What videos and verified footage exist showing the Richfield Target detentions and any subsequent Walmart release?

1. What footage clearly exists of the Richfield Target detentions

News outlets obtained and published short bystander videos showing a group of federal agents approaching the Target at 6445 Richfield Pkwy, entering through the main doors and taking two people into custody at the store entrance — Bring Me The News’ clip and republished versions show workers pinned to the floor in the doorway ^{[1] [4]}, KARE‑11 reviewed videos that include the arrival of agents and identified a senior Border Patrol commander on site ^{[3] [2]}, and national outlets such as The Guardian and CBS Minnesota report and embed witness video of the detentions that substantiate the basic sequence of agents entering and the two people being handcuffed and led away ^{[6] [7]}.

2. What angles and moments those videos do — and don’t — show

Available footage is limited and focused: multiple clips capture agents approaching from outside and the moment of force at the store entrance, including at least one TikTok post that appears to show one detained person walking backward into the store just before agents converge ^[6], and several clips were described as showing the detained workers pinned to the entrance floor ^[1]. Reporters and aggregators note that the recordings mainly show arrival and the doorway detention, and do not include long pre‑arrest interactions inside the store or any extended on‑scene processing footage ^[8].

3. Claims about a Walmart “release” and what the footage record shows

Some officials, family members and local reporting say one of the detained individuals was later left in a Walmart parking lot after agents determined his citizenship status; State Representative Michael Howard told reporters he understood one of the employees was left in a nearby Walmart lot, and family accounts circulated online making the same claim ^{[3] [9]}. However, the news reports supplied do not include a publicly released, independently verifiable video of an agent depositing a person at a Walmart lot or of the alleged drop‑off; outlets relay the claim from sources rather than pointing to such footage in their coverage ^{[3] [10]}. That distinction — published bystander video of the Target doorway detentions versus reported but not videographically documented Walmart drop‑off in the articles provided — is central to what is verifiable from the material these outlets share ^{[1] [4] [3]}.

4. Official statements, context and competing narratives tied to the visual record

CBP told at least one outlet that the enforcement action included an arrest for assault, a framing that agencies have used while local officials and witnesses emphasize the videos to dispute the necessity and conduct of the detentions ^{[5] [6]}. Reporting also places the Richfield clips within a wider pattern of retail‑site enforcement captured on video around the Twin Cities, with other incidents at Walmarts and retail parking lots documented in separate clips and coverage — which has increased scrutiny and public protest — but that pattern does not itself verify the specific Walmart drop‑off claim tied to the Richfield Target detentions ^{[11] [10]}.

5. Bottom line on verification and gaps in the public visual record

There is clear, published bystander video corroborated across multiple local and national outlets showing CBP/Border Patrol agents entering the Richfield Target and detaining two workers at the entrance ^{[1] [2] [4] [7]}, and some reporting and family statements assert a subsequent Walmart release/drop‑off; however, among the sources provided there is no public, independently verified video of the alleged Walmart drop‑off — the existence of that later footage remains an asserted claim in news reports rather than a confirmed visual record in the material made available to the press cited here ^{[3] [9] [10]}.