Two Americans have now been killed by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis in less than three weeks.

Their families say they were sweet, passionate people who could not sit back and watch while masked men snatched members of their community off the streets.

The US government, meanwhile, calls them “domestic terrorists” who should not have intervened while agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - known as ICE - tried to do their work.

Former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have described the situation as “a watershed moment in US history”.

Today, North America correspondent Michael Koziol is on the ground in Minneapolis.

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