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The Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into whether Becca Good, the widow of Renee Good, impeded an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent prior to her wife being fatally shot during an incident in Minneapolis earlier this month, two sources familiar with the investigation confirmed to NBC News on Saturday (January 17).
Officials are reportedly focusing more on Becca Good's possible ties to activist groups and less on ICE agent Jonathan Ross' actions during the shooting, the sources confirmed. Renee Good was fatally shot by ICE officer on January 7 and the incident has been widely politicized as Democrats and Republicans argue over the cause.
Numerous protests held in Minnesota since as state authorities have joined Illinois in suing the President Donald Trump's administration for its surge of ICE personnel within their states. A video shared online, which appears to have been recorded on a cellphone belonging to Ross shows her in the driver's seat of her SUV on a suburban street talking to ICE officers while her wife stood outside the vehicle before Ross fires multiple rounds into the SUV just after it starts to move.
Democrat members of Congress and local Minneapolis leaders and residents have condemned the actions of the ICE officer while Trump, Vice President JD Vance, the Department of Homeland Security and numerous conservative pundits have defended the officer. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey previously said "tens of thousands of people" attended what he described as a peaceful march, but Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem claimed the operation in the state would now shift from its sole focus of immigration law breaches to also tackling anti-ICE protests.
“We’re going to continue to if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that’s a crime, and we will hold them accountable to those consequences,” she said via FOX News.