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Another round of protests was planned for Friday in Minneapolis following the killing of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the Trump administration’s latest major city immigration crackdown, a day after federal immigration agents fatally shot two people in Portland, Oregon.
Hundreds of people protesting the shooting of Renée Nicole Good on Wednesday marched in freezing rain Thursday evening on one of Minneapolis’ main thoroughfares, chanting “ICE out now!” and holding signs saying, “Kill ICE off our streets.” » The day began with a charged protest outside a federal facility that serves as a hub for immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Authorities erected barricades outside the facility on Friday.
Meanwhile, city workers removed makeshift barricades made of old Christmas trees and other debris that blocked streets around where the ICE agent shot Good as she tried to flee. City officials said they would allow a makeshift shrine to the 37-year-old mother of three to remain.
The shooting in Portland, Oregon, took place outside a hospital Thursday afternoon. A man and a woman, identified by the Department of Homeland Security as Venezuelan nationals Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, were shot inside a vehicle, and their conditions were not immediately known. The FBI and the Oregon Department of Justice were investigating.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and the City Council called on ICE to shut down all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed, as hundreds of people protested Thursday evening at a local ICE building.
Friday morning, Portland police reported that officers arrested several protesters after asking them to move from the street to the sidewalk, to allow traffic flow.
WATCH | What we know about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis:
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown, and now outrage is erupting over conflicting accounts of what really happened. Andrew Chang breaks down the moment-to-moment video evidence and compares it to the rules governing use of force and self-defense. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images
Just as it did after Good’s shooting, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defended the actions of police officers in Portland, saying it happened after a Venezuelan man with suspected gang ties and involvement in a recent shooting attempted to “weaponize” his vehicle to strike officers. It was not immediately clear whether the shootings were caught on camera, like Good’s.
“The officer took immediate action to defend himself and others, shooting them,” Homeland Security said in a message released Friday.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump and others in his administration have repeatedly called the Minneapolis shooting an act of self-defense and called Good evil, suggesting she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.
Vice President JD Vance said the shooting was justified and that Good was a “victim of left-wing ideology.”
“I can believe that her death is a tragedy while recognizing that it is a tragedy that she herself caused,” Vance said, noting that the officer who killed her was injured by a vehicle during his arrest last June.
But state and local officials and protesters have rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video recordings show the self-defense argument is “garbage.”
Union leaders demand ICE agents stay away from schools
Education Minnesota and school union leaders across the state have called on ICE to stay out of schools during a press conference on Friday.
“We saw ICE agents in Roseville surrounding the school compound, just waiting for families to come pick up their children,” said Monica Byron, president of Education Minnesota.
“In greater Minnesota, students in St. Cloud, St. James and Rochester are afraid to go to school for fear of being harassed, assaulted or worse, by the very people our government was supposed to protect us from,” Byron said.
The Minneapolis shootings occurred on the second day of the Twin Cities immigration crackdown, which Homeland Security says is the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 police officers are involved, and Noem said she has made more than 1,500 arrests.
It sparked an immediate backlash in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people coming to the scene to express outrage at ICE agents and the school district who canceled classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.
WATCH | Hundreds of people continue to visit the memorial dedicated to a 37-year-old mother who was shot:
Hundreds of people continue to visit 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good’s memorial the day after she was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
Good’s death – at least the fifth linked to a wave of immigration since Trump came to power – resonated well beyond Minneapolis, as protests took place or were expected this week in many major US cities.
The Minnesota agency charged with investigating police-involved shootings said Thursday it had been informed that the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice would not work with it, effectively ending any state role in determining whether crimes had been committed. Noem said the state had no jurisdiction.
“Without full access to evidence, witnesses and collected information, we cannot meet the investigative standards required by Minnesota law and the public,” said Drew Evans, chief of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Senators push DOJ and FBI to work with local authorities
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith called for a thorough, objective and impartial investigation into the deadly shooting in Minneapolis.
“This requires full cooperation with state investigators and local authorities,” the letter said.
The Hennepin County prosecutor, who oversees the Minneapolis area, also asked the public to submit video and other evidence related to Good’s shooting directly to his office during a news conference Friday.
Federal officials declined to identify the agent by name and CBC News was unable to independently verify the agent’s identity, but details previously provided by Vance and Noem closely match those contained in federal court documents regarding an incident involving an ICE agent in Bloomington last June.
Court documents reviewed by CBC News indicate an officer, identified as Jonathan Ross, was dragged as officers attempted to arrest Roberto Carlos Muñoz. Muñoz, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, had been convicted of sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter three years earlier.
