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Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said, “You did not learn from what just happened” to a different observer.

A growing number of bystanders and observers in Minnesota are reporting that federal agents are responding with increasing aggression that includes detainment, overt threats and physical abuse.

In the past week alone, ICE boxed in a Woodbury real estate agent recording their movements from his car, slammed him to the ground and detained him at the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling for 10 hours. A teacher said she ICE ran her off the road into a snowbank for laying on her horn.

Officers shattered the car window of a woman attempting to drive past a raid in south Minneapolis to get to a doctor’s appointment nearby, then carried her through the street. 📸: David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler/NYT

On Wednesday night in north Minneapolis, witnesses say a series of gunshots followed a car chase and foot chase involving federal agents. Federal and local authorities said an agent shot a man in the leg after being attacked with a snow shovel and broom. Follow our ongoing coverage here.