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Minnesota leaders call for ICE to leave the state after agent shoots, kills woman

The Minnesota officials denied claims by the Department of Homeland Security that the shots were “defensive.”

By Jacob Wendler

Minnesota state and local leaders condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deployment in the state, after federal officials said an officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis when a group of people gathered to protest an immigration-related operation Wednesday.

The deadly shooting comes as the Trump administration has surged the presence of federal law enforcement officials in Minnesota in recent weeks, deploying over 2,000 ICE agents in response to allegations of government program fraud involving some Somali Americans.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, said at a Wednesday afternoon press conference that he had issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard for a possible deployment. He urged Minnesotans to protest peacefully while directly blaming the Trump administration for not coordinating with local officials regarding immigration enforcement.

“What we’re seeing are the consequences of governance designed to create fear, headlines and conflict. It’s governing by reality TV, and today, that recklessness cost someone their life,” he said.

An ICE agent fired several shots at the woman’s vehicle after it apparently blocked a roadway on Portland Avenue, after which the vehicle crashed on the side of the road, according to local and federal officials.

After the shooting, Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey said immigration agents were “causing chaos in our city.” In a Wednesday afternoon press conference, he accused ICE of “recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying” and urged agents to leave the city.

“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit,” Frey said.

Minnesota Reformer, an outlet covering the state, obtained what it described as eyewitness footage from the shooting — which appeared to show an officer shooting and killing the driver — but POLITICO has not independently confirmed the veracity of the footage.

Democratic Sen. Tina Smith echoed Frey’s calls for ICE to abandon its presence in Minneapolis, writing in a social media post that “ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.”

In a social media post, President Donald Trump called the video of the incident “a horrible thing to watch” and accused “the Radical Left” of targeting law enforcement officers.

“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,” Trump wrote.

Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement 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 the woman tried “to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”

Preliminary information indicated that the woman was blocking the roadway with her vehicle and began to drive off after a federal law enforcement official approached her, at which point at least two shots were fired, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said.

O’Hara also said there was no information indicating that the woman was the target of any law enforcement investigation or activity. Law enforcement officials did not immediately release information about her identity, although several Minneapolis City Council members identified her as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in a joint statement. Her mother, Donna Granger, told The Minneapolis Star Tribune on Wednesday that Good lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.

During a press conference in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the woman of committing “an act of domestic terrorism.”

“ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over,” Noem said.

Noem said the woman hit the officer involved in the shooting with her vehicle, but that he had been treated at a local hospital and subsequently released.

She added that ICE operations would continue in Minnesota and urged local and state officials to cooperate with federal law enforcement. Noem also denied Walz’s suggestion that federal officials had declined to cooperate with the state.