Members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stand guard after a driver of a car was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers fatally shot a lady in her automotive on Wednesday on a residential road in Minneapolis, authorities mentioned.
Movies of the incident that have been posted on social media present the lady being shot inside seconds by an ICE agent who was standing on the entrance of her SUV when she started driving off after being advised to exit her car.
The capturing occurred in entrance of different folks on Portland Avenue who have been opposing ICE actions in Minneapolis.
Division of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem and one other prime DHS official each claimed that the useless lady, who police mentioned had been shot within the head, was engaged in an “act of home terrorism” by deliberately attempting to run down ICE brokers.
“As we speak, ICE officers in Minneapolis have been conducting focused operations when rioters started blocking ICE officers and one in every of these violent rioters weaponized her car, making an attempt to run over our regulation enforcement officers in an try to kill them — an act of home terrorism,” mentioned Division of Homeland Safety Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in a publish on X.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey scoffed at that account, citing video footage that they had seen.
Frey referred to as DHS’ claims “bulls—” and “a rubbish narrative.” He mentioned the lady was 37 years outdated. MS NOW, citing folks conversant in the matter, mentioned the lady was a U.S. citizen.
The Star-Tribune newspaper recognized the useless lady as Renee Nicole Good, citing Good’s mom because the supply of that data.
“That is so silly” that she was killed, Good’s mom, Donna Ganger, advised a Star-Tribune reporter after being advised a number of the capturing’s particulars. “She was most likely terrified.”
The capturing got here throughout elevated rigidity over a surge of greater than 2,000 ICE, DHS and different federal brokers to Minneapolis and St. Paul for immigration enforcement, criticism of the town’s giant Somali inhabitants by President Donald Trump, and the Trump administration’s concentrate on a sequence of frauds towards social service packages administered by Minnesota that obtain federal help.
A Border Patrol Tactical Unit agent sprays pepper spray into the face of a protestor making an attempt to dam an immigration officer car from leaving the scene the place a lady was shot and killed by a federal agent earlier, in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
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Walz blasted DHS for saying they knew the motives of the useless lady with out doing an investigation. The governor mentioned he had issued a so-called warning order to state officers to organize to deploy Minnesota Nationwide Guard troops.
“We’ve somebody useless, of their care, for no purpose in anyway,” Walz mentioned at a press convention.
“We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s harmful, sensationalized operations are a menace to our public security, that somebody was going to get damage. Simply yesterday, I mentioned precisely that,” Walz mentioned.
“What we’re seeing is the results of governance designed to generate worry, headlines and battle. It is governing by actuality TV, and at present that recklessness price [someone] their life,” he mentioned.
“I’ve a easy message: We do not want any additional assist from the federal authorities,” Walz mentioned. “To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: You have finished sufficient.”
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara mentioned his division secured the “crime scene” and that the incident is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Minnesota Bureau of Legal Apprehension.
O’Hara mentioned the state bureau will probe “whether or not any state legal guidelines … have been violated.”
An onlooker holds an indication that reads “Disgrace” as members of regulation enforcement work the scene following a suspected capturing by an ICE agent throughout federal regulation enforcement operations on Jan. 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Video from the scene posted on social media exhibits ICE officers pulling as much as a bunch of vehicles parked on a residential road.
“Get the f— out of our neighborhood,” a lady is heard saying on the video, apparently from behind the digicam.
ICE brokers then rapidly exited their truck and walked as much as a car blocking the street, saying, “Ma’am, get out of the automotive, out of the automotive, get out of the f—ing automotive,” the video exhibits.
One agent grabbed the deal with of the driving force’s facet door and tried to open it, and reached contained in the car, the video exhibits.
The automotive then backs up barely and begins pulling away, the video exhibits.
One other agent, who had been standing up the street from the lady’s car, walks as much as the entrance of the automotive and attracts his pistol and rapidly fires towards the automotive’s windshield because the car begins shifting ahead at him, in accordance with movies. He seems to have fired at the least three photographs.
One video aired by KSTP 5 in Minneapolis exhibits the agent who pulled his pistol showing to lean on or towards the lady’s SUV car on the time it started shifting ahead, after which firing.
Lower than three seconds cross between the automotive reversing and shifting ahead, and the start of the gunfire.
“Oh f—ing, God!” a lady screams on the video.
Members of the neighborhood and media take cowl as Border Patrol brokers use chemical irritants to disperse a crowd attempting to forestall them from leaving the scene the place a driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, in accordance with native and federal officers, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., Jan. 7, 2026.
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The car that was shot at rapidly crashes into the again finish of a automotive parked a brief distance down the road.
“Dude, you probably did a homicide, for what?” a person yells on the video.
Noem, the DHS secretary, throughout a speech mentioned, “Our ICE officers have been out in an enforcement motion.”
“They acquired caught within the snow due to the antagonistic climate that’s in Minneapolis,” Noem mentioned. “They have been making an attempt to push out their car and a lady attacked them, and people surrounding them, and tried to run them over and ram them along with her car.”
Noem mentioned, “An officer of ours acted rapidly and defensively shot to guard himself and the folks round him and my understanding is that she was hit and is deceased.”
There isn’t any footage on the video supporting Noem’s declare that the officers have been attempting to push their car out of any snow, or that the lady attacked them as they have been doing so proper earlier than the capturing occurred.
The truck carrying the brokers was driving up the road when it stopped and the brokers acquired out. The road was away from any snow.
Walz, in a tweet mentioned, “I’ve seen the video. Do not consider this propaganda machine.”
“The state will guarantee there’s a full, truthful, and expeditious investigation to make sure accountability and justice,” Walz mentioned.
A number of elected officers from Minnesota demanded that ICE depart Minneapolis after the capturing.
Mayor Frey, throughout a press convention, blasted ICE and referred to as the allegation that the useless lady was attempting to kill brokers “bulls—.”
“I’ve a message for ICE, to ICE: Get the f— out of Minneapolis,” Frey mentioned.
“What they’re doing is inflicting chaos and mistrust. They’re ripping households aside,” Frey mentioned.
“They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and on this case, fairly actually killing folks, so they’re already attempting to spin this as an motion of self-defense,” the mayor mentioned.
“Having seen the video of myself, I need to inform all people immediately that’s bulls—. This was an agent recklessly utilizing energy that resulted in anyone dying, getting killed,” Frey mentioned.
Trump, in a social media publish, mentioned, “I’ve simply considered the clip of the occasion which came about in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s a horrible factor to look at.”
“The lady screaming was, clearly, knowledgeable agitator, and the lady driving the automotive was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who appears to have shot her in self protection,” Trump mentioned.
“Primarily based on the hooked up clip, it’s exhausting to consider he’s alive, however is now recovering within the hospital. The state of affairs is being studied, in its entirety, however the purpose these incidents are occurring is as a result of the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and concentrating on our Legislation Enforcement Officers and ICE Brokers every day,” the president mentioned.
“They’re simply attempting to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We have to stand by and shield our Legislation Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Motion of Violence and Hate!”
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in a publish on X, wrote, “ICE should cease terrorizing our communities and depart our metropolis.”
Omar’s Home district contains all of Minneapolis.
In a later assertion, Omar mentioned, “ICE’s actions at present have been unconscionable and reprehensible. I’m past outraged that their reckless, callous actions led to the killing of a authorized observer in Minneapolis.”
“My coronary heart breaks for the sufferer’s household, who must endlessly dwell with the ache attributable to the Trump Administration’s reckless and lethal actions,” the congresswoman mentioned. “This administration has proven, but once more, that it doesn’t care in regards to the security of Minnesotans. As a substitute of defending our communities, they’re unleashing violence – terrorizing neighborhoods and now killing a civilian.”
“For weeks, ICE’s so-called ‘Operation Metro Surge’ has unfold worry, chaos, and violence throughout our state,” Omar mentioned, “”This isn’t regulation enforcement. It’s state violence. It’s merely indefensible, and ICE should be held accountable. That should embrace a full, complete investigation and authorized motion towards the company.”
Walz referred to as for any protests of the capturing incident to be peaceable.
“They need a present. We won’t give it to them. We can not,” Walz mentioned on the information convention.
“You protest and categorical your First Modification rights, please achieve this peacefully, as you at all times do,” he mentioned. “We won’t give them what they need.”
Correction: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey referred to as DHS’ claims in regards to the incident “a rubbish narrative.” A earlier model of this story misattributed the quote.
