Individuals 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 known 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 ways 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 centered on witness cellphone video of the encounter. A brand new, 47-second video that was revealed on-line by a Minnesota-based conservative information website, Alpha Information, and later reposted on social media by the Division of Homeland Safety reveals the taking pictures from the attitude of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the photographs.
This picture from video made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross by way of Alpha Information reveals Renee Good in her car in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
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Sirens blaring within the background, he approaches and circles Good’s car in the midst of the highway whereas apparently filming on his cellphone. On the similar time, Good’s spouse additionally was recording the encounter and may be seen strolling across the car and approaching the officer. A sequence of exchanges occurred:
“That is advantageous, 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 car. Good reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel towards the passenger facet as she drives forward and Ross opens hearth.
The digital camera 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 car smashes into others parked on the road.
Federal businesses have inspired officers to doc encounters by which folks might try and intervene with enforcement actions, however policing consultants have cautioned that recording on a handheld gadget can complicate already risky conditions by occupying an officer’s fingers and narrowing focus at moments when speedy decision-making is required.
Below an ICE coverage directive, officers and brokers are anticipated to activate body-worn cameras at the beginning of enforcement actions and to document all through interactions, and pictures have to be saved for evaluate in severe incidents akin 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 hearth or any of the others who had been on the scene had been sporting physique cameras.
Homeland Safety says video reveals self-defense
Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin mentioned in posts on X that the brand new video backs their competition that the officer fired in self-defense.
“A lot of you have got been advised this regulation enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a automotive, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an harmless lady,” Vance mentioned. “The fact 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 consultants mentioned the video did not change their ideas on the use-of-force however did elevate further questions concerning the officer’s coaching.
“Now that we will see he is holding a gun in a single hand and a cellphone within the different filming, I wish 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 risk, mentioned John P. Gross, a professor on the College of Wisconsin Regulation Faculty who has written extensively about officers taking pictures at transferring autos.
“If you’re an officer who views this lady as a risk, 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 Warfare veteran who has served within the Border Patrol and ICE for practically twenty years. He was injured final yr when he was dragged by a driver fleeing an immigration arrest.
Makes an attempt to achieve Ross at cellphone numbers and electronic 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 worried by the Trump administration’s determination 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 determination with what occurred on this case,” Moriarty mentioned at a information convention. “It doesn’t matter that it was a federal regulation enforcement agent.”
Moriarty mentioned her workplace would submit a hyperlink for the general public to submit footage of the taking pictures, despite the fact that she acknowledged that she wasn’t certain what authorized end result submissions would possibly produce.
Good’s spouse, Becca Good, launched a press release 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 lift our son and to proceed educating him, as Renee believed, that there are folks constructing a greater world for him,” she wrote.
Protesters confront regulation 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 lots of 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 an internet choice by means 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, lots of protested and marched outdoors two motels in downtown Minneapolis the place immigration enforcement brokers had been alleged to be staying. Some folks had been seen breaking or spray portray home windows and state regulation 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 lady in a car, 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 steady 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 car 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 will examine.
On Friday night, lots of of protesters marched to the ICE constructing in Portland.
The most important 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 most important 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 be shifting immigration officers to Minneapolis from sweeps in Louisiana, in keeping with 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 dying — not less than the fifth tied to immigration sweeps since President Donald Trump took workplace — has resonated far past Minneapolis. Extra protests are deliberate for this weekend, in keeping with Indivisible, a bunch shaped to withstand the Trump administration.
