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Today, Explained

An ICE shooting in Minnesota

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

First there was a fraud scandal involving the Somali community in Minnesota. Then, Trump sent in ICE. Now a woman is dead and people want answers. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Andrea López-Cruzado and Ariana Aspuru, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Noel King. A protestor at the scene where an ICE officer shot a woman in her car in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Trump administration and Minnesota officials are giving conflicting accounts of what happened on a street in Minneapolis yesterday when a woman in an SUV was shot at close range by an ICE agent.

0:13.5

President Trump told the New York Times last night, quote, it's a terrible scene. No, I hate to see it.

0:19.9

But he said, quote, you're supposed to listen to law enforcement.

0:23.6

Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frye, meanwhile, took aim at ICE.

0:27.1

To ICE?

0:28.7

Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

0:30.5

When CNN told Fry that Republicans were calling his remarks divisive, he said this.

0:35.6

I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears, but here's the thing.

0:41.3

If we're talking about what's inflammatory, on the one hand you got someone who dropped an F-bomb,

0:46.3

and on the other hand you got someone who killed somebody else.

0:49.3

ICE is in Minnesota in the first place because a fraud scandal drew the Trump administration's attention.

0:55.6

What happened there is coming up on Today Explained.

0:59.7

This is Today Explained.

1:03.6

My name is Max Nestrach. I'm a reporter and editor for a Minnesota reformer.

1:07.6

Over the past couple of weeks, a fraud scandal in Minnesota has consumed the American

1:13.1

right.

1:14.1

That scandal led to the government deploying a bunch of ICE agents to your area, to Minneapolis.

1:21.1

Yesterday, one of those officers shot and killed a woman.

1:24.4

What do we know about that shooting?

1:35.7

So yesterday morning around 10 a.m., ice officer fatally shot a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident named Renee Nicole Good. I spoke with witnesses and saw, received a video of the incident and what we see is that um the witness

1:48.9

I talked to said she she was out for a walk and saw an ice vehicle stuck in the snow um and then

1:56.3

more ice vehicles arrived um and bystanders were blowing their whistles in protest to get people's

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