Minnesota killing: How the fatal ICE shooting has deepened divisions in the US

Tensions in the city on knife-edge amid Trump’s immigration crackdown

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A US immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Caitlin Callenson
A US immigration agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photograph: Caitlin Callenson

The killing of Renee Nicole Good (37) in her car on the streets of Minneapolis by an immigration officer has been witnessed by millions of people around the world.

Countless bystanders took videos on their phones from all angles on the snowy suburban street as the mother and US citizen drove by, was surrounded by armed Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents and was shot dead.

So it should be possible to quickly reach a definitive conclusion as to what happened.

But as Rachel Leingang, Midwest political correspondent for Guardian US, explains the killing instantly became politicised in a city where tensions were already on a knife-edge, with armed Ice officers swarming neighbourhoods as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan.

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison

Bernice Harrison is an Irish Times journalist and cohost of In the News podcast

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