Minneapolis Shooting Timeline

Ava Cai

January 16, 2026

This is a timeline and remarks on the Minneapolis ICE shooting incident that happened earlier this month. 

January 6, 2026: The Trump administration deploys around 2,000 ICE agents into Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security claims this deployment to be the largest immigration operation in U.S. history. 

January 7, 2026: Early in the morning, ICE presence in Minneapolis continues to increase at a rapid rate. This alarms the residents of Minneapolis, and tensions in the neighborhood begin to rise. 

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three children, joins a group that is monitoring ICE activity in the area. Good drives her car onto Portland Avenue near East 34th Street, where multiple ICE agents are approaching the community members and witnesses. As Good’s car approaches the line of ICE agents, one officer grips the handle of her SUV and demands that she open the door. Good slowly puts her car into reverse and backs out carefully and away from the officers. An ICE officer then fires multiple rounds into Good’s vehicle, completely unwarranted and at a dangerously close range. 

When the police and paramedics arrive, Good is unresponsive, with one shot to the head and two to the chest. Good was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead less than one hour after the shooting. 

The crowd becomes enraged toward the ICE agents, and the ICE agents flee the scene. 

January 8, 2026: There is a surge in federal agent presence in Minneapolis—nearly 3,000 officers, which outnumbers the local police— and they begin arresting immigrants and protesters in the next few days.

In the following days: Trump claims that Good tried to run over the agents, but footage shows Good turning her wheels away to avoid the officers. The public is enraged and accuses ICE of targeting Black and Latino residents, including U.S. citizens. 

January 16, 2026: Tom Homan suggests creating a public database that identifies people accused of interfering with ICE. 

Emergency call transcripts are also released detailing the chaos that unfolded during and after the shooting. In addition, the U.S. Justice Department is investigating Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. 

The shooting in Minneapolis is not at all an accident, and even less an isolated incident. In fact, this was a predictable result of a president who treats human lives as collateral damage in a political battle he is too afraid to admit that he is losing—very, very badly. This is not “law and order—” it is brutality and authoritarianship masquerading as governance.