Students, families rally across the Twin Cities, call on ICE to go
Here’s the latest Friday around the killing of 37-year-old Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis Wednesday by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.8:13 p.m. | Protests at the CapitolHundreds gathered Friday night at the Minnesota State Capitol to mourn Macklin Good. Newly elected St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her was also in attendance. She says it’s important to be with others during times of pain, but action is also needed.“I’m personally delivering groceries to help families who are impacted so that they can get their basic needs met, you know there’s just so much that we all can do,” she said. Fullscreen SlideshowPrevious Slide9 of 9.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}A woman raises her fist while holding a candle during a vigil honoring Renee Macklin Good on Friday in St. Paul.Kerem Yücel | MPR News1 of 9.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}Demonstrators hold signs, including one reading “Deport ICE,” during a vigil honoring Renee Macklin Good on Friday in St. Paul.Kerem Yücel | MPR News2 of 9.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his wife, Gwen Walz, attend a vigil honoring Renee Macklin Good on Friday in St. Paul.Kerem Yücel | MPR NewsNext SlideClergy representing various faiths were also at the gathering, including Imam Asad Zaman, the executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.“The stone walling by the Feds has got to stop,” he said. “The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has to be let in on this investigation so that Minnesotans can get a transparent accounting of what happened.”— Regina Medina, MPR News6:34 p.m. | ICE agent video verifiedMultiple news outlets posted footage Friday from the perspective of the ICE agent who shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.The Department of Homeland Security vouched for and reposted the video on social media. It shows the agent, Jonathan Ross, interacting with Macklin Good. She tells the agent, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”A person who appears to be her wife heckles the agent as he films the car’s license plate. An MPR News analysis of the video indicates it is consistent with videos recorded by bystanders.— Todd Melby, MPR News5:30 p.m. | Students protest, families rally across the Twin Cities Families across the Twin Cities are banding together to protect and support frightened students, teachers and families as an immigration enforcement surge continues.Across the state students protested against ICE and in honor of Renee Macklin Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent Wednesday in south Minneapolis.North Senior High in North St. Paul, Minneapolis South High School and Wayzata High School held walk outs on Friday with others planned for next week at St. Paul Public Schools, Roseville Area High School, Sauk Rapids-Rice High School and Roosevelt High School.Students protest the killing of Renee Macklin Good at Wayzata High School on Friday.Courtesy photoAt least three Twin Cities school districts canceled classes Friday as school leaders reported families were afraid and keeping their students home from classes. At Lake Hiawatha Park in south Minneapolis, hundreds of parents, teachers and students gathered to rally and protest the presence and activity of immigration enforcement officers throughout the state. “ICE out of our schools, ICE out of Minnesota!” Minneapolis parent Jennifer Arnold shouted into a microphone at the rally. Arnold, who has a second grade student in the district, said she started noticing her immigrant neighbors needed help last month. Fullscreen SlideshowPrevious Slide4 of 4.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}Demonstrator Bethany holds signs alongside her daughter Violet, 5, during a press conference organized by Minneapolis Public Schools families and educators on Friday at Lake Hiawatha Park in Minneapolis.Kerem Yücel | MPR News1 of 4.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}Minneapolis Public Schools families, educators and students hold signs during a press conference demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement be kept out of schools and Minnesota on Friday at Lake Hiawatha Park in Minneapolis.Kerem Yücel | MPR News2 of 4.css-1le8xi7-Slide-Slide > img{max-height:0px;width:auto;}A child sits in the snow as demonstrators hold signs calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave Minnesota during a press conference on Friday at Lake Hiawatha Park in Minneapolis.Kerem Yücel | MPR NewsNext Slide“It started small, like second week in December. We did rides for 12 kids and then the next week it was 18 kids, and then the holiday happened and I was like, ‘Do these families have food?’ and so I asked and they didn’t have food and so I organized food drop offs for all of them,” Arnold said. Other parents have been doing similar work. Christian Glanville, who has a student in a Minneapolis school, said he’s seen ICE agents ramming vehicles in his neighborhood. “It’s a very direct threat of violence,” he said. “The suffering in our city right is widespread … as parents we can’t trust taking our kids anywhere right now … ICE needs to go.”Glanville says he is one of many people in Minneapolis who are guarding bus stops and school drop offs and making sure families who need groceries are getting food delivered.— Kyra Miles, Elizabeth Shockman, Sam Stroozas, MPR News11:40 a.m. | Moriarty urges public to send her office possible evidence, says ICE agent does not have complete immunityHennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, right, speak to reporters Friday morning in Minneapolis.Matt Sepic | MPR NewsUpdated 5 p.m.Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday asked the public to send her office videos, photos and any other information around the shooting of Renee Macklin Good. She also contradicted Vice President JD Vance’s assertion that the ICE agent who shot and killed Macklin Good has total immunity from prosecution.Federal authorities have made it clear that state investigators will not play a role in the probe. The FBI ended plans for a joint investigation with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. BCA officials were not present Friday morning as Moriarty and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison spoke to reporters.In a statement later Friday afternoon, the BCA said it has offered to provide „limited assistance” to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in their efforts to collect additional evidence. The agency added that it would also provide any fresh evidence to the FBI, „as they are leading the investigation of the incident.”Moriarty said any potential evidence sent to her office would be shared with the BCA, calling her request “an attempt to preserve the evidence that is still out there” and not a critique of the FBI.She said her office had established a secure place on the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office website to send information.Moriarty said it was “premature” to speak about what state and local officials might do with any information that comes their way. “We don’t know what we’re going to get.”Asked about Vance’s assertion that the agent who shot Macklin Good had complete immunity from prosecution, Moriarty said: “I can say the ICE officer does not have complete immunity here.”The state does not have Macklin Good’s vehicle, any of the forensic evidence or any interviews with officers. That’s all under FBI control, and the federal agents would need to share that. Without access to that evidence, it would be unlikely the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office or Minnesota Attorney General’s Office would be in a position to consider charges. — Matt Sepic, MPR News10:55 a.m. | Minneapolis schools will offer remote learning amid federal immigration enforcementThe Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month amid federal immigration enforcement in the city, the district said.The district provided the update late Thursday in an email to teachers that was obtained by The Associated Press. Under the temporary plan, teachers will simultaneously deliver lessons from their classrooms to students in the classroom and at home.The move comes as the Trump administration sends 2,000 immigration agents to the area and the community responds to the fatal shooting of a local woman earlier this week by a federal agent.Immigration enforcement in cities across the U.S. has led to dips in school attendance, according to parents and educators. Advocates in other cities facing federal interventions have sought remote learning options, particularly for immigrant families that might feel vulnerable, but Minneapolis appears to be one of the few districts to reintroduce the option of pandemic-style virtual learning.“This meets a really important need for our students who are not able to come to school right now,” a Minneapolis school administrator wrote in the email to staff.The virtual learning option will be available through Feb. 12.— Associated PressA Minneapolis police officer walks past the memorial for Renee Good in Minneapolis on Friday.Ben Hovland | MPR News9:55 a.m. | Macklin Good’s wife: ‘We need to show them a better way’Becca Good, the wife of Renee Macklin Good, sent a statement to MPR News through a third party. MPR News received the statement Friday morning from a close friend of the family, which MPR News confirmed. In it, Becca Good calls for honoring Renee’s memory “by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.”First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.— Cari Spencer, MPR News9:45 a.m | Minnesota senators call on Bondi to bring BCA back into ICE shooting probeMinnesota’s two U.S. senators, both Democrats, are pressing the nation’s top federal prosecutor to reverse a decision to close off avenues to state criminal investigators in the fatal shooting of a woman by an immigration enforcement agent.The letter Friday from Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith to Attorney General Pam Bondi voices “serious concerns” with a move to wall off evidence, interviews and other case materials from the shooting of Renee Macklin Good.She was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis while she was at the wheel of a car in a neighborhood where immigration actions were under way. Conflicting accounts surround the shooting with video showing her starting to leave the scene and federal authorities say the agent was acting in self defense out of fear he’d be struck.The letter cites past high-profile incidents where the FBI partnered well with the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.“After the assassination of Melissa Hortman and the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, federal officials worked closely and cooperatively with state law enforcement. As in those cases, state law enforcement and investigators can bring extensive expertise to this critical investigation,” the senators wrote. “The administration’s decision raises serious questions about its objectivity, particularly after administration officials have made statements that conflict with the video and other evidence that has already become public.”Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended the agent as having acted within his training and alleging that Good was engaging in an act of domestic terrorism by trying to impede officers. On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance said Minnesota shouldn’t have a role in the investigation or be able to bring charges because the federal officer was entitled to “absolute immunity.”— Brian Bakst, MPR News9 a.m. | Frey questions FBI’s fairness as sole investigatorMayor Jacob Frey speaks during a press conference at City Hall in Minneapolis on Friday.Ben Hovland | MPR NewsMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on Friday questioned the Trump administration’s ability to complete a fair investigation into the shooting of Renee Macklin Good.He cited statements from federal officials including Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump, who have claimed Good was posing a danger to agents, and defended the shooter, identified as ICE agent Jonathan Ross.“There is the appearance that there is some conclusion drawn from the very beginning,” Frey told reporters during a press conference at Minneapolis City Hall. Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation initially planned to collaborate with the FBI on the investigation, but officials with that office announced yesterday that they had been dismissed from the case, leaving the FBI as the sole investigator.That means local and state investigators won’t have access to evidence in the case, potentially hindering their ability to charge the agent with a crime.City Council member Jason Chavez said he wants state investigators at the table, as a check on the federal process.“It is important and critical to our community to have a sense of trust in this process by having an independent investigation to present to the county attorney so the adequate charges can be made,” Chavez said.Frey renewed his ask to the Trump administration to scale back ICE operations in the city.“Fifty percent of the shootings that have happened thus far in Minneapolis this year have been ICE,” Frey said. “In other words, we’ve only had two shootings. One of them has been ICE. We are a safe city. ICE is making us less so.”— Estelle Timar-Wilcox, MPR News7:40 a.m. | Minneapolis removes barricades around Portland Avenue near shooting siteThe city of Minneapolis announced Friday morning that it removed the barricades on Portland Avenue, the street where an ICE agent killed a woman on Wednesday. Activists had used the barricades to block off the 3300 block of Portland Avenue. Renee Macklin Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent near the intersection of 34th Street and Portland Avenue South.Barricades block Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis on Thursday, the day after Renee Macklin Good was shot and killed by an ICE officer on the 3300 block of Portland.Ben Hovland | MPR News The city said residents in the immediate area called 311 to request the removal of the barriers. They raised concerns about neighborhood access. The Minneapolis Fire Department also said blocking streets can delay firefighters and emergency medical responders.“Safety has to come first — every second matters when lives are on the line,” interim fire chief Melanie Rucker said in a statement Friday. “Just up the street from this location, our crews were actively fighting a three-alarm fire on Monday night. When streets are blocked, it slows our response, limits access to critical resources and puts both residents and emergency responders at risk.”Community members left flowers at a small memorial for Renee Macklin Good, a woman who was shot and killed by an ICE officer on Wednesday. The memorial grew to include messages and more flowers as the week continued.Ben Hovland | MPR News The city said it will not remove the memorial created for Renee Macklin Good, the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent.“As our community mourns the loss of a neighbor, it’s important to preserve space for public memorials. We encourage anyone who wishes to come together in remembrance to do so peacefully. But public streets must remain open and accessible so emergency responders can meet urgent safety needs as quickly as possible,” the city said in a statement. Barricades block access to the 3300 block of Portland in south Minneapolis on Thursday.Ben Hovland | MPR News
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