Folks take part in a protest and noise demonstration calling for an finish to federal immigration enforcement operations within the metropolis, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota prosecutor on Friday referred to as on the general public to share with investigators any recordings and proof linked to the deadly taking pictures of Renee Good as a brand new video emerged exhibiting the ultimate moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.
The Minneapolis killing and a separate taking pictures in Portland, Oregon, a day later by the Border Patrol have set off protests in a number of cities and denunciations of immigration enforcement techniques by the U.S. authorities. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her automotive, saying he was defending himself and fellow brokers.
The response to the taking pictures has largely been targeted on witness cellphone video of the encounter. A brand new, 47-second video that was printed on-line by a Minnesota-based conservative information web site, Alpha Information, and later reposted on social media by the Division of Homeland Safety exhibits the taking pictures from the angle of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the photographs.
This picture from video made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross through Alpha Information exhibits Renee Good in her automobile in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
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Sirens blaring within the background, he approaches and circles Good’s automobile in the course of the highway whereas apparently filming on his cellphone. On the identical time, Good’s spouse additionally was recording the encounter and could be seen strolling across the automobile and approaching the officer. A collection of exchanges occurred:
“That is nice, I am not mad at you,” Good says because the officer passes by her door. She has one hand on the steering wheel and the opposite outdoors the open driver facet window.
“U.S. citizen, former f—ing veteran,” says her spouse, standing outdoors the passenger facet of the SUV holding up her cellphone. “You wanna come at us, you wanna come at us, I say go get your self some lunch massive boy.”
Different officers are approaching the motive force’s facet of the automotive at about the identical time and one says: “Get out of the automotive, get out of the f—ing automotive.” Ross is now on the entrance driver facet of the automobile. Good reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel towards the passenger facet as she drives forward and Ross opens fireplace.
The digicam turns into unsteady and factors towards the sky after which returns to the road view exhibiting Good’s SUV careening away.
“F—ing b—,” somebody on the scene says.
A crashing sound is heard as Good’s automobile smashes into others parked on the road.
Federal businesses have inspired officers to doc encounters during which folks could try and intrude with enforcement actions, however policing specialists have cautioned that recording on a handheld gadget can complicate already unstable conditions by occupying an officer’s palms and narrowing focus at moments when fast decision-making is required.
Beneath an ICE coverage directive, officers and brokers are anticipated to activate body-worn cameras initially of enforcement actions and to file all through interactions, and pictures should be saved for evaluation in critical incidents comparable to deaths or use-of-force circumstances. The Division of Homeland Safety has not responded to questions on whether or not the officer who opened fireplace or any of the others who had been on the scene had been sporting physique cameras.
Homeland Safety says video exhibits self-defense
Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin mentioned in posts on X that the brand new video backs their rivalry that the officer fired in self-defense.
“A lot of you may have been informed this legislation enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a automotive, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an harmless girl,” Vance mentioned. “The truth is that his life was endangered and he fired in self protection.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has mentioned any self-defense argument is “rubbish.”
Policing specialists mentioned the video did not change their ideas on the use-of-force however did increase extra questions in regards to the officer’s coaching.
“Now that we are able to see he is holding a gun in a single hand and a cellphone within the different filming, I need to see the officer coaching that allows that,” mentioned Geoff Alpert, a criminology professor on the College of South Carolina.
The video demonstrates that the officers did not understand Good to be a menace, mentioned John P. Gross, a professor on the College of Wisconsin Legislation Faculty who has written extensively about officers taking pictures at shifting autos.
“In case you are an officer who views this girl as a menace, you do not have one hand on a cellphone. You do not stroll round this supposed weapon, casually filming,” Gross mentioned.
Ross, 43, is an Iraq Battle veteran who has served within the Border Patrol and ICE for almost twenty years. He was injured final 12 months when he was dragged by a driver fleeing an immigration arrest.
Makes an attempt to achieve Ross at cellphone numbers and e-mail addresses related to him weren’t profitable.
Prosecutor asks for video and proof
In the meantime, Hennepin County Lawyer Mary Moriarty mentioned that though her workplace has collaborated successfully with the FBI in previous circumstances, she is anxious by the Trump administration’s resolution to bar state and native businesses from enjoying any function within the investigation into Good’s killing.
She additionally mentioned the officer who shot Good within the head doesn’t have full authorized immunity, as Vance declared.
“We do have jurisdiction to make this resolution with what occurred on this case,” Moriarty mentioned at a information convention. “It doesn’t matter that it was a federal legislation enforcement agent.”
Moriarty mentioned her workplace would put up a hyperlink for the general public to submit footage of the taking pictures, though she acknowledged that she wasn’t positive what authorized consequence submissions would possibly produce.
Good’s spouse, Becca Good, launched an announcement to Minnesota Public Radio on Friday saying, “kindness radiated out of her.”
“On Wednesday, January seventh, we stopped to help our neighbors. We had whistles. They’d weapons,” Becca Good mentioned.
“I’m now left to boost our son and to proceed instructing him, as Renee believed, that there are folks constructing a greater world for him,” she wrote.
Protesters confront legislation enforcement outdoors the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Constructing in Minneapolis, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.
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The response to Good’s taking pictures was rapid within the metropolis the place police killed George Floyd in 2020, with a whole bunch of protesters converging on the taking pictures scene and the varsity district canceling lessons for the remainder of the week as a precaution and providing a web based choice by way of Feb. 12.
On Friday, protesters had been outdoors a federal facility serving as a hub for the immigration crackdown that started Tuesday in Minneapolis and St. Paul. That night, a whole bunch protested and marched outdoors two inns in downtown Minneapolis the place immigration enforcement brokers had been speculated to be staying. Some folks had been seen breaking or spray portray home windows and state legislation enforcement officers sporting helmets and holding batons ordered the remaining group of fewer than 100 folks to depart late Friday.
Capturing in Portland
The Portland taking pictures occurred outdoors a hospital Thursday. A federal border officer shot and wounded a person and girl in a automobile, recognized by the Division of Homeland Safety as Venezuela nationals Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras. Police mentioned they had been in secure situation Friday after surgical procedure, with DHS saying Nico Moncada was taken into FBI custody
DHS defended the actions of its officers in Portland, saying the taking pictures occurred after the motive force with alleged gang ties tried to “weaponize” his automobile to hit them. It mentioned no officers had been injured.
Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed that the 2 folks shot had “some nexus” to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. Day mentioned they got here to the eye of police throughout an investigation of a July taking pictures believed to have been carried out by gang members, however they weren’t recognized as suspects.
The chief mentioned any gang affiliation didn’t essentially justify the taking pictures by U.S. Border Patrol. The Oregon Division of Justice mentioned it could examine.
On Friday night, a whole bunch of protesters marched to the ICE constructing in Portland.
The largest crackdown but
The Minneapolis taking pictures occurred on the second day of the immigration crackdown within the Twin Cities, which Homeland Safety mentioned is the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. Greater than 2,000 officers are participating and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned they’ve made greater than 1,500 arrests.
The federal government can also be shifting immigration officers to Minneapolis from sweeps in Louisiana, based on paperwork obtained by The Related Press. This represents a pivot, because the Louisiana crackdown that started in December had been anticipated to final into February.
Good’s demise — at the very least the fifth tied to immigration sweeps since President Donald Trump took workplace — has resonated far past Minneapolis. Extra protests are deliberate for this weekend, based on Indivisible, a gaggle fashioned to withstand the Trump administration.
