The St. Paul City Council is calling for an investigation into police use of force during a Tuesday federal immigration operation in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood, which escalated to a standoff between protestors and officers.

The standoff occurred when Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contacted St. Paul Police Department as they attempted to detain a man who fled to a house on the 600 block of Rose Avenue East around 9 a.m. Tuesday.

The ICE agents had reportedly told police that "someone had thrown rocks and bricks at them."

The incident drew hundreds of protestors, some of whom were sprayed with chemical irritants and hit by less-lethal munitions, like rubber bullets.

In a Wednesday joint statement, all seven members of St. Paul's City Council called for a

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