A new wave of immigration enforcement officers have been sent to Minnesota as protesters continue to demonstrate following Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said more immigration and customs enforcement were being sent Sunday and Monday to help her agency continue operations in Minnesota.
They are being activated “to allow our ICE and Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely” as protesters and observers continue to demonstrate, she said. With already 2,000 officers reportedly on the ground, the operation in Minnesota is Homeland Security’s largest ever.
State and city leaders have echoed activists’ demands for the agency to leave.
Thousands marched in south Minneapolis on Saturday afternoon to protest the ongoing immigration operation in Minnesota.
On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said “the evidence speaks for itself” as the agency shared a new video of the minutes before Renee Good’s shooting. The video shows Good’s vehicle blocking traffic for several minutes leading up to the shooting but not the incident itself.
The 40-second encounter between Ross and Good that ended in Good’s death has once again thrust Minneapolis into the global spotlight as activists and politicians, including President Donald Trump, have weighed in on the use of force with conflicting interpretations of what happened.
The Department of Homeland Security and several federal officials have said Ross acted in self-defense. Local officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have pushed back on that narrative. Frey said the shooting was an instance of a federal agent “recklessly using power.”
