MINNEAPOLIS: Newly released surveillance footage from the city of Minneapolis and national media outlets has cast fresh doubt on federal accounts of several high-profile shootings involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, reigniting a firestorm of protests and legal scrutiny over Trump-era enforcement tactics.
🚨BREAKING: A new video just exposed that ICE and DHS blatantly LIED about another shooting in Minneapolis…
And it’s not a small discrepancy… it’s a complete fabrication of what happened.
On January 14th, ICE agents claimed they were brutally attacked for minutes… beaten… pic.twitter.com/JcaQVA6Jt8
— Jesus Freakin Congress (@TheJFreakinC) April 6, 2026
The footage, made public on Monday, April 6, provides a frame-by-frame contradiction of initial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) statements regarding incidents that occurred in January 2026. While the reports began circulating widely today, April 7, officials emphasized that the videos document past encounters and do not represent new violence in the city.
BREAKING: Minneapolis releases video footage captured by city-owned cameras of the Jan. 14 non-fatal shooting involving ICE agents pic.twitter.com/4Dbj9rvHcJ
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) April 6, 2026
A central focus of the release is the Jan. 14 non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a 24-year-old Venezuelan immigrant. Initial federal reports claimed that Sosa-Celis and two others “violently assaulted” an agent with a snow shovel and broom handle, forcing the officer to fire in self-defense.
However, the newly released city-owned camera footage and analyses by The New York Times and KSTP show a different sequence. The video shows Sosa-Celis dropping a plastic shovel and attempting to flee toward a home as an agent tackles another man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna. The footage appears to show the agent firing toward the men as they attempted to enter a residence, striking Sosa-Celis in the leg. Contrary to claims of a “minutes-long assault,” the physical interaction lasted approximately 10 seconds.
The Department of Justice had already moved to dismiss assault charges against Sosa-Celis and Aljorna in February, citing evidence materially inconsistent with the officers’ sworn testimony.
The fresh scrutiny has also revived the national outcry over the Jan. 7 death of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and writer. Good was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross while in her vehicle.
While federal officials, including President Donald Trump, initially defended the shooting by claiming Good attempted to “run over” the agent, video evidence released shortly after the incident and re-examined in recent reports suggests Ross fired three shots as Good’s vehicle was turning away from him.
Meanwhile in Washington, Congressional Democrats have introduced several accountability bills, including the Federal Law Enforcement Standards and Accountability (FLESA) Act, aimed at curbing the “Metro Surge” enforcement tactics. Despite the viral nature of the video releases on Tuesday, Minneapolis remained tense but without reports of fresh shootings. Community leaders have urged protesters to remain peaceful, warning that the federal administration may use unrest to justify further militarized responses.
