Witnesses contradict Trump officials’ account of killing – as it happened

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In a statement sent to the Guardian, assistant secretary of homeland security Tricia McLaughlin said that at 9.05am local time, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis" against a person they said was in the country illegally, who she said was wanted for violent assault", an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun."

McLaughlin said that the officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted" and that more details on the armed struggle are forthcoming."