<h1>Mayor challenges ICE officer's self-defence claim after motorist killed during immigration enforcement operation, protests intensify and halt demands grow.</h1> Minneapolis' mayor publicly disputed federal officials' assertion that an ICE officer acted in lawful self-defence when the officer shot and killed a motorist during an immigration enforcement operation, characterising the use of force as 'reckless.' The operative consequence is that the incident is being framed as a potentially unjustified use of deadly force rather than a justified defensive act, intensifying public protest and prompting local demands that ICE cease operations in the city and state. The report also describes DHS's announcement of a large-scale enforcement action in the Minneapolis-St Paul area involving thousands of agents and officers and linked in part to alleged fraud, with community groups organising monitoring activity.