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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz blasted ICE after watching a video that seems to show an agent refusing medical aid for the woman shot in Minneapolis on Wednesday, calling the response “chilling.”
Walz, a Democrat, said at a press conference Thursday, "I saw an individual at the scene identify themselves as medical personnel and ask to provide aid, and an ICE agent said 'I do not care.' That lack of humanity was chilling to me."
Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment via email Thursday afternoon.
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Why It Matters
Walz was speaking a day after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent while sitting in her car in Minneapolis. While DHS has insisted that she was a threat to federal agents, Walz and other leading Democrats have sharply criticized ICE's actions and said that video footage showed she was trying to leave the scene.
What To Know
The video in question, shared on social media, showed a man with his hands raised speaking to federal agents, asking if he could go and check for a pulse in the moments after Good was shot. An agent was heard saying, "No. Back up now."
"I'm a physician," the man responded, with the agent responding, "I don't care." Another agent was heard asking the man to give them a second before adding that the agency had its own medics.
Good was shot in the head, DHS said in the hours after her death, with photos and eyewitness accounts detailing a large amount of blood around her crashed car. She was taken to the nearby Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
While Walz criticized DHS's alleged refusal, he also called for calm as demonstrations continued in Minneapolis.
Speaking at a news conference, Walz urged protesters to avoid lashing out and instead practice “peaceful civil disobedience.” He acknowledged the anger directed at law enforcement but stressed that agencies, including the Minneapolis Police Department, Minnesota State Patrol, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, and the National Guard, are present “to protect Minnesotans.”
The 2024 vice presidential candidate also asked that Minnesota officials be allowed to investigate the death, saying that he did not believe federal agencies would deliver a fair outcome.
When asked about this during an earlier Thursday press conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters, "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
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What People Are Saying
Donna Ganger, Good's mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune: “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: "The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!"
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, speaking Wednesday: "To the family. I'm so deeply sorry. There's nothing that I can say right now that it's going to make you or your relatives or the friends of the victim feel any better."
What Happens Next
Federal and local agencies are likely to continue to clash over the investigation into Good's death, with protests continuing Thursday around the country.
Update 1/8/26, 1:56 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
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