Newly released video contradicts federal claims that two Venezuelan immigrants assaulted an ICE agent with a snow shovel before an agent shot one of them during Operation Metro Surge.
Why it matters: The footage raises questions about why it took federal officials weeks to back off from their original story about — and drop criminal charges against — the wounded Julio Sosa-Celis and his roommate, Alfredo Aljorna.
- The New York Times, which was first to publish the video, reported that authorities had access to the footage “within hours of the shooting.”
The big picture: Minneapolis was on edge when the agents shot Sosa-Celis on Jan. 14, just one week after Renee Good’s killing…