WATCH: Minneapolis protests get heated, ‘peaceful’ assembly becomes unlawful

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Anti-ICE Orotesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota got rowdy on Friday night, prompting police intervention and leading to multiple arrests.

The heated atmosphere started when an agitator, Renee Good, was harassing ICE agents carrying out lawful orders in a Minneapolis neighborhood on Wednesday morning. As ICE agents asked her to exit the vehicle, she hit the accelerator and thrived to flee as her wife instructed her to “drive.” Good struck an ICE agent in the process, and he shot her dead.

The agent fired because he feared fr his life, federal officials say, but protesters and government leaders contend that she was fleeing in fear and did not intentionally hit the officer. They are livid that ICE is in their state, and they are calling for the arrest of the agent involved in the shooting.

Anti-ICE protesters descended on downtown Minneapolis Friday night, “holding signs that said ‘Abolish ICE’ and ‘Justice for Renee Good’ after the mother was fatally shot by an ICE agent this week,” CNN reported.

The crowd surged along the sidewalks in front of at least two hotels thought to be housing ICE agents. Some of the protesters “shone powerful flashlights on the hotel’s windows,” CNN reported. “Many protesters wore inflatable costumes and novelty hats, banging pots and pans and playing musical instruments such as a flute. Others whistled and chanted.”

“Protesters are making as much noise as possible by banging on dumpsters and drums,” Fox 9 reported. “Protesters were shooting off fireworks and blocking the roads in the area.”

CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez reported from the scene.

“This definitely seems to be the loudest protest we’ve encountered so far… They’re under the belief that there are federal agents here. The goal seems to be that no one at this hotel can sleep, with the target, in that case, being federal agents,” Jimenez told CNN’s Laura Coates.

“We haven’t quite seen a protest like this carried out in this exact way up to this point, at least I haven’t personally, and I’ve been here… since the day of the shooting,” he added.

Police declared the protest an unlawful assembly and told everyone to clear the area. “They issued an arrest order over a loudspeaker saying people in the area were under arrest. A FOX 9 photographer counted that four people were arrested around 11 p.m.,” Fox 9 reported.

CNN reported:

Police declared an unlawful assembly and made arrests late Friday as officers moved to disperse an anti‑ICE protest outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel.

A law enforcement officer made the announcement over a loudspeaker as state and local officers formed a line near the hotel, CNN’s Omar Jimenez reported from the scene.

The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said early Saturday state law enforcement agencies were assisting Minneapolis police with arrests after the protest was declared an unlawful assembly.

The agency posted on X, saying it received reports that the “demonstrations were no longer peaceful” and there was “damage to property.”

“Dispersal orders were given prior to arrests,” it added.

The decision was made after some of the protesters breached the doors of a hotel.

Minnesota State Troopers were deployed, with officers wearing riot gear as law enforcement moved to clear the area. “Troopers formed a few lines with police vehicles positioned behind them,” reported CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez from the scene.

The crowd of protesters thinned out as the law enforcement officers showed up.

Below are a series of scenes from the protests Friday night.

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