The fatal shooting by ICE yesterday threatens to further inflame tensions between Minnesota officials and residents and the federal agents carrying out an unprecedented surge in immigration enforcement in the state.

What happened: An ICE officer shot through the window of a vehicle that drove close to federal agents in South Minneapolis yesterday, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

• Video of the incident — filmed by witnesses from multiple angles — quickly spread on social media, fueling thousands to join marches and vigils in Minneapolis and other cities across the country.

The big picture: With thousands of federal agents on the ground in the Twin Cities — and millions of Americans enraged by what they think they saw — the region risks becoming a hub of civil unrest again.

Split screen: Following the shooting, a fiery Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey demanded that ICE "get the f**k out of Minneapolis." A chorus of top Democrats echoed the sentiment, warning agents' presence had become inflammatory.

• Meanwhile, President Trump called the incident "horrible," saying the agent fired in self-defense, and he blamed "the Radical Left" for "targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis."
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters the woman was attempting to carry out "an act of domestic terrorism" against the agents.

Between the lines: Gov. Tim Walz told reporters that protesters were "patriotic" — but also warned them against a violent response that would hand the Trump administration justification to send in federal troops.

• Walz told reporters earlier this week he feared agents' presence might create, rather than relieve, public safety problems.
• "I don't want to be right about this," the governor said after the shooting. "I hope we're at the McCarthy moment: Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever."

Meanwhile, top Republicans rallied behind the agents.

• "Shame on the elected officials who endanger these agents by spewing lies and hateful rhetoric," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer wrote on X.

The shooting took place before 10am in a chaotic sequence on Portland Avenue, according to police, federal officials and witnesses.

Zoom in: A witness shared video of the incident with Axios — filmed at a distance — in which gunshots are audible after a dark SUV attempts to drive past a gathering of ICE agents and vehicles.

• Video from a different angle obtained by the Minnesota Reformer shows agents approaching the SUV after it stopped in the middle of the roadway.
• An agent reached through the window before the vehicle drove off and another fired multiple shots from the front corner of the vehicle, the Reformer video shows.

Context: About 10 seconds before shots rang out, footage also showed two different vehicles inching through the same crowd and driving away without incident.

• One eyewitness told MPR News that ICE officers on the scene gave mixed orders to the motorist. One told her to drive off; another demanded she get out of the car.

Good, the woman who was killed, was not the target of ICE enforcement, Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara told reporters. Other witnesses and activists called her an "ICE observer."

What they're saying: In a statement, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin called Good a "violent rioter" who "weaponized her vehicle … in an attempt to kill the agents," and that the agent fired "defensive shots."

"That is bullshit," Mayor Jacob Frey said of DHS' statement, saying video of the killing showed "an agent recklessly using power."

• "Any professional law enforcement agency" would find it "very concerning whenever there's shooting into a vehicle of someone who is not armed," added O'Hara.

What's next: The FBI and Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — which routinely reviews shootings that involve law enforcement officers — are now investigating jointly.

Family and local officials are remembering Renee Nicole Good as an "extremely compassionate" and loving mother.

What we know: Good's mother, Donna Ganger, told the Star Tribune that the 37-year-old lived in the Twin Cities with a partner.

• "She's taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate," Ganger said. "She was an amazing human being."

An Instagram bio that appears to be associated with Good describes her as a "poet and writer and wife and mom" the paper notes.

• Good, who was originally from the Colorado Springs area, had a young son from a previous relationship. The child's father died in 2023, his family said.

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The shooting sparked protests across the nation and ignited tensions on Capitol Hill, with some Congressional Democrats starting to make serious noise about using the threat of a government shutdown to force substantive changes at ICE. (Axios)

• It led to at least one heated exchange on the House floor, with DFL Rep. Angie Craig laying into Majority Whip Tom Emmer.

📚 The state's largest school district averted a teachers' strike, with an 11th hour contract deal between Anoka-Hennepin and its educators' union. (KSTP)

🔎 Republican legislators testified yesterday at the first of at least two scheduled congressional hearings on alleged fraud targeting social services programs. (MPR News)

• The hearing came one day after the Trump administration announced plans to audit all of Minnesota's Medicaid bills.

⚕️ Minnesota slipped two spots — to No. 6 — in United Health Foundation's latest report on America's healthiest states. (Full report/Explore the map)

• 👍 The report gave the state kudos for its low economic hardship index score and high rates of volunteerism and high school completion.
• 👎 Areas of improvement included drinking and drug use and a low prevalence of adults with a dedicated health care provider.

There have been at least seven officer-involved shootings, two of them fatal, since President Trump surged Homeland Security agents in city-by-city operations in early 2025.

• The list of officer-involved shootings by DHS personnel over the past year, according to an Axios review of news clips and statements, includes:

Dec. 24, 2025: Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, of Portugal, was shot by DHS agents in Glen Burnie, Maryland, while driving a van. DHS claimed he rammed law enforcement vehicles before attempting to run over agents.

Oct. 21, 2025: TikTok maker Carlitos Ricardo Parias, better known as RichardLA18, was shot and injured by ricochet bullets.

• Officials said Parias was trying to evade arrest and attempted to "ram" agents with his vehicle, according to ABC News. He was charged with assaulting a federal officer.

Sept. 12, 2025: Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was fatally shot after a traffic stop with immigration agents in Chicago. Villegas-Gonzalez tried to flee and an agent was caught by the vehicle in the process.

• The injured agent was heard on his body camera saying Villegas-Gonzalez "tried to run us over" but described the resulting injuries as "nothing major," according to The Chicago Sun Times.

A DHS spokesperson told the newsroom at the time that ICE reviews "every use of force incident and any discharge of an ICE firearm."

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