Shrai Popat (now);Marina Dunbar and Tom Ambrose (earlier)
2026-01-08 21:05:00
Here’s a recap of the Trump administration’s comments about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis
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Vice-president JD Vance appeared at the White House news briefing today, and repeated claims that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good was acting in “self-defense”. Vance said that Good, 37, was “dead because she tried to ram somebody with her car”, and claimed, baselessly, that she was part of a “left wing network” of people trying to incite violence against federal law enforcement officers. The vice-president further defended the ICE agent in question, by noting that he was “dragged by a car six months ago” and might be “a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile”.
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At a press conference in New York today, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem continued to say that the shooting was in response to an “act of domestic terrorism”. Noem said that the officer who killed Macklin Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old. She added that the ICE agent “was hit by the vehicle, went to hospital and received treatment, was released, and is spending time with his family now” before noting that he is an “experienced officer”. Noem also said she was “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”.
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As demonstrations in response to Wednesdays’s shooting continue throughout the state, attorney general Pam Bondi warned protesting Minnesotans to “not test our resolve”. She said that “obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law enforcement is a federal crime” and noted that those who “cross that red line” will be “arrested and prosecuted”.
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After news of the shooting, Donald Trump spoke with the New York Times and insisted that Macklin Good “behaved horribly”. According to the four reporters in the room, Trump replayed the eyewitness video of the incident. “She didn’t try to run him over, she ran him over,” he said. However, multiple angles of the shooting show Macklin Good reversing her car and letting at least one ICE vehicle pass before an officer tells her to get out of the car, she then tries to turn and drive away. The agent shoots her multiple times, remains on his feet and walks away apparently uninjured as her car crashes into a lamp-post and parked vehicle.
Key events
Lauren Gambino
In his final state of the state address, California Governor Gavin Newsom assailed the Trump administration for inciting a “carnival of chaos,” warning: “None of this is normal.”
“In Washington, the president believes that might makes right, that the courts are simply speed bumps, not stop signs, and that democracy is a nuisance to be circumvented,” Newsom said in his address, speaking from the state Capitol in Sacramento to a joint session of the legislature.
Referencing Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, he continued: “Secret police, businesses being raided, windows smashed, citizens detained, Citizens shot, masked men snatching people in broad daylight, people disappearing, using American cities as training grounds for the United States military.”
Newsom, who is widely expected to run for president in 2028, has governed California through historic periods of crisis that overlapped with the end of Trump’s first term, and the first years of his second, as well as the pandemic and the LA fires.
In his address, Newsom cast the state as an American “marvel” and a bulwark against the “twisted nostalgia” of the Trump administration. Pre-empting some of the criticism he will surely face from Republicans should he seek the White House, Newsom argued vigorously that his state still leads the country – and the world – in culture, technology, education and agriculture.
“Every year, the declinists, the pundits and critics suffering from California derangement syndrome look at this state and try to tear down our progress,” he said, touting an environment that has created the “conditions where dreamers and doers and misfits and marvelers with grit and ingenuity get to build and do the impossible”.
As if offering a bit of advice to a potential presidential campaign, the president’s tormentor-in-chief said: “If we’re going to keep the faith of the California spirit we’ve got to do more than just resist what is wrong.”
“We’re not defined by what we’re against,” he added. “We’re defined by what we’re for.”
Today, the Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution to display a commemorative plaque to honor the Capitol police and other officers who defended Congress during the January 6 riots.
The plaque will be placed in the Senate wing of the US Capitol until it is permanently installed on building’s west front.
Despite a law approving the plaque’s display passing three years ago, it has never been officially hung. Today, outgoing senator Thom Tillis brought the resolution to the floor, which received no objection by lawmakers.
Ali Winston
According to court records, Ross was involved in the June arrest of Roberto Carlos Muñoz, an undocumented Mexican immigrant with an open immigration detainer and a criminal conviction for sexually assaulting his 16-year-old stepdaughter in 2022.
Muñoz was contacted at his residence in Bloomington, Minnesota, by a group of federal agents on 19 June 2025.
According to an affidavit from an FBI agent, Muñoz was in his car when federal law enforcement approached him. He did not comply with commands to get out of his vehicle and drove away. The feds pursued Muñoz and conducted a traffic stop. An enforcement and removal operation (ERO) agent and an FBI agent approached the car and ordered Muñoz in both English and Spanish to put the car in park and provide documentation, which he did. When the ERO agent ordered Muñoz to exit the car, he refused.
At this point, according to the affidavit, the ERO agent broke the rear driver’s side window of Muñoz’s car and tried to unlock the driver’s door.
Muñoz threw the car into drive, speeding off with the agent trapped in the vehicle by his arm and dragged behind the car for 100 yards down the street along the curb, weaving past several cars. The agent was jarred loose from the window, and fell into the street, and Muñoz drove off. The agent suffered serious lacerations on both arms, which required 33 stitches in total to close.
At the White House on Thursday, Vance engaged in a lengthy defense of the officer’s actions and said: “[T]hat very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.” The court documents indicate the stitches were on Ross’s arms and hand, not his leg.
ICE agent in Minneapolis killing identified as 10-year law enforcement veteran
Ali Winston
The ICE agent involved in the lethal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is Jonathan David Ross, according to court records that closely match the description of a June 2025 incident involving the agent in Bloomington, Minnesota, cited by the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance.
Ross is a Minneapolis resident and 10-year veteran of the enforcement and removal operation’s special response team.
Trump chides dissenting GOP senators over resolution to curb military action in Venezuela
Donald Trump scolded the five Republican lawmakers who broke ranks and voted to advance a resolution that would limit the administration’s ability to carry out further military action in Venezuela.
The president said that senators Lisa Murkowski, Todd Young, Josh Hawley, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul “should never be elected to office again”.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump added that today’s vote “greatly hampers American Self Defense and National Security, impeding the President’s Authority as Commander in Chief”. He also called the War Powers Resolution – which inhibits a president’s ability to commit to an armed conflict without approval from Congress – as “unconstitutional”.
Today’s procedural motion, tees up a full vote on the measure in the Senate. It’s longterm fate, however, remains precarious. The bill would still need to pass the House and would require Trump’s signature.
Here’s a recap of the Trump administration’s comments about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis
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Vice-president JD Vance appeared at the White House news briefing today, and repeated claims that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good was acting in “self-defense”. Vance said that Good, 37, was “dead because she tried to ram somebody with her car”, and claimed, baselessly, that she was part of a “left wing network” of people trying to incite violence against federal law enforcement officers. The vice-president further defended the ICE agent in question, by noting that he was “dragged by a car six months ago” and might be “a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile”.
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At a press conference in New York today, homeland security secretary Kristi Noem continued to say that the shooting was in response to an “act of domestic terrorism”. Noem said that the officer who killed Macklin Good was “following his training” when he shot the 37-year-old. She added that the ICE agent “was hit by the vehicle, went to hospital and received treatment, was released, and is spending time with his family now” before noting that he is an “experienced officer”. Noem also said she was “not opposed” to sending more federal immigration agents to Minneapolis “to keep people safe”.
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As demonstrations in response to Wednesdays’s shooting continue throughout the state, attorney general Pam Bondi warned protesting Minnesotans to “not test our resolve”. She said that “obstructing, impeding, or attacking federal law enforcement is a federal crime” and noted that those who “cross that red line” will be “arrested and prosecuted”.
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After news of the shooting, Donald Trump spoke with the New York Times and insisted that Macklin Good “behaved horribly”. According to the four reporters in the room, Trump replayed the eyewitness video of the incident. “She didn’t try to run him over, she ran him over,” he said. However, multiple angles of the shooting show Macklin Good reversing her car and letting at least one ICE vehicle pass before an officer tells her to get out of the car, she then tries to turn and drive away. The agent shoots her multiple times, remains on his feet and walks away apparently uninjured as her car crashes into a lamp-post and parked vehicle.
The vice-president said that local state authorities had no jurisdiction over the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis. This comes as the Minneosta Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the case would “solely led by the FBI” after BCA’s access to evidence was revoked.
Vance said the investigation is a “federal issue”, and the ICE agent who killed Renee Good “is protected by absolute immunity”.
“He was doing his job,” the vice-president added. “The idea that Tim Walz and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy’s life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous.”
Throughout today’s White House briefing, Vance has repeatedly claimed, baselessly, that Renee Good was part of a “left wing network” of people who are trying to “incite violence against our law enforcement officers”.
The vice-president added:
This is classic terrorism, and we cannot say that when the far-left fringe is inciting violence against our brave law enforcement officials, that we’re no longer going to enforce the law. That’s rewarding the very people who are engaged in this garbage.
He continued to disparage Good as he answered questions from reporters, characterizing her as “a victim of left wing ideology”.
“What young mother shows up and decides they’re going to throw their car in front of ICE officers who are enforcing legitimate law. You’ve got to be a little brainwashed to get to that point,” Vance said.
Vance, once again repeated the administration’s claim that Macklin Good was trying to “ram” the ICE agent who killed her in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
“He shot back. He defended himself. He’s already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before, and everybody who’s been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourself,” Vance added.
Vance says that ICE agent who killed Macklin Good was ‘dragged by a car’ last year and maybe ‘sensitive about somebody ramming him’
The vice-president offered insight into the ICE agent’s actions that led to him killing Renee Good. He chastised the press for mis-reporting on the incident.
“That very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg,” Vance said. “So you think maybe he’s a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile.”
Vice-president doubles down saying that ICE agent was acting in self-defense
Vice-president JD Vance doubled down on the administration’s claim that the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday was acting in self-defense.
“This was an attack on law and order,” he said. “This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media by and large has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”
Leavitt says that fatal shooting in Minneapolis by ICE agent is part of a ‘larger, sinister left wing movement’
At the White House today, press secretary Karoline Leavitt kicked off her briefing addressing the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE agent.
She said that the “deadly incident” occurred as a result of a “larger, sinister left wing movement that has spread across our country”, adding that federal law enforcement are under “organized attack”.
The press secretary cited a recent DHS statistic that there has been an almost 1200% increase in “assaults and violence” against federal immigration agents.
The White House is about to hold a press briefing, where press secretary Karoline Leavitt and vice president JD Vance are expected to speak. We will bring you lines from the briefing as they come.
Walz: ‘it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome’ of FBI investigation
Minnesota governor Tim Walz expressed doubt that a “fair outcome” will be achieved following the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by a federal immigration agent in a press briefing today.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced that it would be withdrawing from the investigation into the fatal shooting after federal authorities blocked BCA from accessing evidence and materials from the case.
“Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome,” Walz said. “And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate. They have determined the character of a 37-year-old mom that they didn’t even know.”
He went on to say that Noem had assumed the role of “judge, jury and basically executioner yesterday.”
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