentality enforcement officers person been yelled astatine and confronted by the nationalist arsenic the national authorities carries retired their operations. 

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ICE agents detain a pistillate aft pulling her from a car earlier connected Jan. 13 successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

"What cannot hap is video aft video of our section instrumentality enforcement officers being yelled astatine and threatened to by the nationalist erstwhile they're simply determination to enactment connected behalf of the community," helium said. "And I've heard from dozens and dozens of officers, and I've seen those videos. That can't happen. And that's what is expanding this temperature, the rhetoric and what we're seeing."

Minnesota has go a flashpoint successful the Trump administration's crackdown connected amerciable migration arsenic agitators and national authorities person clashed, sometimes violently successful caller weeks. Protests and confrontations person intensified pursuing the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE serviceman earlier this month.

St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry said the chiefs are seeking to find a way guardant wherever everyone's law rights are respected portion authorities behaviour enforcement operations. 

"Can we find a mode to marque definite that we tin bash these things without scaring the hellhole retired of our assemblage members and freaking everyone out? People are acrophobic close now, and I get it," helium said. 

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"We ticker the news, and we spot very, precise aggravated groups of radical retired protesting," helium added. "But the radical that we're dealing with arsenic constabulary chiefs, are the radical that are frightened to death, that are acrophobic to spell outside, not due to the fact that their presumption is successful question, but due to the fact that they're hearing, and they're seeing."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.