US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk during an immigration raid, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Ryan Murphy/Reuters
The US president wants Americans to believe they are facing an emergency. The real danger is from his administration
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In Trumpism, rules and restraint are portrayed as a corruption of the people’s will instead of the essence of American democracy. A man who pardoned supporters for an actual insurrection seeking to keep him in power now threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell protests. In October, the president told generals: “It’s a war from within.” ICE has been transformed into a paramilitary force apparently answerable only to Mr Trump. Imagine its potential uses in future.
Little wonder that Minnesotans say this feels like an invasion, and the state’s governor, Tim Walz, describes it as an occupation. The communities who are now defending and supporting each other are not only challenging the demonisation, mistreatment and removal of undocumented migrants. They are pushing back against the fear on which Trumpism feeds and the manufacturing of a crisis which would consume many more victims.
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With the illegitimate partition of Palestine, and inflicting ongoing terror on Palestinians, Israel and the US continue to smash down the basic principles of democracy
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With Trump briefing his army that the future war and enemy is internal, ICE must surely be taking lessons from the IDF as to how one controls and intimidates a local population. The road checks, walls, settler violence and attacks, shootings, mass arrests and taking prisoners are a template that is being transferred to the US.
Regarding the local population as the enemy, defining them as terrorist is a well-worn tactic. In 1954, Israel passed A Prevention of Infiltration Law. Its effect was to criminalise those Palestinians who had been made refugees during the Nakba if they sought to return to their homes and land. Pass a law to make citizens aliens or define drug dealers and protesters as terrorists — then the normal rule of law does not apply. Indeed, there are no rules, anyone or anything can be defined as illegal. Just label it terrorist.
It is easy to take the parallels too far. In this neoliberal global war, the US does not need lessons in violence and aggression. It, too, is born on the back of settler colonialism and genocide, has a culture of guns and violence. But the strength of Israel as a 20th-century exemplar of what can be done without recrimination is evident.
This is not some historical precedent from before civilisation and enlightenment when everyone did abhorrent things. After the horrors of the second world war, “never again” was not just about the Holocaust, it was meant to bring about settling issues between states without recourse to war. Setting red lines of international law not to be crossed.
But Israel has crossed them time and again; relegitimised genocide, made it an acceptable tactic to kill tens of thousands of women and children deliberately, starve a population and create a famine, flatten a country and commit ecocide while destroying its health, education and water systems. No wonder Trump and Netanyahu get on most of the time — they are creating a new world order based on fascist means, morals and tactics.
It is not necessary to do historic comparisons. It is not the salutes they make nor the language they use — it is the ideology they share. Authoritarian, opposing equality, individual and collective rights while celebrating violence, embracing paramilitarism and seeking to expand territory using threats of armed conflict to underpin economic bullying. All classic traits of fascism in the making.
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Portland Avenue and 34th Street in South Minneapolis where City of Minneapolis officials have confirmed an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Good. Photo: Wiki commons
The killing occurred one day after 2,000 ICE agents were deployed into the city. Trump administration officials accuse the victim of having committed domestic terrorism.
On January 7, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a woman in the head in a residential neighborhood in South Minneapolis, firing into her vehicle at point-blank range. The woman was later identified by authorities as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.
A neighbor who saw what happened told local MPR News: “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun … and shot her in the face like three, four times.”
Within hours, federal officials presented a starkly different account from what eyewitnesses reported.
In a tweet on his Truth Social platform, US President Donald Trump accused Good of “violently, willfully, and viciously” running over an ICE agent with her vehicle. The agent then “shot her in self-defense,” he claimed. US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the 37-year-old woman was killed after carrying out an alleged “act of domestic terrorism”.
“A woman attacked [ICE], and those surrounding them, and attempted to run them over,” she said on Fox News, adding that the “officer acted defensively” when he shot the woman in her vehicle.
The fatal shooting comes a day after the Trump administration launched what it calls “the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever in Minneapolis-St.Paul.” About 2,000 DHS, ICE, and related personnel flooded the city on Jan 6.
Videos and eyewitnesses debunk Trump administration narrative
Reports from witnesses and local elected officials sharply dispute the Trump administration’s account of the incident. Witnesses on the scene say the woman’s car was blocking ICE, and ICE told them to move, and they shot her in her vehicle as she was driving away, as reported by BreakThrough News.
CBS News reported that witnesses saw a Honda Pilot blocked by multiple ICE agents. “An agent tried to open the driver’s side door. The motorist then put her vehicle into reverse, then into drive. Witnesses said they then heard three shots fired.” The car then crashed into a parked vehicle before stopping.
Videos circulating on social media seem to verify eyewitness reports of the killing.
The Minneapolis Police Chief’s statement underscored that Good was not the subject of any ICE operation, contrasting with federal claims that framed the killing as a response to a targeted threat.
Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the ICE operation and rejected the self-defense narrative of the federal government after watching video footage. During a news conference, Frey had choice words for the agency: “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis,” the mayor said. “We do not want you here.”
As the administration framed the killing as a response to “domestic terrorism”, lawmakers, activists, and journalists have inverted that language, condemning ICE itself as a terror organization.
Rep Omar denounced the agency in a Facebook post after the incident: “ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our city.
“They are the terrorists,” tweeted Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek, responding to the Trump administration’s claims. “They invade and bomb countries unprovoked, kidnap heads of states, murder their own people and then cry victim.”
The Party for Socialism and Liberation called the incident “cold-blooded murder” in a social media post on January 7, demanding justice for Renee and “an end to ICE’s reign of terror across the country”.
Disputed fraud allegations target Somali community
While a 2025 case involving the Feeding our Future program did result in several convictions, many prominent voices in the community have argued that the broader, more recent narrative has been distorted for political ends.
Much of the recent controversy seems to center around a widely-debunked viral video by far-right YouTube influencer Nick Shirley, in which he claimed to expose a USD 100 million fraud at Somali-run daycare centers in the area. JD Vance applauded the video, tweeting that Shirley deserved a Pulitzer prize. Local news outlets and state regulators on the other hand, refuted his claims and most of the featured daycare centers were found to be operating legally with active licenses.
Protests loom as anger spreads across Minneapolis and other cities
Although Governor Walz challenged the federal narrative, he has also alerted the Minnesota National Guard, putting about 13,000 members on notice to potentially deploy to the streets and confront mass protests, which are being called in the city and other areas in the country as anger mounts in response to the ICE killing.
Minneapolis has a recent history of mass protest against state violence, being the city that sparked a global movement after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, which took place less than a mile from where Renee Good was shot. The ICE killing on January 7 adds a federal dimension to the city’s historic struggles. The incident may prove to be a catalyst for renewed mobilizations against militarized immigration operations, state violence, and federal overreach.
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People participate in a protest and vigil after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, on January 7, 2026. Photo: Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP
Protests erupt across US after ICE agent shoots woman dead
CITIES across the United States continued to erupt in protest today after a woman was shot dead by a federal immigration officer.
Thousands of people took to the streets to vent their anger at Wednesday’s shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Phoenix, Tucson, Columbus and Minneapolis, where the shooting took place.
The killing of Ms Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent came during US President Donald Trump’s latest armed operation against the Somali community.
More than 1,500 people have been arrested during the raids carried out by around 2,000 ICE agents.
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Eyewitness Emily Heller said officers had screamed at Ms Macklin Good to “move, move, move!”
But when she moved, an officer shot her multiple times.
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US President Donald Trump, seen through a viewfinder, speaks at the Detroit Economic Club, in Detroit, January 13, 2026
People participate in a protest and vigil after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, on January 7, 2026. Photo: Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP