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A majority of participants believe that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross was not justified in fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week, a recent YouGov survey found.
Why It Matters
Good was fatally shot in her car on Wednesday, an incident that has sparked protests in the city and debate over the circumstances surrounding her death. Trump administration officials have claimed that the ICE agent involved acted in self-defense, while local officials maintain Good posed no threat.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other leading Democrats have sharply criticized ICE's actions, calling for ICE to leave the city while pushing for a thorough investigation into the deadly shooting on a residential street in south Minneapolis, less than a mile from where police killed George Floyd in 2020. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is not involved in the federal investigation into Good’s killing, which has caused pushback for many looking for accountability and transparency in the investigation.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said this week that she is sending "hundreds more" law enforcement agents to Minneapolis.
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What To Know
A YouGov survey of 1,129 U.S. adult citizens conducted shortly after Good’s killing found that a majority, 52 percent, do not believe that Ross was “justified in the amount of force he used” in the shooting.
Twenty-eight percent responded that the action was justified, while 18 percent said they were unsure. Along party lines, only 4 percent of Democrats found the killing justified compared to 61 percent of Republicans. An overwhelming 88 percent of Democrats believe the killing was not justified, as well as 58 percent of independents, while 15 percent of Republicans did.
A similar majority, 53 percent, believe that Ross should face criminal charges, while 30 percent do not think he should. Seventeen percent are unsure.
The same survey found that 70 percent of participants saw the video footage of the shooting, fairly even along party lines with 75 percent Democrats and 73 percent Republicans.
For one question, nearly one-third of respondents believe that ICE “often” deports immigrants who are authorized to live in the U.S. and have not committed any immigration or customs violations.
The survey, conducted January 9-11, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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What People Are Saying
One hundred sixty members of Congress signed a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: “What is clear is that DHS must take immediate steps to preserve evidence, bring in unbiased investigative partners like the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and ensure the officers involved comply fully with investigators. The American public deserves the guarantee of a professional, unbiased and thorough investigation.”
Vice President JD Vance, during a press conference at the White House on Thursday: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a New York Times opinion article: "On Wednesday, when I learned that a Minneapolis resident had been shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, I didn’t feel the shock in my gut that I felt over five years ago. Nothing about this was shocking. The chaos that ICE and the Trump administration have brought to Minneapolis made this tragedy sadly predictable. In mid-December, ICE agents were filmed dragging a pregnant woman through the street. Heavily armed agents have been deployed to arrest lone individuals in public libraries and malls. Even in the aftermath of this week’s shooting, ICE agents continued to spread chaos, apparently deploying chemical agents at a local public high school."
President Donald Trump, on Truth Social on Tuesday: "Do the people of Minnesota really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention. All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign Countries who illegally entered the USA though Sleepy Joe Biden’s HORRIBLE Open Border’s Policy. Every place we go, crime comes down. In Chicago, despite a weak and incompetent Governor and Mayor fighting us all the way, a big improvement was made. Thousands of Criminals were removed! Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets the spotlight off of the 19 Billion Dollars that was stolen by really bad and deranged people. FEAR NOT, GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA, THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!"
Minneapolis City Council member Jamison Whiting told Newsweek in a Zoom interview Thursday: “We have had one homicide in the city of Minneapolis this year. And it was because of the federal administration.…We are watching a deployment of destruction from a fascist federal administration that was walking down the middle of the street that many of us grew up on. Many of my colleagues grew up on. Watching them murder a mom, a wife, a Minneapolitan in the middle of our streets.”
What Happens Next
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday announced a joint lawsuit with St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, all Democrats, to "end the unlawful and unprecedented surge of ICE agents in Minnesota," he said in a post on X. "People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. It has to stop."
The Trump administration has announced that more agents will be descending on Minneapolis. DHS said in an X post resharing Trump's Truth Social post that the "THE DAY OF RECKONING & RETRIBUTION IS COMING!"
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