Man shot in Minneapolis during federal immigration operation, local media reports

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A ⁠man was ⁠shot ‍in the leg on Wednesday night during a federal immigration enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, the Minnesota ‍Star Tribune reported, citing multiple sources with knowledge of ​the situation.

According to the Star Tribune, eye witnesses said a series of ​gunshots followed a car chase involving federal agents.

No official information from law enforcement agencies was immediately available, but the city of Minneapolis said ​on the social media platform X that it was "aware of reports of a shooting involving federal law enforcement in ​north Minneapolis."

The shooting report surfaced one week after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ‌agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman behind the wheel of her car in a residential neighborhood ​of Minneapolis during a major ⁠deportation operation ordered in the city by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The killing of Renee Good, who ‌was part of a volunteer neighborhood patrol network tracking and monitoring ICE activities in the city touched off a wave of protests ‌in Minneapolis and across the country.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which ‌oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request from Reuters for comment on the latest report of a shooting.

Earlier on Wednesday, Trump said ‍he would cut off federal funding next month for any state that includes sanctuary cities ⁠where officials have prohibited local law enforcement from cooperating in federal immigration enforcement operations.

(Reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting Ismail Shakil in Ottawa and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Michael Perry)

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