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Minneapolis Editorial: This Is the 'Storming of the State'

Star Tribune condemns the federal crackdown as way out of proportion

(Newser) - The editorial board of the Minneapolis Star Tribune is condemning the tactics of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in its city in blunt fashion: "The occupation of Minnesota by ICE cannot stand," reads the editorial. Federal officials including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have said "Operation...

Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act in Minneapolis

Move would mean US troops on the streets

(Newser) - President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to tamp down the growing unrest in Minneapolis—a move that would allow him to deploy military troops on the city's streets, per the AP .
  • "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop
...

Feds Shoot Another Person in Minneapolis

Homeland Security says officer shot person in the leg after being attacked

(Newser) - A federal officer shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, federal officials said. The shooting took place about 4.5 miles north of where an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good on Jan....

Officials: ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Had Internal Bleeding

No additional details were provided on Jonathan Ross

(Newser) - The federal agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week suffered internal bleeding afterward, according to US officials briefed on his condition who spoke with ABC News and CBS News . The officials said Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross suffered internal bleeding in his torso, though...

Joe Rogan on ICE: Do We Want 'Gestapo' Roaming the Streets?

Criticizes Trump immigration crackdown, calls Renee Nicole Good's death a 'tragedy'

(Newser) - Podcaster Joe Rogan says he's not on board with turning immigration enforcement into a street sweep. On Tuesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the host criticized aggressive tactics under President Trump's immigration crackdown, likening them to a secret-police-style operation. "You don't want militarized people...

Blanche: DOJ Sees 'No Basis' for Rights Probe in ICE Shooting

This isn't normal, Minneapolis police chief says

(Newser) - The Justice Department does not believe there is currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the killing of a woman by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, a top department official said Tuesday. The decision to keep the Justice Department's Civil Rights...

Billionaire Donates to GoFundMe for ICE Agent in Minneapolis Shooting

GoFundMe for federal agent raises questions about ethics rules

(Newser) - Money is pouring in for a federal agent at the center of a fatal Minneapolis shooting, even as questions mount over whether he's allowed to take it. A GoFundMe set up for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross, who allegedly shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday,...

Minnesota Files Lawsuit Over 'Federal Invasion'

State, Twin Cities say feds are targeting Minnesota because of politics

(Newser) - The State of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer. The state and cities filed a lawsuit in federal court...

ICE Raids Continue in Minnesota Amid Protests

Man arrested at home in one dramatic scene

(Newser) - Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever. In a...

Noem Says Hundreds of Agents Are Being Sent to Minneapolis

Residents prepare with training, stationing themselves as lookouts

(Newser) - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that hundreds of additional federal officers are being sent to Minneapolis to ensure the safety of ICE and Border Patrol personnel already there. Appearing on Fox News, Noem said the agents were to go Sunday and Monday, the Washington Post reports. Although the...

Top Catholic Paper Accuses VP of 'Gaslighting' on ICE Shooting

National Catholic Reporter editor denounces vice president's remarks on Renee Nicole Good killing

(Newser) - A leading Catholic newspaper is publicly taking on one of the church's most prominent political converts. In an opinion piece published on Thursday, John Grosso, the digital editor for the National Catholic Reporter , accused Vice President JD Vance of distorting Christian teaching in his response to Wednesday's fatal...

Weekend Rallies Seek to Put 'End to Deadly Terror'

Anti-ICE protests come after federal agents fatally shot Minneapolis woman, injured 2 in Oregon

(Newser) - Protests against immigration enforcement are planned for cities and towns across the country on Saturday after one federal officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis and another shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. The demonstrations come as the Department of Homeland Security pushes forward in the Twin Cities...

Video Emerges of Shooting From ICE Agent's Phone

Renee Nicole Good spoke to the agent from her vehicle shortly before the shots

(Newser) - A new video has emerged of this week's fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis from the phone of the ICE agent who fired the shots. The Minnesota site Alpha News obtained the 47-second clip, and Vice President JD Vance was among those sharing it, reports the Hill...

Renee Good's Wife Speaks Out
Renee Good's Wife
Speaks Out
Jan 9, 2026 2:02 PM CST

Renee Good's Wife Speaks Out

'We had whistles. They had guns,' writes Becca Good

(Newser) - The wife of the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this week has issued her first public statement, reports USA Today . Becca Good doesn't directly address the shooting itself, and she makes only a brief reference to the protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at...

Minn. Officials: Send Us Your Renee Good Evidence

Prosecutors seek public videos, photos after FBI blocks state investigators

(Newser) - Minnesota's top prosecutors are now asking the public to help fill an information gap created by the FBI in the investigation of a deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis. State Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday urged residents to submit any evidence they have—...

Walz Calls for 'Day of Unity'
Walz Calls for 'Day of Unity'
Jan 9, 2026 8:32 AM CST

Walz Calls for 'Day of Unity'

He asks Minnesotans to hold moment of silence Friday to honor Renee Good

(Newser) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has declared Friday a "Day of Unity" in honor of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis on Wednesday. In a statement announcing the proclamation, Walz called Good "a loving mother, partner, daughter, and neighbor whose life...

Agent Who Shot Good Was Injured in Dragging Last Year

Star Tribune identifies him as Jonathan Ross

(Newser) - The federal officer who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, according to court records and a law enforcement source cited by the Star Tribune . ICE has not publicly named the agent involved, but Homeland Security...

Vance: Woman Killed Was a 'Little Brainwashed'

Vice president calls Minneapolis death a 'tragedy,' but says the left is to blame

(Newser) - The Trump administration doubled down in aggressive fashion Thursday in defense of the ICE agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis . The strongest words came from Vice President JD Vance, who appeared at Thursday's press briefing and described 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good—the woman killed—as a "...

Feds Sideline State Investigators in ICE Shooting

Minnesota officials say they were informed that investigation 'would now be led solely by the FBI'

(Newser) - The head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday that the US attorney's office had barred it from taking part in the investigation of the Wednesday killing of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said in a statement that after the...

News Outlets Parse the Video in Fatal Minneapolis Shooting

New York Times, Washington Post cast doubt on claims that the officer who fired was in danger

(Newser) - Axios calls it a "fast fracture." Almost immediately after Wednesday's fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, "the country had splintered into two irreconcilable camps—one crying murder, the other terrorism." Media outlets have since been parsing (graphic) video of the shooting from different angles, and...

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