The mayor of Minneapolis and local elected officials have called on President Donald Trump’s administration to “embrace the truth” and ensure an impartial investigation into the killing of a city resident by immigration agents earlier this week.
Friday’s appeal came a day after the independent state agency announced it had been removed from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, 37, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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The unusual move raised concerns that the federal government’s investigation into one of its employees was biased.
“Now is not the time to hide from the facts,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference. “Now is the time to embrace them and ensure we promote transparency every step of the way.”
Trump administration officials quickly claimed that Wednesday’s attack in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis was an act of “domestic terrorism” and that the operatives involved were acting in self-defense because they had attempted to run over the victim.
But video evidence casts doubt on the federal government’s version.
Frey said he was very “concerned” that the Trump administration had already “reached conclusions” about the facts of the case long before the investigation was complete.
He added that without the involvement of independent local investigators, any findings by the FBI would be considered tainted and would only fuel fear and mistrust.
“This is not some radical outlandish group,” Frey said of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCA), which was initially asked by the FBI to participate in the investigation but was abruptly discontinued.
“This was an organization formed by professionals who understood how to investigate, many of whom were police officers.”
The mayor added that the people of Minneapolis want “justice and truth.”
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Protests continue in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities in the wake of the killing.
Several videos from Wednesday’s incident show Good parked in the middle of the road in a maroon Honda Pilot SUV and ICE agents walking toward her car.
One officer approached the driver’s side window and instructed Good to get out of the SUV, but another officer was also seen waving at her, leading some to believe this may have been a contradictory command.
Good’s car is then seen backing up and slowly moving forward. That’s when the agent, who was standing near the front left bumper of the SUV, opened fire. The vehicle continued on the road and collided with a utility pole and another vehicle.
In the immediate aftermath, video shows law enforcement officers refusing to allow an individual claiming to be a doctor to render medical aid to Good, who was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was dropping her youngest off at school.
Shortly after the killing, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Goode was a “violent mobster” who “weaponized his vehicle” to “run over” law enforcement.
Hours later, President Trump, without evidence, called Goode a “professional agitator” who “violently, intentionally, and maliciously ran down an ICE officer” and blamed the incident on the “radical left.”
The US president claimed it was “hard to believe” the operative involved was alive, despite video footage showing him walking around the scene after the shooting.
Vice President J.D. Vance, who participated in a lengthy White House news conference on Thursday, also offered an inflammatory account of the incident, calling it “classic terrorism” and suggesting that Goode had been “brainwashed” by “radical leftists.”
He also falsely claimed that the officers who fired the shots were “protected by absolute immunity” from state prosecution because they were federal law enforcement officers “performing their duties.”
New oversight of ICE
The shooting has brought new attention to President Trump’s efforts to mass deport the country. The administration is trying to rapidly expand the size of ICE’s bloated agency, flooding communities across the country with federal agents.
Prior to the killing, news website The Trace had documented 16 incidents in which federal agents enforcing immigration enforcement shot or killed someone since President Trump took office in January 2025. Good was one of four people killed in those shootings, police said.
On Thursday, two Customs and Border Protection agents, who work for DHS as well as ICE agents, opened fire during a traffic stop in Portland, Oregon, wounding a man and a woman.
The bill President Trump signed in 2025 allocates $75 billion to ICE’s personnel, enforcement, and detention budget over the next four years, an amount that far exceeds the military budgets of most countries in the world.
Minneapolis City Councilman Jason Chavez said at a Friday news conference that an independent investigation into Goode’s killing is essential for local residents to have “confidence in this process.”
He added that Goode’s killing occurred as the administration rushed ICE agents to Minneapolis in its latest operation targeting Somali Americans, leaving many people in fear.
“What has befallen Minneapolis and this state is not the American Dream,” he said. “That’s not the American dream.”
