The St. Paul City Council is calling for an investigation into police use of force during a Tuesday federal immigration operation in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, which escalated to a standoff between protestors and officers.
The standoff occurred when Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contacted St. Paul Police Department as they attempted to detain a man who fled to a house on the 600 block of Rose Avenue East around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
The ICE agents had reportedly told police that “someone had thrown rocks and bricks at them.”…