Protests erupted in Minneapolis on Thursday following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent one day before. The killing of the mother of three has raised questions once more on the justifiability of enforcement officers using lethal force. According to media reports, some 2,000 law enforcement officers had been ordered to the city, with the deployment starting on Sunday, as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Good’s shooting was not the first of its kind under the second Trump administration. Data detailed and published by The Trace shows how there have been at least 14 incidents of either ICE agents or U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel having shot at civilians, four of which have been fatal.
The independent newsroom cites how just one week earlier, on December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr. was killed in Northridge, Los Angeles, when an off-duty ICE agent fatally shot him. Witnesses say Porter was firing a rifle into the air to celebrate New Year’s Eve. The Department of Homeland Security claims the agent had responded to an “active shooter” situation.
On December 11, a border patrol agent killed a Mexican national, 31, whose name has not yet been released. The man was fleeing capture during an enforcement action near the U.S.-Mexico border in Rio Grande City, Texas, according to the source. Three months earlier, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, 38, was shot and killed by an ICE officer. The agency said he had resisted arrest during a traffic stop.
The Trace further lists five incidents where civilians have been shot and wounded since June 14, as well as five additional cases where agents fired shots but no one was injured.
