Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declared a state of emergency and ordered his National Guard to prepare after a woman was shot and killed Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Walz said the state "does not need any more help from the federal government" after Federal officials after this morning's fatal incident in South Minneapolis.

“Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: you have done enough,” Walz said at a press conference hours after the shooting.

The incident occurred at the intersection of East 34th Street and Portland Avenue, leading to a tense standoff between federal and local law enforcement and protesters. Minneapolis authorities reported that the victim is a 37-year-old woman. US Senator Tina Smith described her as an “American citizen” in a social media post.

The State Emergency Operations Center was activated in response to the incident, and Walz issued an alert order to prepare the National Guard.

“I remind you that a warning order is a notice to the people, and these National Guard troops are our National Guard troops,” Walz said.

Walz announced the measures to “be ready” to face “civil unrest,” recalling the summer of 2020, when, in the midst of the pandemic, there were massive protests against police brutality after the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, the same city where ICE has now killed the woman, identified as a 37-year-old white American.

“We have activated the State Emergency Operations Center, and the leadership of the State Patrol National Guard is connected with the Minneapolis Police Department,” said the official, a Democrat.

The state governor announced these actions in response to the increase in demonstrations following the woman's death, whom the President of the United States, Donald Trump, moments earlier, accused her of being a “professional agitator” for “aggressively running over an ICE officer” who fired “in self-defense.” But the governor called the incident “unnecessary” and “preventable,”” noting that the state is facing a “chaotic situation caused by the largest deployment in American history of federal agents without communication with local authorities.” “I want to be very careful here because Donald Trump will make this all about me. He will make this about politics. This is about public safety and normalcy,” he said. “We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous and sensationalist operations are a threat to our public safety and that someone was going to get hurt,” he continued. Despite his “anger,” the governor urged protesters to demonstrate peacefully and “not take the bait” from the federal government, as Minneapolis was the epicenter of serious nationwide protests and unrest in 2020, following Floyd's death during Trump's first term.

The official did not clarify under what scenario he would activate the National Guard or the State Patrol, but promised that these forces would be there to “protect” the population and their “constitutional rights.”

“We have close to 7,500 troops at our training sites throughout the state. What happens is that you give the National Guard a warning order, which is a warning that something could happen,” he stated.

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