It’s been one week since a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since then, the city has been in tumult.
Thousands of protestors—from young students to elderly residents—have taken to the streets, setting up memorials for Good and facing off with ICE agents. Dozens have been arrested.
More than 2,000 ICE agents have been deployed to Minneapolis, with another 1,000 on the way. Local leaders have decried ICE’s continued, aggressive tactics. “It feels like our community is under siege by our own federal government,” Minnesota state representative Michael Howard told The New York Times.
Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has continued claiming that Jonathan Ross, the agent who reportedly shot Good, acted in self-defense. Noem has repeatedly called Good a “domestic terrorist.”
Videos of the situation in Minneapolis show a different reality, however, one where Good appears to be driving away from the scene when Ross fires multiple shots through her windshield. In one video purportedly filmed on Ross’s cellphone that was shared by multiple members of the Trump administration, including vice president JD Vance, a male voice can be heard saying “fucking bitch” right after the shooting.
The state of Minnesota, along with Minneapolis and St. Paul, have now sued the US government in an effort to halt the surge of ICE agents.
Protests across Minnesota—and around the country—are ongoing, on crowded city streets and in small towns, as residents don winter coats and stage walkouts, demonstrating against their federal government.
