Tensions boiled over as St. Paul police sprayed people with chemical agents on Tuesday after a crowd had gathered to stop an ICE operation at a residential home—but federal officers had already detained their target hours before. A standoff had begun, allowing a crowd to grow, because another man inside the home allegedly struck an ICE officer's car with his own.

Early Tuesday morning, ICE reported that officers arrested a man from Honduras who had allegedly re-entered the United States illegally. He was detained at a residence on the 600 block of Rose Avenue in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood. According to a criminal complaint filed by ICE Deportation Officer Ben Jorgenson, it was during that operation that ICE pulled over a second man, Jeffrey Lopez-Suazo, who had left the same reside

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