DOJ says won’t investigate ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good

US Justice Department says nary to probing the ICE agent, contempt nationalist outrage implicit Renee Good’s shooting successful Minnesota.

United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) volition not beryllium investigating the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cause who killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good, portion besides confirming reports that it is looking into charges against apical Minnesota officials for encouraging protests.

Speaking to Fox News connected Sunday night, Blanche said the civilian rights portion of the Justice Department would not bow to unit to analyse the shooting decease of Minneapolis nonmigratory and parent Good, 37, earlier this month.

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“We don’t conscionable spell retired and analyse each clip an serviceman is forced to support himself against somebody,” said Blanche. “We analyse erstwhile it’s due to investigate.”

“So, no, we are not investigating. And if determination comes a clip erstwhile we request to, we will, but it’s not now,” Blanche added.

Increasingly tense confrontations betwixt residents and national officers person erupted successful Minneapolis since Renee Good, a 37-year-old parent of three, was fatally shot down the instrumentality of her car portion protesting by ICE serviceman Jonathan Ross connected January 7.

Blanche besides said that footage of Good’s decease has already “been reviewed by millions and millions of Americans due to the fact that it was recorded connected phones erstwhile it happened”.

However, investigation conducted by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and APM Reports recovered that determination inactive stay questions astir the shooting, including wherefore it allegedly took much than 10 minutes aft Good was changeable earlier she was fixed CPR.

According to the MPR and APM reports, ICE agents near Good “bleeding and unsocial successful the car for astir 3 minutes” and “turned distant a antheral identifying himself arsenic a doc who offered to help”.

The medication of President Donald Trump has argued that Ross, the ICE cause who changeable Good up to 4 times, was acting successful self-defence.

Top Trump officials, including Vice President JD Vance and White House advisor Stephen Miller, person besides said that ICE officers person “absolute immunity” for their migration enforcement actions.

Meanwhile, lawyers representing Good’s household said past week that they person launched their ain “civil investigation” into her death.

“People successful Minneapolis and crossed this state truly, genuinely attraction astir what happened to Renee Good connected January 7, 2026, and are committed to knowing however she could person been killed connected the thoroughfare aft dropping her kid disconnected astatine school,” lawyer Antonio Romanucci said successful a statement.

Top Minnesota Democrats nether investigation

Blanche besides separately confirmed reports that the DOJ has launched an probe into Minnesota Governor and erstwhile vice statesmanlike campaigner Tim Walz arsenic good arsenic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, alleging the 2 Democratic leaders were “encouraging criminals to spell retired connected the thoroughfare and impede ICE”.

Blanche’s comments are the archetypal clip a subordinate of the Trump medication has confirmed media reports that Walz and Frey are nether investigation.

“No substance who you are, whether you’re a governor, a politician oregon idiosyncratic retired determination connected the streets assaulting ice, you cannot, nether national law, you cannot impede a national serviceman doing their job, and that’s what we’re looking at,” said Blanche.

Responding to earlier media reports that the DOJ had launched its probe, Frey said helium would “not beryllium intimidated”.

“This is an evident effort to intimidate maine for lasting up for Minneapolis, section instrumentality enforcement, and residents against the chaos and information this Administration has brought to our city,” Frey said successful a station connected X.

Walz, meanwhile, responded to the reports indirectly, saying successful a statement: “Weaponising the justness strategy and threatening governmental opponents is simply a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.”

Walz besides drew examination to US Democratic Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, who are under investigation by the Trump medication aft appearing with different Democratic lawmakers successful a video urging members of the subject to defy “illegal orders” fixed by their superiors.