“Hundreds more” federal officers will be sent to Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis last week, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem confirmed to FOX News on Sunday (January 12).
“We’re sending more officers today and tomorrow, they’ll arrive. There will be hundreds more, in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely,” Noem said.
Good was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer on January 7 and the shooting has been widely politicized as Democrats and Republicans argue over the cause. A video shared online, which appears to have been recorded on a cellphone belonging to Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who fatally shot Good, shows her in the driver’s seat of her SUV on a suburban street talking to ICE officers while her wife stands outside the vehicle before Ross fires multiple rounds into the SUV just after it starts to move.
Democrat members of Congress and local Minneapolis leaders and residents have condemned the actions of the ICE officer while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, the Department of Homeland Security and numerous conservative pundits have defended the officer.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said “tens of thousands of people” attended what he described as a peaceful march, but Noem claimed the operation in the state would now shift from its sole focus of immigration law breaches to also tackling anti-ICE protests.
“We’re going to continue to if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that’s a crime, and we will hold them accountable to those consequences,” she said via FOX News.
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