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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, alongside Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, called into question claims federal immigration enforcement agencies have made in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to deploy hundreds of additional federal officers to Minnesota this week amid nationwide outcry and protests.
Around 1,000 additional US Customs and Border Protection agents are expected to deploy to Minneapolis, according to two federal law enforcement sources, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.
She is an increasingly high-profile lawmaker with an expanding social media reach whose family fled Somalia nearly 20 years ago.
Thousands protested in Minneapolis over the weekend amid an ICE crackdown and after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good. On Saturday, three Democratic officials were denied entry to an ICE facility.
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Mayor Frey leads press conference on fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis: full video
Minneapolis city leaders gave a press conference on January 7 on the fatal shooting by ICE of 37-year-old woman Renee Good.
In Minneapolis, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were caught on video threatening the life of a man trying to drive home, even referencing the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good — who was killed by an ICE agent last week — as a warning not to “make the same mistake.