The Minneapolis police chief is among those criticizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after video shared by a local reporter shows federal agents kneeling on a face-down pregnant woman in hardened snow before dragging her by one arm along the street.
ICE agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in South Minneapolis on Monday when WCCO reporter Esme Murphy recorded the woman being pinned down, as onlookers screamed that she was pregnant, per video shared online.
“We don’t control the unsafe or questionable tactics by other agents that are here,” Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters Tuesday, adding that the tactics used did not jibe with his Christian values. “The fear that people are experiencing is real.”…