An ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. Federal officials are claiming self-defense, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is calling “bullshit” on that claim.
The shooting of Renee Nicole Good has ignited protests from Minneapolis to New York, with NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani declaring the ICE officer ‘murdered a woman’. Federal officials said the woman, Renee Nicole Good, had tried to run over immigration agents with her car, but the city mayor said the agent who shot her had acted recklessly.
Videos of the incident show ICE agents approaching a car that is in the middle of the street. As it attempts to drive off, one of them points his gun at the driver, and at least two shots are heard. The FBI is investigating. Hundreds of ICE agents have been deployed to Minneapolis, in the state of Minnesota, as part of the White House’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Videos posted to social media by onlookers appeared to show the moment of the shooting, which occurred around 10:25 local time on Wednesday morning. From various vantage points, a maroon SUV can be seen blocking a residential street in Minneapolis. A crowd of people, who appeared to be protesting, was lining the pavement.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said an ICE officer was “viciously” run over. “It is hard to believe he is alive, but he is now recovering in the hospital,” he wrote. The Republican president also blamed the “Radical Left” for “threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents daily”.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said the driver was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway on Portland Avenue. She was then approached on foot by a federal law enforcement officer, “and she began to drive off”. 
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking and impeding” officers throughout the day and tried to “weaponize her vehicle” in an attempt to run over the officer in an act of “domestic terrorism”. The federal agent fired “defensive shots” and was himself injured, Noem said, before he was treated and discharged from a local hospital.
Minneapolis City Council, however, said in a statement that Good was simply “caring for her neighbors” when she was shot and killed. The same agent was also hit by a car in the line of duty in June, Noem said. She added that ICE operations in the city would continue, and the FBI would investigate Wednesday’s incident.
Emily Heller told CNN she was at home when she saw the ICE agents arguing with protesters outside. She said she heard agents shouting at a woman driving an SUV, then one agent tried to open her car door, and the driver went into reverse and began pulling away.
“An ICE agent stepped in front of her vehicle and said, ‘Stop!’ and then – I mean, she was already moving – and then, point blank, shot her through her windshield in the face,” Heller told the US network. Minnesota State Governor Tim Walz also pushed back on federal accounts of the incident.
“Don’t believe this propaganda machine,” Walz wrote in response to a Department of Homeland Security post about the shooting. “The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
Top Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, also released statements. Harris called the Trump administration’s version of events “gaslighting”. Protests and marches took place in several parts of the city as some outraged Minneapolis residents condemned the shooting and called for ICE to leave.
The scene of the shooting is about one mile from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020 by a city police officer, sparking worldwide anti-racism protests. Protests were being organized in other US cities, including New Orleans, Miami, Seattle, and New York City.
Minneapolis Public Schools announced that classes were cancelled for the rest of the week, “due to safety concerns”. It comes after federal agents reportedly made arrests outside a high school on Wednesday.
