By Brad Brooks and Tim Reid MINNEAPOLIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration defended on Sunday the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis,

"Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off?" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump addressed the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, writing a lengthy statement on Truth Social, that ends with a call for action.

People gathered outside a hotel in Minneapolis to protest the business allegedly renting rooms to federal agents.

Senior Trump administration officials on Sunday defended the fatal shooting of a U.S. ‌citizen ​by immigration agents in Minneapolis even as video evidence contradicted their version ‌of events and tensions grew between local law enforcement and federal officers.

More than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies called for an immediate “de-escalation of tensions” between state, local and federal authorities as the state reels from another fatal shooting of an American by immigration agents.

Democratic officials and protesters on the streets are demanding that federal immigration officers leave Minnesota after a Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis