Profanities and a tear gas-like chemical irritant filled the air as protesters and immigration agents scuffled and shoved each other in Minneapolis on Thursday (January 8), the morning after an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car - the latest violent incident during President Donald Trump's nationwide crackdown on migrants.

Protesters gathered before dawn outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, home to one of Minnesota's main immigration courts. As immigration agents arrived, protesters shouted "Shame! Shame!" and "Quit your job."

Trump, a Republican, has deployed federal immigration agents to Democratic-led cities across the U.S. through his first year in office in a crackdown against illegal immigration, leading to backlash from some residents.

The administration planned to send approximately 2,000 agents to Minneapolis, according to news reports, following allegations of wide-scale welfare fraud involving Somali immigrants, whom Trump has called "garbage."

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Protesters, ICE agents scuffle a day after fatal shooting of Minnesota woman

VIDEO SHOWS: ICE AGENTS, PROTESTERS SCUFFLING OUTSIDE MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL BUILDING

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SHOWS: MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 8, 2026) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS ICE (IMMIGRATIONS AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT) AGENTS AND PROTESTERS SCUFFLING AND SHOUTING

2. PROTESTERS MOVING AFTER POP SOUND FROM CHEMICAL IRRITANT (YELLOW POWDER) FIRED TO DISPERSE CROWD

3. ICE AGENTS ATTEMPTING TO PUT HANDCUFFS ON SEVERAL PROTESTERS ON GROUND AS PROTESTERS YELL "SHAME! SHAME!" AT THEM

4. PROTESTERS TRAILING AS ICE AGENTS TRY TO LEAD APPREHENDED PROTESTERS OUT OF AREA

5. ICE AGENTS BACKING UP

6. ICE AGENTS AND PROTESTERS N STAND OFF

7. PROTESTER WITH BANNER READING "NO KINGS" SHOUTING "THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE - CE OUT NOW"

8. PROTESTERS SHOUTING "SHAME SHAME"

9. PROTESTERS YELLING "GO HOME NAZIS" TO ICE AGENTS

10. CHEMICAL IRRITANT IN THE AIR PROTESTERS WALKING AWAY

11. MAN ON GROUND RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION

12. PROTESTERS YELLING "QUIT YOUR JOB"

13. PROTESTER WITH SIGN READING (English)"NAZI BITCH BOY HQ (HEADQUARTERS), STRIKING COW BELL AND YELLING "GET THE FUCK OUT. FUCK YOU