ANGER has continued to rage over the killing by a federal immigration officer of a woman in Minneapolis.

Hundreds of people protesting the shooting of Renee Good marched in freezing rain at night down one of the city’s major thoroughfares, chanting “ICE out now” and holding signs saying, “Killer ice off our streets.” 

The killing of Ms Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, identified by local media as Jonathan Ross, was followed by another shooting by ICE officers in Oregon that left two people wounded.

Protester Shanta Hejmadi said: “We should be saddened that our government is waging war on our citizens.”

Ms Good’s death is at least the fifth tied to immigration sweeps since President Donald Trump took office last year.

The shooting in Portland, Oregon, took place outside a hospital in the afternoon. A man and woman were shot inside a vehicle, and their conditions were not immediately known. The FBI and the Oregon Department of Justice were investigating. 

Mayor Keith Wilson and the city council called on ICE to end all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed.

Democratic State Senator Kayse Jama, who lives near where the shooting took place, said Oregon is a welcoming state, but he told federal agents to leave.

“You are not welcome,” Senator Jama said. “You need to get the hell out of Oregon.”

Just as it did following the Minneapolis shooting, the Department of Homeland Security defended the actions of the officers in Portland, saying the incident occurred after a Venezuelan man with alleged gang ties and who was involved in a recent shooting tried to “weaponise” his vehicle to hit the officers.

The Department of Homeland Security said the vehicle’s passenger was “a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring” who was involved in a recent shooting in the city. 

When agents identified themselves to the occupants during a “targeted vehicle stop” in the afternoon, the driver tried to run them over, the department said in a statement.

“Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot,” it said. “The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.”

There was no immediate independent corroboration of that account or of any gang affiliation of the vehicle’s occupants. 

President Trump and his allies have consistently blamed the Tren de Aragua gang for being at the root of violence and drug dealing in some US cities.