An ICE agent called 911 in St. Paul on Thursday and reported unknown vehicles were following federal agents, according to police.

The agents pulled into the St. Paul Police Department’s Western District parking lot on Hamline Avenue near University Avenue about 9:40 a.m.

“The agents believed their vehicles had been tampered with and trackers were placed on them,” the police department said in a statement. “The agents checked their vehicles and then left.”

People in vehicles who had been following left the area after speaking to St. Paul officers, according to the police department. No one was arrested or cited.

The incident came after an ICE officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and during a surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota. A man was charged in West St. Paul last month, accused of following ICE agents and pointing a gun.

After St. Paul officers used force during a federal immigration operation in Payne-Phalen at the end of November, there was an outcry from St. Paul city council members and community members.

St. Paul officials sent a cease-and-desist letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 19 to prevent them from using the city’s parking lots to stage immigration enforcement operations.

Thursday’s sighting of ICE vehicles at the police station raised concern, with someone posting on Reddit that local police were working with ICE.

The police department said Thursday it did not assist federal law enforcement with immigration enforcement operations.

“The St. Paul Police Department encourages anyone who feels that they are being followed or unsafe in their vehicle to call 911 and drive to a police station or well-lit area,” the department’s statement said.

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Kim posted footage of her fall from earlier this week on the halfpipe in Laax, where the world’s top snowboarders compete later this month in a key pre-Olympic tune-up. She landed a jump cleanly but lost her edge and went skittering across the pipe, face down.

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She said she is “trying to stay optimistic” about competing at the Olympics but “I don’t have much clarity now.”

The 25-year-old Kim said she has an MRI scheduled for Friday that will reveal the extent of the damage.

“The positive thing is, I have range, I’m not in that much pain, I just don’t want it to keep popping out, which has happened,” she said. “I’m just trying to stay really optimistic. I feel really good about where my snowboarding is at right now, so I know the minute I get cleared and I’m good to go, I should be fine.”

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Trump and the White House have been trying to show they are responding to voter concerns about affordability ahead of midterm elections in November.

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LAAX, Switzerland — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim said Thursday that she dislocated her shoulder in training and doesn’t know whether she wil be able to compete at the Winter Games in Italy next month.

Kim posted footage of her fall on the halfpipe in Laax, where the world’s top snowboarders compete later this month in a key pre-Olympic tune-up.

She said she remains optimistic and has full range of motion in the shoulder and expects to know more after tests Friday.

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