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'I Stand With ICE' Says JD Vance After Woman Shot Dead By Agents In Minneapolis
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2:11Now PlayingVice President JD Vance has defended the decision to cut out Minnesota officials from the investigation into the killing of a US citizen by an ICE agent in Minneapolis .
“The precedent here is very simple,” he told reporters in Washington. “You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That’s a federal issue.”
He added that the agent who fired the deadly shot “is protected by absolute immunity” because he was doing his job. Vance said it would be understandable that the agent was “a little bit sensitive” about being struck by a vehicle after suffering an injury during an operation last year that resulted in 33 stitches to his leg.
“I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making,” Vance said.
Tim Walz
The decision to freeze out state investigators is all the more unusual because the potential culprit in the shooting is an employee of the federal government, and high-profile government officials appear to have already reached a conclusion about what happened and who is at fault. Such conclusions typically aren’t asserted publicly until the end of an investigation, which can take months.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman during a confrontation in Minneapolis, sparking an uproar over the presence of ICE agents in the city and heightening political divisions around the Trump administration’s migrant crackdown.
The Wednesday shooting — caught on video and shared widely on social media — happened during what federal officials described as a targeted operation amid a broader immigration effort. President Donald Trump and his allies cast it as an incident of self-defense, a view that the mayor of Minneapolis called a “garbage narrative.”
The deadly incident fueled a national debate over Trump’s efforts to send heavily armed federal agents into US cities in his push for mass deportations, with operations that ramped up last year from Chicago to Los Angeles. Within hours, the Minneapolis killing ignited protests as far away as New York City, where an evening demonstration was held in Foley Square and others were planned for Thursday.
Federal agents began arriving in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area in early December under what ICE called “Operation Metro Surge.” The Trump administration said this week the effort will involve as many as 2,000 federal agents, and it’s already resulted in at least 1,500 arrests.
A video obtained by Minnesota Public Radio News and posted on X showed how the shooting unfolded in a residential area of Minneapolis. MPR News wrote on its social media accounts that it got the video from an eyewitness at the scene and it had authenticated its validity.
The footage showed a Honda Pilot blocking part of the road as two federal agents approached. As one of them tried to open the door, the SUV backed up slightly. A third agent then appeared in front of the automobile, and he fired at the driver as it began to turn and move forward. The vehicle briefly continued to move ahead before crashing.
A statement from Minneapolis City Council members and multiple media outlets identified the woman who was killed as Renee Nicole Good, 37.
The victim was acting because of the presence of federal agents, said Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara. There was no indication she had been a target of law enforcement, he said.
“In any professional law enforcement agency in the country, I think they would tell you it’s obviously very concerning whenever there is a shooting into a vehicle of someone who is not armed,” said O’Hara, although he added that he doesn’t know all the circumstances around the shooting and said that in some cases such action is justified.
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