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Portland Mayor Decries Mounting Bloodshed, Tells ICE to Get Out After Federal Agents Shoot Two
"As mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed," said Keith Wilson, the Democratic mayor of Portland, Oregon.
Jan 09, 2026
The mayor of Portland, Oregon told Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave the city after federal agents shot and wounded two people on Thursday, just a day after an ICE agent killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
"We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts," Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement. "Portland is not a 'training ground' for militarized agents, and the 'full force' threatened by the administration has deadly consequences. As mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed."
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon during what the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as a "targeted vehicle stop" conducted by Border Patrol agents. Echoing its narrative about the deadly Minneapolis shooting—which was contradicted by video footage from the scene—DHS said the driver "weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents."
But Wilson said Thursday that the Trump administration could not be trusted to provide an accurate account of events or conduct an honest investigation.
"We know what the federal government says happened here," said Wilson. "There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed."
The man and woman shot by Border Patrol agents were reportedly married, and both were taken to a nearby hospital. Neither their identities nor their conditions were immediately made public.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said late Thursday that his office was investigating the shooting to determine “whether any federal officer acted outside the scope of their lawful authority."
"We have been clear about our concerns with the excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland, and today’s incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability," said Rayfield. "Oregonians deserve clear answers when people are injured in their neighborhoods."
The shootings in Minneapolis and Portland were hardly the first time federal immigration officers have used deadly force during US President Donald Trump's lawless mass deportation campaign.
The Marshall Project noted earlier this week that "federal officers have fatally shot at least three other people in the last five months."
"Agents have also shot other people," The Marshall Project added. "The Trace, the nonprofit news organization covering gun violence, has counted more than a dozen such shootings. In some cases, the victims survived, including a woman who suffered multiple bullet wounds in an incident in Chicago in October. The Border Patrol officer who shot her appeared to brag about it in a text message, later presented in court evidence. The message reportedly read, 'I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.'"
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Cover-Up Fears Mount as FBI Cuts Minnesota Investigators Out of Deadly ICE Shooting Probe
"You don’t cut out investigators unless you’re hiding something."
Jan 08, 2026
The FBI on Thursday informed investigators in Minnesota that it would not be cooperating with them in probing the deadly shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.
Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), said that the probe into Good's death "would now be led solely by the FBI," which would leave his agency without "access to the case materials, scene evidence, or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation."
"Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses, and information collected," Evans added, "we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands. As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation."
As noted in a post on Bluesky from MPR News reporter Jon Collins, the Minnesota BCA has a Force Investigations Unit that was created in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd to "restore trust in investigations when law enforcement kills civilians."
Insider sources told independent journalist Radley Balko that the FBI was "initially open to a concurrent investigation" with the Minnesota BCA, but then Trump-appointed Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen "intervened" and barred the agency from cooperating with local officials on the probe.
"Practically, unless something changes, Rosen's intervention means there will be no independent police agency investigating the shooting," Balko added. "It will be left entirely to Kash Patel's FBI. Any chance of state charges will be entirely reliant on the FBI investigation and what evidence it decides to share."
When asked by a journalist about the decision to end cooperation with Minnesota investigators on Thursday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem insisted that "they have not been cut out," but said that rather "they don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
Reporter: The state investigation agency said they were cut out of the investigation. Can you explain that reversal?
Noem: They have not been cut out. They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation. pic.twitter.com/aI5s0XWMMh
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 8, 2026
Noem's assertion drew immediate criticism from Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee in the US House of Representatives.
"You don’t cut out investigators unless you’re hiding something," they wrote in a social media post. "Kristi Noem’s DHS is covering up the killing of a US citizen."
Several legal experts also debunked Noem's claim that Minnesota state law enforcement agencies have no jurisdiction to investigate the killing of a resident on the streets of their state's largest city.
Fordham University School of Law professor John Pfaff accused Noem of "openly lying," and pointed to a statement on the FBI's own website stating that "state and local law enforcement agencies are not subordinate to the FBI, and the FBI does not supervise or take over their investigations."
Attorney Ken White, a former federal prosecutor, argued that Noem's statement should be a wakeup call to other state governments when it comes to cooperating with federal agencies during Trump's second term.
"It is the position of the Trump administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America... and kill people," he wrote, "and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly."
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, meanwhile, vowed to investigate Good's death, regardless of the federal government's cooperation.
"State authorities can investigate anyway," Ellison told CNN. "We don't need their authority. I mean, it's at least arguable, and I believe substantially arguable, that there's a violation of Minnesota statutes here, you know, and I can think of a number of potential charges. All of them depend on an investigation, though, and the federal government can't stop Minnesota from doing its own."
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Woman Killed by ICE Identified as Protesters Take to Streets in Minneapolis and Beyond
"Say it once. Say it twice. We will not put up with ICE," Minnesotans chanted at the site of the shooting.
Jan 07, 2026
Protests broke out in Minnesota and beyond on Wednesday after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good.
Good's mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that the family was notified of her death Wednesday morning. Good was a 37-year-old US citizen, Minneapolis resident, and mother.
As the newspaper reported:
"That's so stupid" that she was killed, Ganger said, after learning some of the circumstances from a reporter. "She was probably terrified."
Ganger said her daughter is "not part of anything like that at all," referring to protesters challenging ICE agents.
"Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known," she said. "She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate. She was an amazing human being."
The deadly shooting came shortly after President Donald Trump sent over 2,000 federal agents to the Twin Cities, similar to other invasions of Democrat-led US communities by immigration teams carrying out the Republican's mass deportation agenda.
Trump and the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, have claimed that the woman was trying to run over the agent with her vehicle, which DHS called "an act of domestic terrorism," but videos circulating online and witness accounts to reporters have undermined those statements.
"They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video... myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bullshit," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. "This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying—getting killed."
The Democratic mayor also told ICE to "get the fuck out of Minneapolis," a sentiment shared by various politicians and residents.
The federal agent shot Good on Portland Avenue, where protesters remained "long after ICE agents left, chanting and yelling at law enforcement officers as they set up metal barriers around the scene," according to the Star Tribune. "Law enforcement closed off several blocks of Portland Avenue as hundreds gathered at the scene of the shooting throughout the early afternoon. Dozens of local police watched from the street, and a crew of state troopers in fluorescent green showed up shortly before 1:30 pm."
As CNN reported, some protesters at the scene threw snowballs at law enforcement. Later Wednesday, the network detailed, residents and activists held "a vigil around a makeshift shrine of flowers and candles on a patch of snow."
"Say it once. Say it twice. We will not put up with ICE," vigil attendees chanted. They also chanted the victim's name.
In Minneapolis, protesters also gathered outside the Hennepin County Courthouse and chanted, "ICE out now!"
Good's killing has also drawn demonstrations and denunciations beyond Minnesota, including at Foley Square in Manhattan—which, as WABC noted, "sits between the federal courthouse and 26 Federal Plaza," which is DHS headquarters in New York City.
NYC's newly inaugurated democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, said that "the news coming out of Minneapolis is horrific. This is one part that has been a year full of cruelty, and we know that when ICE agents attack immigrants, they attack every one of us across this country."
"This is a city and will always be a city that stands up for immigrants across the five boroughs," Mamdani said of New York, pledging that "we are going to adhere to" local sanctuary city policies.
There were also multiple protests planned for the Chicago area, which was recently targeted by Trump's immigration agents.
"Today, the Little Village Community Council, alongside community members, faith leaders, and allies, gathers in solidarity and grief to denounce the killing of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, an innocent US citizen whose life was taken during an encounter involving ICE agents," said the council's president, Baltazar Enriquez, in a statement.
"We are outraged," Enriquez added. "Today's gathering includes candles, prayers, and support from the faith community, honoring the life that was lost and all families harmed by unjust enforcement practices. We call on the people of Chicago to stand together—to demand justice, to protect one another, and to insist on a nation where no one is killed for existing, for migrating, or for being brown."
Little Village was among the Chicago neighborhoods stormed by federal immigration agents last year. Others include Brighton Park, where a Border Patrol agent shot and injured a woman, and suburban Franklin Park, where an ICE agent shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez.
Democratic members of Congress from coast to coast—including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Eric Swalwell (Calif.)—condemned Good's killing as "murder" and demanded that the agent be prosecuted.
"ICE shouldn't be allowed to act with impunity after shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis," said US Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (D-Mass.) "This rogue agency's escalating presence brings more and more danger to our communities. Donald Trump and ICE must be reined in by Congress and the courts before more people get hurt."
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said that "it is clear from that video that an ICE federal agent just shot a woman four times in cold blood. Abolish ICE now."
Tlaib later added that "an ICE agent fired multiple shots at Renee Nicole Good, murdering her at point blank range."
A fellow progressive in the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), "just offered a subpoena in the Oversight Committee for all information from DHS related to her murder today in Minneapolis," Tlaib noted. "Republicans blocked it. We need answers."
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