EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island and Massachusetts leaders are speaking out against the deadly shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer that happened Wednesday morning in Minneapolis.
Renee Nicole Macklin, 37, has been identified as the woman who was killed. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement that Macklin attempted to run over ICE officers “in an attempt to kill them.”
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” the DHS statement continued.
BACKGROUND: Minneapolis on edge after fatal shooting of woman by ICE officer
Since then, different angles of the incident captured on video have sparked debate about what happened…