Renee Nicole Good is not a migrant or immigrant. She's a legal US-born white woman in Minneapolis who was trying to drive away from Trump's ICE thugs. They shot her then Trump slandered her as a "domestic terrorist". The Fascist Trump regime is running short of migrants and immigrants to persecute. Now it is coming for US citizens who oppose it.
Per German pastor poet Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
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Minneapolis ICE shooting: Woman dies after federal agent opens fire on her vehicle amid immigration crackdown
Local government officials and the Trump administration are giving dramatically different accounts of the events that led to the shooting.
Mike Bebernes and Andrew Romano
Updated Thu, January 8, 2026
Border Patrol agents stand guard as protesters block a street after a driver of a vehicle was shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. (Tim Evans/Reuters) (REUTERS)
A federal immigration officer shot and killed a woman during an incident in Minneapolis on Wednesday, authorities said.
The victim was later identified by members of the Minneapolis City Council as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old resident of the city.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the shooting occurred when a female motorist attempted to “run over” an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on a residential street in south Minneapolis.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem referred to the incident as “an act of domestic terrorism.”
Videos posted online and witness accounts cast doubt on that official narrative, however. Footage of the shooting appears to show the driver attempting to drive away from ICE officers as they tried to pull her from her car. Exact details of how the shooting unfolded remain unclear.
“I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz wrote on X.
The state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, released a statement in which he wrote, “there’s a lot we don’t know at this time.” He added that anyone who broke the law as part of the incident will be “held accountable.”
A witness who spoke to Minneapolis Public Radio said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue; it appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. The witness said she heard ICE agents telling the driver to “get out of here.”
“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” the witness said.
Later in the day, as video of the incident spread online, Noem doubled down on the claim that the driver was shot while attempting "to kill or cause bodily harm" to the ICE officer.
A bullet hole is seen in a windshield as law enforcement officers work at the scene of a shooting involving federal law enforcement agents on Jan. 7, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Tom Baker/AP) (AP)
On Wednesday afternoon, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told reporters the woman who was shot had a head wound and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
“We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wrote in a social media post. “We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.”
Frey described the shooting as “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed," during a press conference within hours of the shooting. He dismissed the federal government's description of it as "bulls***," saying he had watched the videos circulating online.
“We’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis,” Frey added. "And we collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this to get justice, and to make sure that there is an investigation that is conducted in full."
Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced it had dramatically escalated its enforcement efforts in the Twin Cities. “The largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota,” the department said on social media. A person briefed on the operation told the Associated Press that DHS planned to dispatch as many as 2,000 officers to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem appeared in a video accompanying federal agents.
In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Walz urged citizens of his state who want to protest in response to the shooting to do so peacefully in order to avoid creating a pretext for the Trump administration to ramp up its campaign in Minneapolis even further.
“To Minnesotans, don’t take the bait,” he said. “Do not allow them to deploy federal troops here. Do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act. Do not allow them to declare martial law.”
Hundreds of people gathered for a vigil at the site of the shooting as the sun set on Wednesday. As of early Wednesday evening, all demonstrations in the city in the aftermath of the shooting had been peaceful.
Demonstrators gather during a vigil near where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a white American woman in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Photo: Giovanna Dell'Orto/AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
On social media, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin characterized Wednesday’s protesters as “violent rioters” and accused the woman who was shot of trying to kill ICE officers in “an act of domestic terrorism.”
“ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism,” McLaughlin alleged. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots."
Bob Jacobson, head of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, described the investigation into the incident as "in its infancy" and warned against making any definitive judgments based on "speculation" about what happened.
In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent shot a Chicago resident, Marimar Martinez, multiple times during an immigration enforcement operation in the city's Brighton Park neighborhood. Initially, DHS claimed that Martinez "rammed" the agent's car and pulled a gun. In November, federal prosecutors dropped the charges following court revelations that contradicted the initial DHS narrative.
Last month, the Trump administration directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to send roughly 100 officers, agents and other federal officials to Minneapolis-St. Paul to find and arrest Somalis with final deportation orders.
The move followed a “xenophobic tirade” by President Trump on the subject of Somali immigrants, in which he called them “garbage.” Minnesota is home to the largest diaspora of Somalis in the world; some Somali residents have been accused of participating in a child care fraud scheme.
“When they come from hell and complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country,” Trump said.
Mayor Frey, a Democrat, warned that “targeting Somali people… means that American citizens will be detained for no reason other than the fact that they look Somali.” About 73% of Somali immigrants nationwide are naturalized U.S. citizens, according to the Census Bureau. Many others have had temporary legal status for decades under a program for migrants from countries in crisis.
Walz, who ended his re-election bid earlier this week, has been critical of the ongoing federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
“We have a ridiculous surge of apparently 2,000 people not coordinating with us that are for a show of the cameras,” Walz said recently. “Why 2,000 folks? What are they coming to do? Do they want to coordinate with us?”
Trump himself added insult to injury by slandering the US citizen victim of his ICE criminals in his typical propaganda lies destined to his MAGA morons.
He weighed in on the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier in the day as she appeared to try to drive away from federal agents.
“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in selfdefense,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, directly contradicting a statement from Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara.
O’Hara spoke at a press conference earlier in the day and said, “We arrived and found a woman with a gunshot wound to the head. Life-saving measures were performed at the scene, including CPR. The woman was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center where she has since been pronounced deceased.” He added:
The preliminary information that we have indicates that this woman was in her vehicle, and was blocking the roadway on Portland avenue midway between 33rd street and 34th street in the city. At some point, a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot, and the vehicle began to drive off. At least two shots were fired. The vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway. Minneapolis police officers secured the crime scene and assisted in trying to preserve the evidence that is there.
Federal and local authorities have put out conflicting statements on the shooting. The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement claiming that “an ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement, and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots” after a rioter “weaponized her vehicle.” DHS also branded the dead woman a “domestic terrorist.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) slammed that statement as “bullsh*t” and told ICE officers to “get the f*ck out” of the city. Video of the incident does not appear to show the agent who shot the woman being injured in any way, and he shoots her next to the driver’s side window, out of any danger of being run over.
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Emily Heller, an eyewitness who captured Wednesday’s Minneapolis ICE shooting on camera, refuted President Donald Trump’s claim that the agent acted in “self defense.”
The witness spoke with CNN’s Erin Burnett hours after an ICE officer fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, Minn. — and shared a strikingly different account than what has been shared by the Trump administration.
“That agent was obviously spooked because he had just killed someone,” Heller said. “And it was very obvious to everyone who had witnessed it all that she would not make it.”
When asked to respond to Trump’s take on the situation, in which he accused the victim of “violently, willfully and viciously [running] over the ICE officer,” Heller shared the only reason she’s speaking out is to counter lies that are being spread about the incident.
“That’s the only reason why I’m here,” she continued. “I don’t think I’m the most articulate person. I don’t want to be here, but I knew that this would be twisted and it would be ‘self defense’ — and that’s absolutely not what happened. My life is forever changed from having witnessed this and I just can’t let this narrative that it was self defense go any further.”
Per Heller, she and her neighbors feel “traumatized” by the shooting, adding that the victim was “totally peaceful” during her encounter with ICE, where she protested their presence by blocking traffic.
"I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further."
Emily Heller, who witnessed an ICE agent shooting a woman in her car in Minneapolis, tells Erin Burnett the White House version of events surrounding the deadly Minneapolis shooting is wrong. pic.twitter.com/QrXBK2PXMs— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) January 8, 2026
“They were screaming at her to move, move, move. And then they approached her vehicle aggressively and tried to open her door,” Heller recalled. “And then, that’s when she got spooked, and she reversed her vehicle to turn her wheels to try to escape. And that’s when an ICE agent stepped in front of her vehicle and said, ‘Stop.’ And then, point blank, shot her through her windshield.”
Watch highlights from Heller’s interview above and below.
"(ICE agents) seemed like children. They seemed like untrained people."
Emily Heller, who lives on the street where an ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman in her car, tells Erin Burnett what she witnessed. pic.twitter.com/NjmZU8P9lY— Erin Burnett OutFront (@OutFrontCNN) January 8, 2026
Heller’s account of the shooting is notably different than the one shared by
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in a press conference earlier Wednesday.
“She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism,” Noem said. “The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.”
Trump expressed a similar take on the situation on Truth Social, writing, “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) sounded off on the administration’s statements on the incident, noting that Homeland Security officials’ statements on the matter do “not appear to reflect video evidence and on-the-ground accounts.”
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