US Homeland Secretary Defends ICE Agent After Minnesota Incident

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00:00If you remember in that operation, what happened was our officers were out trying to get a car

00:04stuck out of the snow when they were surrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters that

00:11were inciting. The officer was following his training. He did follow his training because of

00:15an individual that was point blank into a driver's window. Is that part of the training? Is that how

00:20is that self-defense? This is an experienced officer who followed his training and we will

00:26continue to let the investigation unfold into the individual and continue to follow the procedures

00:30and policies that happen in these use of force cases. But let's remember the events that surrounded

00:35what happened yesterday on that tragic situation was that these individuals had followed our

00:41officers all day, had harassed them, had blocked them in. They were impeding our law enforcement

00:46operations, which is against the law. And when they demanded and commanded her to get out of her

00:51vehicle several times, she did not. So we'll continue to allow this process to unfold and

00:57recognize that these law enforcement officers every single day put their lives on the line.

01:02They go out and do their jobs. This was an act of domestic terrorism, which is perpetuating

01:09these policies and procedures that follow a use of force situation like this are continuing

01:18to be put in place. So this is standard operating procedure. After every use of force situation

01:23is that we follow these procedures and protocols. This situation is no different.