The city released a statement Thursday explaining its policy that blocks local police from assisting federal authorities in immigration-related operations.

The policy, called a separation ordinance, stipulates that police will not help ICE to identify, locate, transport or detain anyone as part of an immigration enforcement operation. Police also will not close down streets or conduct crowd control to help facilitate ICE’s work.

The city clarified that it may collaborate with federal authorities in cases where someone’s immigration status is a key element of another crime, like human trafficking, or if there is an imminent threat to the public.

“MPD will investigate criminal activity without regard to a person's actual or perceived immigration status. Doing otherwise would have a chilling effect on our ability to provide public safety to our community,” the city wrote.

While local police will not assist ICE in most circumstances, city policy also bars them from interfering with the agency’s operations.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has asked the state National Guard to be ready to step in to help Minneapolis police in “protecting critical infrastructure and maintaining public safety,” as tensions continue to simmer in the aftermath of Renee Nicole Good’s death.

Walz emphasized that the step was precautionary, praising the residents of Minneapolis for protesting peacefully.

“Minnesotans have met this moment. Thousands of people have peacefully made their voices heard. Minnesota: thank you. We saw powerful peace,” he said in a statement. “We have every reason to believe that peace will hold."

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty released a statement on Thursday saying that her office is “exploring all options” to ensure that a state-level investigation into the death of Renee Nicole Good can go forward after the FBI rescinded its offer to cooperate with Minnesota law enforcement.

“If the FBI is the sole investigative agency, the State will not receive the investigative findings, and our community may never learn about its contents,” Moriarty wrote.

Earlier on Thursday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced that it was withdrawing from the investigation after being informed that federal law enforcement would not share any of the relevant materials it had gathered.

“Minnesota must be part of this investigation,” Gov. Tim Walz said during a news conference on Thursday, warning that it would be “very, very difficult” for residents of the state to accept the outcome of an inquiry that excluded local authorities.

Speaking on Fox News on Thursday, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said that immigration agents have resumed their "law enforcement mission" in Minneapolis.

"We took a pause yesterday afternoon, after that deadly shooting and incident, to check on our staff and our officers and the scene and make sure everything was secure," Lyons said. "But we were back in the fight less — more than an hour later. So we continued operations in Minnesota. We're there today. We're still conducting operations, our daily law enforcement mission, in all 50 states and territories right now, so we're going to keep doing the work."

Administration officials — including Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — provided additional details on Thursday about the ICE agent alleged to have shot Renee Nicole Good during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis.

The agent, who hasn’t been officially identified, has more than 10 years of experience on the job, according to Vance.

He is a member of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Special Response team — a tactical unit trained and equipped to handle high-risk situations that fall outside the scope of daily operations for standard deportation officers.

He “went to the hospital” and “received treatment” after “he was hit by [Good’s] vehicle,” according to Noem. He is now “spending time with family," she added.

After an enforcement encounter in June, Vance said, the agent in question got “33 stitches in his leg,” after he was “dragged by a car.” CBS News reported at the time that the agent took out his spring-loaded window punch and broke the driver’s side rear window after the driver — for whom ICE had an arrest warrant — repeatedly refused to comply. The driver then sped away with “the agent hanging from the car.”

Vance speculated on Thursday that as a result, “maybe [the agent] is a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.”

After berating reporters in the White House briefing room over their coverage of the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good, Vice President JD Vance described her death as a "tragedy of her own making."

"I can believe her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it is a tragedy of her own making," Vance said, alleging without evidence that she was part of a "far-left movement, a lunatic fringe" that was targeting ICE.

"I'm not happy that this woman lost her life," he continued before repeating the claim that she was "interfering with a law enforcement action."

On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem alleged that Renee Nicole Good had followed and "harassed" officers "all day" before one of them shot and killed her in Minneapolis.

But new reporting by the Associated Press contradicts Noem's claim.

According to Good's ex-husband, she had "just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school Wednesday and was driving home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents," the AP reported.

Similarly, the White House on Thursday tried to connect Good to what press secretary Karoline Leavitt described, without evidence, as "a larger, sinister left-wing movement" to put federal immigration agents "under organized attack."

But Good's ex-husband told the AP that she was not an activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.

Joining White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a press briefing, Vice President JD Vance read a CNN headline about Wednesday's fatal shooting: "Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis."

"Well, that's one way to put it," Vance said. "What that headline leaves out was that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America."

Vance then accused "many" members of the media in the briefing room of "lying about the attack."

The vice president claimed the woman, identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, "aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator."

However, video footage of the incident appears to show Good turning the vehicle away from the ICE agent, contradicting Vance's claim.

"She was trying to ram this guy with her car. He shot back. He defended himself," he continued. "And everybody who's been repeating the lie that this was some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves, every single one of you."

At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats for Wednesday's ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

The incident "occurred as a result of a larger, sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country" and put federal immigration agents "under organized attack," Leavitt claimed without evidence.

She went on to accuse "radicals in the Democrat [sic] Party" of "impeding immigration enforcement operations daily, creating extremely heightened and dangerous circumstances."

Video footage of Wednesday's shooting taken from three camera angles and analyzed by the New York Times shows that Renee Nicole Good's vehicle appeared to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.

The city of Minneapolis released a statement on Thursday after Minnesota state investigators announced that the FBI is blocking access to evidence in the investigation into Wednesday's fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

"The decision to remove the [Bureau of Criminal Apprehension] from the ICE fatal shooting investigation is deeply disappointing," the statement read. "We are concerned that the investigation is proceeding without state partners, and we are calling for a clear and transparent process that includes state investigating agencies."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz criticized the Trump administration for blocking state officials from taking part in the investigation into Wednesday's deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis, saying the decision will make it "very, very difficult" to "get a fair outcome."

"We have learned that the Trump administration has now denied the state the ability to participate in this investigation," Walz said during a news conference on Thursday. "Minnesota must be part of this investigation."

Walz said his concern is that "people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to [Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem. [They have] stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate."

"There has to be another place to turn to get justice," Walz added. "The only way we find the answers is a thorough investigation by nonpartisan officials."

Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said his team had been "invited in to do a joint investigation on this initially" but has since been cut out. Jacobson said federal officials typically lead investigations into the use of force by federal agents, but that state officials had "worked jointly and shared information" with the FBI before.

Speaking at a news conference in New York City on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem continued to defend the use of deadly force by an ICE agent in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, claiming that Good had followed and "harassed" officers "all day."

"These individuals had followed our officers all day, had harassed them, had blocked them," Noem said. "They were impeding our law enforcement operations, which is against the law."

When pressed, Noem declined to elaborate on the events leading up to the shooting, saying only that DHS would be releasing "more details" in the coming days.

Noem went on to repeat her allegation that Good committed an "act of domestic terrorism" despite videos and eyewitness accounts that show Good's car turning away from the federal officer who opened fire.

The agent who shot Good "acted according to his training," Noem said, adding that she expected her department's policies of review for deadly force incidents to show that he responded "appropriately."

Asked whether DHS would be sending more federal agents to Minneapolis in the wake of the shooting, Noem did not rule it out. "We have thousands of officers there," she said, "and I'm not opposed to sending more, if necessary, to keep people safe."

Hours after the fatal ICE shooting, President Trump posted one of several videos of the incident to his social media site, saying that "the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense." The clip, though, did not appear to show what led to the encounter, nor does it show the officer being run over.

New York Times reporters who were speaking with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon said they "pointed out the inconsistencies and the lack of clarity in videos circulating in social media" to the president.

“She behaved horribly,” Trump responded. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”

Pressed by the reporters, Trump had one of his aides pull up the video he posted on a laptop. “I’ll play the tape for you right now,” the president said.

The Times reporters said they told Trump the angle did not appear to show an ICE officer had been run over.

“Well,” Trump said. “I — the way I look at it…

“It’s a terrible scene,” he added at the end of the video. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”

On Thursday, the Times published a video compilation that appears to contradict the Trump administration's claims about the shooting.

The fatal ICE shooting of a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday occurred less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Floyd's death prompted weeks of nationwide protests and unrest.

Minnesota state law enforcement officials said Thursday that the FBI has barred them from taking part in the investigation into Wednesday's deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

In a statement published by the Associated Press, Drew Evans, the head of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said the U.S. attorney's office informed him that the investigation will "now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”

“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands," Evans said, adding: "As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation. The BCA Force Investigations Unit was designed to ensure consistency, accountability and public confidence, none of which can be achieved without full cooperation and jurisdictional clarity."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refuted the idea that Minnesota investigators has been "cut out" of the probe, telling reporters that "they do not have jurisdiction in this investigation."

Wednesday’s fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis was not an isolated incident. Since the Trump administration launched its large-scale deportation raids in major cities last year, federal officers have shot and killed at least three other people, according to media reports reviewed by the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.

• On Sept. 12, 2025, immigration officers pulled over a Mexican immigrant named Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez outside of Chicago. He was shot and killed less than a minute later after reportedly trying to flee. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Villegas-Gonzalez hit and dragged an officer with his car and that he was shot in self-defense. But a New York Times video analysis calls into question key aspects of the government’s account.

• On Dec. 11, 2025, a border patrol agent shot and killed a 31-year-old Mexican citizen while trying to detain him in Rio Grande City, Texas. The agent transmitted via radio that he was involved in a fight with the man for two minutes, according to the incident report.

• And on Dec. 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE agent reportedly used his service weapon to shoot and kill 43-year-old Keith Porter in Northridge, Calif. Authorities say Porter raised a rifle at the officer.

In addition, the New York Times reports that immigration officers have fired on at least eight other people in five states and Washington, D.C., since September. “All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles,” according to the Times. Officials have claimed self-defense in each case.

But the evidence doesn’t always support those claims. In October, a border patrol agent shot a Chicago resident, Marimar Martinez, multiple times during an immigration enforcement operation in the city's Brighton Park neighborhood. Initially, DHS claimed that Martinez "rammed" the agent's car and pulled a gun. In November, federal prosecutors dropped the charges following court revelations that contradicted the initial DHS narrative.

Another nonprofit news organization, the Trace, has counted a total of 14 shootings by federal immigration officers as of Jan. 7.

Such incidents were less common prior to the administration’s current immigration crackdown. According to ICE’s annual reports, officers used their firearms three times between September 2023 and September 2024 and five times in the year before that.

Democratic leaders on Thursday morning condemned the actions of the Trump administration and ICE over the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

During a press conference on Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both from New York, were asked if Democrats would reduce funding for ICE or hold it accountable if the party retakes the House or Senate next year following the midterm elections.

"The killing of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country," Jeffries told reporters.

The House minority leader said that while Democrats support the removal of violent felons who are here in the U.S. illegally, "that's not what this administration has been doing under the so-called leadership of Kristi Noem, who's a stone-cold liar. There's no evidence at all that this was a justified shooting."

Schumer added that he watched the video of Wednesday's shooting, and said, "You felt like your stomach was being punched. ... Looking at the video, there seemed no justification for what these agents did. There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI of doing a fair investigation, or DHS, but at the local level as well."

Photos taken Thursday show tension and clashes between federal agents and demonstrators who are gathered outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in St. Paul, Minn., to protest the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent on Wednesday.

Neighbors who witnessed Wednesday's fatal ICE shooting are describing what they saw.

Emily Heller told Minneapolis Public Radio that she saw a car, which appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations, blocking traffic. The witness said she heard ICE agents telling the female driver to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Trevor Heitkamp, another resident, told CNN that he saw ICE agents yelling at Renee Good to move.

“The car backed up slowly and proceeded to pull forward pretty slowly,” Heitkamp said. “Then the agent who fired the weapon was on the opposite side of the car to me and I heard four, possibly five shots, and then the car sped forward because … this person’s injured and their foot went down.”

Tyrice Jones, another witness, said he came down from his upstairs apartment after he heard gunshots and a crash. Outside, he saw Good's SUV smashed into a streetlight directly in front of his building, and a woman who identified herself as Good’s wife covered in blood sitting in the snow with her dog.

“You guys just killed my wife!” the woman shouted, according to Jones.

Minneapolis Public Schools announced on Wednesday evening that classes would be canceled for the rest of the week following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good.

"Out of an abundance of caution, there will be no school on Thursday, Jan. 8 and Friday, Jan. 9 due to safety concerns related to today’s incidents around the city," the district wrote on its website. "All MPS-sponsored programs, activities, athletics and Community Education classes, including adult education, will be canceled. The district will not move to e-learning because that is only allowable for severe weather. MPS will continue collaborating with the City of Minneapolis and other partners on emergency preparedness and response."