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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Minnesota Shooting Aftermath and How Long Will Trump Run Venezuela?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

An ICE agent shoots and kills a woman in Minneapolis and both the right and the left are quick to blame the other side. Was a deadly incident like this inevitable? Plus, President Trump says the U.S. may run Venezuela for at least a year, maybe longer.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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estate professionals from the opinion pages of the wall street journal this is potomac watch

0:38.8

an immigration and customs enforcement agent shoots and kills a woman in Minneapolis and right and left

0:44.9

both retreat to their familiar quarters and blame the other side. We'll talk about the legal

0:51.5

and political fallout. Plus, President Trump says the U.S. may run Venezuela for at least a

0:57.9

year, maybe longer. But what does he mean by run since the people who ran the country with

1:05.8

Nicholas Maduro are still in charge, even though he's in a jail in Brooklyn. These are our topics for Potomac

1:12.7

Watch today, our daily podcast for Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm Paul as you go, editor of the

1:17.8

opinion pages, and I'm here with my colleagues, Kyle Peterson and Mary O'Grady. Let's start with

1:24.8

the tragic shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, and an ice agent fired and killed her on a Minneapolis street.

1:33.4

And the facts and the justification for the shooting are in dispute.

1:37.9

She and her wife were there to monitor and protest the presence of ice in the neighborhood.

1:43.6

The dispute is whether she was trying to run over the

1:46.7

ice agent or merely get out of the way before the ice agent turned and fired his gun.

1:55.5

Kirstie Knoam, the DHS Secretary, Department of Homeland Security commented on it.

2:01.6

We'll listen to her.

2:02.6

It followed by the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Fry, with very different interpretations of the event.

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