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[ponchi101]

The ease with which US law enforcement officers pull a trigger is incredible (in the sick way).
How about if you: take a picture of the license plate and LATER arrest the person? Not shoot immediately?

Culture of violence! Starts with gun-toting cowboys in western movies..

Not that straightforward. Colombia has a very high culture of violence and police people do not shoot at random.
And it is not as if the rest of the world does not watch the same movies as the USA.

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‪Ryan Eichten‬
‪@reichten.bsky.social‬
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Timberwolves hold a moment of silence for Renee Nicole Good

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Governor Tim Walz‬
‪@governorwalz.mn.gov‬
· 1h

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Live broadcast from Portland, Oregon after two people were shot by ICE

https://www.youtube.com/live/zrKkh48I78 ... PdsIoopVCA

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Minnesota leaders escalate dispute over federal handling of ICE shooting

State officials criticized the Trump administration for taking sole command of the investigation, saying state investigators were being blocked from evidence.
Updated
January 8, 2026 at 8:01 p.m. EST today at 8:01 p.m. EST

By Mark Berman
,
David Nakamura
and
Patrick Marley


A memorial for Good on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post)

Minnesota officials and federal authorities escalated their dispute Thursday over an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, with state leaders saying the Trump administration was blocking local agents from an FBI investigation into the killing and preventing them from accessing evidence.

The move, a day after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, ignited protests there, outrage across the country and sharp disagreements between the Trump administration and local and state authorities about what happened.

On Thursday, Border Patrol agents were involved in a separate shooting in Portland, Oregon, when trying to apprehend an alleged undocumented immigrant in a traffic stop.

The administration has repeatedly defended the ICE officer in Minneapolis and said he was protecting himself when Good threatened him with her vehicle. Vice President JD Vance on Thursday called Good’s death “a tragedy of her own making.”

Minnesota leaders have excoriated these claims, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) denouncing what he called a “garbage narrative” and “bull----” from the administration.

Gov. Tim Walz (D) said it is “very, very difficult” to believe a federal probe into the ICE shooting that excludes state investigators will lead to “a fair outcome.”

“I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment,” Walz said at a news conference Thursday.

Video from the scene raises doubts about some parts of the administration’s portrayals of the shooting. Footage showed that while the vehicle did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it, he was able to move aside and fire at least two of his three shots from the side, according to a Washington Post analysis.

The administration’s decision to take sole control of the investigation, combined with President Donald Trump and other officials’ staunch backing of the ICE officer’s actions, marks a break from some past instances in which local, state and federal officials worked together on high-profile probes, including in Minnesota.

After then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in 2020, prompting widespread social justice protests, the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), a state agency, carried out a joint investigation.

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Emily Heller, who witnessed the shooting, told The Post that the ICE agents appeared to give conflicting instructions to Good, indicating they wanted her to move her car before advancing on the vehicle.

Video from Heller’s phone, which she shared with The Post, showed a neighbor identifying himself as a doctor and trying to approach Good’s car to provide aid. The neighbor was rebuffed by officers, one of whom said: “Give us a second. We have medics” en route.

A little more than a minute after the shooting, an ICE agent knelt nearby and began to open what appeared to be a trauma kit, according to available video reviewed by The Post. Paramedics arrived on the scene nearly seven minutes after the shooting, the video showed.

Authorities initially said the investigation into the shooting would be carried out by the FBI and the BCA. On Thursday morning, however, the BCA said in a statement that it had been told by the FBI that the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis “had reversed course: the investigation would 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.”

As a result, the BCA said, the agency “reluctantly” pulled out of the investigation.

The FBI declined to comment on the BCA’s statement regarding the investigation. The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis and the Justice Department’s headquarters in D.C. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The shift prompted pushback from local and state authorities. The city of Minneapolis called the decision “deeply disappointing” in a statement. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), a former prosecutor, said in a statement that the FBI should work with the BCA “to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation” into the shooting.

“Minnesota must be part of this investigation,” Walz said Thursday.

The BCA said Thursday it was ready to rejoin the investigation if the FBI were to reverse course. Barring that, however, the agency said it anticipated that state officials would eventually gain access to the FBI’s investigative records.

“We expect the FBI to conduct a thorough and complete investigation and that the full investigative file will be shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities at both the state and federal levels,” the agency said in its statement.

Excluding the BCA from the probe “represents a change,” said W. Anders Folk, who served as acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota during the Biden administration. “That process in Minnesota has looked a certain way for a long time, and this is different.”

Folk collaborated closely with local and state officials during a years-long investigation into Floyd’s killing. He said federal authorities generally deferred to the BCA to take the lead on investigating shootings involving law enforcement officers, owing to its expertise and connections in the state. Minnesota investigators would then share their findings with both local and federal partners, he said.

Several Minneapolis police officers were convicted of both state and federal charges connected to Floyd’s death. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the Biden administration also both negotiated separate agreements with the Minneapolis Police Department mandating sweeping changes to policies, training and accountability.

The Trump administration last year abandoned the federal Minneapolis agreement, along with a similar pact in Louisville, days before the fifth anniversary of Floyd’s death.

Federal officials dismissed the outrage from Minnesota authorities about being frozen out of the investigation. Noem, asked about it at a news conference, said they “do not have any jurisdiction in this situation” and pivoted to attacking Minnesota’s leaders.

“They’re allowing this situation to be volatile, they’re not doing their work, they haven’t for years, and maybe they should get to work a little bit on the unprecedented fraud that we’re seeing in Minnesota,” she said. “Minnesota is a train wreck. It’s corrupt.”

Vance similarly waved away Minnesotan ire, calling the ICE officer “a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That’s a federal issue.”

Speaking at the White House, Vance also claimed without evidence that Good, a poet and mother of three, had been “brainwashed” and “a victim of left-wing ideology.” He accused her of “trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement officer” and called the incident “an attack on federal law enforcement.”

As protests continued following Good’s death, Minnesota leaders urged residents to continue demonstrating peacefully.

On Thursday morning, hundreds of demonstrators angered by the shooting gathered outside a government office building to heckle and scream at federal officers as they drove in and out of the parking lot.

“No more Minnesota nice; we don’t want your fascist ICE,” they chanted.

Several protesters in yellow vests stretched across the roadway, slowing federal officers as they drove into work. Another group stood along the median, shouting at them as they turned into the parking lot. Others stood farther back along the sidewalk.

One woman recorded cars as federal officers came into work, and she recited their license plate numbers into her phone. Another recorded them with one hand and flipped them off with the other.

Teresa Thomas, 58, handed out snacks during the demonstration, while a man passed out whistles so people could alert others if they saw ICE agents in their neighborhood.

“It feels like we are reliving the George Floyd moment,” Thomas said.

Marley reported from Minneapolis. Mariana Alfaro, Justine McDaniel, Derek Hawkins, Brianna Tucker, Maegan Vazquez, Amy B Wang, Caroline O’Donovan, Maria Sacchetti, Jonathan Baran, Aaron C. Davis, Annie Gowen, Jeremy Roebuck and Perry Stein contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... -protests/

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Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him

An analysis of video footage raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
Today at 8:25 a.m. EST

By Aaron C. Davis
and
Jonathan Baran

A deadly encounter in Minneapolis on Wednesday between federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a 37-year-old woman escalated in a matter of seconds.

In the aftermath, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the woman had committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” first disobeying officers’ commands and then weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” President Donald Trump said the woman “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage, however, raises questions about those accounts. The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis.


An ICE officer fired three shots, killing Renee Nicole Good, 37. (Obtained by Max Nesterak/X)







More frame by frame video at the link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... nneapolis/

[Owendonovan]

I wonder how many more of these kinds of incidents have to happen before Americans say enough and protest in an effective manner. I wouldn't think any time before the mid term elections. I do my bit in the city that can be seen by many, but am I really moving the needle in any real way?

[dryrunguy]

"We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong." It has always been a running joke, and yet people still do it... And get away with it.

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I wonder how many more of these kinds of incidents have to happen before Americans say enough and protest in an effective manner. I wouldn't think any time before the mid term elections. I do my bit in the city that can be seen by many, but am I really moving the needle in any real way?

I think Gov. Walz comment is correct. Don't give them an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act.

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Aaron Rupar
‪@atrupar.com‬
Q: Is this ICE officer immune to charges?

HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY MORIARTY: I can't speak to why the Trump administration says what it says. I can say the ICE officer does not have complete immunity here.

Video at the link
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbyzvnbhrs2o

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Via MSNow/MSNBC

The footage was posted by a local conservative outlet and shared on X by Vice President JD Vance, who said in his post that it showed Ross’ “life was endangered and he fired in self defense,” an argument federal officials have made since Wednesday’s killing. State and local leaders have rejected that narrative.

The new video does not appear to show with any degree of clarity that Good was trying to strike Ross with her car, which had just begun to pull forward when she was shot. Previous footage from a bystander shows that the car’s wheels were turned to the right as it moved forward, away from where Ross was positioned near its front left.

The newer footage matches the perspective of a phone Ross was holding in his left hand while he drew his gun, fired and reholstered with his right, according to multiple other videos.

The cursing is heard even before Good’s car crashes into a vehicle parked a short distance away.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

https://www.ms.now/news/oregon-ag-opens ... tion-agent

The video is also posted on MSNBC.

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Federal Officials Identify Pair Shot by Border Patrol in Portland, Ore.
The shooting during a traffic stop, a day after the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent, generated angry denunciations by local officials.


Police blocked off an area near where the victims of the shooting were found in Portland, Ore., on Thursday afternoon.Credit...Jordan Gale for The New York Times

By Anna Griffin and Jacey Fortin

Anna Griffin reported from Portland, Ore.
Jan. 9, 2026Updated 5:13 p.m. ET

The federal authorities on Friday released the names of two people who were shot by immigration agents during a traffic stop in Portland the day before. The shooting prompted angry denunciations from local officials, who demanded an end to the Trump administration’s crackdown, which they said was making the city less safe.

Department of Homeland Security officials said in a statement that the man and the woman, identified as Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras, had both entered the United States illegally from Venezuela.

The federal authorities said that the two people were associated with Tren de Aragua, a gang with roots in a Venezuelan prison that has been a frequent target of President Trump, without providing immediate evidence for that assertion. They said the man had been arrested for driving violations in the United States since entering the country in 2022 and had an order for removal.

The investigation into the shooting by U.S. Border Patrol agents is being led by federal authorities, who said on Friday morning that both of the people who were shot had been hospitalized, and that they would be taken into the custody by the F.B.I. upon their release. It was unclear yet if the pair had legal representation.

City and state officials said on Thursday night that they had received no information from federal officials, and were not even aware of which agency had shot the pair, who were not immediately taken into custody by federal authorities and drove about two miles to an apartment complex where they were apparently living.

The state’s attorney general, Dan Rayfield, said the Oregon Department of Justice, which he leads, will be conducting its own investigation of the shooting and the behavior of federal officers. His office fought federal attempts to use National Guard troops to quell demonstrations at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland last year, and in that case contended that the federal response to demonstrators was often disproportionate to the level of danger.

“Over the last two days we’ve had two shootings in two different states,” he said. “We’ve also had allegations in court of excessive force in Oregon. There’s a heightened sense of concern within this state. Our plan is to go in, look at the facts in an objective matter to see what transpired and if there is an applicable state law violation.”

Mr. Rayfield said the F.B.I. was cooperating with what he termed a “concurrent” investigation.

“It’s early, but I’m optimistic that cooperation will continue,” he said. “Working together is how we can rebuild trust.”

Portland and Oregon law enforcement officials have not corroborated the federal assertion of Tren de Aragua activity in Oregon, though neighbors at the apartment complex where the couple fled after they were shot had complained about drug activity and crime in the neighborhood. Oregon’s Venezuelan community is tiny — .005 percent of the state population, according to recent Census data.
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The police were alerted to the shooting on Thursday when the injured man called 911, according to Bob Day, Portland’s police chief. The immigration agents involved in the shooting were no longer on the scene when local officers arrived.

Chief Day suggested that cooperation between federal and local officials was limited, which echoes the situation in Minneapolis, where an ICE agent killed a woman in her vehicle on Wednesday. Minnesota’s top law enforcement agency said on Thursday that it had withdrawn from an investigation because it was being denied access to evidence by federal agencies.

That shooting prompted angry demonstrations and tearful vigils in remembrance of the woman who was killed, Renee Nicole Good, 37. As in Portland on Thursday, it exacerbated long-running tensions between Minneapolis officials and the Trump administration over a surge in federal immigration enforcement, with city officials demanding an end to the crackdown.

In the case of the shooting in Portland, homeland security officials said that Border Patrol agents had been conducting a “targeted vehicle stop” when they pulled over a truck driven by Mr. Moncada amid a collection of health clinics and offices and that an agent had fired after the driver tried to run them over. A spokesman with Adventist Health, which operates the medical facilities near the shooting site, said that the F.B.I. had requested security camera footage from the area.

Residents at the apartment complex where the victims were found said they were both conscious and talking to police officers and emergency responders while being loaded into ambulances.

Emergency medical technicians described both victims as Spanish speakers in conversations captured by emergency radio broadcasts. The woman had a gunshot wound to the chest, an E.M.T. told a dispatcher, and the man was described as having two gunshot wounds.

Demonstrations after the episode lasted late into the night on Thursday, and the Portland police arrested at least six people.

The parking lot of the Southeast Portland hospital complex where the shooting occurred was quiet and cordoned off with yellow caution tape Friday afternoon, and a security guard said no one was working in the building. A black sedan that was hit when the shooting victims drove away was towed away Thursday night.

Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon demanded a transparent investigation. “Federal agents at the direction of the Department of Homeland Security are shattering trust,” she said on Thursday. “They are destroying day by day what we hold dear.”

Hamed Aleaziz contributed reporting from Washington and Aaron West from Portland, Ore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/us/p ... oting.html

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Re the Renee Good shooting:

Charlotte Clymer
‪@charlotteclymer.bsky.social‬
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

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Bill Grueskin
‪@bgrueskin.bsky.social‬
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.

This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:

“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

Bill Grueskin‬
‪@bgrueskin.bsky.social‬
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Kristi Noem managed, while governor of South Dakota, to get herself banned from the reservations within her state’s boundaries. That’s not easy to do.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... ibal-lands