Minneapolis schools cancel classes after ICE officer’s fatal shooting of woman | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Authorities in Minneapolis canceled school classes in the city on Thursday amid security concerns and rising political tensions after a U.S. citizen was killed by a federal agent during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation.
Wednesday night’s demonstration, attended by thousands, was peaceful after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Macklin Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer just hours earlier.
Large numbers of people clad in heavy coats gathered in a parking lot near a building that houses several federal agencies, including immigration court. The crowd was holding American flags and signs and chanting calls for ICE to leave Minnesota.
At one point, police launched smoke-emitting devices to disperse the crowd; The crowd carried banners and hurled curses at them.
Patrick Riley, one of the protesters, told the Associated Press: “We are demonstrating peacefully. We are trying to tell this organization that they are not welcome.”
But emotions remained high in the city and across the United States as the Trump administration continued to portray the victim, who was shot multiple times as he walked away from a group of officers, as a “domestic terrorist” bent on crushing them.
“Trump wants a demonstration. Don’t give it to him,” said Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz. Published on X He urged protesters Wednesday night to remain calm. He said he had issued a “warning order” regarding the possible deployment of the Minnesota national guard.
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar published on social media Thousands of people gathered to remember the victim last night and chant “ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis” Thursday morning.
“We will never accept a single federal agent being judge, jury and executioner on our streets,” he said.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared on network television multiple times Wednesday night and called for peaceful protests, doubling down on his comments at a press conference earlier in the day where he called for ICE to “get the hell out of Minneapolis.”
“People are being hurt. Families are being torn apart. Long-time Minneapolis residents who have contributed greatly to our city, our culture, our economy are being terrorized, and now someone is dead,” Frey said.
He said the homeland security department had already “tried to distort this as an act of self-defense” and called that claim “nonsense.”
Some Republicans viewed Frey’s comments as inflammatory; South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace also said: call for resignation the mayor and Walz.
But much of the political discourse continued to come from the White House with Donald Trump. I’m telling New York Times reporters On Wednesday night, Macklin, the mother of a six-year-old son, said Good was at fault.
“He acted terribly,” Trump said. Posted on Truth Social without evidence that he “brutally ran over the ICE Officer” earlier in the day.
“Then he crushed him. He didn’t try to crush him. He crushed him,” the president said.
Video of the conflictBut after the woman’s car crashed into a utility pole and a parked car, it showed the agent getting back on his feet and apparently walking away uninjured.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the woman was “stalking” ICE agents and obstructing traffic; Another claim, unsupported by the video, showed the woman initially backing up and allowing at least one ICE vehicle to pass.
Noem also said ICE operations will continue in Minneapolis, where nearly 2,000 federal agents swarmed this week to target the immigrant population.
While residents of the city with a large Somali population described the atmosphere as “tense and angry” on Thursday, other demonstrations are planned for later in the day.
Anti-ICE protests took place in several US cities on Wednesday after news of the incident spread, and more are planned for Thursday, including New York, Houston and San Diego.
