Minneapolis ICE shooting: Woman dies after federal agent opens fire on her vehicle amid immigration crackdown Local government officials and the Trump
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Border Patrol agents stand guard as protesters block a street after a driver of a vehicle was shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. (Tim Evans/Reuters)
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a woman during an incident in Minneapolis on Wednesday, authorities said.
The victim was later identified by members of the Minneapolis City Council as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old resident of the city.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the shooting occurred when a female motorist attempted to “run over” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on a residential street in south Minneapolis.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem referred to the incident as “an act of domestic terrorism.”
Videos posted online and witness accounts cast doubt on that official narrative, however. Footage of the shooting appears to show the driver attempting to drive away from ICE officers as they tried to pull her from her car. Exact details of how the shooting unfolded remain unclear.
“I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wrote on X.
The state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, released a statement in which he wrote, “there’s a lot we don’t know at this time.” He added that anyone who broke the law as part of the incident will be “held accountable.”
A witness who spoke to Minneapolis Public Radio said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue; it appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. The witness said she heard ICE agents telling the driver to “get out of here.”
“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” the witness said.
Later in the day, as video of the incident spread online, Noem doubled down on the claim that the driver was shot while attempting “to kill or cause bodily harm” to the ICE officer.
On Wednesday afternoon, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters the woman who was shot had a head wound and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
