Trump’s ICE and the Minneapolis Killing: Trump Faces Blowback

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The killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer—and the FBI’s takeover of the probe—revives George Floyd-era fears as leaders, witnesses, and videos directly contradict the Trump administration’s narrative.

By TRH World Desk

New Delhi, January 9, 2026 — Minneapolis has been here before. And that is precisely what makes the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old US citizen, by an ICE officer in south Minneapolis so politically explosive—and so morally unsettling.

The shooting took place just blocks from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, igniting a global reckoning on policing, race, and state violence. Five years later, the city finds itself confronting a hauntingly familiar question: who controls the truth when federal power pulls the trigger?

According to CBS News and eyewitness accounts, whistles rang out around 9:30 a.m. to alert neighbours of ICE’s presence. Federal agents surrounded a Honda Pilot at East 34th Street and Portland Avenue. An officer attempted to open the driver’s side door. Witnesses say the vehicle reversed, then moved forward. Three shots rang out. The car rolled several feet before crashing into another vehicle.

The woman inside was Renee Good—a legal observer of federal actions, not the target of an ICE arrest. What followed has turned a police shooting into a constitutional and political crisis.

Within hours, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeled Good’s actions “domestic terrorism.” President Donald Trump went further, claiming she “ran over” an ICE officer and sharing a video that does not show any officer being run over. Multiple videos circulating online instead align with eyewitness testimony—directly contradicting the administration’s account.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, after reviewing the footage, called the federal narrative “bulls**t.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was blunter still: “Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”

Then came the move that shattered public trust entirely.

The FBI abruptly took exclusive control of the investigation, cutting out the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension after initially agreeing to a joint probe. The BCA publicly stated it would no longer have access to evidence, scenes, or interviews—making an independent state investigation impossible.

Walz summed up the implications with rare candour: “It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome.”

This is not just about one shooting. It is about federal power operating without local consent, narrative accountability, or transparent oversight—in a city already scarred by institutional betrayal.

The context matters. The killing comes amid the deployment of 2,000 federal law enforcement personnel across the Twin Cities metro area. For many residents, this looks less like public safety and more like occupation. Community organizers responded with a “nonviolent emergency protest,” where multiple demonstrators were taken into custody.

The parallels to 2020 are impossible to ignore—but the stakes may be even higher now. In the George Floyd case, video evidence forced accountability despite institutional resistance. In the Renee Good killing, the battle is not just over what happened—but over who gets to investigate, who gets to speak, and who gets to decide reality itself.

When the federal government controls the gun, the investigation, and the narrative, democracy itself is placed on trial. Minneapolis is reeling not simply because a woman is dead—but because the mechanisms meant to deliver truth and justice appear, once again, to be slipping out of public hands.