The city of Minneapolis released security camera footage Monday showing a foot chase and physical altercation that ended in a nonfatal shooting in January, renewing public attention on an incident that had largely faded from view after criminal charges against two men connected to the confrontation were dropped.

The footage, recorded by a city-owned camera, captures part of the encounter involving officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating in Minnesota as part of the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement push. Two federal officers were suspended following the incident, though the circumstances and timing of those suspensions have not been fully detailed by federal authorities.

The release of the video comes as ICE operations in the Twin Cities have drawn sustained scrutiny from local officials and immigration advocates. Minneapolis, a so-called sanctuary city, has been a focal point of federal enforcement activity in recent months, with the administration directing resources toward jurisdictions that limit cooperation with immigration detainers.

The January shooting was nonfatal. Charges were brought against two men in connection with the incident, but those charges subsequently collapsed, a development that drew relatively little public attention at the time. The release of the video has changed that calculus, putting the conduct of the involved federal officers back under the microscope and prompting renewed questions about how the confrontation escalated.

Federal agencies, including ICE, are not required to follow the same use-of-force disclosure rules that govern many local police departments. That asymmetry has complicated efforts by city officials and residents to get a full accounting of what happened. The Minneapolis footage represents one of the few publicly available visual records of the encounter because it came from city infrastructure rather than federal sources.

The suspensions of the two officers suggest that internal reviewers at the agency found at least some basis for concern about how the situation was handled. ICE has not detailed what the suspensions cover or how long they are expected to last.

Local officials in Minneapolis have been pressing for more transparency around federal enforcement activity in the city. The relationship between city government and federal immigration authorities has been strained, and the January shooting added another point of friction. The dropped charges against the two men further muddied the legal picture and left open the question of whether the use of force was justified given the circumstances the footage now shows.

The incident fits into a broader pattern playing out in cities across the country where aggressive federal enforcement has occasionally produced confrontations that end in legal and political disputes. ICE and other federal agencies have broad latitude to conduct operations, but when those operations result in shootings or physical confrontations, the accountability mechanisms are often less transparent than what applies to local law enforcement.

The video’s release does not resolve the central questions about the shooting. Whether it will prompt further official action, including additional disciplinary measures or a formal federal review, is unclear. Minneapolis officials have not said publicly what steps, if any, they plan to take based on the footage.

What the footage does do is give the public, and potentially federal oversight bodies, a concrete basis for evaluating claims made about the incident when it first occurred. In cases involving federal officers where agency disclosure is limited, independent visual evidence from city or private sources has increasingly become the record that drives accountability conversations.

ICE did not respond to requests for comment by the time this article was filed. A spokesperson for the Minneapolis city government confirmed the footage was released under the city’s public records policies.

The two suspended officers have not been publicly identified by name. Their employment status and whether they remain on paid or unpaid leave was not confirmed by federal authorities.

The January shooting, the subsequent charge dismissals, and now the video release form a sequence that city officials and civil liberties groups say illustrates the challenges of maintaining oversight over federal enforcement activity conducted within city limits, using federal authority, and documented primarily by federal agencies with limited external review requirements.