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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara questioned the actions of the ICE agent who shot and killed protester Renee Good earlier this month during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday. O’Hara said the agent violated “basic steps” that officers know about approaching vehicles.

Correspondent Cecilia Vega said the shooting has become a national “Rorschach test,” where some Americans see a “senseless killing” and others see an “officer defending his life.”

O’Hara said he has watched clips of the incident — and come away asking why the officer was in front of Good’s SUV right before the shooting.

“It’s not clear to me why he appears to be in the path of the vehicle more than once,” O’Hara said. “When you approach someone in a vehicle in a law enforcement encounter, there are very basic steps you take to ensure the officer’s safety and de-escalate the situation.”

Vega then said Vice President JD Vance put the blame for the shooting “squarely” on Good the day after the attack. She also said Homeland Security officials accused Good and her partner of “stalking” immigration officers; Vega did not mention DHS shared footage last week of Good blocking traffic for three minutes with her vehicle before agents approached her.

CBS News reported this week the ICE agent — Jonathan Ross — suffered internal bleeding after being struck by Good’s vehicle right before he opened fire.

O’Hara told 60 Minutes he was in favor of “targeted, precise pre-planned operations on violent offenders,” which he said are a “good thing.”

“But I’m concerned that people in the [Trump] administration don’t understand the reality of what is happening on the street,” he added.

The 60 Minutes crew also captured a heckler shouting at O’Hara that he was a “pig” who was enabling ICE while they he was walking-and-talking to Vega.

“People have a right to say disrespectful things… however, they cannot physically obstruct law enforcement from performing a function,” O’Hara said. “Those things are illegal.”

Watch above.

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It’s not yet a full year since European leaders buckled up for President Trump’s second term, and now this rollercoaster ride feels it has reached its most dangerous turn yet.

The occupant on the White House is dangling the threat of economic punishment over the heads of countries that are supporting the territorial integrity of an EU member, Denmark.

Leaders will hold an emergency EU summit about this in the coming days. If the European Union fights back with similar countermeasures, then it risks a full-blown trade war with the US.

If it doesn’t take action, will Trump conclude the bloc of 27 is weak, divided and too scared to stop him carrying out his threat of obtaining Greenland – either by buying or taking it with military force?

French President Emmanuel Macron says it’s time to use the EU’s “trade bazooka” for the first time. This is the Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), which would allow Europe to hit back with counter-tariffs, restrict access to the Single Market and block applications for lucrative EU contracts.

There is a great irony that this weapon was originally designed to combat any bullying interference from a hostile external power.

They were thinking of China, not the US.

In the here and now, some EU leaders are weary of the Macron approach. Among them is Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, who has enjoyed a better-than-most rapport with Trump.

She has spoken of a “problem of understanding and communication” over the recent sending of troops to Greenland by some European countries, including Denmark, but hasn’t expanded on what may have been misunderstood.

If the intention was to placate Trump and suggest he is absolutely right that Arctic security must be stepped up, the sight of those soldiers only seemed to provoke him into making his latest threat.

Meloni’s explanation of something lost in translation opens the door to a more diplomatic approach to tackling this precarious EU-US crisis.

Sunday’s emergency meeting in Brussels of EU ambassadors was a discreet affair, unlike the routine top level summits where the traffic stops, roads are closed and leaders stream towards the cameras to deliver their thoughts.

It’s not clear who will make the next move and whether Trump will take some heat out of his latest threat or in fact double down on it.

EU action on something so sensitive is unlikely to be swift and unanimous.

Europe has tried to placate President Trump in his second term as best they can. Some have called it shrewd, others sycophantic.

But now, there’s a distinct feeling he’s not just pulling up the Transatlantic diplomatic drawbridge, but is threatening to blow it up altogether.