The Latest on the ICE Killing in Minneapolis, and a Shadow Fleet of Oil Tankers
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, January 8th. Here's what we're covering.
My name is Nicholas Bogle Burroughs, and I am a reporter for The New York Times. I am at the corner of Portland Ave and East 34th Street in Minneapolis. It's about 11.30 at night, and there are about 100 protesters still here at the intersection where an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good earlier today.
My colleagues are on the ground in Minneapolis, where a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who lived in the city, was killed by a federal officer who was part of the Trump administration's escalating immigration crackdown. Multiple videos posted on social media and verified by The Times show the shooting and the moments before and after. In the footage, the woman's SUV is stopped in the street, apparently blocking one lane. As cars approach, she waves at them to go around. But a truck, flashing its lights, stops, and federal agents get out. They tell the driver to get out of her car. One agent tries to open the driver's door and reaches through the window. Another agent crosses in front of her SUV as she starts to back up and turn to drive away from them.
Immediately after she shifts into drive and starts to move forward, the agent standing at the front near the driver's side headlight pulls out a gun and aims it at her. When her SUV moves forward to the right, the agent fires. He continues shooting as the vehicle moves past him. After accelerating, the car crashes into two parked cars and a light pole. The Minneapolis police chief said later she'd been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Do you have a conscience? Do you have a conscience? The shooting happened in a part of the city where, for weeks, people opposed to the ICE crackdown have been blowing whistles and blaring car horns to alert their neighbors whenever they see agents nearby.
All that noise had drawn some people out to the street. In the videos from the scene, some yell at the officer who fired the shots. Don't let them run! In the aftermath, federal officials quickly defended the shooting. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism. Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, said the victim had weaponized her vehicle. The ICE officer fearing for his life and the other officers around him and the safety of the public fired defensive shots. President Trump also weighed in, claiming that the victim ran over the agent willfully and viciously. State and local officials called the administration's framing garbage and propaganda.
They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit.
Mayor Jacob Fry condemned the shooting as reckless and demanded that ICE leave the city.
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.
This was totally predictable, and it was totally avoidable.
And Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the administration's recent decision to ramp up immigration enforcement there, sending in up to 2,000 federal agents, had set the stage for clashes with local residents and potential violence. Yesterday's shooting was the ninth time immigration officers have fired on people in U.S. cities since September. In all of those cases, the agents fired at people who were in their vehicles.
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