
Nicolle Wallace anchors breaking coverage of the killing of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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No. No. Oh my God. What the. What the. You just. What the did you do?
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What did you do? So this happened this morning, just days after Donald Trump and his administration decided to deploy 2,000 DHS agents to the city of Minneapolis for what it has marketed as a massive immigration crackdown there. The Trump administration has attempted to blame the victim of that shooting that you saw with your own eyes for her death. Earlier today, during a press conference, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, wearing a cowboy hat, claimed that the victim was engaging in acts of, quote, domestic terrorism and had attempted to hit agents with her car. It's a claim that bystanders, law enforcement, local Officials, as well as the video we just played for you, seem to dispute, at least at this hour. Here's what Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry said about it.
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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 bullshit. 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 fuck 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. We're going to be working towards justice as quickly as we possibly can right now. And justice is what we've all got to get next. A message to our community. Look, we all know that the agenda of this Trump administration is to create chaos. Let us respond right now with our best versions of self. This is a moment where all of us in Minneapolis and beyond, we can rise to the occasion. We can show them who we are. We can show them the kind of courage, bravery, love and compassion that makes Minneapolis, Minneapolis, and that makes America. America. We are better than a bunch of ICE agents being deployed to cities around the country and ripping apart families and communities. We're better than that. And so we are going to meet that hate with love. We are going to meet that despair with hope. We are going to meet that injustice with constitutional justice ourselves. And we're going to make sure that in this very difficult moment, we do not take the bait that these ICE agents are trying to create and that the federal government, to be clear, wants. They want us to respond in a way that creates a military occupation in our city. They want an excuse to come in and show the kind of force that will create more chaos and more despair. Let's not let them. Let's rise to this occasion. Let's show them something far more beautiful than the kind of division that they're trying to stoke. Let's show them unity of purpose, of love and the courage of our conviction. Our conviction, to be clear, is rock solid, and it is for our neighbors, all of our neighbors. It's for people who have lived here for 80 years. It is for new immigrants who have made this city a better place. That's the kind of love that we're going to show up with right now. If you're angry, I get it. I am too. If you're feeling that kind of despair, it's understandable. Let's show them who we can be. Let's show up with peace. To march, to protest, to hug one another, to love all the way with peace. Do not give them what they want.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry will be joining us in the next hour. We start this hour with today's breaking news. The reporter who's been on the ground all day, Alex Tabett reporting from Minneapolis. Also joining us, former assistant special agent in charge at the FBI. Next, national security and intelligence analyst Michael Feinberg's here with me at the table for the hour, senior political and national correspondent Jacob Soboroff and Princeton University professor and political analyst Eddie Glaud. Let me start with you, Alex. I first learned of this shooting from your internal notes to all of us who work in this building. So first let me thank you. But next let me ask you to do what you've been doing all day and tell me what's happening on the ground.
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Thanks, Nicole. I want to set the scene here. This is the place where this 37 year old woman was shot and killed. And to give you a bit of a timeline, at around 9:50am this morning, I received a text from what's known as an ICE observer, that's a community member here in Minneapolis who watches immigration raids and alerts members of the community that border patrol that immigration forces are in the area to keep people safe. That text read that somebody was shot and killed by an immigration officer. We arrived on the scene, we saw it closed off, fenced off, and we saw a large law enforcement presence in that law enforcement presence included border patrol agents, ICE agents. And we saw very elevated tensions. We saw tear gas being shot between protesters and police. Then eventually we got the confirmation of from DHS and from Mayor Fry that somebody was shot and killed at this very spot where these flowers are being laid right now. Nicole. Now there are two very different narratives between Mayor Fry and dhs. DHS claiming that the woman was shot in an act of self defense from a federal agent. Mayor Fry calling that a garbage narrative. I will say there was a gruesome image that has stuck with me from this morning where you could see the woman who was shot inside of her car. Blood splattered on the airbag at the very front of that car. Now, I want to see if I can introduce you to the neighbor of the owner of this house. His name is Eugene Bentley, and he saw this happen earlier this morning. Bear with me, Nicole.
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One moment.
D
This is very icy here. So we want to make sure that our cameraman is safe.
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Here we go.
G
Furniture delivery. Wasn't that so.
F
So do you think that when you said that it was.
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He wanted to shoot him?
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Probably.
D
Maybe he wanted to shoot her. Yeah, that's like a culture in ice. That's like toxicity.
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I'm. I'm not for sure. I don't want to, you know, just go off the hinge with it. But this is. I know when you're trying to provoke someone or you just, you know, just trying to be doing too much. Just doing too much.
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Mr. Bentley, do you mind breaking down what exactly you saw this morning?
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Basically, ladies trying to warn everyone ICE is in and is in the neighborhood. Just letting them know, hey. And telling ICE, hey, you're destroying families, whatnot. Stop doing this. Hey, get out of here. Stop that. She reversed so traffic can go by the pickup truck.
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Great.
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Pickup truck. Officer Ice got out and was telling her, hey. Well, didn't tell her anything, really. Just telling her, I'm gonna open up your door and I'm gonna get you out. And that's when the shooting happened. And the car took off and then it sped off and crashed right into the cars.
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Talk about the agent that was. Stepped in front of the car.
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The way he was in the clear. There was another one at the. The. Like the. The front part of the car on the driver's side. Then there's one right there by the. By the door that's opening, you know, trying to get. Get in the door. Then you have one that's in front of the car that was already coming from the side. And he was just getting clear because he already see that, hey, this person could take off. But, you know, maybe I'll try to, you know, intimidate you with my gun, but I don't think the lady was looking that way towards the front because she's worried about this.
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I'm trying to get in her door.
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And Ms. Benley, she's 65 years old. I mean, she's probably scared.
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You know, she's trying to help out and scared at the same time.
D
And Mr. Bentley, DHS is calling this domestic terrorism. They're saying that the officer shot in self defense. Does that match up with what you saw this morning.
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I have no comment on that. I just can only tell you what I seen. And that's it? That's it. I don't know. I'm not, not a lawyer. I'm not a none of that. I don't know the law like that, but I just know that didn't I seen what I seen? I didn't, I didn't, you know, I just felt like the officer shouldn't have shot the gun. That's all. That's it.
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Thank you, Mr. Roundley. And Nicole, what we've seen since this incident is two very different reactions. We've seen as immigration, as Border Patrol, as law enforcement was leaving the scene, confrontations between protesters and those federal agents. We saw a lot of tear gas fired. We saw canisters, one of which I picked up protesters crying with their eyes in serious pain. And we've seen those protests, which escalated in tension, move away from this scene of where this woman was shot separately. You're seeing what you see right now, Nicole, which is Minneapolis community members planting flowers commemorating the 37 year old woman who lost her life, still raw from the murder of George Floyd, which happened but four miles from this very spot about five years ago. Nicole.
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Alex, I want you to keep going, but let me just introduce this account from the Minneapolis Chief of Police and I'll have you pick it up on the other side. This is what he said transpired, quote, the preliminary information that we have indicates that this woman was in her vehicle and was blocking the roadway on Portland avenue midway between 33rd street and 34th street in the city. At some point, a federal law enforcement officer approached her on foot and the vehicle began to drive off. At least two shots were fired. The vehicle then crashed on the side of the roadway. Minneapolis police officers secured the crime scene and assisted in trying to preserve the evidence that is there. We have since turned over the scene both to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as the Minnesota Bureau Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which will be conducting an investigation into this use of deadly force. That's local law enforcement. The Secretary of Homeland Security called it domestic terrorism and seemed to speak as though she had all the facts. Stephen Miller has tweeted a similar narrative that seems conclusive in terms of what they believe happened. Donald Trump has done the same. Is it your sense that the state and local investigative actions are the only investigations into what has happened today, or do you have any information that suggests anyone else is investigating the facts and talking to people like Eugene Bentley who witnessed the shooting and the killing?
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Well, Nicole What I can tell you is that the state and local law enforcement account that you just read out there matches in many ways our experience here. Now, of course, we arrived on the scene about 20 to 30 minutes after the first report of this incident from an ICE verifier. But we can say pretty clearly that this woman was shot in the front seat of her car, based on the fact that there is an image that I will never be able to get out of my head of blood spattered on an airbag, which we can say pretty definitively that the car was stuck there for a very long period of time. I do remember seeing the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents taking photos of the crime scene before the car was towed. So that might indicate that there is some level of investigation from the federal government. But more, much more than that, Nicole, given that we were here in the half hour after this transpired, I can't say definitively one way or the other.
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Nicole, I want to thank you for all your reporting. I want to ask you to stick around as long as you can. If you need to go do more reporting, please do. But I'd love to have you as part of this conversation as long as you can stay. I want to turn over to Michael Feinberg and ask about the decision to describe something as domestic terrorism. I guess the last time a government official who worked for Donald Trump talked about domestic terrorism was in the context of congressional testimony in the fall of 2020, and he was describing where those buckets are. But typically, an investigation takes place, motive is ascertained based on eyewitness accounts, social media investigation. I mean, it is a long process to designate something in active, quote, domestic domestic terrorism. Have you seen anything that, to you, connects any facts or investigative work to what the Trump administration is using to describe today's events?
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No, I have not. And I think it is wildly irresponsible. And I'm moderating my language in saying that for any administration officials to tell us anything about the victim in this case, and I reiterate that word victim, that is not based on a full investigation that was predicated and borne out by evidence that she is what they're saying she was. I mean, as far as I can tell from every news report that has been promulgated since this happened, from our own network's reporting, this individual was warning people that ICE was in the neighborhood. That is constitutionally protected activity. I did not see her violating any laws. I did not see her committing a crime of violence. I, before the show began, reviewed DHS's deadly force policy. And I really fail to see anything in what she was doing that would justify an officer discharging his or her weapons. I'm struggling to find the right words, but this appears, based on what we've seen and based on what we've told, to be as pretty far from justified as one can possibly be.
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Michael Feinberg, say what I just said to Alex. I want you to keep going. Keep explaining this to us. I think there is a. A lot that's happened on live television, and I don't want to be part of normalizing what should be something no one ever has to see. Right. This video. But I do want to watch it one more time with you and ask you to explain why the gun is out at all. So let me just ask the control room to play it for me one more time on the side of the screen, if that's possible, and just explain to me why a gun was drawn on a person in a car with hands on a steering wheel. Steering wheel. Here it is. Let's watch this together one more time.
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No.
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So she's opening the door. The officer reaches it.
C
Oh, my God. What the. What the.
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You just.
C
What the.
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Did you do?
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So, Michael Feinberg, just explain to me what training goes into the decision of a federal agent. One, to reach into a vehicle. First, he tries the handle. Second, he reaches inside and tries to open the door from behind while his colleague is shooting at the driver from really within arm's distance. What is that? What is the training that tells you to do that to someone in a vehicle?
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So deadly force policies actually differ a little bit from department to department. But one thing the overwhelming majority of them have in common is, is that, and this includes DHS's, you cannot deploy deadly force unless the subject of that force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to yourself or to another person. And I don't see that happening here. If we look at the situation in the light most favorable to the agent who fired his weapon, you might be able to say that he was in front of the car, and as a result, the car could have been used as a weapon against him. But there's a number of things mitigating against that argument. First of all, he placed himself in front of that vehicle. The way that those ICE agents approached what was then a parked vehicle was not tactically sound. They only approached on one side. One person put himself in front of the vehicle, which is a danger zone. There was nobody covering the passenger side of the car. It's not a textbook execution of how you would approach a vehicle which you might even think would be a danger, and a lot of deadly force policies, including the Departments of Justice, which is the one that I followed, state that if a vehicle could be used as a weapon against you, your first instinct should be to get out of the way. You never want to exacerbate a situation to the point where you have to use deadly force. You want to try and de escalate it. You want to try and apprehend the subject without having to deploy it. These agents, based on their bearing, the fact that they were cursing the entire time they were approaching the car, the fact that they were approaching the car in spite of the driver having done nothing illegal, indicates that they were looking to provoke a situation, not ameliorate one.
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That was my next question. What predicate is there for them to be walking up to the car? And what message does it send to any American in a neighborhood warning others that ICE is coming about their rights?
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Let's be very clear. What ice, as a corporate entity, is trying to do is chill people's First Amendment rights to protest their actions and chill people's First Amendment rights to. To view their actions and document them. I was explicitly trained when I was at the FBI Academy that if somebody is videotaping an arrest I'm executing or a search warrant I'm executing, I take it in stride. We live in a free country. They're allowed to do that. I don't let it affect my cool, and I don't let it affect the operation at hand. ICE in city after city has been going after people for doing no more than pointing a cell phone camera at that. And then when the situation escalates, people like Kristi Noem, who have no experience in law enforcement and no business being the head of a law enforcement agency, get on X or they get in front of a camera and they disparage and defend fame. The person against whom violence was just deployed. I would say this is not who we are. But a year into this administration, it is quite clear that this is at least who the government is.
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I think I need a second to process that. I think you're exactly right. I do want to turn the conversation to what it means when we have a window into who the government is. That in broad daylight, an American citizen is shot dead with cameras rolling. I'd like to ask Jacob to weigh in on what questions he has about how people in the country without legal status and without cameras rolling are being treated right now by that same government. No one's going anywhere. We're going to sneak in that quick break. We'll continue to following the breaking news out of Minneapolis. We'll also bring into the Congress a faith leader from Chicago who had his own face to face confrontation with ICE last fall. He'll share his experience in dealing both with ICE and with a frightened and angry community. And in the next hour, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry joins us live on the very latest in his city and this shooting. We'll get to all that and more when Deadline White House continues after a quick break. Don't go anywhere. We are back covering the breaking news out of Minneapolis. Michael, Jacob and Eddie are still here.
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Jacob stavroff, I'm just looking at this. I don't know if this video is live or not. Earlier it says throwing snowballs. It's snowballs. It appears at these vehicles. It just makes me worry even seeing this, what the reaction, given the tactics that we've seen so far today, would be against protesters. And I think that that's why we heard the governor come out and urge people to protest peacefully. Just backing up for a second. What we have seen today is horrific, but I'm sorry to say it is not unexpected. This is what Tom Homan promised to me, or at least said he suspected would happen in the earliest days of this attempt at the largest mass deportation effort in American history, this effort to send massed, armed, heavily kitted up federal agents to the streets all across the United States of America. He made no secret that he believed people could die on the streets of the US People have already died. And now here's another person losing their life at the hands of federal officers parading through the streets of cities around the country. I think we have the sound of what Tom Holman told me on the second day of the ICE raids in la. Let's take a listen to that. Go to these protests to see what's happening. We got protesters making threats against officers, assaulting officers. Now just recently, last hour, we got protesters from Molotov cocktails.
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The protesters are purposely trying to overwhelm law enforcement.
F
President Trump's being the National Guard again. I want to be clear, not just to protect the law enforcement officers, to protect this community, because people are going to get injured. I'm telling you, the rhetoric is so high against ICE officers in this city, it's a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. You said killed earlier today. Absolutely. Do you believe that ICE might kill someone on the streets of la? What I said was if this rhetoric continues and this violence continues, someone's going to lose their life. Someone's going to lose their life. This is not the first person to lose their life at the hands of these federal agents on the streets. Remember off the roof of a building in Oxnard, California, someone fell and died during an ICE raid in Chicago, someone was killed. There was a worker that ran from a Home Depot at one of these operations. Killed, hit on the 210 freeway in Los Angeles. Now here in Minneapolis. What are the tactics that these officers are trained in? How long have these agents been in Minneapolis? What do they know about what happens on the streets of this city and how to operate as a law enforcement agent on an icy, snowy road in the middle of winter? Are these Border Patrol agents from the southwest border? What sector do they come from? Have they coordinated at all with local law enforcement? Tim Wall said this is predictable and avoidable. No coordination with local law enforcement. We don't know who they are or when they're coming or where they're coming from. I was surprised to hear that the Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions, the local law enforcement agency, is actually investigating this use of force because JB Pritzker said to me in Chicago, local law enforcement wouldn't investigate federal agents on the streets of Illinois. But mayor elect at the time, Mondani, now the mayor, told me that he would have the NYPD look into the actions of ICE if they came to the streets. And so I do wonder here where this goes, because this is a use of force that if it was local law enforcement, you better believe civilian oversight bodies, federal prosecutors, you name it, would be looking into this. It's a different tone I've heard from other local officials in the wake of shootings like this with the result of someone losing their life at the hands of Donald Trump's federal agents. On the streets of America, we are.
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Learning for the first time who it is that lost her life this morning around, I think, a little bit after 9am this is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her mother has identified her as Renee Nicole good. She was 37 years old. I'll read from the Minneapolis Star Tribune's reporting here, Eddie. Donna Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribunal that her daughter lived in the Twin Cities with her partner. She declined to say whether she lived in Minneapolis. Ganger said the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning. Quote, that's so stupid that she was killed. Her mother said after learning some of the circumstances from a reporter, quote, she was probably terrified. She said her daughter is, quote, not part of anything like that at all. Referring to Protesters challenging ICE agents. 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.
H
Yeah. So a mother has to bury her child because of the reality TV show that is this stuff. As Tim Walls said, I think it's important for us to kind of understand the permission structure that has allowed this to happen. Jacob has talked about it. There is this sense that prior to this horrific act, these men and women, ice, been running around communities acting in ways that set up this, that put this in place. And then there's the description of people who want to hold them accountable. So Kristi Noem calling them domestic terrorists, Stephen Miller describing them is that. And then to hear. I mean, this is a way of demonizing them, a language that makes them other, that you can then enact violence on them, even when you protest peacefully. This is what I was hearing when I was hearing the mayor and I was hearing the governor talk about, let's not give them what they want. Right. But even if you come out peacefully, like Nicole was doing in some ways.
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Right.
H
Like Renee, Nicole was doing, no, Kings, what were they called? They hated their country. All of these folk who oppose their position, they are called terrorists. They are demonized. And so the situation has been set up for this to happen. And so it's not just so much that the officer that made that deadly gave, you know, that let loose that deadly shot. It's the permission structure that has allowed it all to happen in the first place. And that means the responsibility is not just on ice, it's on us. And I've been saying this for years. Renee, Nicole Good's death, her blood, what we saw is on our hands.
B
I want to play. I feel like I've said this to all of you. I need you all to keep going. I want to play. Governor Walls, doing what you're talking about, issuing this plea, saying, I think, what used to be the quiet part out loud, saying what he knows they will do if the protests turn violent at all. Let me play that for you.
E
I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this, they're going to create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is going to get killed. And they did it. And now we hear more political rhetoric. Enough. Enough is enough. And so to Minnesotans, don't take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to. Invoke the Insurrection act, do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state. And let's let this investigation play itself out.
H
But the irony of it all is that that's true. But then Officer Feinberg, I think, yeah, Feinberg said, right. That they were just exercising their, their constitutional right, free speech. So even if you're not engaged in the kind of protest that they're describing, get shot, you can still get shot. You can still get shot. And then Governor Walz asked the question in this, echoing the McCarthy hearings, have you no decency? Damn it? We know they're not decent. Stephen Miller is not decent. Donald Trump damn sure isn't decent. None of them care about everyday, ordinary people. Christine Om is more concerned about her cowboy hat than the actual reality of what led to Renee Nicole Goode's death. And so I think we have to understand this not just simply in terms of people violently protesting, but protest, period, that they disag, that disagrees with their position can garner, can generate this kind of violence. So where are we?
B
Yeah, I mean, Jacob, I'll bring you back in on that. This was a peaceful protest and she did pay for it with her life.
F
Alex Tabith's reporting has been extremely extraordinary today, and I just want to focus on what he said. Folks on the ground here were doing. They were ice watchers. I've spent time with ice watchers in la, and I've met them in Chicago, where they took a mother off the street with her backpack as she was going home to make a stew, a stew for her daughter. And she never got to see her daughter again. Was deported almost immediately. In Charlotte, North Carolina, I went into the United Methodist Church where 300 people were on a Monday night. And Jenny, a schoolteacher, was the first person to come up to me and say, I learned how to blow the whistle, the literal whistle, to try to get in the middle of these things, but stay far enough away that we could do this peacefully so that we could just raise awareness and stop maybe some neighbor from being taken off the street. Those are the people that I've met who are showing up in their off duty hours, educators showing up in the morning to sit at Home Depot parking lots every day. People that are being described as violent protesters and agitators by this administration. When I talked to Governor Newsom last Friday, he said, I said to him, well, you know, now you got the control of the guard back after Donald Trump has lost all these court cases and he has backed down. Do you think you'll be able to assure Californians that you'll be able to prevent them from doing it again? He said no, I think he's going to invoke the Insurrection act. And these are the exact type of conditions that he was worried about that would allow the president to do that. And now we have to wait and see.
B
We'll wait and see together. We're going to sneak in a break on the other side. We'll talk to a faith leader who has had his own face to face confrontations with ICE when they moved into his frightened community. Much more on this developing story when we come back.
E
We've 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. The hearts and minds of the people in this state are on our side. To Americans, I ask you this. Please stand with Minneapolis To Minnesotans, know that our administration is going to stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice.
B
That was Governor Tim Walz in the last hour. As we continue to follow the breaking news of a deadly shooting in Minneapolis today, we're in America citizen who's just been identified by her mother as 37 year old Renee Nicole Goode. By the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Minneapolis is just the latest city, though, where ICE officials are roaming the streets and have ramped up enforcement, enforcement that now seemingly includes aggressive confrontations with American citizens and the use of deadly force. In Chicago, a minister was struck by a pepper ball that was fired by ICE agents while praying in front of an ICE facility there at the time with the pastor of Highland Park Presbyterian Church who has also attended ICE protests and endured pepper bullets and tear gas. He joins us now again, the Reverend Quincy Worthington. Thank you for being back with us.
J
Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
B
A pleasure to get to talk to you under tragic circumstances. What are your thoughts and what is your counsel to the people of Minneapolis today?
J
I think, you know, we're seeing the same tactics play out in Minneapolis that we've seen all throughout the nation. And I think what's happening is that, you know, we have an administration who talks a lot about power, and the way they feel that they can enforce power is by using tactics of fear and violence against us in order to keep us silent and compliant. And they're also using tactics of chaos. And so I think it's our job then to stand up in solidarity and show them that we are not afraid and that this is not what we stand for and this is not who we hope to be. And so we need to stand up now and make our voices very loud and clear that this is not what we're going to tolerate in this country, and this is not who we aspire to be as a nation.
B
That is, I think, intimidating in the best of times. I think it turns to terrifying on a day like today when someone who is standing with the vulnerable members of her community, paid with her life. Where does that courage come from?
J
You know, courage isn't living without fear. It's standing up despite of the fear. For me, I think the courage comes from, obviously, my faith first, but it also comes from the people in my community and the people that I stand with and work alongside every day. And there's courage and bravery in numbers. And so to stand together allows us to know that we're not alone, but there always is that fear. You know, in Chicago, we've been living under that fear all summer about the consequences of what could happen to us, whether it's arrest or violence or death, like we saw today, which is a horrible tragedy. And my prayers go out to this woman's family and to everyone who loved her. And it's a horrible tragedy. It really is.
B
I had a conversation with someone at one point in all this about rehumanization, that we can jump into the news cycle and cover what happens. But the precondition is the dehumanization. And that project is so far down the tracks, right? The dehumanization of people, maybe that don't look like you and me. The dehumanization of people who come here seeking asylum, who flee famine or war or political persecution or gang violence. The dehumanization of someone who maybe came here without status, but has spent 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years here and has children who die for the country and are military or make the honor roll or make the swim team. The dehumanization project is now so far along that this is very quickly broken down on partisan lines and the killing of an American citizen who was Warning her neighbors that ice was in the neighborhood. So far, as far as I saw about 48 minutes ago, didn't elicit much concern from one of the country's two political parties. How do you rehumanize the country to understand that the killing of anyone is a tragedy?
J
Yeah, I mean, I feel like if I had the answer for that, I would be touring the country on speaking engagements everywhere I went, trying to do this work. But for me, I think the answer really comes down to relationship. It's being in community with people. It's getting to know these people. It's learning about who they are, about their hopes and dreams, about the people who love, love them, and about. You know, for me, everything works under a theological framework. Right. So what. What. What page after page of the Gospel enforces to me as. As a follower of Christ and someone who really takes that seriously and wants that to be the guiding light of. Of my life. And the compass which I follow.
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The.
J
Foundational principle of it, is that every human being is made in the image of God. And because they're made in the image of God, they're precious in the eyes of God. And if they're precious in the eyes of God, if I'm going to be a faithful person, they have to be precious in my eyes as well. How we get people to enter into relationship with one another, it's tricky. I think it shouldn't be, but it is. It should start with sitting down at a table and having a conversation and being able to put our guards down. And what I worry about, what scares me the most, more than the political violence, more than the fear tactics, more than these raids, is that we might be moving to a point where that becomes almost impossibly difficult to do. And I think right now we're fighting for the heart and soul of this nation. And these conversations need to happen. They can't stop there, but they need to happen. That's the only way we're going to recognize each other as a person and stop the dehumanization. And then we've got to stand up with our voices in our lives. And when we see dehumanizing language and dehumanizing action happen, we need to call it that out and make sure that we are correcting people on. On how we're referring to people. We. We need to see past the labels. And the only way you'll do that is by seeing the person in front of you and that they're. They are. They are precious not just to God, but to other people. As well, that this woman had a family that loved her. She had a partner who cared about her, she had a communion who supported her. And all of those people now are grieving in ways that is hard to imagine. And so we need to honor that. I think.
B
I think so, too. I will put you on the hook here that we'd really appreciate it if you continue to have these conversations with us. The Reverend Quincy Worthington, thank you for being part of this conversation. I'm going to sneak in a quick break and, and turn it back over to my panel on the other side. Stay with us, Michael, Jacob and Eddie are still with me. Michael Feinberg, I want to give you the last word. How do the people of Minneapolis who may or may not decide to exercise their First Amendment rights tonight and participate in peaceful protests, how do they keep themselves safe?
I
I think the best thing they can do in practical terms is to the extent they're going to protest, be with others, make sure that a lot of people are recording it. So there is accountability and there is a little bit of a fear factor, maybe is the right way to put it on the part of agents who might otherwise inflict violence on innocent civilians, that there will be accountability for their actions. But I also think what they need to do is something that all of us in the nation need to do, and that is continue to speak forthrightly and honestly about what we see being done in our country's name. George Orwell, in one of his better essays, said the very point of political language, of political pronouncements, was to make lies seem palatable and to euphemistically obfuscate violence. So we have a duty when we see a federal agent doing what looks like an execution in the middle of the street, to not accept the attempts to minimize it, to not accept the attempts to airbrush the situation and to not accept the demonization of the victim. DHS is putting out press releases and tweets that read like they were lifted from the Turner Diaries or the Camp of the Saints. We need to be calling it out constantly, loudly and as often as we see it.
B
And Donald Trump added to what you're describing in 2017 when he said to his own supporters, quote, don't believe your eyes, don't believe your ears, just believe me. Michael Feinberg, really appreciate your help getting through a day like today. Thank you. Jacob and Eddie are going to stick around a little bit longer. We will stay on top of the breaking news on the other side of the break. We'll go back to the ground in Minneapolis, where more people continue to gather. We'll get a full update on the story on the other side of Quick break. Stay with us.
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Episode: "Breaking News Out of Minneapolis"
Date: January 8, 2026
Host: Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
This somber and urgent episode covers breaking news of a U.S. citizen, Renee Nicole Goode, shot dead by a federal ICE agent during a targeted immigration operation in Minneapolis. Nicolle Wallace leads a panel of journalists, analysts, and local voices as they dissect the unfolding crisis, challenge official narratives, and explore the national and community implications of the Trump administration’s expanded federal enforcement tactics. The program spotlights sharply divergent perspectives, eyewitness accounts, and the struggle over public protest, accountability, and the very meaning of American community and justice in a charged political era.
Summary of Events:
Local Reaction:
Alex Tabett (Reporter):
Eugene Bentley (Witness):
"She’s trying to help out and scared at the same time." ([11:47–11:50])
"I just felt like the officer shouldn’t have shot the gun. That’s all. That’s it." ([11:59–12:21])
Local Law Enforcement ([13:28–15:07]):
Federal Officials:
"It is wildly irresponsible ... for any administration officials to tell us anything about the victim ... that is not based on a full investigation." ([17:16–18:42])
Jacob Soboroff (Correspondent):
"This is what Tom Homan promised ... someone might die in these raids ... and now here's another person losing their life at the hands of federal officers." ([25:33–27:00])
Eddie Glaud (Princeton Professor):
“[T]here is this sense that ... these men and women, ICE, [have] been running around communities acting in ways that set up this, that put this in place... [The] description of people who want to hold them accountable—calling them domestic terrorists, demonizing them—makes them ‘other.’” ([29:53–31:39])
Mayor Jacob Frey:
“Let us respond right now with our best versions of self ... meet that hate with love ... meet that injustice with constitutional justice ourselves.” ([03:00–07:07])
Governor Tim Walz:
“Don’t take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops ... declare martial law ... let this investigation play itself out.” ([32:05–32:39])
"Courage isn’t living without fear. It’s standing up despite of the fear ... there always is that fear ... but we are not alone." ([38:57–39:57])
"Every human being is made in the image of God ... precious in the eyes of God ... that's the only way we're going to recognize each other as a person and stop the dehumanization." ([42:09–44:05])
"We have a duty ... to not accept the attempts to minimize it, to not accept the attempts to airbrush the situation, and to not accept the demonization of the victim." ([44:42–46:37])
Mayor Jacob Frey:
“That is bullshit. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying ... I have a message for ICE: get the fuck out of Minneapolis.” ([03:00–03:45])
Eugene Bentley (Eyewitness):
“She’s trying to help out and scared at the same time ... I just felt like the officer shouldn’t have shot the gun. That’s all.” ([11:47–12:21])
Michael Feinberg:
“What ICE ... is trying to do is chill people's First Amendment rights ... we live in a free country. They're allowed to do that. I don't let it affect my cool...” ([22:55–24:18])
Governor Tim Walz:
“Don’t take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops ... let this investigation play itself out.” ([32:05–32:39])
Rev. Quincy Worthington:
“Courage isn’t living without fear. It’s standing up despite of the fear ... we are not alone.” ([38:57–39:57])
“Every human being is made in the image of God ... that's the only way we're going to recognize each other as a person and stop the dehumanization.” ([42:09–44:05])
The tone is urgent, outraged, and deeply empathetic—marked by grief, community solidarity, and a fierce demand for justice and national reflection. The voices of local leaders, eyewitnesses, and panelists collectively reject the official narrative, emphasize the human cost, and call for courageous but peaceful resistance.
This episode delivers unflinching coverage and analysis of the Minneapolis shooting and the Trump administration's hardline immigration measures, probing the ethical, political, and human stakes surrounding the lethal policing of immigrant communities. With voices from the street, the pulpit, academia, and within law enforcement, Deadline: White House constructs a narrative not only of tragedy, but of pressing civic responsibility—a warning and a call to action.