{"id":35213,"date":"2026-01-09T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35213"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:04:38","slug":"us-immigration-officer-shoots-woman-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35213","title":{"rendered":"US immigration officer shoots woman in Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An immigration officer in Minneapolis shot dead a woman Wednesday, triggering outrage from local leaders even as President Donald Trump claimed the officer acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey deemed the government\u2019s allegation that the woman was attacking federal agents \u201cbullshit,\u201d and called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducting a second day of mass raids to leave Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people gathered for a nighttime vigil at the scene, social media showed, while demonstrators also assembled in Manhattan, an AFP correspondent saw.<\/p>\n<p>A widely shared video of the incident shows a Honda SUV apparently blocking unmarked law enforcement vehicles as they attempt to drive down a snow-covered street.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, named by local media as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, attempted to drive off as officers approached and tried to open her door, with one agent firing three times with a handgun as the vehicle pulled away.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has ordered nationwide anti-immigrant raids, accused the victim of \u201cviciously\u201d trying to run over the agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting,\u201d he said on Truth Social, adding the agent \u201cseems to have shot her in self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ICE\u2019s federal agents have been at the forefront of the Trump administration\u2019s immigrant deportation drive, despite the objections of local officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched an aggressive recruitment campaign last summer to add 10,000 additional ICE agents to the existing 6,000-strong contingent.<\/p>\n<p>That sparked criticism that new officers in the field were insufficiently trained.<\/p>\n<p>DHS chief Kristi Noem said \u201cany loss of life is a tragedy\u201d but called the incident \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d and said Good \u201chad been stalking and impeding (ICE\u2019s) work all throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration officer in Minneapolis shot dead a woman Wednesday, triggering outrage from local leaders even as President Donald Trump claimed the officer acted in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey deemed the government\u2019s allegation that the woman was attacking federal agents \u201cbullshit,\u201d and called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers conducting a second day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}