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  • As federal agents clash with Minneapolis residents, battle over ICE surge heats up in court filings

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    As residents in the Twin Cities protest in the streets against ICE and federal immigration enforcement actions, Minnesota’s battle against the federal surge is also playing out in the federal court system. 

    One lawsuit by the ACLU has already resulted in a federal judge, Kate Menendez, issuing an order restricting what ICE agents can do when confronting peaceful protestors.

    The judge’s order says there can be no ICE retaliation against protestors, no detaining people without probable cause unless they are obstructing agents or committing a crime, no using pepper spray on a peaceful protest, and allowing drivers to follow ICE agents’ vehicles at a safe distance. On “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” this Sunday morning, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the order changes nothing about how federal agents are conducting their business in Minnesota.

    Another development is that the U.S. Justice Department has opened criminal investigations into Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly obstructing the work of federal agents. 

    Appearing on WCCO Sunday Morning with Esme Murphy, Attorney General Keith Ellison called this latter investigation “from the playbook.”

    “This is the president who is persecuting Jerome Powell of the Fed, who tried to prosecute James Comey of the FBI, and the current attorney general of New York, Letitia James. He uses the criminal justice system to persecute the people he doesn’t like,” Ellison said.

    The second federal lawsuit against ICE was filed late last week by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It seeks to stop ICE activity throughout the state. The lawsuit argues the unprecedented surge of an estimated 3,000 federal agents is endangering citizens. It accuses ICE of violating the First and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

    That lawsuit argues that President Trump is retaliating against Gov. Tim Walz, who ran against Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ ticket, for his objections to ICE activity.

    “What the federal government needs to do is leave and stop the surge,” Ellison said.

    The Tenth Amendment protects states’ sovereignty and limits federal powers to those granted in the U.S. Constitution. It provides autonomy to the states in issues like education, elections and public safety. While Ellison is optimistic, some legal experts think the lawsuit is a long shot because it would be similar to telling the FBI it could not operate in the state.

    The state, in this second lawsuit, is seeking an immediate temporary restraining order limiting ICE activities. The judge in the case is Kate Menendez, the same judge who issued that first order favorable to peaceful protestors. The judge said last week she would not issue the temporary restraining order until she heard a response from the federal government. That response is due to be filed at 5 p.m. Monday, which is the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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  • Trump administration social posts amid Minnesota immigration tensions seen as appealing to far right

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    As its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis intensifies, the Trump administration is leaning into messaging that borrows from phrases, images and music about national identity that have become popular among right-wing groups.

    On Jan. 9, two days after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s shooting of Renee Good sent tensions in Minneapolis to a fever pitch, the Department of Homeland Security posted to social media an image of a man on a horse riding through a snowy, mountainous landscape with the words “We’ll have our home again.” That’s the chorus to a song about ousting a foreign presence by a self-described “folk-punk” band that the Proud Boys and other far-right and white supremacist groups have used.

    The next day, the Department of Labor posted on X: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.” Several Trump critics on the social media site drew a parallel to a notorious Nazi slogan, “One People, One Realm, One Leader.”

    And this past week, as President Donald Trump stepped up his pressure campaign to claim Greenland, the White House posted an image on X that showed a dog sled facing a fork in the trail, one that leads to an American flag and the White House and another that leads to the Russian and Chinese flags. Above the image was the phrase, “Which way, Greenland Man?”

    The post refers to a meme that riffs off the title of a notorious white supremacist book titled “Which Way Western Man?” The administration had already used the framing in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruiting post last year, which asked, “Which way, American Man?”

    The flurry of posts has renewed criticism about a recurring pattern in Trump’s second term — the sometimes cryptic use of imagery popular with the far right and white supremacists in the administration’s campaign to rally the nation behind its immigration crackdown, which it frames as a battle to preserve Western civilization.

    The administration says it’s tired of criticism that its messaging is framed around white supremacy or Nazi slogans.

    “It seems that the mainstream media has become a meme of their own: The deranged leftist who claims everything they dislike must be Nazi propaganda,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. “This line of attack is boring and tired. Get a grip.”

    Referring to the “We’ll Have Our Home Again” post, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said it “was a reference to 20-plus million illegal aliens invading the country.”

    “I don’t know where you guys are getting this stuff,” she added, “but it is absurd.”

    César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, a law professor at Ohio State University, said the administration’s references are a choice.

    “You don’t have to dip into white supremacist sloganeering to promote immigration regulation,” he said, noting that former President Bill Clinton signed two bills toughening penalties on immigrants who were in the country illegally in the 1990s without doing so.

    He added that the administration seems to calibrate its references.

    “The imagery is not simply a reproduction of common white supremacist imagery or text, but a play on that imagery — and that gives them the breathing room they want,” Garcia Hernández said.

    Trump won his second term with robust support from Latino voters and increased his backing among both Black and Asian voters, all while running on pledges of tough border enforcement and mass deportations.

    Still, Trump for years has created enthusiasm among white supremacist groups, who see his nationalist and anti-immigrant stance as validating their own.

    The president has complained that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and spoken favorably about white immigrants compared to other immigrants. In his first term, he bemoaned the number of immigrants coming from what he called “shithole countries” such as Haiti or ones in Africa, while wondering why the U.S. doesn’t draw more people from Norway. Last month, he called Somali immigrants “garbage.”

    Trump changed immigration policy to favor whites in one area by shutting down the admission of refugees except for white South Africans, whom he contends, against evidence, are being discriminated against in their home country.

    Some of Trump’s most prominent supporters have openly embraced the cause of white nationalists.

    Elon Musk, who was Trump’s biggest donor during the 2024 presidential campaign and ran the president’s Department of Government Efficiency for the first part of last year, recirculated a user post on X, the social platform he owns, that called for “white solidarity” to prevent the mass murder of white men and added a “100” emoji indicating agreement.

    The administration’s history has led to claims that it’s using white supremacist language even when there is no evidence for it.

    In the aftermath of the Good shooting in Minnesota, a sign that appeared on Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s lectern during a news conference — reading “One Of Ours, All Of Yours” — drew widespread attention on social media, with many commentators suggesting it was a Nazi phrase. The Southern Poverty Law Center, however, could not trace the words to any Nazi slogan.

    McLaughlin, the DHS spokeswoman, said it was a reference to the subject of the press conference: “a CBP officer who was shot — he was one of our officers and all of the country’s federal law enforcement officer,” she wrote in an email.

    Hannah Gais, a senior researcher with the SPLC, has long tracked white supremacist groups and said she thinks the administration knows what it’s doing with its messaging slogans.

    “They know their base is this overly online right-winger who they know will go nuts if they say ‘Which Way, Western Man?’” Gais said. “I don’t think it’s a tenable strategy for the long term because the stuff is incomprehensible to most people. And if it is comprehensible, people don’t like it.”

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  • Judge restricts federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests in Minneapolis

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    In a ruling on Friday, a judge restricted federal officers from detaining or using tear gas against peaceful protesters who are not obstructing authorities in Minneapolis, where demonstrations over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are expected to continue this weekend. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement responding to the preliminary injunction, “D.H.S. is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.”ICE’s tactics have faced criticism from Democratic leaders, like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.”What we’re seeing on our streets is unnecessary abuses of force. This is an invasion for the sake of creating chaos by our own federal government,” Frey said on Friday.Both Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are reportedly under investigation. The Justice Department is looking into whether Frey and Walz impeded law enforcement through past public statements, according to the Associated Press. “Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic,” Walz said in a social media post on Friday.”A reminder to all those in Minnesota: No one is above the law,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a separate post, which didn’t explicitly mention the probe. The warning comes as Minneapolis braces for another weekend of demonstrations. Clashes with protesters have escalated following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in a highly contested incident last week. “While peaceful expression is protected, any actions that harm people, destroy property, or jeopardize public safety will not be tolerated,” Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson said Friday. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump warned that he could invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Minneapolis in response to protests. “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump wrote on social media Thursday.Trump appeared to walk back that threat, at least for now, while speaking to reporters Friday. “I don’t think there is any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I would use it,” Trump said.Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison has said that he would challenge the use of the 19th-century law in court if necessary. He’s already suing to try to stop the recent surge in immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities. DHS says officers have arrested more than 2,500 people as part of its “Metro Surge” operation to date.

    In a ruling on Friday, a judge restricted federal officers from detaining or using tear gas against peaceful protesters who are not obstructing authorities in Minneapolis, where demonstrations over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown are expected to continue this weekend.

    Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement responding to the preliminary injunction, “D.H.S. is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.”

    ICE’s tactics have faced criticism from Democratic leaders, like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

    “What we’re seeing on our streets is unnecessary abuses of force. This is an invasion for the sake of creating chaos by our own federal government,” Frey said on Friday.

    Both Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are reportedly under investigation. The Justice Department is looking into whether Frey and Walz impeded law enforcement through past public statements, according to the Associated Press.

    “Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic,” Walz said in a social media post on Friday.

    “A reminder to all those in Minnesota: No one is above the law,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a separate post, which didn’t explicitly mention the probe.

    The warning comes as Minneapolis braces for another weekend of demonstrations. Clashes with protesters have escalated following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in a highly contested incident last week.

    “While peaceful expression is protected, any actions that harm people, destroy property, or jeopardize public safety will not be tolerated,” Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson said Friday.

    Earlier this week, President Donald Trump warned that he could invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to deploy troops to Minneapolis in response to protests.

    “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State,” Trump wrote on social media Thursday.

    Trump appeared to walk back that threat, at least for now, while speaking to reporters Friday.

    “I don’t think there is any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I would use it,” Trump said.

    Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison has said that he would challenge the use of the 19th-century law in court if necessary. He’s already suing to try to stop the recent surge in immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities. DHS says officers have arrested more than 2,500 people as part of its “Metro Surge” operation to date.

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  • Judge rules federal agents can’t arrest or use pepper spray on peaceful protesters in Minneapolis

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    A Minnesota federal judge put limits Friday on the tactics that federal law enforcement are permitted to use in their handling of the ongoing protests in Minneapolis over the Trump administration’s surge of immigration resources to the city. 

    In an 83-page order, U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez blocked federal agents who are deployed to Minnesota as part of the Trump administration’s immigration operations from using pepper spray or nonlethal munitions on, or arresting, peaceful protesters.

    The order also bars federal law enforcement from stopping or detaining drivers and passengers when there is “no reasonable articulable suspicion” that people driving near protests are forcibly interfering with law enforcement operations.

    Menendez, nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden in 2021, called some of the allegations against agents “disturbing.” She cited descriptions provided to the court by protesters that law enforcement had threatened to break drivers’ windows, waited for protesters outside their homes, followed protesters to their homes or told the protesters they knew where they lived.

    “There may be ample suspicion to stop cars, and even arrest drivers engaged in dangerous conduct while following immigration enforcement officers, but that does not justify stops of cars not breaking the law,” Menendez wrote, adding she is “mindful” that the ongoing protest activity in the state is “somewhat unique.”

    “There is little discussion in the caselaw about situations like the ones playing out all over the Twin Cities, in which small groups of protesters are mobile and gather wherever immigration officers are attempting to make arrests or otherwise enforce immigration law,” Menendez wrote.

    Menendez’s order will remain in effect until the recent mass surge of federal law enforcement to Minneapolis concludes.

    Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement responding to the ruling that the agency “is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters.” She said agents have faced assaults, vandalism and other threats, but have “followed their training and used the minimum amount of force necessary.”

    “We remind the public that rioting is dangerous—obstructing law enforcement is a federal crime and assaulting law enforcement is a felony,” McLaughlin said.

    The ruling follows a weekslong uptick in immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Thousands of federal agents have been deployed to the area to seek out those suspected of being in the U.S. illegally and to investigate allegations of fraud in Minnesota.

    The operations have drawn tense protests that were amplified after Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week. In some cases, protesters and agents have clashed, with agents being reported using pepper spray.

    A group of Minnesota protesters sued the Department of Homeland Security last month, alleging federal agents had “violently subdued” demonstrations against the agency’s immigration enforcement actions. The plaintiffs accused the government of engaging in a “campaign of constitutional violations” by infringing on protesters’ First Amendment right to free speech and Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures.

    Menendez found Friday that several of the protesters were likely to succeed in showing that their First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated after federal law enforcement personnel arrested them or sprayed chemical irritants at them.

    Attorneys for the federal government earlier this month denied any constitutional violations, arguing that federal agents have needed to use pepper spray and arrests to quell “violent, obstructive, dangerous, and often criminal behavior” that has impeded immigration operations. They accused several of the plaintiffs of obstructing, assaulting or attempting to assault federal officers, or following ICE vehicles.

    The Trump administration has also accused local officials who have strongly criticized the immigration operations of stoking chaos. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are both under federal investigation for an alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents, CBS News reported earlier Friday. 

    Both officials have denounced the probe, with Walz accusing the administration of “threatening political opponents” and Frey calling it an “obvious attempt to intimidate me.” 

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  • Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, officials say

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    A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.Video above: Minneapolis officials give update late Wednesday nightSmoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a small crowd while protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference that the gathering was an unlawful assembly and “people need to leave.”Things later began to quiet down at the scene, and by early Thursday fewer demonstrators and law enforcement officers were there.Such protest scenes have become common on the streets of Minneapolis since a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 amid a massive immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of officers sent into the Twin Cities. Agents have yanked people from cars and homes and been confronted by angry bystanders who are demanding that officers pack up and leave.Video below: Aerial footage of the sceneMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described the situation as not “sustainable.”“This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,” he said.Frey described a federal force that is five times as big as the city’s 600-officer police force and has “invaded” the city, scaring and angering residents, some of whom want the officers to “fight ICE agents.” At the same time, the police force is still responsible for their day-to-day work to keep the public safe.The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down.Shooting followed chaseIn a statement describing the events that led to Wednesday’s shooting, Homeland Security said federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot, DHS said.After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and all three started attacking the officer, according to DHS.“Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS said.The two people who came out of the apartment are in custody, it said.O’Hara said the man shot was in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where Good was killed. O’Hara’s account of what happened largely echoed that of Homeland Security.Clashes in court as wellEarlier Wednesday, a judge gave the Trump administration time to respond to a request to suspend its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, while the Pentagon looked for military lawyers to join what has become a chaotic law enforcement effort in the state.“What we need most of all right now is a pause. The temperature needs to be lowered,” state Assistant Attorney General Brian Carter said during the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.Local leaders say the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with the surge of law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the U.S. Justice Department until Monday to file a response to a request for a restraining order.Video below: Legal and political turmoil after the deadly ICE shooting in MinneapolisJustice Department attorney Andrew Warden suggested the approach set by Menendez was appropriate.The judge is also handling a separate lawsuit challenging the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal officers when they encounter protesters and observers. A decision could be released this week.During a televised speech before Wednesday’s shooting, Gov. Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what’s happening in the state “defies belief.”“Let’s be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” he said. “Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”Military lawyers may join the surgeCNN, citing an email circulating in the military, says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking the military branches to identify 40 lawyers known as judge advocate general officers or JAGs, and 25 of them will serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys in Minneapolis.Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson appeared to confirm the CNN report by posting it on X with a comment that the military “is proud to support” the Justice Department.The Pentagon did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking more details.It’s the latest step by the Trump administration to dispatch military and civilian attorneys to areas where federal immigration operations are taking place. The Pentagon last week sent 20 lawyers to Memphis, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said.Mark Nevitt, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law and a former Navy JAG, said there’s concern that the assignments are taking lawyers away from the military justice system.“There are not many JAGs but there are over one million members of the military, and they all need legal support,” he said.An official says the agent who killed Good was injuredJonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good, suffered internal bleeding to his torso during the encounter, a Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.The official spoke to AP on condition of anonymity in order to discuss Ross’ medical condition. The official did not provide details about the severity of the injuries, and the agency did not respond to questions about the extent of the bleeding, exactly how he suffered the injury, when it was diagnosed or his medical treatment.There are many causes of internal bleeding, and they vary in severity from bruising to significant blood loss. Video from the scene showed Ross and other officers walking without obvious difficulty after Good was shot and her Honda Pilot crashed into other vehicles.She was killed after three ICE officers surrounded her SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her home.Bystander video shows one officer ordering Good to open the door and grabbing the handle. As the vehicle begins to move forward, Ross, standing in front, raises his weapon and fires at least three shots at close range. He steps back as the SUV advances and turns.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Ross was struck by the vehicle and that Good was using her SUV as a weapon — a self-defense claim that has been deeply criticized by Minnesota officials.Chris Madel, an attorney for Ross, declined to comment on any injuries.Good’s family, meanwhile, has hired a law firm, Romanucci & Blandin, that represented George Floyd’s family in a $27 million settlement with Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died after a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground in the street in May 2020.The firm said it would conduct its own investigation and publicly share what it learns.___Associated Press reporters Julie Watson in San Diego, California; Rebecca Santana in Washington, D.C.; Ed White in Detroit; Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Graham Lee Brewer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma contributed.

    A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.

    Video above: Minneapolis officials give update late Wednesday night

    Smoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a small crowd while protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference that the gathering was an unlawful assembly and “people need to leave.”

    Things later began to quiet down at the scene, and by early Thursday fewer demonstrators and law enforcement officers were there.

    Such protest scenes have become common on the streets of Minneapolis since a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 amid a massive immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of officers sent into the Twin Cities. Agents have yanked people from cars and homes and been confronted by angry bystanders who are demanding that officers pack up and leave.

    Video below: Aerial footage of the scene

    Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described the situation as not “sustainable.”

    “This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,” he said.

    Frey described a federal force that is five times as big as the city’s 600-officer police force and has “invaded” the city, scaring and angering residents, some of whom want the officers to “fight ICE agents.” At the same time, the police force is still responsible for their day-to-day work to keep the public safe.

    The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down.

    Shooting followed chase

    In a statement describing the events that led to Wednesday’s shooting, Homeland Security said federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot, DHS said.

    After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and all three started attacking the officer, according to DHS.

    “Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS said.

    The two people who came out of the apartment are in custody, it said.

    O’Hara said the man shot was in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.

    The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where Good was killed. O’Hara’s account of what happened largely echoed that of Homeland Security.

    Clashes in court as well

    Earlier Wednesday, a judge gave the Trump administration time to respond to a request to suspend its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, while the Pentagon looked for military lawyers to join what has become a chaotic law enforcement effort in the state.

    “What we need most of all right now is a pause. The temperature needs to be lowered,” state Assistant Attorney General Brian Carter said during the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

    Local leaders say the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with the surge of law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the U.S. Justice Department until Monday to file a response to a request for a restraining order.

    Video below: Legal and political turmoil after the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis

    Justice Department attorney Andrew Warden suggested the approach set by Menendez was appropriate.

    The judge is also handling a separate lawsuit challenging the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal officers when they encounter protesters and observers. A decision could be released this week.

    During a televised speech before Wednesday’s shooting, Gov. Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what’s happening in the state “defies belief.”

    “Let’s be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” he said. “Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

    Military lawyers may join the surge

    CNN, citing an email circulating in the military, says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking the military branches to identify 40 lawyers known as judge advocate general officers or JAGs, and 25 of them will serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys in Minneapolis.

    Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson appeared to confirm the CNN report by posting it on X with a comment that the military “is proud to support” the Justice Department.

    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking more details.

    It’s the latest step by the Trump administration to dispatch military and civilian attorneys to areas where federal immigration operations are taking place. The Pentagon last week sent 20 lawyers to Memphis, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said.

    Mark Nevitt, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law and a former Navy JAG, said there’s concern that the assignments are taking lawyers away from the military justice system.

    “There are not many JAGs but there are over one million members of the military, and they all need legal support,” he said.

    An official says the agent who killed Good was injured

    Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good, suffered internal bleeding to his torso during the encounter, a Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.

    The official spoke to AP on condition of anonymity in order to discuss Ross’ medical condition. The official did not provide details about the severity of the injuries, and the agency did not respond to questions about the extent of the bleeding, exactly how he suffered the injury, when it was diagnosed or his medical treatment.

    There are many causes of internal bleeding, and they vary in severity from bruising to significant blood loss. Video from the scene showed Ross and other officers walking without obvious difficulty after Good was shot and her Honda Pilot crashed into other vehicles.

    She was killed after three ICE officers surrounded her SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her home.

    Bystander video shows one officer ordering Good to open the door and grabbing the handle. As the vehicle begins to move forward, Ross, standing in front, raises his weapon and fires at least three shots at close range. He steps back as the SUV advances and turns.

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Ross was struck by the vehicle and that Good was using her SUV as a weapon — a self-defense claim that has been deeply criticized by Minnesota officials.

    Chris Madel, an attorney for Ross, declined to comment on any injuries.

    Good’s family, meanwhile, has hired a law firm, Romanucci & Blandin, that represented George Floyd’s family in a $27 million settlement with Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died after a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground in the street in May 2020.

    The firm said it would conduct its own investigation and publicly share what it learns.

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    Associated Press reporters Julie Watson in San Diego, California; Rebecca Santana in Washington, D.C.; Ed White in Detroit; Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Graham Lee Brewer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma contributed.

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  • Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, officials say

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    A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.Video above: Minneapolis officials give update late Wednesday nightSmoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a small crowd while protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference that the gathering was an unlawful assembly and “people need to leave.”Things later began to quiet down at the scene, and by early Thursday fewer demonstrators and law enforcement officers were there.Such protest scenes have become common on the streets of Minneapolis since a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 amid a massive immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of officers sent into the Twin Cities. Agents have yanked people from cars and homes and been confronted by angry bystanders who are demanding that officers pack up and leave.Video below: Aerial footage of the sceneMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described the situation as not “sustainable.”“This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,” he said.Frey described a federal force that is five times as big as the city’s 600-officer police force and has “invaded” the city, scaring and angering residents, some of whom want the officers to “fight ICE agents.” At the same time, the police force is still responsible for their day-to-day work to keep the public safe.The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down.Shooting followed chaseIn a statement describing the events that led to Wednesday’s shooting, Homeland Security said federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot, DHS said.After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and all three started attacking the officer, according to DHS.“Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS said.The two people who came out of the apartment are in custody, it said.O’Hara said the man shot was in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where Good was killed. O’Hara’s account of what happened largely echoed that of Homeland Security.Clashes in court as wellEarlier Wednesday, a judge gave the Trump administration time to respond to a request to suspend its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, while the Pentagon looked for military lawyers to join what has become a chaotic law enforcement effort in the state.“What we need most of all right now is a pause. The temperature needs to be lowered,” state Assistant Attorney General Brian Carter said during the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.Local leaders say the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with the surge of law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the U.S. Justice Department until Monday to file a response to a request for a restraining order.Video below: Legal and political turmoil after the deadly ICE shooting in MinneapolisJustice Department attorney Andrew Warden suggested the approach set by Menendez was appropriate.The judge is also handling a separate lawsuit challenging the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal officers when they encounter protesters and observers. A decision could be released this week.During a televised speech before Wednesday’s shooting, Gov. Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what’s happening in the state “defies belief.”“Let’s be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” he said. “Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”Military lawyers may join the surgeCNN, citing an email circulating in the military, says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking the military branches to identify 40 lawyers known as judge advocate general officers or JAGs, and 25 of them will serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys in Minneapolis.Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson appeared to confirm the CNN report by posting it on X with a comment that the military “is proud to support” the Justice Department.The Pentagon did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking more details.It’s the latest step by the Trump administration to dispatch military and civilian attorneys to areas where federal immigration operations are taking place. The Pentagon last week sent 20 lawyers to Memphis, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said.Mark Nevitt, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law and a former Navy JAG, said there’s concern that the assignments are taking lawyers away from the military justice system.“There are not many JAGs but there are over one million members of the military, and they all need legal support,” he said.An official says the agent who killed Good was injuredJonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good, suffered internal bleeding to his torso during the encounter, a Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.The official spoke to AP on condition of anonymity in order to discuss Ross’ medical condition. The official did not provide details about the severity of the injuries, and the agency did not respond to questions about the extent of the bleeding, exactly how he suffered the injury, when it was diagnosed or his medical treatment.There are many causes of internal bleeding, and they vary in severity from bruising to significant blood loss. Video from the scene showed Ross and other officers walking without obvious difficulty after Good was shot and her Honda Pilot crashed into other vehicles.She was killed after three ICE officers surrounded her SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her home.Bystander video shows one officer ordering Good to open the door and grabbing the handle. As the vehicle begins to move forward, Ross, standing in front, raises his weapon and fires at least three shots at close range. He steps back as the SUV advances and turns.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Ross was struck by the vehicle and that Good was using her SUV as a weapon — a self-defense claim that has been deeply criticized by Minnesota officials.Chris Madel, an attorney for Ross, declined to comment on any injuries.Good’s family, meanwhile, has hired a law firm, Romanucci & Blandin, that represented George Floyd’s family in a $27 million settlement with Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died after a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground in the street in May 2020.The firm said it would conduct its own investigation and publicly share what it learns.___Associated Press reporters Julie Watson in San Diego, California; Rebecca Santana in Washington, D.C.; Ed White in Detroit; Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Graham Lee Brewer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma contributed.

    A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle, further heightening the sense of fear and anger radiating across the city a week after an immigration agent fatally shot a woman in the head.

    Video above: Minneapolis officials give update late Wednesday night

    Smoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a small crowd while protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said during a news conference that the gathering was an unlawful assembly and “people need to leave.”

    Things later began to quiet down at the scene, and by early Thursday fewer demonstrators and law enforcement officers were there.

    Such protest scenes have become common on the streets of Minneapolis since a federal agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 amid a massive immigration crackdown that has seen thousands of officers sent into the Twin Cities. Agents have yanked people from cars and homes and been confronted by angry bystanders who are demanding that officers pack up and leave.

    Video below: Aerial footage of the scene

    Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described the situation as not “sustainable.”

    “This is an impossible situation that our city is presently being put in and at the same time we are trying to find a way forward to keep people safe, to protect our neighbors, to maintain order,” he said.

    Frey described a federal force that is five times as big as the city’s 600-officer police force and has “invaded” the city, scaring and angering residents, some of whom want the officers to “fight ICE agents.” At the same time, the police force is still responsible for their day-to-day work to keep the public safe.

    The Department of Homeland Security says it has made more than 2,000 arrests in the state since early December and is vowing to not back down.

    Shooting followed chase

    In a statement describing the events that led to Wednesday’s shooting, Homeland Security said federal law enforcement officers stopped a person from Venezuela who was in the U.S. illegally. The person drove away and crashed into a parked car before taking off on foot, DHS said.

    After officers reached the person, two other people arrived from a nearby apartment and all three started attacking the officer, according to DHS.

    “Fearing for his life and safety as he was being ambushed by three individuals, the officer fired a defensive shot to defend his life,” DHS said.

    The two people who came out of the apartment are in custody, it said.

    O’Hara said the man shot was in the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.

    The shooting took place about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometers) north of where Good was killed. O’Hara’s account of what happened largely echoed that of Homeland Security.

    Clashes in court as well

    Earlier Wednesday, a judge gave the Trump administration time to respond to a request to suspend its immigration crackdown in Minnesota, while the Pentagon looked for military lawyers to join what has become a chaotic law enforcement effort in the state.

    “What we need most of all right now is a pause. The temperature needs to be lowered,” state Assistant Attorney General Brian Carter said during the first hearing in a lawsuit filed by Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

    Local leaders say the government is violating free speech and other constitutional rights with the surge of law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez gave the U.S. Justice Department until Monday to file a response to a request for a restraining order.

    Video below: Legal and political turmoil after the deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis

    Justice Department attorney Andrew Warden suggested the approach set by Menendez was appropriate.

    The judge is also handling a separate lawsuit challenging the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal officers when they encounter protesters and observers. A decision could be released this week.

    During a televised speech before Wednesday’s shooting, Gov. Tim Walz described Minnesota as being in chaos, saying what’s happening in the state “defies belief.”

    “Let’s be very, very clear, this long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” he said. “Instead, it’s a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

    Military lawyers may join the surge

    CNN, citing an email circulating in the military, says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking the military branches to identify 40 lawyers known as judge advocate general officers or JAGs, and 25 of them will serve as special assistant U.S. attorneys in Minneapolis.

    Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson appeared to confirm the CNN report by posting it on X with a comment that the military “is proud to support” the Justice Department.

    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking more details.

    It’s the latest step by the Trump administration to dispatch military and civilian attorneys to areas where federal immigration operations are taking place. The Pentagon last week sent 20 lawyers to Memphis, U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant said.

    Mark Nevitt, an associate professor at Emory University School of Law and a former Navy JAG, said there’s concern that the assignments are taking lawyers away from the military justice system.

    “There are not many JAGs but there are over one million members of the military, and they all need legal support,” he said.

    An official says the agent who killed Good was injured

    Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who killed Good, suffered internal bleeding to his torso during the encounter, a Homeland Security official told The Associated Press.

    The official spoke to AP on condition of anonymity in order to discuss Ross’ medical condition. The official did not provide details about the severity of the injuries, and the agency did not respond to questions about the extent of the bleeding, exactly how he suffered the injury, when it was diagnosed or his medical treatment.

    There are many causes of internal bleeding, and they vary in severity from bruising to significant blood loss. Video from the scene showed Ross and other officers walking without obvious difficulty after Good was shot and her Honda Pilot crashed into other vehicles.

    She was killed after three ICE officers surrounded her SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from her home.

    Bystander video shows one officer ordering Good to open the door and grabbing the handle. As the vehicle begins to move forward, Ross, standing in front, raises his weapon and fires at least three shots at close range. He steps back as the SUV advances and turns.

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said Ross was struck by the vehicle and that Good was using her SUV as a weapon — a self-defense claim that has been deeply criticized by Minnesota officials.

    Chris Madel, an attorney for Ross, declined to comment on any injuries.

    Good’s family, meanwhile, has hired a law firm, Romanucci & Blandin, that represented George Floyd’s family in a $27 million settlement with Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black, died after a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground in the street in May 2020.

    The firm said it would conduct its own investigation and publicly share what it learns.

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    Associated Press reporters Julie Watson in San Diego, California; Rebecca Santana in Washington, D.C.; Ed White in Detroit; Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Graham Lee Brewer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma contributed.

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    The fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jan. 7 brought more scrutiny on Trump-era training requirements. 

    On CNN’s “State of the Union” Jan. 11, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told anchor Jake Tapper the Trump administration had shortened ICE agents’ training time while scaling up its hiring. 

    “Remember we’re beefing up ICE 10,000 more agents,” Warner said. “They are not getting the traditional five months training. Literally, Jake, the training for the ICE agents now is 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump is the 47th president.”

    He also used this figure Jan. 8 when talking to a liberal commentator and Jan. 12 on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    Other lawmakers, social media posts and journalists repeated the same line in the days after ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good. 

    The Trump administration has confirmed to multiple news organizations it shortened the duration of immigration agent training, while taking issue with some outlets’ framing and declining to answer follow-up questions. Neither ICE nor DHS responded to PolitiFact’s queries. We were unable to confirm whether the number of training days is connected to Trump’s status as the 47th president.

    Ross had been a deportation officer with the agency since 2015, The Associated Press reported, so he was subject to earlier, longer training standards. 

    Warner, who did not respond to PolitiFact, said on CNN that the investigation into Good’s killing needed to be completed before people reached conclusions.  

    When Tapper pointed out to Warner that the ICE agent who shot Good “had at least 10 years experience,” Warner said, “So be it, and again that’s why there ought to be an investigation.” 

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement trainees practice shooting a handgun at the indoor firing range at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Brunswick, Ga. on Aug. 21, 2025. (AP)

    Trump’s ICE shortened training, but reports vary on how much

    The training talking point stems from The Atlantic August story “Fast Times at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” Reporter Nick Miroff wrote that training for new deportation officers had been reduced from about five months to 47 days, citing three unnamed officials. 

    “Administration officials have cut that time roughly in half, partly by eliminating Spanish-language courses,” the report said. “Academy training was shortened to 47 days, three officials told me, the number picked because Trump is the 47th president. DHS officials said the training will run six days a week for eight weeks.” 

    A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that The Atlantic’s reporting was “false,” because training is eight weeks. The Examiner story, however, cited ICE acting director Todd Lyons as confirming an eight-week training schedule of six work days per week. That amounts to 48 training days.

    The frequently asked questions page on ICE’s career website reflects the outdated training schedule, saying new deportation officers will complete almost five months of training — five weeks of language and 16 weeks of law enforcement.

    The AP in August reported the agency “cut Spanish-language requirements to reduce training by five weeks,” citing Caleb Vitello, who runs ICE training. Vitello told AP the Spanish-language training that was cut would be supplemented with translation technology services.

    News organizations and administration officials have reported training times shorter than 48 days in recent months:

    • An unnamed DHS official told NBC News in October that ICE had originally shortened its training from 13 to eight weeks before shortening it again to six weeks.

    • Government Executive, a news outlet that covers federal agencies, reported Jan. 5 that DHS has shortened ICE agent training from six months “to around six weeks.” 

    DHS has not offered clarity about new officer training since the Minneapolis shooting. A senior DHS official told People magazine Jan. 8, “Training to become an Enforcement and Removal Operations officer is 8 weeks long,” and declined to specify the number of days. 

    “The official did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for clarification, since eight weeks matches the timeframe that The Atlantic previously reported,” it reported. 

    Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement speaks to the press on the agility course at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Brunswick, Ga. on Aug. 21, 2025. (AP)

    ICE officer who shot Good had 10 years experience, additional training 

    Having worked for ICE for a decade, Ross would have followed the previous 16-week training schedule and five-week language program. 

    Ross also received specialized training after being selected for ICE’s special response team, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told AP. 

    Before becoming an ICE agent, Ross served in the Indiana National Guard and was deployed to Iraq and also worked as a Border Patrol field intelligence officer.

    Our ruling

    Warner said immigration agents “are not getting the traditional five months training. … The training for the ICE agents now is 47 days.”

    News outlets and Homeland Security officials reported cuts to the length of ICE training during Trump’s second term, reducing it from about five months to six days a week for eight weeks. That’s 48 days of training over a 56-day period. (What it has to do with Trump’s status as 47th president is outside of the scope of this fact-check.) Ross, the ICE officer who shot and killed Good, had been with the department for about 10 years.

    Two news organizations have since reported that the duration of training was further reduced to about six weeks; spokespersons from DHS and ICE did not respond to our requests for confirmation.

    In the big picture, ICE officers’ training time has been significantly shortened to a period at or near what Warner cites. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it Mostly True.

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  • Crowd yells ‘cowards!’ after federal agents crash into a car and fire tear gas in Minneapolis

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    By REBECCA SANTANA and MARK VANCLEAVE, Associated Press

    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents, just a few blocks from where a woman was fatally shot last week.

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A crowd emerged to witness a man being questioned by agents who had rear-ended his car. Agents used tear gas to try to break up the group, then drove off as people screamed, “cowards!”

It was another tense scene following the death of Renee Good on Jan. 7 and a weekend of more immigration enforcement sweeps in the Minneapolis area. There were dozens of protests or vigils across the U.S. to honor Good and passionately criticize the Trump administration’s tactics.

Minnesota’s attorney general and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul scheduled an afternoon news conference Monday to discuss the immigration operation. No details have been released.

Gov. Tim Walz and his wife Gwen visited the memorial to Good, 37, on the street where she was shot in the head and killed while driving her SUV.

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  • Hundreds rally at Orlando City Hall to protest ICE killing Renee Good

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    Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Orlando City Hall on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, to protest ICE killing Minneapolis resident Renee Good. Credit: McKenna Schueler

    A group of about 300 or so people peacefully rallied at Orlando City Hall on Sunday (with at least a couple dozen cops on standby) to denounce the killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Good by a federal immigration enforcement agent last week, and to demand state and local governments end their collaboration with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. 

    The rally in Orlando, organized by anti-Trump group Orlando 50501, was part of a coordinated weekend of peaceful protest actions and vigils across the U.S. in protest of the Trump administration’s deadly mass deportation agenda. According to Time magazine, at least 1,000 anti-ICE demonstrations across the U.S. happened over the weekend, from Orlando to New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Tuscon and the not-exactly-bright-blue Treasure Coast city of Stuart, Florida.

    Protesters in Orlando held signs and banners that read “ICE agents are paid agitators,” “Fuck ICE,” “ICE Out 4 Good” and “Public safety doesn’t require body bags.”

    “When Renee Good was murdered, this was far from the only killing that ICE has done,” said Corey Hill of Orlando 50501, speaking to a crowd gathered outside of Orlando City Hall early Sunday afternoon. “Thirty-two people were killed in ICE custody last year,” he pointed out. According to The Guardian, 2025 was the deadliest year on record for ICE in decades. At least six of the deaths in ICE custody last year occurred in Florida.

    “They are engaging in kidnapping and violence from coast to coast, using our money to brutalize our people,” said Hill, who encouraged attendees to get plugged into local organizing work in solidarity with immigrant communities. “This is not a moment, this is a movement … Say it loud, say it clear: Immigrants are welcome here.”

    The protest Sunday was spurred by the death of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who was fatally shot by an ICE officer last Wednesday in Minneapolis, just about a mile from where George Floyd was murdered by police in 2020. Good was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and an award-winning poet. Minneapolis leaders say she was serving as a legal observer of ICE activities when she encountered the agent who killed her, identified by media as Jonathan Ross. 

    Good had just dropped off her kid at school shortly before she was shot at multiple times by an ICE officer as she was fleeing the scene in her Honda Pilot, her dog in the backseat. The Trump administration has described her as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming she was trying to ram into agents with her car. 

    “We are here because our state keeps asking us to accept the unacceptable, because our leaders keep calling violence policy, because they keep saying, ‘We’re just complying,’” said Fi Gomez Jr., a LGBTQ+ immigrant justice organizer with the Apopka-based Hope CommUnity Center. “But let’s be clear: Compliance with violence is still fucking violence,” they said, earning roars of agreement from the crowd.

    “Compliance with violence is still fucking violence”

    “When the state cooperates with systems that cage, disappear and brutalize our people, it’s not neutrality, it’s not just the law. It’s complacency. And we are here to say no more.”

    Florida reportedly leads the nation in the number of agreements that the state and local governments have signed with ICE, including Orange County and Orlando. Orange County has a controversial agreement with ICE that county leaders say is mandated under state law that allows federal immigration enforcement to detain people in the Orange County Jail temporarily before sending them to a long-term detention facility. 

    It’s cost the county more than $300,000 since Trump took office, so far, since the federal government has failed to fully reimburse the county for the cost of jailing people accused of being in the country illegally. The Orlando Police Department also has an agreement with ICE, allowing local police officers “limited immigration authority” alongside their normal duties.

    Credit: McKenna Schueler

    Organizers of the rally in Orlando on Sunday are calling on state and local elected officials to end their collaboration with ICE. With the 60-day state legislative session beginning Tuesday, advocates are also calling on state lawmakers to pass legislation (SB 316) that would prohibit ICE agents and other members of law enforcement from wearing masks during public immigration enforcement activities. It would also require them to wear visible identification. 

    The proposal, dubbed the “VISIBLE Act,” is sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith of Orlando and Jacksonville Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon.

    The Immigrants Are Welcome Here coalition, made up of more than 60 Central Florida legal aid and advocacy groups, put together a petition through ActionNetwork with their call to action for elected officials to end agreements with ICE, distributed through the crowd on Sunday via a QR code.

    “To the officials that can hear us today, history is watching you,” said Gomez. “Your silence is a decision, and ‘I was just following orders’ has never been an excuse that history forgives.”

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  • PPB: Officer Reassigned For Public Comments About Minneapolis ICE Shooting – KXL

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    PORTLAND, OR – A Portland police officer has been reassigned after video surfaced showing him appearing to agree with the tactics used by federal officers who fatally shot a woman in Minnesota last week.

    The video, which circulated on social media Friday, shows the officer speaking with members of the public during a demonstration in Portland. In the footage, the officer appears to justify the use of deadly force by federal officers involved in the Minnesota shooting, prompting criticism online.

    The Portland Police Bureau said the officer was removed from his regular assignment and reassigned to other duties while the bureau reviews the incident. Officials said the move is administrative and does not indicate discipline at this stage.

    The shooting in Minnesota involved federal immigration officers and has sparked protests nationwide, including in Portland, where demonstrators have condemned federal enforcement practices and use-of-force policies.

    Portland officials have said officers working demonstrations are expected to remain professional and neutral, and to avoid comments that could undermine public trust.

    Police said an internal review is underway to determine whether the officer’s remarks violated bureau policies or standards of conduct. The bureau said it will release additional information once the review is complete.

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  • Hundreds protest outside ICE office in Centennial following controversial federal agent shootings

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    CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Centennial on Sunday morning, waving signs and chanting as they condemned the federal agency.

    “This is good, especially, as much as I love [protesting at the State] Capitol, I like being here on site,” protester Alix Farley said.

    Sunday’s demonstration came in response to recent controversial shootings involving federal agents in Minneapolis and Portland, including the death of Renee Good, and follows multiple anti-ICE protests across Colorado on Saturday.

    Trump’s administration has said both shootings were acts of self-defense against drivers who “weaponized” their vehicles to attack officers.

    “This one’s real close to home, so that’s why we’re here,” Amanda Reyes said.

    Among the protesters was Nathan Ducasse, who came out to peacefully protest alongside the Denver protest marching band “Notes of Dissent.”

    “We don’t approve of, you know, abuses of power like the murder of Renee Good,” Ducasse said.

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    Just three weeks ago, in another incident that resonated with many protesters, activist Jeanette Vizguerra was released from ICE detention after spending nine months at a facility in Aurora.

    On Sunday, she spoke to demonstrators as Federal Protective Service officers stood watch.

    “Please, not only stand up in this moment, but also stand up every time,” Vizguerra told the crowd.

    Meanwhile, four days after the shooting, questions about federal agents’ legal immunity continue to arise. President Donald Trump said the FBI should not share evidence with Minnesota state officials following Good’s death.

    “Well, normally I would [share evidence], but they’re crooked officials,” Trump said.

    Minnesota leaders are pushing back against that stance.

    “But the law is clear. We do have jurisdiction to make this decision. We cannot make any decision, however, if there is no evidence submitted to our office,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.

    As these legal debates unfold, protesters in the Denver metro area are maintaining their call for action.

    “I think right now is the time that we should all speak out and actually fight for what we believe in,” said Reyes.

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  • Anti-ICE protests erupt across the country after shootings

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    Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown erupted across the United States this weekend, including outside the White House, following two recent shootings involving immigration officers.A border officer wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday. In a separate event on Wednesday, an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, where thousands marched on Saturday. Minnesota leaders urged demonstrators to remain peaceful after several protesters were arrested on Friday. The Trump administration insists that federal officers acted in self-defense in both shootings. The Department of Homeland Security is not backing down from what it has called its biggest-ever immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities. The agency highlighted the arrest of “criminal illegal aliens” in social media posts on Saturday. Meanwhile, the administration faces pushback from Democrats and certain Republicans on Capitol Hill. Critics are calling for a full, objective investigation into the Minneapolis shooting after state officials were left out of the probe.Some Democrats are calling to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, while others want to restrict funding for her department and add further restrictions on federal agents.Cellphone video below from the ICE agent who shot Renee Good shows the moments before and during the shooting. Viewer discretion is advised.

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    Protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown erupted across the United States this weekend, including outside the White House, following two recent shootings involving immigration officers.

    A border officer wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday. In a separate event on Wednesday, an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, where thousands marched on Saturday.

    Minnesota leaders urged demonstrators to remain peaceful after several protesters were arrested on Friday.

    The Trump administration insists that federal officers acted in self-defense in both shootings.

    The Department of Homeland Security is not backing down from what it has called its biggest-ever immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities. The agency highlighted the arrest of “criminal illegal aliens” in social media posts on Saturday.

    Meanwhile, the administration faces pushback from Democrats and certain Republicans on Capitol Hill. Critics are calling for a full, objective investigation into the Minneapolis shooting after state officials were left out of the probe.

    Some Democrats are calling to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, while others want to restrict funding for her department and add further restrictions on federal agents.

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  • ‘Eventually we will all be targeted’: ICE protests in Montgomery Co. remember Renee Good – WTOP News

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    In the D.C. region on Saturday, drivers honked supportively to the more than 100 protesters that lined both sides of Rockville Pike in Montgomery County, Maryland.

    The deadly shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday sparked more than 1,000 protests across the country over the weekend.

    In the D.C. region on Saturday, drivers honked supportively to the more than 100 protesters that lined both sides of Rockville Pike in Montgomery County, Maryland.

    WTOP spoke to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of the Indivisible Project, the group behind the protests.

    “There is a massive, spontaneous outpouring of grief and outrage around the country over the murder of Renee Good,” Greenberg said. “And all of the violence and lawlessness and horror that ICE has been wreaking on our communities over the last year.”

    Lisa Fuller, the founder of Indivisible MoCoWoMen, told WTOP that there was a call to action on Thursday asking people to protest over the weekend.

    “I am devastated about what’s happening.” Fuller said. “Enough is enough, is enough, is enough.”

    While the rain poured on the protesters, they spoke of the importance of showing up to demonstrations like the one also taking place on Saturday in Chevy Chase and Alexandria, Virginia.

    “We’re here because our soul is broken,” said Eden Durbin of Do The Most Good, a Montgomery County grassroots political group. “This is not America, this is not who we are.”

    A lot of the protesters carried signs, including Olney resident Carol Wilson.

    “Believe your eyes not your lies,” is what Wilson’s sign read, and she said the videos of what took place in Minneapolis was the inspiration for her sign.

    “Showing that she did not intend to run over the ICE agent, even though, immediately after Trump and Noem and now JD Vance are all saying otherwise,” she said.

    Felicia Kimmel, who was also part of the protest, compared the comments from administration officials as straight out of the book, “Animal Farm.”

    “To lie about what we are seeing, it’s Dictatorship 101,” Kimmel said.

    When asked why, even in the rain, was Wilson spending hours at this protest, she turned her sign around and read it out loud: “It’s important to show up.”

    “It’s important to fight for our democracy, for our immigrant neighbors, for American citizens, because eventually we will all be targeted,” she said.

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  • ‘ICE out of Fort Worth’: Protesters rally in downtown over ICE shooting in Minn.

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    A crowd of several hundred people in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday protested the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent.

    The demonstration, which started at 4 p.m., was one of hundreds organized around the country Saturday in response to the deadly confrontation in Minnesota and the wounding of two people in Portland. The protests have largely been peaceful.

    In Fort Worth, the crowd marched through the streets chanting, “ICE out of Fort Worth.”

    The Fort Worth organizers included several North Texas activist groups including Indivisible, the organization behind the No Kings rallies.

    The crowd gathered at General Worth Square, the green on Main Street in front of the Convention Center, to hear speeches before marching through downtown. Fort Worth police officers on bicycles monitored the event.

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    Several other protests have taken place across North Texas, including a protest in Dallas on Thursday night attended by several hundred people and a protest Saturday in Southlake.

    The circumstances of Good’s death, captured on video from several angles, have been widely disputed this week.

    Good was shot in her car after agents approached the vehicle, which was blocking agents on a residential street. She was ordered to get out of her vehicle. An agent opened fire when Good accelerated her SUV. The Trump administration said the agent was acting in self-defense; others say the use of deadly force was clearly unnecessary.

    A crowd gathers at General Worth Square in downtown Fort Worth on Jan. 10, 2026, ahead of a planned protest of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota on Jan. 7.
    A crowd gathers at General Worth Square in downtown Fort Worth on Jan. 10, 2026, ahead of a planned protest of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota on Jan. 7. Emily Holshouser eholshouser@star-telegram.com

    The organizers of Saturday’s Fort Worth protest included these activist groups: the Fort Worth chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, Indivisible Fort Worth, Tarrant County Young Democrats, Panther City Anarchist Organization, Sunrise Tarrant, and the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Alliance Against Race and Political Oppression.

    Several hundred protesters march in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, over the shooting death of Renee Good in Minnesota by an immigration agent.
    Several hundred protesters march in downtown Fort Worth on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, over the shooting death of Renee Good in Minnesota by an immigration agent. Emily Hoshouser eholshouser@star-telegram.com

    “We are here to honor and humanize the lives taken by ice to demand accountability, transparency and an immediate investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good,” Sabrina Ball, an organizer with Indivisible, told the Star-Telegram.

    Ball, a Fort Worth mother, said that she and other organizers have heard from several families recently who had loved ones taken by immigration officers in the Metroplex.

    “I get calls and texts about parents taken,” Ball said. “I have a teacher friend who told me that one of her refugee students, who’s supposed to graduate in May — did everything right, was a good student — was taken at his immigration hearing.”

    As the group walked through downtown Fort Worth, several members of the Broadway Baptist Church walked hand-in-hand.

    “We care very much about justice and love, and we feel that the values that are being projected by ICE and by the entire Trump administration right now are antithetical to our understanding of the gospel, as well as being antithetical to constitutional norms,” said Alan Bean, a member of the church. “So that’s why we’re here.”

    After marching through downtown, the protesters returned to General Worth Square before dispersing. The Star-Telegram did not witness any counter-protestors or violence.

    Buddy Luce, an organizer with Indivisible TX-24, told the Star-Telegram that a protest in Southlake also on Saturday brought out around 80 people.

    Luce and other activists have been protesting every Saturday outside the Tesla at Southlake Town Square since last spring. What started out as a protest against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, evolved to protests against other Trump administration actions including the government shutdown, the Epstein files and ICE operations across the country.

    This story was originally published January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM.

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  • Hundreds protest in Dallas on Thursday after ICE shooting death in Minneapolis

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    Protestors march in downtown Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, over the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, who was shot by an immigration agent the day before.

    Protestors march in downtown Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, over the death of Renee Good in Minneapolis, who was shot by an immigration agent the day before.


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    Several hundred people gathered in downtown Dallas on Thursday evening to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent the day before.

    After several speeches that started around 7 p.m. in front of City Hall, the demonstrators began marching down Ervay Street and circled near a federal immigration courthouse. Dallas police officers escorted the crowd.

    Among the speakers was Noemi Rios, co-founder of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the organization Vecinos Unidos.

    “They are cowards,” Rios told the crowd, referring to immigration agents. “They are aggressive, violent cowards.”

    As protester Lowry Manders marched with the crowd, she said that she often monitors ICE activity in her neighborhood.

    “When I saw what happened, I just knew it could have been me,” Manders said. “I’ve got neighbors in the community that I check on, and it’s just heartbreaking. My family says not to do anything that will get me shot, but [Good] didn’t do anything wrong.”

    As of 9 p.m., the protest had remained peaceful with no confrontations reported as the group arrived back at Dallas City Hall.

    The rally was one of several around the country after the death of Good in her car on Wednesday morning. In Portland on Thursday, two people were shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a “targeted vehicle stop” when a driver purportedly tried to run over agents, a Homeland Security spokeswoman told the New York Times.

    Videos of the shooting in Minnesota showed federal agents approaching Good’s SUV stopped in the middle of a neighborhood street. They ordered her to get out and grabbed the door handle. The SUV began to pull forward before one ICE agent fired at least two shots into the vehicle. Federal and state officials have offered contradicting accounts of those videos.

    By Wednesday evening, hundreds of protesters had gathered at the snow-covered intersection in the Minneapolis suburb where Good was shot, roughly a mile from where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020.

    Good was the mother of three children and had recently moved to Minnesota. She was a U.S. citizen who seemingly had no criminal record beyond a traffic ticket, according to the Associated Press.

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Good tried to run over immigration officers with her vehicle before one of them opened fire, describing her actions as “domestic terrorism.”

    Protesters clash with federal agents outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on January 8, 2026. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed an American woman on the streets of Minneapolis January 7, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. The woman, identified in local media as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was hit at point-blank range as she apparently tried to drive away from agents who were crowding around her car, which they said was blocking their way. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)
    Protesters clash with federal agents outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 8, 2026. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed an American woman on the streets of Minneapolis Jan. 7, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. The woman, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was shot at point-blank range as she apparently tried to drive away from agents who were crowding around her car, which they said was blocking their way. OCTAVIO JONES AFP via Getty Images

    Thursday’s protest in Dallas was organized by the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression with other advocacy groups, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Vecinos Unidos, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Indivisible Dallas.

    A protest in downtown Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, over the shooting death of Renee Good by an immigration agent in Minneapolis the day before.
    A protest in downtown Dallas on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, over the shooting death of Renee Good by an immigration agent in Minneapolis the day before. Emily Holshouser eholshouser@star-telegram.com

    “NAARPR Dallas is hosting a protest at City Hall to demand justice for Renee Good and all victims of ICE and police violence,” a representative for the group told the Star-Telegram.

    The Dallas Police Department was prepared for the rally.

    “We cannot disclose specific operational details, but participants may see officers patrolling in the area, as they would with any large event,” police said earlier in the day. “The Department is committed to protecting and maintaining a safe environment for all who visit, live, and work in the City of Dallas.”

    One person was arrested in Dallas in June during a wave of nationwide protests of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.

    On Sept. 24, a sniper opened fire on ICE agents and detainees outside a facility near downtown Dallas. Two people were killed before the shooter turned his gun on himself.

    Last year, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux announced that the department was turning down a $25 million partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    This story was originally published January 8, 2026 at 9:06 PM.

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    Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    Emily Holshouser is a local news reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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