Some current and former public officials are raising concerns about the way authorities carried out a search of a south Minneapolis restaurant Tuesday.

Agents from the FBI, ATF, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other agencies rolled up in armored vehicles and tactical gear on a busy stretch of Lake Street in the middle of the day, leading many people in the heavily Latino area to believe that an immigration raid was underway. Public officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, said after the search began that the operation was not related to immigration enforcement.

Federal agents and sheriff's deputies — some wearing masks — arrived at the Taqueria y Birreria Las Cuatro Milpas restaurant at Lake Street and Bloomington Avenue just before noon.

Hennepin County Sheriff Dawan

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