John Mulaney Postpones Minneapolis Shows After ICE Killing, Says City Too ‘Unsafe’ for Audiences

John Mulaney will not be performing stand-up shows at The Armory in Minneapolis this weekend, the comedian announced Thursday. The decision comes after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday.

“What’s happening in your city is heartbreaking. I hate to postpone demonstrations in a town that is experiencing such terrible hardship and grief, because it seems to me that
It’s unfair to the audience,” Mulaney said on

The comedian promised to honor tickets to this weekend’s shows for a later date in April and directed fans to points of purchase or Ticketmaster for refunds.

“I apologize to anyone who was disappointed,” Mulaney continued. “I know a fun stand-up routine can be a nice distraction, but I don’t feel like putting anyone at risk.”

Immediately after the shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called on ICE agents to “get the hell out of the city,” saying they were “causing chaos and distrust.”

“They’re tearing families apart, sowing chaos in the streets, and in this case, literally killing people,” he said. “This was an agent using force recklessly that caused someone to die, to be killed.”

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said: X The justification for the death was that “rioters began obstructing ICE officers” and “one of these violent rioters weaponized his vehicle and attempted to kill our law enforcement officers to run them over – this is an act of domestic terrorism.”

The White House confirmed this version of the story, and J.D. Vance described Good’s death as “A tragedy of his own making“At a press conference on Thursday. Donald Trump also had an aide in the White House bring a laptop In an attempt to prove to reporters during the Oval Office interview that Good had run over the ICE agent before he was shot.

Reporters and testimony of an eyewitness They denied this claim.

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