Federal immigration agents shot dead a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, in the second fatal shooting of a civilian during the Trump administration’s controversial operation in the city, sparking fresh protests and outrage from state officials.The death came less than three weeks after US citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE) officer involved in sweeps to round up undocumented migrants.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insisted the man killed Saturday was armed with a pistol and its officers acted in self-defense.But Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the shooting “horrific” and demanded that state authorities lead the investigation.”The federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it, period,” Walz told a press conference.US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his war of words with Democratic Minnesota governor Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, accusing them of “inciting insurrection” over their response to the killing. Trump has previously threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and send troops into Minnesota.The victim was a 37-year-old white male US citizen from Minnesota who held a gun license, Minneapolis police said, while withholding his name.Video circulating on social media — and later confirmed by authorities — shows several agents, including at least one wearing a vest marked “POLICE,” surrounding a person on the ground and striking him multiple times. Several gunshots are heard.Frey pulled no punches, urging Trump to end the federal immigration operation, which has sparked sometimes violent demonstrations.”This is a moment to act like a leader. Put Minneapolis, put America first in this moment — let’s achieve peace. Let’s end this operation.”Police chief Brian O’Hara said an “incredibly volatile scene” had erupted after the shooting and urged residents to avoid the area. Officers who declared the protest an unlawful assembly deployed clouds of tear gas as the crowd grew and used dumpsters to make blockades on the road in the busy south Minneapolis neighborhood known for its restaurants.Local resident Maria, 56, told AFP the situation in the city was “escalating.””They’re attacking and terrorizing our communities right now,” she said describing the situation as “white terror.” DHS wrote on X that “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that its officers tried to disarm the man who they say “violently resisted.””Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene,” DHS said.O’Hara said police believed the victim was a “lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.”Minnesota allows the open carrying of firearms with a permit.- ‘Horrific shooting’ -Earlier, Walz said he had discussed “another horrific shooting by federal agents” with the White House.”Minnesota has had it. This is sickening,” he said on X. “The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.”Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, called the shooting “an execution” and accused Trump of transforming Minneapolis into a “war zone.”Thousands of ICE agents have been deployed to the Democratic-led city, as Trump presses a sweeping campaign to deport undocumented migrants.Minneapolis has been rocked by increasingly tense protests since federal agents shot and killed Good, a US citizen, on January 7.An autopsy concluded that the killing was a homicide, a classification that does not automatically mean a crime was committed.The officer who fired the shots that killed Good, Jonathan Ross, has neither been suspended nor charged.Public outrage was rekindled this week by the detention of a five-year-old boy as agents sought to arrest his father.”Donald Trump and all your lieutenants who ordered this ICE surge: watch the horrific video of the killing today. The world is watching,” Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said on X.

What’s a megastar to do when she has defined an entire summer, produced a multi-million-selling album and even persuaded the dictionary eggheads to declare “brat” a word of the year?That’s the conundrum at the heart of “The Moment,” a tongue-in-cheek mockumentary starring Charli XCX as she grapples with her meteoric rise to fame and tries to prepare for a sell-out arena tour.”I’m obviously quite related to my character,” the 33-year-old British singer quipped at the Sundance Film Festival, where “The Moment” premiered on Friday.”I would like to think I’m not as much of a nightmare as Charli in the film,” she said to laughter.The celluloid Charli is indeed a bit of a nightmare: a pastiche of a controlling diva who is on top of every detail, and yet is just a young singer thrust suddenly into the global spotlight and surrounded by an oppressive and needy entourage.She and her tour’s creative director, Celeste (played by Hailey Gates), want to move on from “brat,” the skinny tank tops and IDGAF self-indulgence that dominated 2024, when her album of the same name ruled streaming platforms.But the suits — the record label executive (Rosanna Arquette) and Johannes, the solipsistic film director hired to shepherd the tour movie (Alexander Skarsgard) — want to keep the “brat” money machine rolling.The clash of artistic vision sees Celeste and Johannes battle it out over tour design, in which her on-brand strobe and in-your-face messaging gives way to his light-up wrist bands and a stage set that “looks like a lava lamp,” she tells Charli.A bizarre credit card endorsement aimed at young, queer customers (“How will they know?” asks a bewildered Charli) adds to the pressure and Charli jets off to a spa on Ibiza.A chance encounter there with Kylie Jenner (in a cameo appearance) sends Charli further down the celebrity spiral, and she caves in to Johannes’ sanitized vision of her tour.- Tribute to Reiner -The script, written by Bertie Brandes and Aidan Zamiri, who also directs, draws heavily on archetypes in a plot that sticks closely to the familiar artist-against-the-machine formula.But, Charli said, those characters accurately describe the music industry.”I’ve met different versions of all of the characters in this film,” she told filmgoers.”I’ve met the people who are truly rooting for you… I’ve met the people who are in it to be close to the artist. I’ve met the sort of people who are so ‘we totally get you’, and they really don’t.”Debut feature director Zamiri, whose background is in music videos, said the mockumentary style he was aiming for owed a debt of gratitude to “This is Spinal Tap” — the 1984 comedy about a fictional British band.”I think this film wouldn’t exist without Rob Reiner and ‘Spinal Tap’,” he said, paying tribute to the director who was murdered alongside his wife in their Los Angeles home in December.- Pivot -“The Moment” is one of three films starring Charli XCX that are screening at Sundance; she has smaller roles in ensemble pieces “I Want Your Sex” with Olivia Wilde and “The Gallerist,” which features Natalie Portman.The move into film is a deliberate effort to find something new, she told the audience.”Right now, like the ‘me’ in the film, I am really wanting ‘brat’ to stop and actually really pivot as far away from it as possible,” she said.”And that’s not because I don’t love it. It’s just because I think for all of us as artists, you want to challenge yourself, and you want to switch the creative soup that you’re in and go and live in a different bowl for a while and just feel enriched by that.”Asked how she finds time for so many projects, she reached for a lyric from her smash track “365.””I don’t know, I just do. When you love it, you do it, right? ‘Don’t sleep, don’t eat, just do it on repeat,’ to quote myself,” she said with a mock curtsy.The Sundance Film Festival runs until February 1.