PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

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PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

2025-05-01 12:01 Last Updated At：12:13

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A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Kashmiri women inspect the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials said was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Monghama village in Tral, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike as they are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A penitent playing the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by performers playing the role of Roman soldiers during the Way of the Cross procession in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A woman stands at her home where she has the news on her TV, showing U.S. President Donald Trump, in Villa Caleta, a community in Panama that used to benefit economically by being on the route migrants took after crossing the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S., April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father's cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, as he is attended at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

New York Mets' Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A youth touches the Angels Unaware boat sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Kashmiri women inspect the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials said was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Monghama village in Tral, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike as they are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A penitent playing the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by performers playing the role of Roman soldiers during the Way of the Cross procession in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A woman stands at her home where she has the news on her TV, showing U.S. President Donald Trump, in Villa Caleta, a community in Panama that used to benefit economically by being on the route migrants took after crossing the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S., April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father's cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, as he is attended at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

New York Mets' Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A youth touches the Angels Unaware boat sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee Good

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.

In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.

Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.

Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.

But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.

More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.

The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.

“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”

Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.

People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.

More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .

“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.

The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.

Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.

While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.

“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."

The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.

Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”

The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.

Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.

PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

PHOTO COLLECTION: AP Top Photos of the Month April 2025

A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Kashmiri women inspect the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials said was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Monghama village in Tral, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike as they are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A penitent playing the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by performers playing the role of Roman soldiers during the Way of the Cross procession in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father's cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, as he is attended at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

New York Mets' Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A youth touches the Angels Unaware boat sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A person swims near a whale shark off the coast of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Flora Tomlinson-Pilley)

Steven Shepard lights a cigarette after pulling the last few items from his home as the rising Licking River overflows its banks behind him in Falmouth, Kentucky, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Kashmiri women inspect the blown-up family home of Asif Shiekh, a militant who officials said was involved in the deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, in the Monghama village in Tral, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Jo Eun-jin, who stayed overnight on the street, waits for the start of a rally calling for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down, near the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives killed in an Israeli airstrike as they are brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

A horse walks off the track after a workout at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

An Afghan refugee girl peers through a torn curtain at the entrance of her home at the Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect during a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A penitent playing the role of Jesus Christ is crowned by performers playing the role of Roman soldiers during the Way of the Cross procession in Panama City, on Good Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The crowd cheers as Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, celebrates winning the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

A rain droplet falls on a Masters logo cut out during a practice round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

President Donald Trump reads The NY Post as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Morena Vallejo watches over her stepbrother Juan napping on cardboard inside their father's cart that he rents to collect recyclables to sell in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek, 35, after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, as he is attended at a hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A rescue worker rests near a university building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

New York Mets' Luisangel Acuña is introduced before a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in New York, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

A youth touches the Angels Unaware boat sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica where he will lie in state for three days at the Vatican, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi blessing at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 20, 2025.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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