Minneapolis Protests, Immigration Enforcement Shootings, Running Venezuela
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
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Summary
A review of immigration related shootings under President Trump shows a rising pattern of violence as federal agents carry out increasingly aggressive and public operations in U.S. cities.
And President Trump signals the U.S. could run Venezuela “much longer” than expected, as oil executives head to the White House to discuss America’s expanded oversight of the country’s future.
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(0:00) Introduction
(01:54) Minneapolis Protests
(05:29) Immigration Enforcement Shootings
(09:04) Running Venezuela
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| 0:00.0 | Protests extended into a second day in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot and killed a balloon. |
| 0:07.0 | The federal government has taken over the investigation, leaving state officials shut out. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Steve Inskeep with A Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:19.0 | A former acting director of ICE says immigration agents are pursuing different strategies than in the past. |
| 0:27.3 | Tasking the agents with being the front line on the crowd control. |
| 0:31.2 | You're creating a toxic stew there. |
| 0:33.5 | Is there some connection between the tactics and the number of shootings in the past year? |
| 0:38.3 | Also today, oil executives meet with President Trump after he said the U.S. would run Venezuela much longer than expected. |
| 0:44.7 | What is the end game? |
| 0:46.1 | Stay with us. We've got all the news you need to start a day. |
| 0:54.0 | Two incidents this week call attention to shootings by federal immigration authorities. |
| 0:58.6 | One was in Portland, Oregon. We have very limited information so far. The Department of Homeland |
| 1:04.0 | Security says agents shot two people during a traffic stop and that the two people drove away. |
| 1:10.3 | DHS issued a statement |
| 1:11.7 | casting all blame on the people who were shot. That is what the Homeland Security Secretary |
| 1:16.4 | also did after a shooting in Minneapolis that was caught on video. People in Minneapolis want |
| 1:22.6 | immigration agents out of their city after an ICE officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good on Wednesday. |
| 1:28.6 | ICE go now! Ice go now! MPR's Meg Anderson is in Minneapolis. Meg, you were at the protest |
| 1:35.2 | we just heard from last night, so what's the mood they're like? Yeah, you know, it's been somber here |
| 1:41.5 | and mostly peaceful but defiant. At the march last night, |
| 1:45.2 | the weather was awful. A freezing rain was coming down. A lot of the sidewalks were covered in a sheet |
| 1:49.9 | of ice. And there were still hundreds of people there. Community members were chanting, |
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