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US President Donald Trump defended immigration officers after an ICE agent shot a 37-year-old woman dead in Minneapolis during an operation on Wednesday. Trump said the victim "violently, wilfully and viciously" ran over the ICE officer, whose reaction seems to have been in self-defence.
"I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, wilfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defence. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He then blamed the "Radical Left" for such kinds of incidents, saying they are threatening and targeting the ICE agents on a daily basis, while stressing that Wednesday's situation is being "studied in its entirety".
"They (ICE agents) are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate," the US President further wrote.
Renee Nicole Good was shot dead on a residential street close to longstanding immigrant businesses. The location is about a mile from where George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American, was killed by a white police officer in 2020, sparking the largest racial justice protests in US history in the form of 'Black Lives Matter'.
According to US law enforcement and immigration officials, the ICE agent discharged his weapon in response to what was described as an attempt by Good to use her vehicle against the officers.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also defended the ICE officer's action as she labelled the incident as an "act of domestic terrorism" against ICE personnel. She said the woman "attempted to run over federal agents and rammed them with her vehicle, leaving the officer with little choice but to open fire".
"An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him," Noem said, also confirming that "hundreds and hundreds" of arrests had already taken place. The ongoing enforcement initiative deployed more than 2,000 officers across Minneapolis and St. Paul.
However, Minneapolis leaders condemned both the shooting and the federal intervention, with Mayor Jacob Frey, appearing visibly angry during a press briefing, rejecting Trump and his administration's self-defence claim.
"They're already trying to spin this as an action of self-defence... Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly – that is bullshit," Frey said, asking ICE agents to "get the f*** out of Minneapolis".
'They're ripping families apart. They're sowing chaos on our streets, and in this case, quite literally killing people," Frey added, calling the Trump administration's self-defence claim a "garbage narrative".
In the aftermath of the incident on Wednesday, crowds converged at the shooting site, chanting "Shame! Shame! Shame!" and "ICE out of Minnesota!" The incident represents the fifth fatality linked to immigration enforcement since 2024, increasing scrutiny on both ICE procedures and national immigration policy as applied in major urban centres.
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Published On:
Jan 8, 2026
