Lawfare Daily: The Legal Fallout After a Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower speaks with fellow Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Mike Feinberg about the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. The discussion covers what is currently known about the incident and the conflicting accounts offered by DHS and the White House in contrast with bystander video. The panel also discusses DHS use-of-force policies, the federal government’s reported investigation of the shooting, and the legal framework governing state prosecutions of federal officers.
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| 0:00.0 | Generally speaking, federal agents are immune from state prosecution if they acted in an objectively reasonable manner in carrying out their duties. |
| 0:12.0 | So that's kind of a two-part test, whether they're carrying out their duties and whether their actions were objectively reasonable. |
| 0:20.9 | It's the Lawfare podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Senior Editor Anna Bauer with Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Mike Feinberg. |
| 0:27.9 | If they find that the conduct of the driver did in fact meet the requirements for an assault on a federal officer, |
| 0:39.0 | then that's going to necessarily impact how seriously you take the mindset and testimony the officer who fired the shots. |
| 0:46.7 | Today, we're talking about the legal fallout in the aftermath of a fatal shooting by an ICE |
| 0:51.8 | agent in Minneapolis. Eric and Mike, we have convened to record this podcast today on Thursday, January 8th, |
| 1:00.4 | to discuss the tragic events that occurred yesterday in Minneapolis. |
| 1:05.8 | A 37-year-old woman and mother of a young child, Renee Nicole Good, was shot and killed by an ICE officer. |
| 1:12.7 | The shooting has sparked national outrage and calls for an investigation and potential charges against |
| 1:18.9 | the officer. There's all kinds of legal issues that we can get into. But I want to start with what we |
| 1:25.4 | know about this very fast moving story. So Eric, can you tell us a |
| 1:30.0 | little bit about what happened yesterday in Minneapolis? What do we know and what do we not know? |
| 1:36.1 | Sure. So there are multiple video accounts of what happened, which is the primary sources at this point. It appears that a woman was in a car, |
| 1:54.6 | reportedly a Honda pilot on a residential street in Minnesota, in Minneapolis, |
| 2:03.6 | and ICE agents were in a nearby car. |
| 2:08.6 | There may have another ICE agents in the area. |
| 2:12.6 | Some ICE agents approached her car and on foot, and apparently, I told her to move her car. |
| 2:21.9 | She was at that point perpendicular to the road. |
| 2:26.4 | It was either a two-way street or a one-way street with two lanes. |
| 2:31.9 | And one agent kind of put his reach to her door handle, maybe even trying to get inside |
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