Thousands of Minneapolis ICE protesters march to shooting site

Alicia A. Caldwell and María Paula Mijares Torres, Bloomberg News on Jan 10, 2026

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Thousands marched Saturday in Minneapolis to the site where a federal agent shot and killed Renée Nicole Good during a confrontation, heightening political divisions around the Trump administration’s immigrant crackdown.

For a fourth day since the Wednesday shooting, people in south Minneapolis marched, chanting and bearing signs, some with profanities, against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who have swarmed parts of the city since early December.

Largely missing from the crowd of protesters were Somali immigrants, the population that sparked President Donald Trump’s ire.

Smaller groups gathered in New York and Washington D.C. on Saturday to protest Trump’s enforcement regime.

Good’s fatal shooting has sparked a sharp national debate over whether the officer was justified in using deadly force. The Trump administration and other supporters of the ICE agent argue that he acted in self-defense as Good’s SUV moved forward during a tense encounter. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he “followed his training.”

Critics, including Minnesota officials, law-enforcement experts and civil-rights advocates, point to video footage and witness accounts that did not show an imminent threat, calling the shooting unjustified.

Each side has interpreted the video differently, and the federal government has blocked Minnesota officials from joining the investigation into the shooting.

Minnesota leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz, have questioned whether a federal-only probe can be impartial.

The clash over accountability has fueled protests and broader concerns about aggressive immigration enforcement tactics under the Trump administration.

On Friday evening, hundreds of protesters spent hours outside a local hotel in downtown Minneapolis believed to be housing federal agents as part of a social-media driven campaign dubbed “No Sleep for ICE.” Armed with musical instruments, air horns and other noisemakers, demonstrators chanted and played music as passing cars honked horns and shouted at ICE to leave the city.

Later that night, 29 people were arrested as they tried to break into the hotel, throwing ice and snow at police officers, Minneapolis Chief of Police Brian O’Hara said at a news conference Saturday.

“For the vast majority who have ensured we don’t take the bait from the Trump administration, I’m grateful,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at the same news conference. “But if anyone causes property damage or puts others in danger, they will be arrested.”

As the sun set on a cloudy, chilly Friday, people gathered at the growing memorial where Good was shot and killed while driving away from an ICE officer who ordered her out of her car. Volunteers passed around cinnamon tea and snacks to people who milled about the sprawling memorial of flowers, candles and hand-made signs in Good’s honor.

Colin Moriarti, an 81-year-old retired teacher from suburban Bloomington, came to the memorial with his brother and a friend, because “what’s being reported, what I’ve seen, should never have happened.”

During the week, armed and helmeted agents continued to stand guard outside a Twin Cities federal building, the headquarters for roughly 2,000 agents deployed to the city as part of a surge of immigration enforcement and a parallel fraud probe.

At the state capitol in nearby St. Paul, a few hundred people gathered Friday night for a vigil in honor of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

Suzanne Kelly, CEO of the Minnesota Council of Churches, said the peaceful response from protesters has been heartening and exemplary of Minnesota. But the surge of federal forces, the shooting and daily arrests of community members has people on edge with many staying home, fearing arrest regardless of immigration status. She described a “collective fear.”

“In some ways it’s the best of Minnesota as people have been peacefully protesting,” Kelly said. “But it also not us, not going outside, everybody carrying their passports or documents.”