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A fed­er­al of­fi­cer shot a man in the leg in Min­neapo­lis af­ter be­ing at­tacked with a shov­el and broom han­dle, fur­ther height­en­ing the sense of fear and anger ra­di­at­ing across the city a week af­ter an im­mi­gra­tion agent fa­tal­ly shot a woman in the head.

Smoke filled the street Wednes­day night near the site of the lat­est shoot­ing as fed­er­al of­fi­cers wear­ing gas masks and hel­mets fired tear gas in­to a small crowd while pro­test­ers threw rocks and shot fire­works. Min­neapo­lis Po­lice Chief Bri­an O’Hara said dur­ing a news con­fer­ence that the gath­er­ing was an un­law­ful as­sem­bly and “peo­ple need to leave.”

Things lat­er be­gan to qui­et down at the scene, and by ear­ly Thurs­day few­er demon­stra­tors and law en­force­ment of­fi­cers were there.