Protesters sue ICE to stop 'unconstitutional' Minnesota actions after Renee Good's killing

Source: The Independent

Friday 09 January 2026 12:39 EST


Protesters suing to block “unconstitutional” federal law enforcement actions in Minnesota have described officers firing pepper spray into a moving car and threatening to break a car window on the same day an agent fatally shot Renee Good.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit in December on behalf of a group of Minneapolis residents who alleged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents followed them home, fired chemical spray and rubber bullets and threatened them with arrest as Donald Trump’s administration began surging federal law enforcement into the state.

But “extraordinary circumstances” — including Good’s death and aggressive confrontations with federal agents in the wake of her killing — require a federal judge’s swift intervention to block any further threats, plaintiffs wrote Thursday.

In a series of sworn statements attached to a letter to the court, plaintiffs allege a federal officer threatened to break a legal observer’s car window while another officer in a different part of the city fired pepper spray into an observer’s moving car, all on the same morning Good was killed.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/minnesota-ice-protest-lawsuit-renee-good-b2897725.html