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It’s 10.15pm in Minneapolis and 8.15pm in Portland and we’re going to pause this live coverage now. Here are some of our key full reports on the day’s events – thanks for being with us.
FBI takes over case of ICE agent killing US woman and cuts Minnesota’s access to evidence
Democrats threaten to withhold funding after ICE killing in Minneapolis
ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran
Analysis: Minneapolis shooting is a brutal start to Trump’s ‘largest operation’ targeting immigrants
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
Senate advances war powers resolution to stop Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela
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A day after an ICE officer fatally shot US citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been demanding restraints on the agency Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his mass deportation campaign – and some are threatening to use the next funding deadline to force those changes.
Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator of Connecticut, wrote on X, sharing a video of the shooting: “Democrats cannot vote for a [Department of Homeland Security] budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.”
Axios reported on Thursday that Murphy was preparing to introduce a sweeping reform package that would require a warrant for arrests, ban agents from wearing masks during enforcement operations and limit border patrol agents from operating in cities far from the border.
Many Democrats are loath to trigger another shutdown fight after a protracted showdown last year over healthcare subsidies, but public opinion has shifted as Trump escalates what has become an increasingly violent federal enforcement campaign.
You can read the full report here:
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Just days after launching the unprecedented US operation in Venezuela to seize its president and effectively take control of its oil industry, Donald Trump sat down with New York Times journalists for a wide-ranging interview that took in everything from international law, Taiwan and Greenland to weight-loss drugs.
The president, riding high on the success of an operation that has upended the rules of global power, spoke candidly and casually about the new world order he appears eager to usher in: an order governed not by international norms or long-lasting alliances, but national strength and military power.
You can read some key points from the interview here:
As we said earlier, Donald Trump appeared on Hannity’s show on Fox tonight.
Trump said he expected to meet with the Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, the Nobel peace prize winner who was in hiding during deposed president Nicolás Maduro’s rule.
I understand she is coming in next week sometime. I look forward to saying hello to her.
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One of our picture desk editors has pulled together this selection of photos that capture some of the emotion of today’s developments in Minneapolis.
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Amanda Gorman, the young poet who delivered the poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of Joe Biden in 202, has written a poem in memory of Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday.
Gorman shared the poem on a social media account earlier today, it reads:
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.
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Donald Trump is speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News currently, bemoaning the fact that he was not awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and saying it “would be a great honor” if María Corina Machado gave him her Nobel Peace Prize, as she’s promised to do, when she visits the country.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek said the priority right now is a “full, completed investigation, not more detentions” and demanded transparency and cooperation from the federal government.
“We are all shaken and outraged by another terrible, unnecessary violent event instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration,” she said. “While the details of the incident remain limited, one thing is very clear: when a president endorses tearing families apart and attempts to govern through fear and hate rather than shared values, you foster an environment of lawlessness and recklessness.”
She called on Oregonians to remain “united in peaceful opposition”.
Portland mayor Keith Wilson similarly shared details previously released by his office in a statement, adding that cities could no longer rely on the federal government to tell the truth.
“There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed,” he said.
Wilson also said that he spoke with Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey earlier today.
“The administration is trying to divide us. To pit communities against one another. To make us fear one another,” he said. “I want to say it clearly that we stand with Minneapolis, we stand with Minnesota, we stand with Chicago, we stand with LA, we stand with every community that is hurting in our nation.”
He added that not only ICE, but also their Homeland Security management, must be investigated.
Portland police chief Bob Day shared many of the same details released in a previous statement.
“I’m saddened that we are hear once again,” he added. “But I’m also incredibly grateful for Portlanders.”
Portland city and Oregon state officials are gathering in Portland for a press conference on the shooting of two people there today. We’ll bring you the top lines as they happen.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has updated its statement on the shooting of two people in Portland by border patrol agents today.
Earlier in the day, the FBI Portland X account posted a statement saying it was “investigating an agent involved shooting”. Shortly after it was posted, that statement was removed from the FBI’s social media account. A new post now reads that the bureau is “investigating an assault on a federal officers”.
Protesters are continuing to gather across the country to demonstrate against the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good one day after an ICE agent shot her in Minneapolis, and as news continues to come in about the shooting of two people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland today.
Here are some images of the demonstrations in Boston, Washington DC, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.
The Department of Homeland Security says the two people shot by border patrol agents in Portland today were affiliated with the “vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.”
“At 2:19 PST, US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon. The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in Portland. The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents,” department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in an email to The Guardian.
“Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming,” she added.
Donald Trump has frequently spoken about the gang, beginning during his reelection campaign, when he falsely claimed that it had taken control of entire apartment blocks in the Colorado city of Aurora, and as recently as military strikes on Venezuelan boats preceding the administration’s capture of president Nicolás Maduro.
Here’s more of what we know so far about the shooting of two people in Portland by federal immigration agents:
“At 2.24pm, officers received information that a man who had been shot was calling and requesting help in the area of Northeast 146th Avenue and East Burnside,” the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement. “Officers responded and found a male and female with apparent gunshot wounds. Officers applied a tourniquet and summoned emergency medical personnel. The patients were transported to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown.
“Officers have determined the two people were injured in the shooting involving federal agents.”
The police statement also reminded the community “that PPB does not engage in immigration enforcement”.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Portland office posted on X that it was “investigating an agent involved shooting that happened at approximately 2:15pm near the 10000 block of Main St. in Portland involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded. This remains and active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI.”
The FBI appeared to have deleted the post shortly after.
Oregon lawmakers demand ICE leave Portland after shooting
Federal, state and local lawmakers representing Portland have issued statements condemning the shooting of two people by federal immigration agents today.
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter of Oregon wrote: “Just one day after the horrific murder in Minneapolis, I received reports that two people in my district were shot by federal immigration officials this afternoon in East Portland. Both individuals are alive, but we do not know the extent of their injuries,” she said.
“ICE has done nothing but inject terror, chaos, and cruelty into our communities. Trump’s immigration machine is using violence to control our communities—straight out of the authoritarian playbook. ICE must immediately end all active operations in Portland,” Dexter added.
As we reported earlier, Portland mayor Keith Wilson has issued a statement on the shooting of two people by federal immigration officers, calling on ICE to leave the city. “We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,” he said. “As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”
The Portland city councilors who represent the East Portland neighborhood where two people were shot by federal immigration agents today have released a statement as well. Councilors Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy and Loretta Smith wrote: “As your East Portland councilors, we have stood united to protect Portlanders from aggressive immigration enforcement and federal overreach and we will continue to do everything in our power to keep our communities safe.”
“We are asking our counterparts at every level of government to do the same,” they added.
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Portland mayor Keith Wilson has issued a statement on the shooting of two people by federal immigration officers, calling on ICE to leave the city.
“We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,” he said. “As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”
Earlier today, Wilson released a statement saying “Portland stands with you, Minnesota.”
Here’s more of our reporting on recent immigration operations in Portland:
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Federal agents shoot two in Portland
Federal immigration agents in Portland have shot two people, Oregon Public Broadcasting reports, citing the Portland Police Bureau.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Portland office confirmed the shooting in a social media post. “FBI Portland is investigating an agent involved shooting that happened at approximately 2:15pm near the 10000 block of Main St. in Portland involving Customs and Border Patrol Agents in which 2 individuals were wounded,” it wrote.
The shootings come just a day after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis.
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, the two Portland victims were transported to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately clear.
“We understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more,” police chief Bob Day told Reuters.
Portland City Council was in session and abruptly recessed due to security concerns, OPB reports. Later, councilor Sameer Kamal shared a post on Bluesky, stating, “Everyone is okay at City Hall right now. More will be shared asap.”
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As the sun sets in Minneapolis, here are more photos from a day of protests that took place from Tampa to Philadelphia over the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent yesterday.
In a post on his social media platform today, Donald Trump said he wants the government to buy $200 bn in mortgage bonds to lower rates.
The news comes a day after the president also posted on social media saying his administration was moving to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes in a bid to reduce home prices.
Here’s more on the president’s move to appeal to voters’ concerns about affordability:
Colorado’s attorney general says the Trump administration’s decision to end federal funding for certain state programs is part of a “revenge campaign” over false claims Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Colorado has refused to free an elections clerk who was convicted of organizing a data breach scheme based on claims fraud led to Trump’s defeat.
Attorney general Phil Weiser, who sued the Trump administration in October over plans to move US Space Command out of the state, amended his lawsuit today to include other federal funding cuts to Colorado. Those include the administration’s decision to withhold funding for programs that support needy families with children in five Democratic-led states, including Colorado.
Walz authorizes national guard to prepare to deploy
Minnesota governor Tim Walz has authorized the state’s national guard troops “to be staged and ready to support local and state law enforcement in protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety”.
“Minnesotans have met this moment. Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard. Minnesota: thank you. We saw powerful peace,” Walz said in a statement announcing the order. “We have every reason to believe that peace will hold. Yesterday, I directed the National Guard to be ready should they be needed. They remain ready in the event they are needed to help keep the peace, ensure public safety, and allow for peaceful demonstrations.”
Earlier in the day, lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan told CNN the guard was on standby “out of an abundance of caution” although demonstrations had been peaceful so far.
Republicans, including Donald Trump, criticized Walz after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by saying the governor should have deployed the state’s national guard sooner.
In a statement, Walz said the Minnesota State Patrol has also mobilized 85 state troopers.
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Here’s more on the House vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies from my colleague Chris Stein:
All Democrats voted for the measure along with 17 Republicans, many of whom were moderates who said they could not tolerate a hike in healthcare costs for their constituents, but acknowledged the House measure will likely be revised by the Republican-controlled Senate before it is enacted .
“I am voting in favor of this discharge and of this legislation to send it to the Senate, so that the Senate will have the opportunity to put forth a reform package that can pass Congress and become law,” Republican congressman Mike Lawler said during a preliminary vote on the bill on Wednesday.
Trump has opposed extending the tax credits, and the Senate last month rejected a Democratic-backed measure similar to the bill that passed the House. Experts expect that premiums for enrollees of the plans will roughly double without the subsidies.
The Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, has opposed the credits , arguing they would enable fraud while calling the landmark 2010 law passed under Barack Obama the “Unaffordable Care Act”. Democrats made an extension to a centerpiece of their demands during the record-long government shutdown that began in October, while moderate Republicans sought to strike a compromise that would be palatable to both parties.
But after Johnson refused to bring any deal to the floor, four Republicans last month signed a discharge petition that forced a vote on the legislation extending the credits for three years, in a significant rebuke of the speaker.
House bill passes to extend ACA subsidies
The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, 230-196, with a handful of Republicans joining with Democrats to pass the measure despite opposition from Republican leadership.
“Health care costs have skyrocketed for millions of families and this legislation will help bring costs down. This is a win for the American people,” the House Democratic Caucus wrote in a social media post.
The legislation would extend ACA subsidies by three years. The bill will now move to the Senate where pressure to pass a similar bipartisan healthcare agreement is growing.
Minnesota officials expressed frustration with the FBI and Justice Department’s decision to block the state from participating in an investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, and are considering ways the state might undertake its own investigation.
“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,” said Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.
Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty said her office is “exploring all options to ensure a state level investigation can continue” and that they’re “speaking to our local partners on paths forward.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked a US District Court to appoint a special master to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. A special master is a neutral, third-party official appointed by a judge to make sure judicial orders are followed.
Congressmembers Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, and Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, sent a letter to Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York requesting the appointment.
“The Department of Justice is openly defying the law by refusing to release the full Epstein files. Millions of files are being kept from the public,” Khanna said in a press release announcing the letter. “The DOJ has failed to make the necessary redactions to protect survivors while removing records after publication without any explanation. That is why we are requesting the appointment of a Special Master to oversee the release of the files and ensure that the DOJ is following the law.”
“Attorney General Pam Bondi is egregiously violating the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” said Massie. “Under her leadership, the Department of Justice is missing statutory disclosure deadlines, making excessive redactions, and illegally withholding the Department’s internal communications. Because the Department of Justice has shown it cannot be trusted with making the disclosures required by law, a Special Master should be appointed to oversee the release of the Epstein files.”
Khanna and Massie wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which required the Justice Department to release the files by 19 December.
A day after Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, immigration raids in the Minnesota city are ongoing, clergy have gathered in remembrance of Good and protesters are demonstrating against the fatal shooting.
Here are a few photographs of the scene on the ground in Minneapolis from the wires:
Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term late last month, nixing two measures to fund a Colorado drinking water project and the protection of part of the Everglades in Florida.
The bills were uncontroversial enough to pass Congress unanimously, but Republicans in the House of Representatives just declined to override the vetoes, a reminder that the president retains significant sway over GOP lawmakers despite high-profile setbacks over the Jeffrey Epstein case and Affordable Care Act subsidies.
The House needed a two-thirds majority to undo the vetoes, but the Florida measure received only 236 in favor and 188 opposed, while the Colorado bill picked up 248 in favor and 177 against - not enough, in either case, to undo the president’s rejections.
Both vetoes appear to be retaliatory actions by Trump against parties who have defied him. In the Colorado case, the water project lay in the district of Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert, one of the lawmakers who had championed the bill to release the Epstein files.
“I sincerely hope this veto has nothing to do with political retaliation for calling out corruption and demanding accountability,” Boebert said in a statement to a local broadcaster after the veto.
In the Florida case, the protected area is inhabited by the Miccosukee Tribe of Native Americans, which has clashed with Trump over the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility that lies elsewhere in the Everglades.
Here’s more about the vetoes:
Members of Donald Trump’s administration met with representatives from Greenland and Denmark today to discuss the president’s renewed push to “takeover” the island.
The Associated Press reports that Trump administration officials met with Denmark’s ambassador, Jesper Møller Sørensen, and Greenland’s chief representative to Washington, Jacob Isbosethsen. The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the meeting from the outlet.
Here’s more of our past reporting on the president’s ambitions for the Arctic island:
In his final state of the state address, California Governor Gavin Newsom assailed the Trump administration for inciting a “carnival of chaos,” warning: “None of this is normal.”
“In Washington, the president believes that might makes right, that the courts are simply speed bumps, not stop signs, and that democracy is a nuisance to be circumvented,” Newsom said in his address, speaking from the state Capitol in Sacramento to a joint session of the legislature.
Referencing Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, he continued: “Secret police, businesses being raided, windows smashed, citizens detained, Citizens shot, masked men snatching people in broad daylight, people disappearing, using American cities as training grounds for the United States military.”
Newsom, who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, has governed California through historic periods of crisis that overlapped with the end of Trump’s first term, and the first years of his second, as well as the pandemic and the LA fires.
In his address, Newsom cast the state as an American “marvel” and a bulwark against the “twisted nostalgia” of the Trump administration. Pre-empting some of the criticism he will surely face from Republicans should he seek the White House, Newsom argued vigorously that his state still leads the country - and the world - in culture, technology, education and agriculture.
“Every year, the declinists, the pundits and critics suffering from California derangement syndrome look at this state and try to tear down our progress,” he said, touting an environment that has created the “conditions where dreamers and doers and misfits and marvelers with grit and ingenuity get to build and do the impossible”.
As if offering a bit of advice to a potential presidential campaign, the president’s tormentor-in-chief said: “If we’re going to keep the faith of the California spirit we’ve got to do more than just resist what is wrong.”
“We’re not defined by what we’re against,” he added. “We’re defined by what we’re for.”
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Today, the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution to display a commemorative plaque to honor Capitol police and other officers who defended Congress during the January 6 riots.
The plaque will be placed in the Senate wing of the US Capitol until it is permanently installed on building’s west front.
Despite a law approving the plaque’s display passing three years ago, it has never been officially hung. Today, outgoing senator Thom Tillis brought the resolution to the floor, which received no objection by lawmakers.
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According to court records, Ross was involved in the June arrest of Roberto Carlos Muñoz, an undocumented Mexican immigrant with an open immigration detainer and a criminal conviction for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old stepdaughter in 2022.
Muñoz was contacted at his residence in Bloomington, Minnesota, by a group of federal agents on 19 June 2025.
According to an affidavit from an FBI agent, Muñoz was in his car when federal law enforcement approached him. He did not comply with commands to get out of his vehicle and drove away. The feds pursued Muñoz and conducted a traffic stop. An enforcement and removal operation (ERO) agent and an FBI agent approached the car and ordered Muñoz in both English and Spanish to put the car in park and provide documentation, which he did. When the ERO agent ordered Muñoz to exit the car, he refused.
At this point, according to the affidavit, the ERO agent broke the rear driver’s side window of Muñoz’s car and tried to unlock the driver’s door.
Muñoz threw the car into drive, speeding off with the agent trapped in the vehicle by his arm and dragged behind the car for 100 yards down the street along the curb, weaving past several cars. The agent was jarred loose from the window, and fell into the street, and Muñoz drove off. The agent suffered serious lacerations on both arms, which required 33 stitches in total to close.
At the White House on Thursday, Vance engaged in a lengthy defense of the officer’s actions and said: “[T]hat very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.” The court documents indicate the stitches were on Ross’s arms and hand, not his leg.
ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran
The ICE agent involved in the lethal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is Jonathan E Ross, according to court records that closely match the description of a June 2025 incident involving the agent in Bloomington, Minnesota, cited by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance.
Ross is a Minneapolis resident and 10-year veteran of the enforcement and removal operation’s special response team.
• This blog post was amended on 8 January 2025 to correct the name of the ICE officer who shot Renee Nicole Good, which is Jonathan E Ross, not Johnathan David Ross.
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Trump chides dissenting GOP senators over resolution to curb military action in Venezuela
Donald Trump scolded the five Republican lawmakers who broke ranks and voted to advance a resolution that would limit the administration’s ability to carry out further military action in Venezuela.
The president said that senators Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, Josh Hawley, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul “should never be elected to office again”.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump added that today’s vote “greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief”. He also called the War Powers Resolution – which inhibits a president’s ability to commit to an armed conflict without approval from Congress – as “unconstitutional”.
Today’s procedural motion, tees up a full vote on the measure in the Senate. It’s longterm fate, however, remains precarious. The bill would still need to pass the House and would require Trump’s signature.
Here's a recap of the Trump administration's comments about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Vice-president JD Vance appeared at the White House news briefing today, and repeated claims that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good was acting in “self-defense”. Vance said that Good, 37, was “dead because she tried to ram somebody with her car”, and claimed, baselessly, that she was part of a “left wing network” of people trying to incite violence against federal law enforcement officers. The vice-president further defended the ICE agent in question, by noting that he was “dragged by a car six months ago” and might be “a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile”.
At a press conference in New York today, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem continued to say that the shooting was in response to an “act of domestic terrorism”. Noem said that the officer who killed Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old. She added that the ICE agent “was hit by the vehicle, went to hospital and received treatment, was released, and is spending time with his family now” before noting that he is an “experienced officer”. Noem also said she was “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”.
As demonstrations in response to Wednesdays’s shooting continue throughout the state, attorney general Pam Bondi warned protesting Minnesotans to “not test our resolve”. She said that “obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law enforcement is a federal crime” and noted that those who “cross that red line” will be “arrested and prosecuted”.
After news of the shooting, Donald Trump spoke with the New York Times and insisted that Good “behaved horribly”. According to the four reporters in the room, Trump replayed the eyewitness video of the incident. “She didn’t try to run him over, she ran him over,” he said. However, multiple angles of the shooting show Good reversing her car and letting at least one ICE vehicle pass before an officer tells her to get out of the car, she then tries to turn and drive away. The agent shoots her multiple times, remains on his feet and walks away apparently uninjured as her car crashes into a lamp-post and parked vehicle.
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The vice-president said that local state authorities had no jurisdiction over the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis. This comes as the Minneosta Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the case would “solely led by the FBI” after BCA’s access to evidence was revoked.
Vance said the investigation is a “federal issue”, and the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good “is protected by absolute immunity”.
“He was doing his job,” the vice-president added. “The idea that Tim Walz and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy’s life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous.”
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Throughout today’s White House briefing, Vance has repeatedly claimed, baselessly, that Renee Nicole Good was part of a “left wing network” of people who are trying to “incite violence against our law enforcement officers”.
The vice-president added:
This is classic terrorism, and we cannot say that when the far-left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials, that we’re no longer going to enforce the law. That’s rewarding the very people who are engaged in this garbage.
He continued to disparage Good as he answered questions from reporters, characterizing her as “a victim of left wing ideology”.
“What young mother shows up and decides they’re going to throw their car in front of ICE officers who are enforcing legitimate law. You’ve got to be a little brainwashed to get to that point,” Vance said.
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Vance, once again repeated the administration’s claim that Good was trying to “ram” the ICE agent who killed her in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
“He shot back. He defended himself. He’s already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before, and everybody who’s been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourself,” Vance added.
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Vance says that ICE agent who killed Good was 'dragged by a car' last year and maybe 'sensitive about somebody ramming him'
The vice-president offered insight into the ICE agent’s actions that led to him killing Renee Nicole Good. He chastised the press for mis-reporting on the incident.
“That very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg,” Vance said. “So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.”
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Vice-president doubles down saying that ICE agent was acting in self-defense
Vice-president JD Vance doubled down on the administration’s claim that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday was acting in self-defense.
“This was an attack on law and order,” he said. “This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media by and large has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”
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Leavitt says that fatal shooting in Minneapolis by ICE agent is part of a 'larger, sinister left wing movement'
At the White House today, press secretary Karoline Leavitt kicked off her briefing addressing the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.
She said that the “deadly incident” occurred as a result of a “larger, sinister left wing movement that has spread across our country”, adding that federal law enforcement are under “organized attack”.
The press secretary cited a recent DHS statistic that there has been an almost 1200% increase in “assaults and violence” against federal immigration agents.
The White House is about to hold a press briefing, where press secretary Karoline Leavitt and vice president JD Vance are expected to speak. We will bring you lines from the briefing as they come.
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Walz: 'it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome' of FBI investigation
Minnesota governor Tim Walz expressed doubt that a “fair outcome” will be achieved following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent in a press briefing today.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced that it would be withdrawing from the investigation into the fatal shooting after federal authorities blocked BCA from accessing evidence and materials from the case.
“Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome,” Walz said. “And I say that only because 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. They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn’t even know.”
He went on to say that Noem had assumed the role of “judge, jury and basically executioner yesterday.”
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Trump administration to deploy 100 CBP agents to Minnesota - report
The Trump administration will deploy more than 100 US Customs and Border Protection agents and officers to Minnesota following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent, the New York Times has reported.
The agents will be redirected from operations in Chicago and New Orleans with the deployment expected to last until Sunday, the newspaper reported, citing documents it obtained.
The report comes as local officials, including Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, have called on federal law enforcement to leave the state.
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Dozens of clergy members from all faith backgrounds gathered at the site of the deadly ICE shooting in south Minneapolis today to show that the city is unified in its response to the shooting.
The makeshift vigil is filled with flowers, candles and notes honoring Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old killed by a federal immigration agent.
JaNae Bates, the director interfaith group ISAIAH, said the collection of clergy has three demands: that ICE leave Minnesota, that the ICE agent be charged and prosecuted and that members of congress do their jobs in oversight of the agency. That includes the FBI releasing investigative documents to the state to hold the shooter accountable.
“Renee Good stood for her neighbors. We now must stand for her,” she said.
Clergy members cited the parts of their faith traditions that demand justice, peace and hope, calling on the country to hear the cries of people in Minneapolis to stand against ICE.
The hundreds gathered for the clergy press conference chanted “ICE out now” throughout the event. The street shows the signs of yesterday’s tragedy: red paint in the snow says “ICE kills.” Writing on the street calls for ICE to leave.
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When asked by reporters why Noem has continued to characterize the events that led to Wednesday’s fatal shooting as “an act of domestic terrorism” she said the use of a car during the incident informed her response.
“This vehicle was used to hit this officer. It was used as a weapon, and the officers feels as though his life was in jeopardy,” she said. “It was used to perpetuate a violent act that this officer took action to protect himself and to protect his fellow law enforcement officers.”
However, eyewitness videos of the shooting show the maroon SUV that Good was driving reversed before trying to drive and turn away from the ICE agent that eventually shot her.
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Noem says she's 'not opposed' to sending more ICE agents to Minneapolis 'to keep people safe'
Speaking to reporters today, the homeland security secretary said that she is “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”, following Wednesday’s fatal shooting.
Prior to Good’s death, the Trump administration had already sent thousands of ICE agents to Minnesota as part of a wider immigration crackdown.
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Noem adds that the officer who shot Macklin Good went to the hospital after the incident.
“He was hit by the vehicle, went to hospital and received treatment, was released, and is spending time with his family now,” she said.
The homeland security secretary said that ICE agent in question is “an experienced officer that has served a number of years”, while repeating that he “acted according to his training”.
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Noem repeats that fatal shooting in Minneapolis was in response to an 'act of domestic terrorism'
At today’s press conference, Kristi Noem repeated her claim that the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent was in response to “an act of domestic terrorism”.
The homeland security secretary said that the officer who killed Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old.
Noem added:
These individuals had followed our officers all day, had harassed them, had blocked them in. They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against the law, and when they demanded and commanded her [Good] to get out of her vehicle, several times, she did not.
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Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension withdraws from ICE shooting investigation, says FBI blocked access to evidence
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) – the state’s top investigative agency – announced today that it would be withdrawing from the investigation into the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent.
In a statement, BCA superintendent Drew Evans said the investigation would now be “solely led FBI”, noting that that federal authorities have blocked BCA from accessing “case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation”.
Evans added that without “complete access to the evidence” BCA would have to “reluctantly” withdraw from the ongoing investigation.
Senate advances resolution that would limit Trump's military action in Venezuela
The Senate voted to take up a Democratic-led war powers resolution that would limit the Trump administration’s ability for more military action in Venezuela.
In a vote of 52-47, the measured advanced with the support of a handful of Republicans.
Kristi Noem is now speaking at a press conference in New York. She’s yet to address Wednesday’s fatal shooting by an federal immigration agent in Minneapolis.
However, she is discussing the off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent who was attacked six months ago in New York. “If you lay a finger on one of our officers, we will catch you. We will prosecute you, and you will feel the full extent of the law,” the homeland security secretary said.
In the aftermath of yesterday’s shooting, Noem said that the ICE agent who killed Good “acted quickly and defensively” to “protect himself and the people around him”, and insisted the shooting was in response to “an act of domestic terrorism”.
On Capitol Hill, senators are voting on a Democratic-led resolution to limit the Trump administration’s ability to carry out further military action in Venezuela.
We’ve seen a few Republicans support the measure, with GOP senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Todd Young of Indiana, and Susan Collins of Maine all voting “yes” to advance the resolution. They join Republican senator Rand Paul, who co-sponsored the measure.
Officials at the Noem press conference just announced that there will be a 15 minute delay, and that the news conference will start at 11:15am ET now.
Behind the podium, there are four posters that appear to show photos of four immigrants from the Dominican Republic who have been arrested on various crimes including assault, sexual abuse, and robbery.
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Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and portrayed by the Trump administration as a “domestic terrorist”, was an “affectionate” mother of three children who had recently moved to Minnesota, and had won an award for poetry.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
“She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Good, 37, was born in Colorado and had no criminal record or experienced previous law enforcement engagement beyond a traffic ticket, records show.
She described herself on social media as a “poet and writer and wife and mom”, with a 15-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son from her first marriage, and a six-year-old son from her second.
According to her Instagram account, which features a pride flag emoji, she was “experiencing Minneapolis” after moving from Kansas City, Missouri, last year. Her Pinterest profile shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.
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Jeffries calls killing of Renee Nicole Good an 'abomination' and a 'disgrace'
At a press conference today, top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent an “abomination” and a “disgrace”.
“Blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country,” the minority leader added.
Jeffries called Trump’s homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, a “stone cold liar” and pushed back on the administration’s claims that Good was a “domestic terrorist” and “agitator”.
“There’s no evidence at all that this was a justified shooting, so let’s deal with the tragedy right now. She hasn’t even been buried, her family is grieving,” Jeffries said.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, speaking alongside his lower chamber counterpart, told reporters today that watching the video of Good’s killing felt like “your stomach was being punched”.
“There seemed no justification for what these agents did,” the Senate’s top Democrat said. “There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI is doing a fair investigation, or DHS, but at the local level as well.”
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An update to the White House schedule today. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt will now address the media at 1pm ET.
We’ll bring you the latest lines as that gets underway.
I am here at New York City’s US Customs and Border Protection office at One World Trade Center, where homeland security secretary Kristi Noem is scheduled to hold a press conference at 11am ET. She is expected to make an announcement regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in New York City.
There are dozens of members of the press here awaiting Noem. The press conference comes a day after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Noem has defended the ICE agent involved in the shooting, and said that the woman who was shot had attempted to run over the officer. “Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he’s been taught to do in that situation and took actions to defend himself and defend his fellow law enforcement officers,” Noem said on Wednesday.
But local and state leaders in Minnesota have disputed the DHS’s account of the fatal incident, with Minneapolis’s Democratic Mayor on Wednesday calling it a “garbage narrative”.
“They’re already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense,” Jacob Frey said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly – that is bullshit.”
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Vice-president JD Vance called Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a “deranged leftist” who tried to run the federal officer over.
“Every congressional democrat and every democrat who’s running for president should be asked a simple question: Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over?” Vance wrote in a post on social media.
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Authorities in Minneapolis cancel school classes across the city
My colleague, Richard Luscombe, reports that authorities in Minneapolis canceled school classes across the city on Thursday amid safety concerns and rising political tension, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent during a large-scale enforcement operation.
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'She behaved horribly': Trump doubles down on claim ICE agent acted in self-defense in interview
In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump repeated his claims that the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good acted in self-defense.
The president, when asked by Times reporters how he decided that Good attempted to run over the immigration agent who shot her, asked an aide to replay video footage of the incident.
“She behaved horribly,” Trump told the Times. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”
Notably, the reporters in the room said that the video they president played did not appear to show Good running over the ICE agent.
Instead, it shows her backing up after another agent attempts to get her out of the car, moving forward and attempting to turn before she is shot.
“It’s a terrible scene,” the president said. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
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Late Wednesday night, Donald Trump re-shared a Fox News segment where the channel’s law enforcement contributor, and former FBI agent, Nicole Parker, said that the “use of deadly force” in yesterday’s shooting “is justified”.
“Let me make something very clear, no law enforcement officer, and particularly federal agent, wants to have to deploy and utilize their firearm in the line of duty. When you are doing that, you know that you have no other choice and that you are literally defending your life or the life of others,” she said. “When there is a vehicle coming at you and it is being used as a weapon, deadly force is justified.”
On Wednesday night, hundreds of Minneapolis residents gathered across the city, following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
Crowds chanted “say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE”. This comes after the Department of Homeland Security said that the agent was acting in “self-defense”, while local officials – including Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, have disputed the Trump administration’s account. Minnesota governor Tim Walz has called on federal law enforcement to leave the state and for demonstrators to protest peacefully.
Since early December, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations – many of them masked and brandishing rifles – have grabbed people at hardware stores and gyms, or outside homes and schools around the cities.
They have violently tackled undocumented immigrants as well as US citizens, including advocates and protestors.
By the time Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed on Wednesday – in broad daylight, as dozens of bystanders screamed in shock – local leaders and human rights advocates had been bracing for a catastrophe.
“Before this administration, I don’t think we’ve ever seen this kind of hyper-militarized enforcement, with surges of thousands of officers,” said Setareh Ghandehari, the advocacy director at Detention Watch Network, a non-profit that tracks deaths in ICE custody. Advocates like Ghandehari have warned that more deaths could come, and that shows of force make everyone in the country less safe.
“I don’t think we should be surprised that this has been happening.” she said. “And unfortunately I think there is definitely a chance of an incident like this happening again if the administration and ICE continue to be allowed to act with impunity and without any semblance of accountability.”
In Minneapolis, residents and organizers were bracing for more violence. Hours after Good’s death, about 3 miles (5km) from where she was shot on Wednesday, armed immigration officers descended on Minneapolis’s Roosevelt high school, tackled people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders, school officials told MPR.
“They don’t care. They’re just animals,” a school official told the station. “I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
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Senate to vote on resolution to limit further military action in Venezuela
We won’t hear from Donald Trump on Thursday, per his official schedule. The president has several engagements, including a photo with US attorneys and a policy meeting, all of which are closed to the press.
However, our attention will turn to Capitol Hill later when the Senate will vote on a Democratic-led resolution to limit any further military action by the administration in Venezuela. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia is leading the charge, alongside his Republican colleague and frequent Trump dissident Rand Paul, but will need to get at least three more Republicans on side for the measure to pass.
We’ll be keeping an eye out for that, as well as two votes in the House, one of which is a three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies which lapsed at the end of last year. A reminder that a procedural measure, known as a discharge petition, picked up the 218 signatures needed to force a vote on the House floor. It’ll head to the Senate after that where its fate remains uncertain.
The lower chamber will also vote on a three-bill appropriations package which would fund key agencies, including the justice department, Department of Commerce, the energy department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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If it’s not threats of military action against Colombia and Cuba, or talk of taking Greenland from Denmark, it’s seizing oil tankers in European and Caribbean waters.
All of it has world leaders scrambling to figure out how to handle Donald Trump’s revived form of US imperialism.
Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum about what to expect now that Trump has ushered in a new world order:
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Here are some more images from the various demonstrations that took place on Wednesday:
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More anti-ICE protests planned for Thursday
There are more anti-ICE protests planned across the United States today, with rallies expected in New York, North Carolina and Texas.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in North Carolina’s Triangle region has organized a protest in Durham, North Carolina, scheduled for 6pm at CCB Plaza, a public square in the city center.
The same organization has also planned another protest in Fayetteville, North Carolina, taking place at 433 Hay Street, also at 6pm, according to local media reports.
Meanwhile, more demonstrations are planned in New York City later today after crowds gathered at Foley Square, marching to 26 Federal Plaza, a major US government building that houses homeland security offices, yesterday.
Details of rallies planned today in Houston, Utah and San Diego have also been shared on social media.
Tim Walz, the Democratic governor who announced this week he would not run for a third term, posted on X that he had “seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine. The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
Walz later said he had activated the state’s emergency operations center and “issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota national guard”.
“We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt,” Walz said.
To Minnesotans, Walz said: “I feel your anger, I’m angry.” He urged residents who plan on protesting to “please do so peacefully”.
Walz also said that the state did not “need any further help from the federal government”, adding: “To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”
How cable news networks scrambled to cover fatal Minnesota ICE shooting
Cable news networks sprung into action on Wednesday to cover the breaking news of a woman killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, rushing correspondents to the scene and bringing on former government officials and legal analysts to offer commentary.
The three main cable networks’ on-screen graphics framed the incident slightly differently. Fox News referred to it as a “Deadly ICE-involved Shooting”, while CNN said more plainly: “ICE Officer Kills Woman in Minneapolis.”
The progressive network MS NOW – formerly MSNBC – also characterized the incident in part as “Agent Kills Woman” in an on-screen graphic.
Both CNN and Fox News brought on former officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide analysis based on their government experience, though their conclusions differed.
John Sandweg, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Obama administration, questioned whether the federal agents had been properly trained and vetted.
“My immediate concern is this: to what extent has this rushing of hiring of people – this shortcutting on our training – to what extent might that have informed what happened here,” he said on CNN.
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When a federal agent shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the Guardian was nearby, shadowing observers who have trained for months to monitor and respond to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the state.
ICE vehicles, unmarked, lined the street, and yellow police tape cordoned off the area in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Dozens of protesters and community members were seen on the snowy street, shouting at ICE agents and at the local police. More agents arrived amid the chaos.
People yelled at Minneapolis police to arrest the ICE agent who shot the woman in a car.
“What were you taught by your parents?” one woman yelled at the agents.
A man on a bullhorn led some bystanders in a chant of “Say it loud, say it clear, immigrants are welcome here.” People repeatedly yelled for ICE to leave, to go home and to get out of Minneapolis – a request that was echoed by Jacob Frey, the city’s mayor, in a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
“I do have a message for our community for our city and I do have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt,” Frey said.
The mayor added: “Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized, and now, somebody is dead.”
Wednesday marked the second day of an expected 30-day surge, which ICE has called its largest operation to date.
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Witness footage appears to capture the moment a federal immigration agent shoots and kills the female driver of a dark red SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
The incident occurred during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation.
The Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, disputed federal officials’ account of the shooting, and demanded ICE agents leave the city.
Protests take place across US after fatal shooting of woman by ICE officer
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you the latest news lines over the next few hours.
We start with news that protests have been taking place across the US following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown.
The shooting marked a dramatic escalation of the latest in a series of immigration enforcement operations in major cities under the Trump administration. Wednesday’s is at least the fifth death linked to the crackdowns, AP reported.
The Twin Cities have been on edge since the Department of Homeland Security announced the operation’s launch on Tuesday, at least partly tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A crowd of protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting to vent their anger at local and federal officers. In a scene that hearkened back to crackdowns in Los Angeles and Chicago, people chanted “ICE out of Minnesota” and blew whistles that have become ubiquitous during the operations.
The governor, Tim Walz, said he was prepared to deploy the national guard if necessary and expressed outrage over the shooting but called on people to keep protests peaceful.
“They want a show,” Walz said. “We can’t give it to them.”
There were calls on social media to prosecute the officer who shot Renee Nicole Macklin Good. Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said state authorities would investigate the shooting with federal authorities.
In other developments:
US European Command said on Wednesday that it had boarded the Marinera, a Russian-flagged oil tanker, over alleged sanctions violations, bringing to an end a dramatic two-week pursuit that began in the Caribbean and concluded in the Atlantic. Separately on Wednesday, the US coast guard announced it had intercepted another dark-fleet tanker that is under sanctions, the M Sophia, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean.
The operation is likely to strain relations with Vladimir Putin, coming at a sensitive moment as negotiations over a potential peace deal in Ukraine continue and after the US capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, a longstanding Kremlin ally. Initial reports suggest the ageing tanker is empty, having been en route to pick up Venezuelan oil before changing course.
An urgent meeting had been requested by the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark, which has said that any invasion or seizure of the territory by its Nato ally would mark the end of the western military alliance and “post-second world war security”.
The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the UN’s population agency and the UN treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the US further retreats from global cooperation.
The full Senate on Wednesday heard details of the 3 January attack, which involved US special forces from Delta Force swooping into Venezuela before dawn to seize Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Republicans have rallied behind Trump’s characterization of the raid as a straightforward law enforcement action to arrest an indicted drug trafficker. Democrats warn of an illegal act of war that could plunge Venezuela into chaos and set a dangerous precedent for unilateral presidential action.
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