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  • Latest shooting is 17th time immigration officials have fired at civilians in Trump’s second term

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    I urge anyone that is at the scene to leave immediately. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara urging protesters to go home Wednesday night amid clashes with law enforcement after *** federal officer shot *** man in the leg. The Department of Homeland Security said the subject, *** Venezuelan man who was in the country illegally, fled in his vehicle during *** targeted traffic stop, then crashed into *** parked car and fled on foot. When the officer caught up to him, he allegedly resisted arrest. DHS said two other individuals attacked the officer with *** snow shovel and *** broom handle. During the struggle, the federal agent discharged his weapon, striking one adult male. Tensions rose as protesters gathered at the scene, with *** crowd following agents through the neighborhood. Agents launched pepper balls and what sounded like flashbangs. Smoke hung in the air as officers deployed tear gas canisters, with *** member of the crowd apparently throwing one of the canisters back at agents while still demanding ICE leave the city. Officials, including the mayor, are asking the public to remain peaceful. We cannot counter Donald Trump’s chaos with our own brand of chaos. For those that have peacefully protested, I applaud you. For those that are taking the bait, you are not helping. I’m Reed Binion reporting.

    Federal immigration officials have fired gunshots at people in at least 17 different incidents since President Donald Trump began his second term nearly a year ago. In the latest incident, a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Jan. 14 after he was attacked with a snow shovel and broom handle, according to Homeland Security. Federal officers were conducting a traffic stop, DHS said, when the man crashed into a parked car and fled on foot. As the man and the officer were in a struggle on the ground, two people from a nearby apartment came out with the shovel and broom, according to DHS reports.The latest shooting comes a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good less than 10 miles away, sparking widespread protests and fear in the city.A Get the Facts Data Team analysis of data collected by The Trace has found that four people have been killed and at least eight have been injured in the 17 shooting incidents.The number of incidents is likely an undercount, according to The Trace, as not all shootings are publicly reported. Also, others have been killed during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown beyond those killed by guns.Most of the shooting incidents have been in the Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis areas.PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=

    Federal immigration officials have fired gunshots at people in at least 17 different incidents since President Donald Trump began his second term nearly a year ago.

    In the latest incident, a federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis on Jan. 14 after he was attacked with a snow shovel and broom handle, according to Homeland Security.

    Federal officers were conducting a traffic stop, DHS said, when the man crashed into a parked car and fled on foot. As the man and the officer were in a struggle on the ground, two people from a nearby apartment came out with the shovel and broom, according to DHS reports.

    The latest shooting comes a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good less than 10 miles away, sparking widespread protests and fear in the city.

    A Get the Facts Data Team analysis of data collected by The Trace has found that four people have been killed and at least eight have been injured in the 17 shooting incidents.

    The number of incidents is likely an undercount, according to The Trace, as not all shootings are publicly reported. Also, others have been killed during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown beyond those killed by guns.

    Most of the shooting incidents have been in the Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis areas.

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  • Atlanta area Senate leaders hold press conference on ICE legislation

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    Local elected officials and Atlanta-area residents rallied on the south steps of the Georgia State Capitol on Tuesday afternoon amid growing tensions stemming from the increased violence and presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the U.S. The latest violent incident involves 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, who was killed when an ICE agent shot into her vehicle on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an immigration sweep.  

    The fatal ICE-involved shooting sparked protests nationwide. This is the second rally in Atlanta, coming days after The Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Atlanta Branch and Immigrant Rights Alliance held a demonstration at the Capitol to bring awareness to Good’s death. 

    Photo by Laura Nwogu/The Atlanta Voice

    Senate Minority Whip Kim Jackson (D–Stone Mountain) held the press conference alongside members of the Senate Democratic Caucus, including Sen. Josh McLaurin,  Sen.  Sheika Rahman, and Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones, to introduce legislation aimed at protecting Georgia residents. Attendees held signs calling for “No Masks, No Murders and No Militia” and “No ICE” as the officials introduced three Senate Bills: SB 391, 397, and 389. 

    “We cannot continue to allow the President to abuse the patriotism of the troops,” Jones said. “We must build a wall against him, and the legislation presented here today is a step towards protecting all U.S. citizens and making sure that we continue to pursue American ideals and goals.”

    SB 391 restricts immigration enforcement without a warrant in “sensitive” areas such as schools, hospitals, places of worship, libraries, and family violence shelters to protect due process, child safety, and community stability. SB 397 creates a civil cause of action against federal officials who violate constitutional rights. The last bill introduced, SB 389, requires ICE agents to unmask and display identifying badges to reduce fear amongst the community and ensure accountability during enforcement actions.

    “I’m dropping this bill today for all of the children who now grieve because their parents have either been deported, are somewhere in a detention center, or they’ve simply disappeared because they’re afraid that ICE might find them,” Jackson said.  “Today, we are calling for ICE to be unmasked to end the terror and to end the fear.”

    Atlanta resident Deja Hall said she visited the State Capitol for the first time on Tuesday to attend the press conference and understand how she can help immigrants in the city. 

    “When I think of immigrants, I think of people like me, too,” Hall said. “They’re not just trying to push out the Hispanics; it’s everybody. It’s Africans. It’s people from everywhere. I just want to hear what we can do as a community so that we can proceed to go the right way.”

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  • How Trump could use ICE shooting to impact 2026 midterms

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    President Donald Trump could use the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer’s shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to Democratic cities ahead of the November 2026 midterms, experts said.

    Good, 37, a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by an ICE officer, later identified as Jonathan Ross, after agents asked her to exit her vehicle. The Trump administration defended the agent, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claiming Good had “attempted to run a law enforcement officer over” before she was shot. But critics have condemned the killing, with the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, calling it “reckless.”

    In the wake of the shooting, the Trump administration said it would send more federal officers to the city to deal with protests and backlash.

    While the administration said this was necessary to help Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials do their jobs safely, experts told Newsweek that Trump could escalate the use of troops to target Democratic-run areas and “create an atmosphere of fear” ahead of the midterm elections. Trump has not said he would do so.

    The White House referred Newsweek to an X post by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt that said: “President Trump stands fully behind the heroic men and women of ICE. Radical left-wing agitators should be ashamed of themselves for protesting ICE’s removal of criminal illegal alien killers, rapists, gangbangers, and pedophiles from American communities.”

    “ICE is doing a very important job to remove illegal criminal aliens from our communities,” she added in comments made to the press.

    Al Tillery, a professor of political science at Northwestern University in Illinois, said that Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act to send troops to different areas in America ahead of the elections.

    The 19th-century statute, a combination of different laws enacted by Congress between 1792 and 1871, would allow the use of active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties within the United States. Trump has, in the last few months, not ruled out using the act amid legal challenges to his deployment of troops to cities including Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles; and Washington, D.C. Trump has said deploying troops to these cities was necessary to deal with crime.

    “Such a mission would need to be handled by the National Guard in a role similar to the deployments in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Portland,” Tillery told Newsweek. “With the State of Illinois’ recent federal court victory against deployments in Chicago, Trump would likely need to invoke the Insurrection Act, which is the principal legal mechanism that allows a president to federalize or deploy forces domestically to suppress unrest when state authorities are deemed unwilling or unable to do so.

    “There is not a doubt in my mind that Trump wants to use ICE and the National Guard to create an atmosphere of fear in Democratic cities in advance of the midterms. Whether or not Trump will get to even test the limits in this regard will depend on the Republican majority on the Supreme Court, which at times has demonstrated that they are fully supportive of Trump’s norm-busting behavior.”

    Thomas Whalen, an associate professor who teaches U.S. politics at Boston University, told Newsweek that the possibility of Trump sending troops into cities ahead of the midterms should be taken “seriously.”

    “Trump is usually at his worst when he thinks he’s going to lose. And it looks like he or at least his party is going to lose big time at the midterms,” he said.

    The Republican Party has a slim majority in both chambers of Congress, and the party not in office tends to perform better in midterm elections. Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House during the 2018 midterms during Trump’s first term in office. Losing the House would affect the GOP’s ability to pass key legislation and advance Republican policies.

    Trump has expressed concerns that the GOP may perform poorly in the midterms and the party is implementing various strategies to put the party on good footing, including putting Trump on the campaign trail and trying to redistrict states to favor Republican candidates.

    Whalen said: “He’s been talking a long time about invoking the Insurrection Act and you can imagine the chaos that would cause if implemented on Election Day with a generous gallop of federal troops and ICE personnel flooding the streets in major Democratic cities like Chicago.”

    However, Calvin Jillson,  a politics professor at Southern Methodist University in Texas, told Newsweek that this scenario was unlikely.

    “This is largely a fever dream on the left as the federal courts have limited President Trump’s ability to deploy National Guard troops into cities, especially against the wishes of state and local officials,” he said, “so he would have only federal law enforcement officers, marshals, ICE, Border Patrol, etc., in numbers insufficient to the task.

    “The main flaw in such a plan, however, clear from watching Minneapolis this week, is that a Trump administration show of force around the elections would be much more likely to bring Democrat voters into the streets and to the polls that it would be to intimidate them.”

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  • Claim that Renee Good has a child abuse record is unproven

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    In the days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, social media users circulated a document that portrayed her as an abusive mother.

    “Renee wasn’t so ‘Good’… Domestic Abuse Child Endangerment is enough for me,” read a Jan. 11 X post that included a screenshot of what looks like an arrest history for someone named “Nicole Renee Good.”

    “If you can abuse a child, abusing law enforcement is no stretch,” read a similar Jan. 11 Facebook post that shared the same screenshot. 

    The screenshot showed an image of a woman resembling Good, who was killed Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, after video showed an ICE officer shooting into her vehicle.

    It listed what look like several arrests between 2022 and 2024, including one for a “domestic abuse child endangerment law” violation.

    But the screenshot contains numerous reasons to doubt its authenticity:

    • The person named in the screenshot was listed as being 44 and having an Oct. 7, 1980 birthday. A person with that birthday would have been 44 at the time of the 2024 arrest and 45 as of Jan. 7, 2026, when Good died. 

    Good, the Minneapolis woman, was 37 years old when she died. She was born on April 2, 1988, according to a notarized Missouri court document from 2023, in which she requested a name change.

    We also saw people sharing versions of the screenshot that showed a different age — 35 — with the same date of birth in 1980; that math doesn’t add up either.

    • The screenshot contained no information about what state or jurisdiction the supposed arrests took place, and we could not independently verify its authenticity.

    • The booking dates listed in the screenshot range from April 2022 to October 2024. Good lived in Kansas City, Missouri, during that time, documents show.

    • When we shared the screenshot with Kansas City Missouri Police Department spokesperson Phillip DiMartino he said, “I am unsure where that document is from.”

    Good was born in Colorado Springs and later moved to Virginia and Kansas City. She studied at Old Dominion University in Virginia, graduating with an English degree in December 2020, the university said in a statement. She was married to Justin Sheppard of Colorado, the Wall Street Journal reported, and later to Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., who died in 2023. She had three children.

    PolitiFact did not find any court records in Colorado, Missouri and Virginia showing that Good has ever been charged with child abuse or endangerment. We also searched news reports for information about possible arrests and reviewed statements from Good’s friends and family. None revealed any information showing Good has faced child abuse charges.

    Her former brother-in-law, Joseph Macklin, described her as “a great and loving mother,” The Washington Post reported.

    She had recently moved to Minneapolis with her wife and 6-year-old son, whom she had with her second husband, according to news reports. 

    Good’s first husband called her a “devoted Christian” in an interview with The Associated Press. He said he never knew her to participate in any protests. Together, they had a daughter and son, now 15 and 12. 

    The AP also reported that Good “was never charged with anything” beyond a traffic ticket. PolitiFact found she was cited in 2019 in Virginia for failure to have her vehicle inspected. The Denver Post also reported that she had a 2012 traffic ticket in El Paso County, Colorado.

    A screenshot showing an arrest record for a “Nicole Renee Good” contains numerous inconsistencies and does not prove Renee Nicole Good was accused of child abuse. We rate that claim False.

    PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

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  • Hundreds in Raleigh protest ICE agent’s killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis

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    Drew Jackson

    Returning to the site of last summer’s No Kings protest, hundreds in Raleigh lined Capital Boulevard Sunday afternoon to demonstrate against an ICE agent’s killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

    On Wednesday, videos of Good being fatally shot in her SUV by an ICE agent circulated widely on social media, becoming the latest political flashpoint amid the escalation of immigration enforcement.

    U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Good of ramming into the ICE agent, calling the shooting self-defense. Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, pushed back on the federal government’s characterization of Good’s actions.

    The killing ignited protests across the country, including several over the weekend in the Triangle in Durham, Downtown Raleigh and on Capital Boulevard. Sunday’s protest grew to about 300 people along the highway, nearly everyone carrying a sign denouncing Good’s death, like “It was murder,” and “You can’t lie to me–I saw the video.”

    Betty Parker of Raleigh stood with a small American flag and made a Peace sign with her hand to passing cars. She has been attending protests several times per year since Donald Trump was inaugurated, starting during his first term with the Women’s March in Washington D.C. in early 2017.

    Of the crowd assembled Sunday in Raleigh, Parker said she felt a groundswell of opposition to the ICE actions.

    “Every one, I feel a little more hopeful,” Parker said of the protests. “Clearly everything that’s gone on since the first (Donald Trump) administration has defied all expectations. With each protest, people are growing more confident in standing up and making their voices heard. But this isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon.”

    Having seen the video of the killing of Good, a mother of three, Parker said she felt the country’s laws were being ignored.

    “What is happened is the total disregard of the rules and laws of our country,” she said.

    Betty Parker flashes a Peace sign during an Anti-ICE protest in Raleigh Sunday afternoon.
    Betty Parker flashes a Peace sign during an Anti-ICE protest in Raleigh Sunday afternoon. jdjackson@newsobserver.com Drew Jackson

    Tammy Pacenza held up a sign reading “It was murder” written out in skinny marker on a white poster board.

    “I had to be here to make my voice heard,” she said. “I come to these things when I feel like I need to–I can’t just sit at home, I want to be a good citizen. And I saw that video hundreds of times on every network and it was murder.”

    Traffic continued to flow unimpeded along the busy suburban stretch of Capital Boulevard, flanked by big box stores and the Triangle Town Center. Horns from passing cars often honked in support, from convertible sports cars to semi-trucks. A dissenting driver in a Cybertruck honked while holding up a middle finger to protesters and a passenger filmed the crowd.

    Hundreds of protesters gathered in Raleigh Sunday in a demonstration against the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent.
    Hundreds of protesters gathered in Raleigh Sunday in a demonstration against the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent. jdjackson@newsobserver.com Drew Jackson

    Tom Pawlak dressed in a blue jacket in the style of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, complete with a Tricorne hat.

    “This is our moment to look ourselves in the mirror as a country and as a people, and bring love back,” Pawlak said.

    Drew Jackson

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    Drew Jackson writes about restaurants and dining for The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun, covering the food scene in the Triangle and North Carolina.

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  • Minnesota governor says state must play a role in investigation after ICE agent fatally shoots woman

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    Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration’s decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.A day after the unidentified ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions remained high, with dozens of protesters venting their outrage outside of a federal facility that’s serving as a hub for the administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major city.Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of the crackdowns in other cities, walked along the long line of officers, looking at the crowd as protesters yelled at him, including a man who shouted, “Border Patrol should be along the border!” Many activists tried to converse with the officers and persuade them that the job they were doing was wrong.“We should be horrified,” protester Shanta Hejmadi said as demonstrators shouted “No More ICE,” “Go Home Nazis,” and other slogans at a line of Border Patrol officers, who responded with tear gas and pepper spray. “We should be saddened that our government is waging war on our citizens. We should get out and say no. What else can we do?”Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump and others in his administration characterized the shooting as an act of self-defense and cast Good as a villain, suggesting she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.Vice President JD Vance weighed in Thursday, saying the shooting was justified and that Good was a “victim of left-wing ideology.”“I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making,” Vance said, noting that the officer who killed her was injured while making an arrest last June.But state and local officials and protesters rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video of the shooting shows the self-defense argument to be “garbage.” Video below: VP Vance addresses, answers questions on ICE shooting in Minneapolis An immigration crackdown quickly turns deadlyThe shooting happened on Day 2 of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which the Department of Homeland Security said is the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers taking part, and Noem said they have already made more than 1,500 arrests.It provoked an immediate response in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people turning up to the scene to vent their outrage at the ICE officers and the school district later canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.Good’s death — at least the fifth tied to an immigration crackdown under Trump — has resonated far beyond Minneapolis, as anti-immigration enforcement protests took place or were expected Thursday in New York City, Seattle, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio, New Orleans and Chicago. Protests were also scheduled for later this week in Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.Video above: Witness describes Minneapolis shooting involving ICE officerWho will investigate?On Thursday, the Minnesota agency that investigates officer-involved shootings said it was informed that the FBI and U.S. Justice Department would not work with the department, effectively ending any role for the state to determine if crimes were committed. Noem said the state has no jurisdiction.“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” Drew Evans, the bureau’s superintendent, said.Walz publicly demanded that the state be allowed to take part, repeatedly emphasizing that it would be “very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.Walz publicly demanded that the state be allowed to take part, repeatedly emphasizing that it would be “very, very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.Noem, he said, was “judge, jury and basically executioner” during her public comments about the confrontation.“People in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem — have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate,” the governor said.Frey, the mayor, told The Associated Press: “We want to make sure that there is a check on this administration to ensure that this investigation is done for justice, not for the sake of a cover-up.”Video above: Kristi Noem questioned on ICE shootingA deadly encounter seen from several anglesSeveral bystanders captured footage of Good’s killing, which happened in a neighborhood south of downtown.The videos show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward, and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.Graphic video shows woman shot by ICE agent in MinneapolisIt isn’t clear from the videos if the vehicle makes contact with the officer, and there is no indication of whether the woman had interactions with ICE agents earlier. After the shooting the SUV speeds into two cars parked on a curb before crashing to a stop.The mayor said he’s working with community leaders to try to keep any protests peaceful.“The top thing that this Trump administration is looking for is an excuse to come in with militarized force, to further occupy our streets, to cause more chaos, to have this kind of civil war on the streets of America in a Democratically run city,” Frey told the AP. “We cannot give them what they want.” ___Associated Press reporters Steve Karnowski, Giovanna Dell’Orto and Mark Vancleave in Minneapolis, Ed White in Detroit, Valerie Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas, Graham Lee Brewer in Norman, Oklahoma, Michael Biesecker In Washington, Jim Mustian in New York and Ryan Foley in Iowa City, Iowa contributed.

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    Minnesota must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Gov. Tim Walz insisted Thursday, pushing back against the Trump administration’s decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands.

    A day after the unidentified ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions remained high, with dozens of protesters venting their outrage outside of a federal facility that’s serving as a hub for the administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major city.

    Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official who has been the face of the crackdowns in other cities, walked along the long line of officers, looking at the crowd as protesters yelled at him, including a man who shouted, “Border Patrol should be along the border!” Many activists tried to converse with the officers and persuade them that the job they were doing was wrong.

    “We should be horrified,” protester Shanta Hejmadi said as demonstrators shouted “No More ICE,” “Go Home Nazis,” and other slogans at a line of Border Patrol officers, who responded with tear gas and pepper spray. “We should be saddened that our government is waging war on our citizens. We should get out and say no. What else can we do?”

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump and others in his administration characterized the shooting as an act of self-defense and cast Good as a villain, suggesting she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.

    Vice President JD Vance weighed in Thursday, saying the shooting was justified and that Good was a “victim of left-wing ideology.”

    “I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making,” Vance said, noting that the officer who killed her was injured while making an arrest last June.

    But state and local officials and protesters rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video of the shooting shows the self-defense argument to be “garbage.”

    Video below: VP Vance addresses, answers questions on ICE shooting in Minneapolis

    An immigration crackdown quickly turns deadly

    The shooting happened on Day 2 of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which the Department of Homeland Security said is the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers taking part, and Noem said they have already made more than 1,500 arrests.

    It provoked an immediate response in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people turning up to the scene to vent their outrage at the ICE officers and the school district later canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.

    Good’s death — at least the fifth tied to an immigration crackdown under Trump — has resonated far beyond Minneapolis, as anti-immigration enforcement protests took place or were expected Thursday in New York City, Seattle, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio, New Orleans and Chicago. Protests were also scheduled for later this week in Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.

    Video above: Witness describes Minneapolis shooting involving ICE officer

    Who will investigate?

    On Thursday, the Minnesota agency that investigates officer-involved shootings said it was informed that the FBI and U.S. Justice Department would not work with the department, effectively ending any role for the state to determine if crimes were committed. Noem said the state has no jurisdiction.

    “Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” Drew Evans, the bureau’s superintendent, said.

    Walz publicly demanded that the state be allowed to take part, repeatedly emphasizing that it would be “very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.

    Walz publicly demanded that the state be allowed to take part, repeatedly emphasizing that it would be “very, very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.

    Noem, he said, was “judge, jury and basically executioner” during her public comments about the confrontation.

    “People in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem — have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate,” the governor said.

    Frey, the mayor, told The Associated Press: “We want to make sure that there is a check on this administration to ensure that this investigation is done for justice, not for the sake of a cover-up.”

    Video above: Kristi Noem questioned on ICE shooting


    A deadly encounter seen from several angles

    Several bystanders captured footage of Good’s killing, which happened in a neighborhood south of downtown.

    The videos show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward, and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.

    Graphic video shows woman shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis

    It isn’t clear from the videos if the vehicle makes contact with the officer, and there is no indication of whether the woman had interactions with ICE agents earlier. After the shooting the SUV speeds into two cars parked on a curb before crashing to a stop.

    The mayor said he’s working with community leaders to try to keep any protests peaceful.

    “The top thing that this Trump administration is looking for is an excuse to come in with militarized force, to further occupy our streets, to cause more chaos, to have this kind of civil war on the streets of America in a Democratically run city,” Frey told the AP. “We cannot give them what they want.”

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    Associated Press reporters Steve Karnowski, Giovanna Dell’Orto and Mark Vancleave in Minneapolis, Ed White in Detroit, Valerie Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas, Graham Lee Brewer in Norman, Oklahoma, Michael Biesecker In Washington, Jim Mustian in New York and Ryan Foley in Iowa City, Iowa contributed.

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  • Renee Good a ‘domestic terrorist’? Here’s what term means

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    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the actions of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, as “domestic terrorism.” 

    Noem said Good refused to obey orders to get out of her car and “weaponize(d) her vehicle” and “attempted to run” over an officer. Minnesota officials dispute Noem’s account, citing videos showing Good attempting to drive away.

    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, said Jan. 8 on CNN that Noem’s statement is “an abuse of the term” domestic terrorism. 

    The Trump administration has turned to the phrase in recent months, including in an October immigration enforcement-related shooting.

    In September, the administration issued a memo calling on law enforcement to prioritize threats including “violent efforts to shut down immigration enforcement,” saying domestic terrorists were using violence to advance “extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders.” Experts said it violates free speech laws. 

    Good, a mother of three and a poet, lived in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was fatally shot. She was a United States citizen and had no criminal background, The Associated Press reported. Good’s ex-husband told the AP that she wasn’t an activist and he hadn’t known her to participate in protests. Good had dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home when she encountered ICE.

    The Trump administration has ramped up Minneapolis immigration enforcement in recent weeks, following news reports about fraud in the Somali community.

    A makeshift memorial honoring the victim of a fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement agents is taped to a post near the site of the previous day’s shooting, Jan. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP)

    What is domestic terrorism?

    Federal agencies have their own definitions of domestic terrorism.

    The FBI, citing a specific section of the U.S. code, defines domestic terrorism as acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state criminal laws and appear intended to intimidate or coerce civilians; influence government policy by intimidation or coercion; or affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping, according to a 2020 memo.

    Homeland Security uses a similar definition, citing a different statute that defines domestic terrorism as dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources.

    The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service wrote in 2023, “Unlike foreign terrorism, the federal government does not have a mechanism to formally charge an individual with domestic terrorism which sometimes makes it difficult (and occasionally controversial) to formally characterize someone as a domestic terrorist.”

    In 2022, former FBI agent Michael German, then a fellow with New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice, told PolitiFact that 51 federal statutes apply to domestic terrorism.

    “I think there is (and always has been) confusion between rhetoric and the law in regard to terrorism,” German told PolitiFact after the Minneapolis shooting. “There is no law that authorizes the U.S. government to designate any group or individual in the US as a ‘domestic terrorist.’”

    The federal government periodically revises how it describes threats. For example, in 2025, federal officials sometimes used the term “nihilistic violent extremists” to describe perpetrators who don’t subscribe to one ideology but appear to be motivated by a desire to, as one expert put it, “gamify” real life violence. Experts told PolitiFact that the term is valid, but cautioned against overuse or citing it to obscure other ideological motivations such as white supremacy.

    A makeshift memorial honoring the victim of a fatal shooting involving federal law enforcement agents is taped to a post near the site of the previous day’s shooting, Jan. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP)

    The Trump administration has broadened the domestic terrorism label

    The DHS rhetoric is similar to another immigration enforcement-related shooting in October. During DHS’s months-long Chicago immigration crackdown dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” a Border Patrol agent shot U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez five times. 

    A DHS press release described Martinez as a “domestic terrorist” and accused her of ramming her vehicle into the Border Patrol agent’s car, carrying a semiautomatic weapon and having a “history of doxxing federal agents.”

    A federal judge granted prosecutors’ motion to dismiss federal charges against Martinez in November. 

    “Ultimately, there was a determination when everything was evaluated that there were serious questions about the officers’ narratives,” legal analyst Joey Jackson told CNN.

    The government’s use of the term goes beyond immigration and DHS. 

    After conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump issued a Sept. 25 memo ordering the attorney general to expand domestic terrorism priorities to include “politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder.”

    Trump signed an executive order a few days before designating antifa, a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing activists, as a domestic terrorist organization.

    Attorney General Pam Bondi told federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to compile a list of groups “engaged in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism.”

    Legal experts have raised alarms about the memo’s potential infringements on the First Amendment.

    “Both the order and the memo are ungrounded in fact and law,” Faiza Patel, Brennan Center for Justice director of liberty and national security, wrote. “Acting on them would violate free speech rights, potentially threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution.”

    Experts have also pointed to the memo’s focus on left-wing violence; it does not mention the politically motivated assassination of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, months before. 

    “When a policy directive targets one ideological family and leaves others to the footnotes, it sheds any pretense of neutrality,” Thomas E. Brzozowski, former Justice Department Counsel for Domestic Terrorism, wrote Dec. 12.

    Experts raise questions about Noem’s “domestic terrorism” label

    Information is still surfacing about what transpired before Good was fatally shot. However,  frame-by-frame analyses of video footage by The New York Times and The Washington Post found Good’s vehicle moved toward an ICE agent, but the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of the three shots from his gun from the side of the car as Good veered away.

    Brzozowski told PolitiFact that since Good was trying to drive away to “characterize that as domestic terrorism I think is a stretch.”

    However, he said the larger concern is that Noem is using the domestic terrorism term absent any actual findings before an investigation.

    “Essentially within hours of the incident occurring labeling this activity as domestic terrorism, what that does is effectively strip domestic terrorism of its significance,” he said, calling it a “blatantly partisan effort to label it as domestic terrorism.”

    “Now what is domestic terrorism? Whatever the DHS secretary says it is? She can characterize anything she wants as domestic terrorism. She is doing so without any facts to go on.”

    Shirin Sinnar, Stanford Law School professor, told PolitiFact, “While intentionally ramming a vehicle for a political purpose could amount to terrorism in a different context, the videos of the Minneapolis incident appear to show a woman attempting to drive away from ICE officers, not hit them. Here, the administration’s calling her a domestic terrorist is simply an attempt to malign a protester and justify her killing by an ICE officer.”

    German told PolitiFact after the Minneapolis shooting there isn’t any public evidence to suggest that Good was “engaging in conduct that could have been prosecuted under the terrorism chapter of the U.S. Code,” pointing to 18 U.S. Code Chapter 113B. “So a government official calling her a domestic terrorist isn’t supported in the law, and is entirely pejorative and prejudicial.”

    RELATED: Nihilistic violent extremism: What the FBI term means and why experts warn against overuse

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  • Images don’t show ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman

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    After bystanders captured video of a masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis, social media users rushed to identify the officer.

    “Please help identify this man in connection with the execution of a woman in Minneapolis today at the hands of ICE agents,” read a Jan. 7 Facebook post that showed a man in the shooter’s same tactical gear, but with his face unobstructed by a mask. “Call Minneapolis Police immediately.”

    In the image, the man holds a phone in one hand and points with the other. His uniform reads, “Police, federal agent.” Other versions of the image shared on social media showed the man smiling, or with both hands on the phone.

    But these aren’t real photos. They were altered from frames in one bystander’s video that was published by the Minnesota Reformer. In the video, the agent kept his face covered. 

    On Jan. 7, ICE agents approached the vehicle of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen. She started to drive away when an agent fatally shot her at close range.

    Several news outlets, including the Minnesota Star Tribune, have identified the agent who fired his gun as Jonathan Ross. Although federal officials have not confirmed his identity, both Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance said in separate speaking events that the agent involved in the Jan. 7 shooting had been previously dragged by a car in June. The details Vance described lined up with those in a federal court filing that named the officer as Jonathan Ross.

    Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an email to PolitiFact, “We are not going to expose the name of this officer. He acted according to his training.”

    (Screenshots from X, Facebook)

    But on social media, people shared posts falsely identifying the ICE agent as “Steven Grove” or “Steve Grove.” There is a real person named Steven Grove who resembles the unmasked person in the AI-generated images. He owns Sigwo Arms, a gun shop in Springfield, Missouri, but he told PolitiFact he has never even been to Minnesota and has nothing to do with the incident.

    Grove told PolitiFact in an email that he is based in Springfield, does not work for ICE, and retired from the Army National Guard in 2023 after serving for 23 years. Grove told the Springfield Daily Citizen that he was either in his Springfield shop or at home on Jan. 7, when the Minneapolis shooting unfolded.

    Still, Grove said, the social media speculation about his involvement came with a cost: Meta removed Grove’s personal Facebook account and when he appealed that decision, the platform quickly denied that appeal. Grove posted about the experience on his business’s Facebook page.

    “It’s gonna be a long day,” he wrote.

    Steve Grove is also the name of the Minnesota Star Tribune’s CEO and publisher. In a Jan. 8 X post that did not use Grove’s name, the news outlet said, “To be clear, the ICE agent has no known affiliation with the Star Tribune.”

    It is unclear precisely what accounts first shared the viral images originated, but on X, users asked the AI chatbot Grok to remove the man’s mask from images they uploaded. Grok fulfilled such requests and filled in part of the man’s face, but the AI creations are fictional.

    These images don’t show the unmasked ICE agent who shot a woman in Minneapolis. We rate claims that they do Pants on Fire!

    PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.

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  • DHS said a woman attempted to run over ICE officers before being shot in Minneapolis. Here’s what videos show

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    (CNN) — In the aftermath of an ICE officer shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed in a post online that video from the incident showed the woman “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the officer.

    The Department of Homeland Security, in the initial wake of the shooting, also said in a statement that the woman was attempting to run over officers with her car “to kill them.”

    US Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, later identified the woman as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

    DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a news conference in Texas on Wednesday that “a woman attacked” officers and “attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle” after the officers got stuck in the snow.

    Three videos taken of the scene and reviewed by CNN, however, show nuance. What took place prior to the shooting remains unclear.

    What the videos show

    In one video posted online of the shooting, the woman can first be seen in her car, which is still and perpendicular in the middle of a street.

    The officer who would soon shoot the woman can be seen walking behind her vehicle, toward the front of the car. Another person, who is not wearing a uniform, can be seen following that officer and appears to have been filming on their phone.

    Two federal officers in a truck then pull up to the car as the woman was waving her hand out the window. The officers exit their truck and approach the woman’s car.

    “Get out of the car,” the officers approaching the woman’s driver-side door can be heard repeatedly saying. “Get out of the f**king car.”

    One of the two officers can be seen pulling on the woman’s driver-side door as the other officer reaches the front of the car from the other side. The car then starts to move in reverse as one officer continues pulling on the car door, and the other officer is in front of part of the vehicle.

    The vehicle begins to move forward and, at the same time, the third officer who approached the car pulls out his pistol and points it at the woman while moving away from the front of the car.

    A video from a different angle, obtained and reviewed by CNN, seems to show the car making contact with the officer before he fired his gun the first time.

    The first video doesn’t capture the car making contact with the officer, but his body is seen moving out from the front of the vehicle and to the driver’s side of the car.

    The officer, who was out of the vehicle’s path, then fired two more shots.

    Video then shows the officer holster his pistol as the car drives forward before it accelerates and crashes into a car and a pole on the side of the street.

    The firing officer and the person who appeared to be filming him can be seen moving toward the woman and her car. The video shows the officer later walking away from the car and telling others to call 911.

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