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Any Moment, Update on ICE Shooting of Woman in Minneapolis; Minneapolis Leaders to Call on FBI to Allow State Officials to Investigate Good's Killing; Mayor Gives Update on Shooting of Woman in Minneapolis. Aired 10-10:30a ET

Aired January 09, 2026 - 10:00   ET

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, breaking news, at any moment, we'll hear from officials in Minneapolis as the state fights to join an investigation into an ICE agent shooting and killing of a 37-year-old Renee Good. We will bring that to you live.

Plus, decision day. At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue decisions and could rule on several key cases, including President Trump's tariffs.

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Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in The Situation Room.

Any moment now, Minneapolis officials are set to give an update following the killing of 37-year-old American mother of three, Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer this week. They're expected to call on the FBI to allow state officials to be part of the investigation into Good's killing. All of this after the Minnesota officials said the FBI has blocked their involvement.

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GOV. TIM WALZ (D-MN): we have learned that the Trump administration has now denied the state that ability to participate in the investigation. And I always want to make this as clear as possible to everyone. Minnesota must be part of this investigation.

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BLITZER: Our reporters and correspondents, they're all standing by with the latest developments, but let's begin with Whitney Wild. She's on the scene first in Minneapolis. Whitney, what more are you learning, first of all, this morning?

WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: We're learning more about the officer who was involved in this incident. This is what law enforcement says is a veteran officer. He'd been with ICE for at least ten years. He had started a career in the National Guard. He was at gunner in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. He also spent time with the Border Patrol. Last summer, he was involved in an incident where he was dragged. He was trying to arrest a man who was wanted for sexually assaulting a teenage relative in 2022. That man would not exit a vehicle.

So, he broke the window, reached into the car, and that's when that suspect drove off, dragging that ICE officer a hundred yards. He sustained extensive injuries in one arm. He had a cut that was so long and so deep that it required 20 stitches. He, in another hand, received 13 stitches for a severe injury to that hand. And then further in the case there was more detail about that officer's background. For example, he testified that he had done hundreds of traffic stops quite often with people who intended to flee and described those drivers as often erratic. They make erratic movements and seem to have no regard for the people and things around them.

J.D. Vance, Vice President J.D. Vance, believes that that experience should inform how people look at this incident in totality and likely informed how he looked at the incident as it was unfolding. J.D. Vance again asking the public for more grace when assessing it, however, the witnesses on scene that we've spoken with insist that there would have been no reason for ICE officers to ever feel any kind of threat. They insist that this was a major overreaction that cost a woman her life.

Here, we are outside the federal building. This is the Whipple Building in St. Paul. This is where we saw clashes with law enforcement and protesters yesterday. So far today though, Wolf, we see very few protestors. We are again awaiting more information from Minneapolis and Minnesota officials later at this press conference. The main question is if they will conduct their own independent investigation. Wolf?

BLITZER: All right. Whitney Wild on the scene for us in Minneapolis, thank you very, very much. Pamela?

BROWN: All right, Wolf. With us now to talk about all of this is CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller. Hi, John. Good morning to you.

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JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: Good morning. BROWN: So, state officials say the FBI blocked them from taking part in the investigation into this shooting death of Renee Good. Help us better understand how unusual that is and what could be behind this.

MILLER: So, it's highly unusual. My experience in New York City was if a federal agent was involved in a shooting, they would also be interviewed by the district attorney. We would assist them with the crime scene. It's common practice across the country that a district attorney is allowed to -- the local prosecutor is allowed to look at the evidence and basically decide whether to participate in that investigation or decline prosecution while the rest is handled by the federal attorney.

So, this isn't normal. And what it signals is a breach of trust between state authorities, the Force Investigation Unit of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. This is a special unit. This is what they do. They investigate police-involved shootings, they have a high level of expertise, has been pushed aside. And what it -- the question it begs is when the results of this investigation either find this officer at fault or clears him, what level of trust will there be on the part of the people of Minneapolis or Minnesota in the independence and the judgment of that investigation?

BLITZER: You know, John, it's interesting. We just heard from the House speaker, Mike Johnson, who said a full investigation is needed into the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. I want you to listen to what he said. Listen to this.

BROWN: I don't believe we have the sound.

BLITZER: We don't have that now. We'll play that for you later. We know that news conference -- they're getting ready for the news conference as well. We'll have live coverage of that coming up.

What do you make of the gap between the messaging between the House speaker and the White House, for example?

MILLER: Well, I think that people are scrambling to take positions here. And the idea of the president saying this was within policy, the secretary of Homeland Security saying he acted according to his training and legally, the vice president saying that he enjoys immunity and, you know, did what he had to do. Seeing members of Congress who are obviously experiencing increasing pressure, as, you know, the midterms look ahead and so on, say that they think it actually does need to be looked into is another vein of that fracture.

BLITZER: We have that clip from the House speaker. Let me play it for our viewers right now.

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REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I think people have made their observations now about the video. There's multiple angles of the video. Everybody's commenting on that in the media and on social media and even elected officials, but we all understand there has to be a full investigation. That's the appropriate thing that will happen. (END VIDEO CLIP)

BLITZER: So, John, from an --

MILLER: I mean, he may just be referring to the FBI. He may just be referring to the FBI's investigation, which will be the FBI will do the criminal investigation, Wolf, which is, was this shooting legal? In other words, did the agent have a legitimate fear of --

BLITZER: I just want to interrupt for a moment, John. The mayor, Mayor Frey, of Minneapolis is speaking right now at this news conference. Let's listen in.

MAYOR JACOB FREY (D-MINNEAPOLIS, MN): This is not a time to hide from the facts. This is a time to embrace them, making sure that we're pushing for transparency every step of the way. The fact that Pam Bondi's Department of Justice and this presidential administration has already come to a conclusion about those facts is deeply concerning, the facts that from the very beginning, they're calling the victim a domestic terrorist, they're calling the actions of the agent involved as some form of defensive posture. We know that they've already determined much of the investigation. And even if they haven't, there is the appearance that there is some conclusion drawn from the very beginning. If not, hide from the facts, why not embrace them? If it's not a problem to have additional people at the table that have a deep commitment to the process and transparency and have run these investigations before, then why not include them in the process?

The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at the State of Minnesota has consistently run these investigations before. They have done so without bias. They have done so with a great deal of expertise. This is not some radical way out there group. This is a group that is formed by experts who understand how to investigate. Many of them have been police officers themselves.

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So, our ask is really simple here. Our ask is to embrace the truth. Our ask is to include the Bureau of Criminal apprehension in this process, because we in Minneapolis want a fair investigation.

Is it deeply concerning that this administration from the very get-go is drawing the conclusion that they may ultimately come to? Of course it is. And if you got nothing to hide from, then don't hide from it. Include local experts in the process. We got nothing to hide from here. All we want in Minneapolis is justice and the truth.

And speaking of the truth, let me give you another one. I have heard countless people talk about Minneapolis, many of them who have never been here as some sort form of post-apocalyptic hellscape, as a place that is dangerous. Well, let me give you a statistic. 50 percent of the shootings that have happened thus far in Minneapolis this year have been ICE. In other words, we've only had two shootings. One of them has been ICE.

We are a safe city. ICE is making it less. So, we are a city of unity, but ICE is trying to divide us and tear us apart. For every one of the people that you see standing here behind me, they have more than a thousand people behind them. They have people that are committed to their neighbors, committed to integrity, committed to justice, and committed to getting the truth. We will not back down from it.

Among those that won't back down from it is the person who I'm about to introduce. His ward is right on the borderline of where this particular shooting happened, and that is Council Member Jason Chavez. Would you please give him a warm round of applause?

JASON CHAVEZ, MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL: Good morning. My name is Jason Chavez, and I have the privilege of representing Ward 9 on the Minneapolis City Council where ICE murdered Renee Good. I want to let you all know that our entire community is mourning because of the inhumane tactics of ICE separating our families, forcing people back into the shadows and the pure brutality by Immigration and Customs Enforcements.

The videos that we have all seen, yourself included, does not match the false narrative from the federal government. In fact, you could hear the words, I am pulling out, moments before I decided to take the life of Renee Good. She was a mother, a wife and a beloved community member, not a domestic terrorist.

I'm calling on Trump's FBI to allow the Minnesota BCA to have access to all the information so an independent investigation can occur. 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 that adequate charges can be made. But most importantly, I am here on behalf of my entire community echoing the cause to arrest, to prosecute and fire this ICE agent who murdered Renee Good and to hold those accountable complicit in this crime.

What has descended upon Minneapolis and in this state is not the American dream. It is not what the American dream is about. Our immigrant neighbors are here to work. They're here to provide for their family and to achieve prosperity. Instead, what we are seeing in Minneapolis and across the state is ICE kidnapping our family, following folks driving to work and kidnapping them, following people as they're heading to school or to the daycare, picking up our immigrant neighbors from bus stops. While neighbors are struggling to afford groceries, they're picking them there as well. I've personally been on the streets since this first happened and I've seen too many ICE agents kidnap our neighbors from their cars. And to that, we're always going to condemn it.

And as we continue to ask for justice for Renee Good, we're going to ask our community members to stay on alert. As a proud son of Mexican immigrants, I ask Minneapolis and Minnesota to rise up, to do everything in their power to defend our immigrant neighbors, to continue to observe the illegal actions by ICE, to blow your whistle when you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, to get trained on rapid response so you can educate your neighbors on what is happening on your block, to provide rides to your immigrant neighbors who need to go to work, who need to get groceries, who need to see their children come back home safely, to help your immigrant neighbors move their cars during snow emergencies, because what we are seeing is many of our immigrant neighbors being picked up simply by moving their cars, to help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped while they are taking their trash out, to support our immigrant-owned businesses, to drop off groceries to our children, mothers, fathers, our community members that are starving, and to let know that ICE is not welcome in this city and in this state.

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And lastly, we're here to demand justice for Renee Good.

STATE REP. AISHA GOMEZ (D-MN): My name is Aisha Gomez. I serve as the state representative for District 62A, south side of Minneapolis, where our beloved community member was murdered this week. I'm so grateful to Council Member Chavez for explaining this moment to us and calling on us as a community into this struggle that our neighbors are facing.

With respect to the investigation into the shooting, there's really only one question in front of us. Are we going to design a process that's legitimate or not?

In 2020, the state legislature created the Force Investigations Unit after the murder of George Floyd, which happened right around the corner, seven or eight blocks away from where Rene Good was murdered. This unit was established after a long process of looking into what are the best practices when there is an officer-involved shooting.

We learned a lot about this in 2020 in Minneapolis, unfortunately. One of the things that we learned is that if you actually are interested in public safety, if you actually are interested in the legitimacy of a law enforcement force in your community, then you must be invested in accountability, in transparency and in fair investigations when bad things happen.

And so that's the question in front of us. Do we want a legitimate investigation that pulls in the professionals of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension who are trained to do this, who have done this over and over, who have the kind of local connections and local legitimacy that the FBI could just never have because they don't have that kind of presence here, or are we going to have a discredited farce of an investigation?

And so as a group of elected representatives who are deeply invested in the safety of our community and thus in the legitimacy of these processes, we call on the FBI to share the evidence with the Force Investigations Unit at the BCA and have this be a legitimate and trusted investigation. Thank you.

I am Hennepin County Commissioner Irene Fernando, but you can call Commish. I use she/her pronouns and I'm a very, very proud child of immigrants. I'm the youngest woman to ever serve on the Hennepin County Board. I'm the first Filipino American elected in the state. And I'm Hennepin's first board chair of color in our 174-year history. IRENE FERNANDO, HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA COMMISSIONER: My heart is bleeding for Renee and her family. This is an unimaginable and preventable loss. I honor Renee's humanity and life, and I acknowledge the deep pain felt by her loved ones and neighbors.

The taxpayer-funded actions and harm we are experiencing right now are inhumane, unlawful, and unconstitutional. United States due process means that justice is pursued through legal action, credible investigation, and courts, not through guns, murder and violence on our streets.

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There's jarring footage that show ICE agents staged at elementary school bus stops and going door to door. Often agents are unwilling to provide a badge number, a warrant, or any legal documentation. This is a terrifying reality for Minnesotans since we are still grieving Speaker Hortman's assassination due to the impersonation of a police officer at her doorstep.

Our community has experienced a national spotlight with law enforcement shootings, which required significant change in reform on how such cases are examined, investigated, and communicated to the public. It is critical for our communities to have some sense of trust in the process in order to meet the standards set by Minnesota law and resident expectations.

This is why we're calling on the federal government to cooperate with a joint or independent investigation conducted by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The thought is that they would do this together. But if for some reason that is not possible, please allow shared evidence for a parallel investigation.

The Minnesota BCA is the only nonpartisan state agency equipped to investigate robustly and effectively in part due to their establishment of the Force Investigations Unit. They have the expertise, they are equipped, and they are ready to pursue justice on behalf of Minnesotans.

Alongside their own investigation, the BCA -- alongside the federal investigation, the BCA can and should conduct this parallel process, which means full access to the information, evidence, and case file, because in Minnesota we expect that investigations are completed by the BCA to then get reviewed by the county attorney to determine if the use of force was appropriate or not.

We have a process here to review force. We have full trust in this process and in the county attorney to do the objective review needed based on the facts and Minnesota law. The idea that our federal government would not fully cooperate with the BCA in an investigation creates even more mistrust among our community members because we know federal investigations are very rarely released to the public.

Our justice system, and we are here together to ask for and request full cooperation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office to provide full access to the BCA, so they can conduct a thorough, complete, and independent investigation to determine if the use of force was justified or requires additional accountability.

Last and certainly not least, just directly to residents, our neighbors, our friends, our family members, our co-workers, our kids, I am very, very proud of our unrelenting courage, compassionate caregiving and a fierce re resilience towards justice. It feels very hopeful and very fearful, but together we can and must resist the urge to give in to the numbness that comes from this type of attention, because numbing our pain might also numb our shared humanity. And it is only through the collective wisdom in our bodies and ancestral storylines that we will get through to the other side of this.

Together, we come from powerful, loving, and resourceful stories. Our cultures and ancestors have found ways to construct creativity from pain, joy from fear, and hope from oppression, and we will do so again today. Ultimately, I do believe that our shared humanity and love for one another will prevail, but that only occurs when we all rise with one another.

Leading with integrity, caring for one another with dignity and fighting for our shared humanity without apology, I and we remain in this fight with you speaking our truths and leading towards accountability and justice. Thank you.

STATE SEN. ZAYNAB MOHAMED (D-MN): Good morning, everybody. I am State Senator Zaynab Mohamed. I think I speak on all of my colleagues, especially colleagues in the Senate when I say we are here on behalf of Renee Nicole Good, a beloved wife, mom, daughter, and neighbor who was needlessly and brutally taken from us in Minneapolis streets on Wednesday morning.

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That night, thousands of us gathered at the site to grieve the loss and to mourn Renee and to rally for justice. Everything I have learned about Renee, about her humanity and compassion tells me she would have been there with us speaking truth to power and turning pain into poetry.

This federal government has given us too many reasons to not trust them to do the right thing. There -- this -- there are thousands of agents were sent here under a false pretense in the minutes after an agent -- in the minutes after an agent's shot, they refused to render aid. And their leaders have used every opportunity since this tragedy to lie about the facts, to lie about the facts, to lie about Renee and to blame her for her own murder.

There were many witnesses to Renee's murder. And the horrific videos we have seen make us all witnesses. This was a crime in broad daylight and the attempt to cover it up is another. Renee is owed the same rights we promised to every American, due process, respect and truth. We know what we saw and everything short of a fool and an honest investigation is an insult to her memory, everything she stood for and everything we stand for as Americans.

At 10:00 today, we will honor the life and legacy of Renee Nicole Good with a moment of silence. Every moment before that and every moment after that, we will honor Renee by remembering our neighbor and calling for justice at the top of our lungs.

And with that, we will take questions.

REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE)?

FREY: Right. So, the question stemmed from an answer from a press conference that happened in New York City just yesterday, where it was asked what is the general process for doing this, are there legal remedies that are available at the city, county, state level, et cetera, where we would have the ability to move forward with either some form of investigation or prosecution.

First, you know, there is some precedent that is important here. There have been instances in the past where there was some form of shooting or an officer involved killing. That took place by federal agents or U.S. Marshals or beyond that did have local and state entities in control. By the way, we're not even talking just about full control here. We're talking about being at the table. We're talking about an investigation that includes the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

And for those that may say that we have a predetermined outcome, we are not the ones that are conducting the investigation. The investigation would be conducted by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. They are well equipped to do it. They have a long track record of doing thorough investigations, and, by the way, coming to results that both saw culpability and a lack thereof.

As far as the legal mechanism to do so, I'm not going to jump the gun here and give you a mechanism to prosecute through the county or the state before we actually know what that legal remedy looks like, but I can assure you there is potential there that is available.

Can I (INAUDIBLE) then?

REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE)?

FREY: Well, I think what this does ultimately is expose the truth. What did they say when they came in here? What has this administration stated as their reason for coming into cities around the country? The reason that they've stated, safety, driving down crime. Well, let our statistics speak for the trajectory.

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They are clearly driving crime up. Up until last night, we hadn't had any shootings in this city other.