Minneapolis mayor swears angrily as he orders ICE agents out of his city
The mayor of Minneapolis has told ICE to ‘get the f**k out’ of the city after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a woman.
Renee Good, 37, was shot dead during an ICE raid as officers tried to get her to exit a vehicle partially blocking a road.
Mayor Jacob Frey offered a simple message to the federal immigration agency: ‘Get the f**k out of Minneapolis.’
He added during a press conference: ‘We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
‘People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorised, and now somebody is dead, that’s on you, and it’s also on you to leave.’
Good lived with her partner in Twin Cities, the site of ongoing immigration raids led by thousands of ICE agents.
This shooting occurred just four blocks away from where George Floyd was killed by a police officer in 2020.
Federal officials claim that the shooting of the mum-of-one was self-defence.
Footage posted on social media shows two federal agents trying to get a woman out of an SUV.
As the driver reversed and began to turn, a third agent pulled a gun and shot her, firing as the vehicle moved past him.
The Honda accelerates and then crashes, and the agent rings 999,
Frey also countered that, having seen the video, the Department of Homeland Security’s version of events is ‘bulls**t’.
What is an ICE agent?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are a type of federal police officer.
They enforce immigration laws, investigate customs and border violations and arrest people who may be in the country illegally.
Enforcement can sometimes take the form of raids on homes or workplaces to investigate issues like human trafficking or drug smuggling.
At least 32 people died in ICE custody last year, the deadliest on record.
The unidentified agent was ‘recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying’.
Good was not the target of any police investigation, the city’s police chief said.
Her son has been left an orphan as Good’s husband, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., died in 2023 at the age of 36, The Minnesota Star Tribune reported.
Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the newspaper that her daughter was ‘an amazing human being’.
‘Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,’ she said.
‘She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.’
Good described herself in her Instagram as a ‘poet and writer and wife and mum and s****y guitar strummer from Colorado’.
US President Donald Trump has been criticised amid the incident, with State Governor Tim Walz saying he is ‘governing by reality TV’.
During a press conference, Walz called for an end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
He said: ‘What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict.
‘It’s governing by reality TV.’
He added that the ‘recklessness’ of the officers led to Good’s death.
‘You’ve done enough,’ Walz told reporters, stressing that the state no longer needs the federal government’s support.
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