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Newly released transcripts of exigency calls and dispatch records connected Friday (January 16, 2026) elaborate the chaotic and unsafe country that unfolded aft a U.S. migration serviceman changeable Renee Good successful Minneapolis, a sidesplitting that has go a national flashpoint implicit President Donald Trump’s harsh migration crackdown.
In 1 panicked telephone aft another, witnesses told constabulary what they had seen: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents successful the street, respective shots fired astatine a driver, her conveyance slamming into different cars, humor everywhere.
“There’s 15 ICE agents, and they changeable her, like, ‘cause she wouldn’t unfastened her car door,” 1 caller said, adding a watercourse of profanities.
“ICE fired shots into her windshield,” different caller said, arsenic the relation urged the idiosyncratic to dilatory their breathing. “She’s bleeding”.
Later, arsenic Good was being pronounced dormant astatine a section hospital, constabulary were trying to evacuate ICE officers from the country portion aggravated protesters chopped down crime-scene portion astir the area, according to an incidental study that recorded communications betwixt exigency responders.
“ICE BEING SURROUNDED,” 1 idiosyncratic transmitted astatine 11:01 a.m., astir 80 minutes aft the shooting, according to the report.
The transcripts surfaced hours earlier quality that the U.S. Justice Department was investigating Minnesota officials, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, implicit an alleged conspiracy to impede migration agents.
A root acquainted with the substance confirmed reports successful the Washington Post, CBS News and different outlets that the probe stems from statements made by Walz and Frey, some Democrats, astir the thousands of national agents deployed to the Minneapolis portion successful caller weeks. The Justice Department did not instantly comment.
Both officials on with different Minnesota Democrats person denounced the ICE cognition and Good’s death, and they accused Mr. Trump of intentionally fomenting chaos.
Thousands of national agents sent to Minnesota
Minnesota’s astir populous metropolis has seen progressively tense confrontations betwixt residents and national officers since Good, a 37-year-old parent of three, was changeable behind the instrumentality of her car connected January 7 by an ICE officer, Jonathan Ross. At the time, Good was taking portion successful 1 of galore vicinity patrols organised by section activists to way and show ICE activities.
The shooting came a time aft the Trump medication announced the deployment of 2,000 migration agents to Minneapolis successful what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called its largest specified cognition successful history.
The surge successful DHS unit has since grown to astir 3,000, dwarfing the ranks of section constabulary officers successful the Twin Cities metropolitan country of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Since the ICE surge, agents person arrested some immigrants and protesters, astatine times smashing windows and pulling radical from their cars. Some officers person recovered themselves surrounded by onlookers jeering and shouting astatine them for stopping Blacks and Latinos who turned retired to beryllium U.S. citizens.
Mr. Trump’s borderline czar, Tom Homan, has floated the thought of creating a nationalist database of radical arrested on suspicion of interfering with ICE operations oregon assaulting officers, saying connected Fox News on Thursday (January 15, 2026) their identities would past beryllium known to their employers and neighbours.
Mr. Trump medication officials person complained astir what they telephone the “doxing” of national agents, including Ross, saying that puts officers astatine risk, starring them to deterioration masks to support their identities.
In the lawsuit of the Good shooting, Mr. Trump and different medication officials accused her of deliberately trying to tally implicit Ross and different agents astatine the country with her car. Videos showed she turned her wheels distant from the officers, and Democratic metropolis and authorities officials person rejected the government's relationship arsenic false.
The Trump medication has said Ross was injured during the incidental — though video shows him walking astir afterward — portion noting helium was earnestly wounded months earlier successful an unrelated postulation halt that resulted successful him being dragged down a vehicle.
Minneapolis arrests
Mr. Trump has said the Minneapolis deployment was prompted successful portion by allegations of fraud among the state’s ample Somali American community. Mr. Trump has called Somali immigrants “garbage” and said they should beryllium thrown retired of the country.
The DHS said connected X that 12 “agitators” were arrested connected Thursday (January 15, 2026) nighttime for assaulting instrumentality enforcement, without providing details.
As Trump’s deportation thrust successful Minneapolis neared the extremity of its 2nd week, the Good shooting remained the lone fatality associated with the surge. Fire section records showed paramedics were connected the country four minutes aft the shooting was reported, uncovering Good successful her car unresponsive with 4 evident gunshot wounds, including 1 to her caput and 2 to her chest.
Emergency unit tried to revive her, some astatine the country and successful the ambulance en way to the hospital. She was pronounced dormant little than an hr aft being shot.
Meanwhile, astatine the shooting scene, constabulary were trying to forestall much violence, according to an incidental study that recorded communications among archetypal responders.
