
A US immigration agent shot dead Renee Good in the city of Minneapolis.
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Jacob Frey
There'S little I can say again that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community, for our city. And I have a message for ICE to ice. Get the out of Minneapolis.
Justin Webb
The Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, speaking after a US Immigration agent shot dead a woman in the city of Minneapolis. The whole thing filmed by many, many people. There've been protests in that city, more planned across the United States. The White House though, very much pushing back, suggesting that the officer was acting in self defense. Who will the public believe? What is the politics of this? Never mind the horror of the event itself. Immigration, remember, got Donald Trump elected. Is it now going to lead to his downfall? Welcome to AmericasT.
Angie Hicks
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Sarah Smith
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Justin Webb
Sir, right away sir.
Marianne
Happy to lick your boot sir.
Jacob Frey
We are the sickest country in the world.
Angie Hicks
Oh dear. Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry? Of course the President supports peaceful protests. What a stupid question.
Justin Webb
Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
Sarah Smith
Hello, it's Sarah here in the BBC's.
Justin Webb
Washington bureau as Justin in the worldwide headquarters of AmericasT in London, England.
Marianne
And it is Mariana sitting opposite Justin in the worldwide headquarters of AmericasT as well.
Sarah Smith
And Justin Marianne, I think before we go any further into discussing what the consequences of what's happened in Minneapolis are, we should go through exactly what happened and the facts that are not in dispute. Because a lot of what we're gonna discuss here is different interpretations of what people have seen. But these are the things that we know absolutely to be true, which is that a US immigration agent shot dead a 37 year old woman in Minneapolis and that there are a number of videos of this incident, many of which have been shared on social media. And they show immigration agents approaching a maroon car that's blocking a street in Minneapolis. And you can see the agents pull up in their own vehicle, emerge from a truck, go and approach the woman's car, tell her to get out of the car. And one of the agents tugs at the driver's side door handle as he's telling her to get out of the car. She doesn't. The car attempts to drive off. It reverses very slightly, and then she turns the wheel to the right and is looking to drive away when one of the agents points his gun at the driver. And you can hear two shots being fired. And at that point, you can see the car loses control, shoots ahead, and crashes into a car that's parked along the street. And actually, we can play the audio of some of these videos that show everybody online what's happened. No, no. Oh, my God. What the. What the. You just. What the did you do?
Marianne
It's one of those incidents where the videos in particular, obviously, they don't show that they capture a moment in time. They can't show everything that happened in the build up, nor do they show absolutely everything that happened afterwards. But the videos are being analyzed and poured over across social media, and we'll get into that in a minute. First, though, I think it's probably important to talk about what we know about the woman who was shot, who was called Renee Good. And we know that she was 37 years old. She. She was white. There are a few clues that exist across social media, across the Internet, about who, who she was. It suggested that she had three children, that she was living with her partner in Minneapolis, that she'd moved there fairly recently. If you looked on her Instagram, which is now private, but was public before, she describes herself as a poet and a writer, a wife and mum and guitar strummer from Colorado experiencing Minneapolis. And her mom has actually spoken to one of the local papers to describe Renee as, quote, 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. She has been called a domestic terrorist by some members of Donald Trump's administration. And there's a suggestion that she was there in the capacity to sort of oversee what some of the ice, that she was a kind of legal representative, someone who would see what ICE agents were doing and observe them. The suggestion was that she was disrupting their work. That's what the administration said. Other people's accounts of that very much vary.
Justin Webb
And of course, that is where you get into the whole business of, of disputes about what happened. So we've outlined what the facts are that you can see in the video. And as both you and Sarah made plain, what you see in the video is a snapshot in time. You can't necessarily see everything about it, but there are quite a few videos and you can sort of put it together in terms of what people are saying about it. We heard already the mayor of Minneapolis pretty intemperate just before we started our discussion, making it plain what he thought the immediate consequence should be, which is that the immigration officers ought to get out of Minneapolis. The mayor of New York, the newly elected mayor of New York has also used the word murder to describe it. On the other hand, you go across the Trump administration and they're saying anything but that. In fact, Donald Trump posting on Truth Social that Renee Good had run over the ICE officer who then shot her in self defense and the Homeland Security secretary. It's worth listening actually to what she had to say. So this is Christine Owen, the Homeland Security secretary, reiterating that message from Donald Trump. At a press conference that she held on Wednesday.
Angie Hicks
ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question who was blocking the officers in with her vehicle, and she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day. ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop instructing obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism. The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.
Justin Webb
And just to reiterate. So that was Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary. I mentioned Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis. It's worth listening in a bit more detail to what he had to say because he was also speaking on Wednesday at his own press conference in Minneapolis.
Jacob Frey
They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bull. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying. There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community for our city. And I have a message for ICE to ice. Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long term, Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That's on you. And it's also on you to leave. It's on you to make sure that further damage, further loss of life and injury is not done.
Sarah Smith
So you can hear that politicians on different sides are not just disagreeing about the rights and wrongs of this. They're disagreeing about what actually happened on the ground. These are two almost entirely opposed narratives that were being spun really quickly on Wednesday after this event happened. And as people were discovering the videos online that they could watch for themselves at the same time. And so I was actually watching it all play out on cnn, Ms. Now, which is called what MSNBC is called now, and Fox News simultaneously. And even there, the journalism, the coverage was completely different about whether this was an outrageous act where the officer had no reason to shoot a woman who wasn't doing anything wrong, or whether she had been genuinely trying to kill or injure him. And it was an act of domestic terrorism, as the administration is seeing.
Marianne
That's the thing about when these kinds of incidents occur. Now, different people can watch the same thing and actually come to, like you say, Sarah, quite different conclusions about what might have unfolded. It also depends on who has shared that clip, where they're seeing it, where it's pushed to them, as you can imagine. I mean, these clips have gone uber, uber viral. And then the other elements, you know, the other bits of content you see as well. So you don't really see anything in the buildup. There's not much video evidence around that shows what was happening earlier on in the day or before the incident. You do, though, see some quite, quite graphic content afterwards. There's a particularly viral video that shows someone who is claiming to be a physician, a doctor who wants to go and help the woman who's been shot and is not permitted to. And that sparked quite a lot of outrage, certainly from people who feel like, actually, hang on a second, should we not be able to offer medical assistance to someone in that situation? And so on and so forth. So you've got different people who, through their own echo chambers on social media are responding to this. But then also actually there are just people who Are your average person viewing that video, which is. And like lots of Miracasters will have probably seen it, is like quite a shocking video really, I guess because it's kind of in a suburban street and it sort of like looks quite normal and then someone just gets shot and. And you can see why there's this kind of quite visceral reaction that a lot of people are having online and in real life.
Justin Webb
Yeah, I think, I think it also matters that she's white, which, you know, shouldn't matter, but I kind of does actually, because she's a white woman in a Honda and that just conjures up. It's a sort of epitome of suburban toys, aren't there? Yeah, and there are toys in the back and apparently she had a child or kids and it conjures up a picture of normality and safety and non threat. I think that's it. And to whatever extent that may be itself something that is either false or not false is neither here nor there. The fact is for a lot of Americans, just the sight of that particular car, her biography as a person, who she was, her identity as a person, all of it conjuring up this thought in people's minds that actually. Hang on a second, this is someone who would not necessarily have been a threat. Now I'm not saying that she wasn't a threat. I'm not saying there was all sorts of behavior that we didn't.
Marianne
But it's people's kind of stereotypes, but.
Justin Webb
It'S people's stereotype and it's always the stereotypes in these things. The other thing I think Sarah really matters if this presumably does come to a court case, is where the bullet entered the car. Because if the officer was by the side and shot her through a side window, that seems to me make. To make it much more difficult for that officer to claim that he was under immediate threat. If he was actually in front of the car when he shot her and the car was suddenly lurching towards him, then it seems to me he's got more of a case now. I mean, that's months down the road. But it seems to me that those details, Sarah, will eventually matter.
Marianne
Yeah.
Sarah Smith
And I've seen an image of a bullet hole in the side of the front windscreen. But that doesn't necessarily tell us exactly what the sequence of events that happened was. And that is something that I think is quite important about this. Before anyone had had time to work out what the true sequence of events was really was before the mayor of Minneapolis or the Homeland Security secretary or the president could possibly have all of the facts. Everybody was leaping to have a take on it. Like at the speed of the Internet, as soon as something is up online, politicians feeling that they have to respond with really partisan takes on what happened, because they're trying to define the narrative very, very quickly. And when you move at that kind of speed, talking about an incident that necessarily is going to be complicated, whatever the rights and wrongs of it are, it simply cannot be the case that people are talking with accuracy about everything that they're discussing as they've suddenly leapt to a decision about whether this was absolutely the right thing or absolutely the wrong thing to have done. I'm sure you've read in the New York Times, both of you, Justin and Marianne, it's really interesting that the New York Times had four reporters in the Oval Office for a couple of hours last night with Donald Trump talking about all sorts of things from Venezuela to Greenland to Colombia. But they did bring up the shooting in Minneapolis, and he told them that he thought the driver had behave horribly and that she nearly tried to run over the ice agent. And so they said, but have you seen the video? So he got a staff member to come in and hold up a laptop and play the video for them. It was, in fact, Natalie Harp, who we've talked about on the podcast before, who often follows Donald Trump around with a printer so that he can read what's being said on the Internet about it. But in this case, she came in with a laptop. They all watched the video together. And after seeing that, the reporters said to him, look, it doesn't appear as though this car is running over an ice age. And he said, it was a tank. Terrible scene. I hate to see it. But still implied that Renee Goode had brought this on herself, because he said, I watched one woman screaming, the one woman in the car before she got caught. I heard she was unbelievably bad, badly behaved. You're supposed to listen to law enforcement. He said. So, I mean, that was an example of a group of people all watching that same video together and still coming to different conclusions that seem to have been informed by what they want the case to be.
Marianne
I think as well that actually when we talk about the identity of the woman who was shot here and. And what's at play there, this absolutely is also unfolding through that kind of prism of identity politics, because there are various people, both on social media and then in the media as well, who are picking up on certain sort of biographical facts or things that may or may not be true about Renee Goode. To suggest that she's of a particular political view or that she's of a particular kind of group of people, or that she's woke or that she's this or she's that. And already it's unfolding in that way. And that's kind of interesting. Interesting, because like you pointed out, Justin, you've obviously got the kind of issue of race at play here, which is that she's a white woman. Sure. But then also the way that she's being portrayed, certainly in some very sort of like hardcore MAGA circles on social media, is that she's a kind of woke white woman who isn't sort of the enemy, quote, unquote. There are other people who are not posting things like that. And I think that that feels particularly pertinent when we think about other protest movements that have been sparked by. By killings in almost exactly the same place. The George Floyd killing by police officers, which triggered this huge movement, particularly about racism in the United States and protests, some of which became really quite violent. And that George Floyd was killed, wasn't it just like it was just a.
Sarah Smith
Few blocks away from where this happened to Minneapolis?
Marianne
Looking at social media, I would say it doesn't feel the same as when George Floyd was killed in so much as it feels like because this is not about race. It's much more so about people who are very frustrated and upset with the administration and with Donald Trump. It's kind of a different sort of protest to what that was at the time. I don't know what your sense is, Justin, Sarah, about whether this could trigger a movement of that scale or sort of ferocity that we saw.
Sarah Smith
And there were big protests last night, and more are being organized in different cities across America for this evening. So I think it remains to be seen. But people learned a lesson, I would imagine, from what happened in Minneapolis after George Floyd, which was that it didn't help their case when the protests turned violent and there was a lot of damage done and looting across Minneapolis. And in fact, there was a plea from Tim Waltz, who was the governor at the time, I think, wasn't he, when George Floyd was killed and is still the governor of Minnesota, and he was appealing to Minnesotans to protest peacefully. I mean, he was perfectly happy for people to come out on the streets and make their feelings known, but very keen that they do it without there being any kind of violence or disturbance.
Justin Webb
We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt. Just yesterday, I said exactly that. What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict. It's governing by reality tv, and today that recklessness costs someone their life. To Minnesotans, I say this. I feel your anger. I'm angry. They want to show we can't give it to them. We cannot. If you protest and express your First Amendment rights, please do so peacefully as you always do. We can't give them what they want.
Sarah Smith
We can't give them what they want. He said there. Yeah. Because there has, for a long time been a sense, hasn't there, Justin, that actually the Trump administration is really eager to have confrontations on the streets with these ICE agents, because they went in first to Los Angeles months and months ago, and there was a sense then that they were hoping to spark some kind of confrontations in the streets that would justify their presence. And there was a fear for a long time in Portland, Oregon, that the same thing might happen. And that's why protesters have been dressing up in very amusing costumes, and they're going out to protest and things like inflatable dinosaur outfits to try and make themselves look less threatening so that it doesn't give ICE and the rest of the National Guard, when they've been sent into these cities, an excuse to start tackling them in the streets. And I guess when you see something like what happened on Wednesday in Minneapolis, that is, of course, the kind of event that could spark something that people think that the Trump administration has been waiting for for months.
Justin Webb
The politics of it finally balanced, aren't they? Because on the one hand, there is, and we've discussed it in previous pods, particularly Anthony and I did a whole episode on it, there is this issue of crimes being committed, particularly by members of the Somali community in Minnesota. And there's no doubt that crimes have been committed quite large, widespread fraud. To the extent that Tim Walls, who we've just been hearing from, is not going to run for a third term. He's decided he wouldn't get in or it'd be too much effort to make. So he's been effectively brought down by what has been going on in his state. And there is definitely some feeling, both within Minnesota, but also more widely as well, that is against people coming into America and bilking the system and stealing money. On the other hand, the last research that I looked at from YouGov suggested that the actions of the ICE agents in support of getting rid of people who are not meant to be in the United States, are actually increasingly unpopular, and that a majority of Americans now think that they have overstepped the mark. So that thing that got Donald Trump elected, it's probably not going too far to say, well, certainly one of the key issues, wasn't it that won in the election in 2024, this feeling that the southern border was wide open, that there were millions of people coming into America who shouldn't be there, that the Biden administration had completely lost control. It was a winning issue for Donald Trump. He started off by using that issue to go after those who he promised he would go after, and particularly they said they would start with criminals, but actually now they've gone much further. And if ICE agents are regularly seen to be, never mind on this occasion whether the law was broken or not broken, but if they're regularly seen to be more violent than other law enforcement people are in the United States, it just seems to me that the immigration issue that was so good for Donald Trump and so awful for the Democrats could easily be flipped, couldn't it?
Sarah Smith
It depends, I think, Justin, on whether people really genuinely believe that the ICE agents are acting not in self defense, but are going beyond what they ought to be doing. This is not the first time somebody has been shot in a vehicle in circumstances that appear to be relatively similar. I think this is the fifth, at least, time this has happened. And there was one case in Los Angeles where it happened a few months ago. Somebody was being told to move their vehicles, same kind of thing was happening. And the ICE agent ended up shooting a man in his car who was injured, not killed. And that man was prosecuted for what he was doing. And prosecutors said he was trying to impede the work of the ICE agents. And that case was completely thrown out of court last month. The judge dismissed all of the charges and dismissed them with prejudice so that prosecutors could not attempt to try him again because the judge was so annoyed, actually, with how the law enforcement had gone about presenting their evidence and how the prosecution prosecutors had behaved. So this has been a controversial issue for some time. But yeah, I mean, once somebody has been killed in these circumstances, it turns it into a whole different ball game.
Justin Webb
I suppose the big question, Sarah, is whether this changes anything when it comes to the Trump administration. And number one, in the small sense, what they're doing with immigration and the sending of ICE officers right around the country and the use of really tough tactics, to put it mildly, or whether actually he just doubles down on it and carries on, it just seems to me that at the moment, Donald Trump is even more disinhibited than normal. I mean, you think what he's doing around the world. And this kind of sense as well, I suppose that in the run up to the midterms next year, next November, and he's been talking about that recently, hasn't he, that in his mind is this kind of double down on everything mentality, what Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, referred to as the alcoholic's personality. Although of course he doesn't drink. In that interview, that interview she gave recently to Vanity Fair, that actually there's a sense of danger about him and wanting to take on all comers, but also never in any sense back down. Cause there was this meme, wasn't there, Sarah? Trump always chickens out the taco trade, which was the thing about tariffs at one stage. And actually with tariffs, he hasn't really chickened out. Tariffs are still much higher now than they were when he came into power. And in all sorts of other places in Venezuela, obviously, with Iran, where he attacked or went along with Israel in attacking in Iran, in all sorts of areas of the world, the Greenland thing, he's not standing down at all. And I just wonder in this as well, whether we see someone who is emboldened and has a sense actually that the only way out for him, him is to carry on and double down.
Sarah Smith
Yeah, emboldened is the word. I've been thinking all week, actually about Donald Trump ever since the raid in Venezuela, which really does seem to have galvanized him into thinking that he can just move further and faster, certainly in foreign affairs, and probably makes him feel the same way about domestic affairs. I mean, I don't think there's any way he will back down on his immigration agenda, sending ICE agents in or in defending what happened in Minneapolis, and if, if something similar happens again, doubling down on it. That's always been his political response to something like that. And he'll see that as politically useful because immigration is his signature issue. What I wonder, though, is whether that law enforcement will learn lessons from this. Because for all the rhetoric that we had from Donald Trump, from Kristi Noem, from other people in the administration saying that this was an act of domestic terrorism and the ICE agents were fully justified in shooting that woman. The person who didn't play that game was the White House border czar, Tom Homan. He said, let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation. I mean, it's the sort of thing you used to have. Every politician and law Enforcement official say, but he's the only person who had said that. I do wonder if there's pause for maybe rethinking how the agents are supposed to behave on the street without admitting any wrongdoing here, without backing away from the political stance of that's being taken. Maybe try and make sure that this doesn't happen again or too often on the streets of America, because maybe the White House can see the political danger even if they won't admit to it publicly.
Justin Webb
Right. Before we go, we want you to get in touch because between now and the midterms, we want to find ameracasters from all across the United States so we get a better sense of what's happening across the whole country. And this week actually is a good example. Huge global stories about Venezuela, Greenland dominating the news. We don't want to lose sight of what's actually happening in individual states across the United States, including those states that we don't hear from very much. So we are hereby launching our very own United States of Americast.
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Justin Webb
Not even sure that's legal, but anyway, we've done it.
Sarah Smith
So whose voice was that?
Marianne
Whose voice was that? Bob from Minneapolis.
Sarah Smith
Brilliant. We love Bob from Minneapolis.
Justin Webb
We do. And we would use him even if we could have got what's his name. He used to do the CNN jingle.
Marianne
Oh, I know who you mean.
Justin Webb
You know who I mean. Anyway, Bob's. Bob's our man. And he's done it very well. Anyway, so tell us about what's happening in your state, or indeed where you live. Doesn't have to be your forever home state, but wherever you are in the states, big or small, why does it matter what is going on? And feel free to tell us something about your state as well that we might not know already. There is a fantastic book. It's these United States. And it's a book that first came out, I think, probably 100 years ago and then was reprinted a couple of times and then redone with new authors. Basically authors from around the United States telling us a bit about the state that they live in. I always find it fascinating when I was there. I'm gonna give you a copy, Sarah, when we next meet, lots of people listening will be aware of it, particularly if they are American and live in the us. So tell us about your state. Tell us things that we might not know already.
Angie Hicks
Yeah.
Sarah Smith
Cause it occurs to me this would be amazing in the run up to the midterms to take the political temperature of what's happening across states and remind us of things that might not be in the headline news, but we could also get our Americasters to tell us about the best thing in their state and put together effectively a fantastic americast travel guide as well as a political handbook.
Marianne
I was just about to say, Sarah, that your magnets and magnet board might come in handy because it almost feels like you should take all the magnets off and then as we find an ameracaster in each state you like, put them back on.
Sarah Smith
Yes, yes. Or we'll get a separate one.
Marianne
Yeah, yeah. Or a map to color in.
Sarah Smith
Yes, indeed. Maybe the worldwide headquarters could work on that.
Marianne
Okay. Yeah, we'll get a coloring map. We'll get a coloring map.
Justin Webb
It will be done and we'll do it soon. How do you do it though? How do you get in touch? Well, everyone should know this already. Indeed, I should know this already. I'm still going to read it out. They're never Quite sure, the WhatsApp number. So the WhatsApp is 443-301-239480 or it's americastbbc.co.uk which state has the smallest population? Oh, would it be made Island? Yeah. Rhode Island. Yeah. I don't know.
Marianne
Surely that will be the hard. Actually, will it not be what will.
Justin Webb
Be could be one of the bigger ones. Probably Montana, isn't it? I don't know. I've just shown my complete ignorance of these things. Could it, could it be somewhere with a lot of animals and very few people? I'm going to tell you one of the decades.
Marianne
It's Wyoming.
Justin Webb
It's Wyoming. They are so it is.
Marianne
If you're in Wyoming.
Sarah Smith
Yeah.
Marianne
You might be rare.
Justin Webb
Yeah, yeah. They still get two senators. Controversial. That's it.
Sarah Smith
Bye bye.
Marianne
Bye, bye bye.
Sarah Smith
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Episode Title: The fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting
Release Date: January 8, 2026
Hosts: Sarah Smith (BBC North America Editor), Justin Webb (BBC Radio 4), Marianna Spring (BBC Disinformation Correspondent)
Main Theme:
A fatal shooting by a US immigration (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, the political and societal fallout, and the polarizing narratives surrounding the event, explored through media coverage, identity politics, and public reaction.
This episode delves into the highly charged aftermath of an ICE agent killing a woman, Renee Goode, during an attempted law enforcement action in Minneapolis. With video footage widely circulated on social media, political leaders, media outlets, and the public have quickly taken sides, sparking protests and fueling debates on law enforcement, immigration, and political identity. The hosts unpack the layers of fact, speculation, and online reaction to assess the broader implications for the Trump administration and US politics.
“No, no. Oh, my God. What the—what the—You just—What did you do?”
"One of the kindest people I’ve ever known… She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate." (Marianna, quoting Goode’s mother, [04:53])
"I want to tell everybody directly: that is bull. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying… ICE, get the out of Minneapolis."
"She attempted to weaponize her vehicle and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over... The ICE officer, fearing for his life, fired defensive shots."
“It was a tank. Terrible scene. I hate to see it.”
"We can't give them what they want. If you protest... please do so peacefully as you always do. We can't give them what they want."
“I don’t think there’s any way he will back down on his immigration agenda… he’ll see that as politically useful because immigration is his signature issue.”
"Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation."
Jacob Frey, Minneapolis Mayor ([07:43]):
"Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here... You are doing exactly the opposite [of creating safety]... Now somebody is dead. That's on you."
Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary ([06:41]):
"She attempted to weaponize her vehicle... This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm... an act of domestic terrorism."
Sarah Smith ([12:44]):
"Everybody was leaping to have a take on it, like at the speed of the Internet… politicians feeling they have to respond with really partisan takes on what happened, because they're trying to define the narrative very, very quickly."
Tim Walz, Minnesota Governor ([17:27]):
"We can't give them what they want... If you protest and express your First Amendment rights, please do so peacefully."
The fatal shooting in Minneapolis highlights how swiftly facts, perceptions, and politics collide in today’s America. With social media fueling instant outrage and partisan narratives, and both local and federal officials choosing sides before investigations conclude, the incident is a window into deeply entrenched divisions—around law enforcement, identity, and who is seen as "the enemy" in the national story. The episode questions whether such flashpoints will ultimately strengthen or threaten the political fortunes of their architects.