MINNEAPOLIS — A 37-year-old woman identified as Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Wednesday morning, sparking massive protests and a heated battle between local and federal officials.
The shooting occurred around 9:30 a.m. in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis.
Video captured by bystanders shows an officer approaching a Honda Pilot stopped in the road.
As the vehicle begins to pull forward, a second officer standing in front of the SUV fires at least two shots into the windshield at close range.
Conflicting Accounts of the Shooting
Federal officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, characterized the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism.”
Noem stated the driver attempted to run over officers and that the shooting was an act of self-defense.
President Donald Trump also defended the agency’s actions on social media.
However, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey vehemently disputed this version of events after reviewing the video.
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I wanna tell everybody directly, that is [garbage],” Frey said. He further demanded that ICE agents “Get out of Minneapolis.”
The shooting happened amidst a massive federal operation involving over 2,000 officers deployed to the Twin Cities.
This crackdown, reportedly tied to allegations of fraud, has already resulted in “hundreds” of arrests, according to DHS.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the killing “predictable” and “avoidable,” noting that a family member of Ms. Good witnessed the shooting.
While expressing his own outrage, Walz urged protesters to remain peaceful to avoid further escalation.
By Wednesday evening, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil near the crash site.
The location is just blocks from historic immigrant markets and roughly a mile from where George Floyd was killed in 2020.
Protesters chanted “ICE out of Minnesota” and blew whistles, a tactic local activists have been using to alert neighborhoods of federal presence.
The FBI and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety have launched investigations into the shooting.
