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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Ours. It's Monday,
Speaker 2: the twelfth of January. I'm Emma Gillespie, I'm Billy fitz Simon's.
Speaker 2: Tensions around US immigration enforcement have escalated over the past
Speaker 2: week after a woman was shot and killed by a
Speaker 2: federal agent during a raid in the state of Minnesota.
Speaker 2: The shooting has sparked widespread protests and divided politicians as
Speaker 2: well as state and federal leaders.
Speaker 3: This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in
Speaker 3: somebody dying getting killed. Long term Minneapolis residents that have
Speaker 3: contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to
Speaker 3: our economy are being terrorized and now somebody is dead.
Speaker 2: As protests intensify. Today, we are going to explore what
Speaker 2: we know about the shooting that prompted the demonstrations, the
Speaker 2: government's response, and the growing controversy around US immigration enforcement operations.
Speaker 1: And before we get into what exactly happened in the
Speaker 1: US state of Minnesota last week, I first want to
Speaker 1: give context about what exactly ice is I feel like
Speaker 1: over the past year or so since Donald Trump became
Speaker 1: president again, we have heard a lot more about ICE
Speaker 1: in the news. Yeah, exactly what is that agency?
Speaker 2: You're bang on there, Billy that we have heard a
Speaker 2: lot about this agency in the past year. The agency
Speaker 2: is called ICE, as you mentioned, which stands for Immigration
Speaker 2: and Customs Enforcement. Basically, it is a federal law enforcement
Speaker 2: agency in the US. It falls under the Department of
Speaker 2: Homeland Security and ICE's main job is to enforce immigration
Speaker 2: laws inside the United States, So that includes and what
Speaker 2: you've probably seen are things like arresting and deporting people
Speaker 2: who are in the country illegally. ICE also investigate crimes
Speaker 2: like human trafficking and drug smuggling. And the agency was
Speaker 2: created after the September eleven attacks. That was part of
Speaker 2: a major reorganization of security agencies in the US. But
Speaker 2: ICE has pretty much been controversial since day one. There
Speaker 2: have been long running debates around how aggressive their tactics
Speaker 2: should be and whether some of their operations overstep civil rights.
Speaker 1: Okay, so ICE is not new, but their operations have
Speaker 1: really ramped up since Donald Trump became president. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sure many of our listeners probably hadn't even heard
Speaker 1: of them a few months ago, and now we are
Speaker 1: hearing about them.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why has there been so much recent discussion about ICE.
Speaker 2: It's because, as you correctly point out, Billy, US President
Speaker 2: Donald Trump returned to office a year ago, and there
Speaker 2: has been a significant increase in Immigration in Force operations,
Speaker 2: and that is because this is something that Donald Trump
Speaker 2: campaigned really heavily on before his reelection. So border security
Speaker 2: was a key policy issue for him, and within his
Speaker 2: first days back in office, he signed multiple executive orders
Speaker 2: aimed at expanding immigration enforcement. Since then, that is why
Speaker 2: we've seen ICE conducting what it calls targeted enforcement operations
Speaker 2: in cities right across the United States. According to the
Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security, the department that runs ICE, these
Speaker 2: operations are focused on people who have criminal records or
Speaker 2: outstanding deportation orders. But critics and opponents to ICE say
Speaker 2: the raids have been much broader and that they've created
Speaker 2: fear in immigrant communities. There have been reports of US
Speaker 2: citizens being wrongfully detained by ICE and deported, and videos
Speaker 2: of ICE raids showing agents using aggressive measures. Now, those
Speaker 2: tactics have sparked frequent protests over the past twelve months,
Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty five. ICE says it deported at
Speaker 2: least six hundred thousand people. But it should be noted
Speaker 2: that thirty two people died in ICE custody last year.
Speaker 2: That makes it the agency's deadliest year in more than
Speaker 2: two decades.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's the context of ICE, and that brings
Speaker 1: us to what happened in Minnesota last week. They were
Speaker 1: the ones who carried out this operation that we have
Speaker 1: now seen all over social media. Walk us through exactly
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 2: So last week, ICE said two thousand of its agents
Speaker 2: were sent to the Minneapolis area to carry out quote,
Speaker 2: the largest immigration operation ever. Minneapolis is a major city
Speaker 2: in Minnesota. It's also the same city where George Floyd
Speaker 2: was murdered by a police officer in twenty twenty. On Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Homeland Security said rioters began blocking ICE offices and that
Speaker 2: this resulted in a federal officer shooting and killing a
Speaker 2: woman in her car. That woman was identified as Renee Good,
Speaker 2: a thirty seven year old mother of three.
Speaker 1: And when I said before that we've now seen that
Speaker 1: all over social media, that's largely because there is actually
Speaker 1: footage of the shooting exactly.
Speaker 2: Multiple bystanders did capture the incident on video, sharing it
Speaker 2: on social media, and that includes the shooting from multiple
Speaker 2: different angles, and that footage has really become central to
Speaker 2: the dispute around what actually happened. What the footage appears
Speaker 2: to show is an ICE officer approaching Goods car. She
Speaker 2: was in the driver's seat and her car was stopped
Speaker 2: in the middle of a road in a neighborhood south
Speaker 2: of downtown Minneapolis. The officer demanded that she opened the door.
Speaker 2: The officer grabs the handle of the car and then
Speaker 2: the vehicle began to pull forward. There was a different
Speaker 2: ICE officer standing in front of it who pulled his
Speaker 2: weapon and immediately fired at least two shots in close range.
Speaker 2: Good was shot in the head and her car then
Speaker 2: crashed into two parts before coming to a stop. That's
Speaker 2: what has been interpreted from the different angles and series
Speaker 2: of footage shared of the incident online.
Speaker 1: And as you said before, ICE is a federal agency,
Speaker 1: this was a federal operation being carried out on behalf
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration. So what has Trump said about
Speaker 1: this shooting.
Speaker 2: Well, Trump and his entire administration are characterizing this as
Speaker 2: an act of self defense. They have been quite aggressive
Speaker 2: in their defense on the ice officer involved. So the
Speaker 2: Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome and President Trump, as well
Speaker 2: as others, have suggested that Good, the thirty seven year
Speaker 2: old woman shot used her car as a weapon to
Speaker 2: attack the officer who shot her in self defense. Vice
Speaker 2: President J. D. Vance has also weighed in. He said
Speaker 2: the shooting was justified and that Good was a victim
Speaker 2: of quote left wing ideology. Vance said, I can believe
Speaker 2: that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that
Speaker 2: it is a tragedy of her own making. Vance noted
Speaker 2: that the officer who killed Good was injured during a
Speaker 2: different arrest last year. He got his arm stuck in
Speaker 2: a car window, was dragged about ninety meters, and had
Speaker 2: fifty stitches for his injury. The Department of Homeland Security
Speaker 2: has said that that officer has worked for more than
Speaker 2: ten years as a deportation officer. He was selected for
Speaker 2: isa's Special Response Team for a reason. He has had
Speaker 2: additional training, and so they are really standing by that
Speaker 2: officer involved.
Speaker 1: Okay, so federal officials are saying this was an act
Speaker 1: of self defense and they support the actions taken by
Speaker 1: that specific agent. Then we moved to the state officials
Speaker 1: and local officials. What have they said?
Speaker 2: Their response on the whole really contradicts this messaging that
Speaker 2: we've heard from the White House. So, first of all,
Speaker 2: there's Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fray. You may have seen video
Speaker 2: footage of him at a press conference that's now gone viral,
Speaker 2: and his account clearly goes against the government's account, and
Speaker 2: he said the video contradicts this argument of self defense.
Speaker 2: He claims that the self defense argument is quote garbage
Speaker 2: based on what the footage shows, and he's used really
Speaker 2: strong language. Here's a little bit of what the Minneapolis
Speaker 2: mayor had to say.
Speaker 3: They are already trying to spin this as an action
Speaker 3: of self defense. Having seen the video of myself, I
Speaker 3: want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit. Two Ice,
Speaker 3: get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want
Speaker 3: you here. Your stated reason for being in this city
Speaker 3: is to create some kind of safety, and you are
Speaker 3: doing exactly the opposite.
Speaker 1: It's not often that you hear swearing in official press
Speaker 1: conference like.
Speaker 2: That, especially not out of the US. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also saw that there's a dispute going on about
Speaker 1: who gets to investigate the shooting. What's happening there.
Speaker 2: This has become a major point of contentional another major
Speaker 2: point of contention in this story. So, the FBI and
Speaker 2: the US Justice Department meant are conducting the investigation that
Speaker 2: is standard when a federal officer uses deadly force, but
Speaker 2: Minnesota as a state also has its own agency that
Speaker 2: investigates officer involved shootings, and they have been very clear
Speaker 2: that they want to be part of this investigation. But
Speaker 2: they've said they've been informed that the FBI, the Federal
Speaker 2: Bureau of Investigations, and the Justice Department will not work
Speaker 2: with them. So basically, federal law enforcement has shut the
Speaker 2: state out from playing any role according to state authorities.
Speaker 2: Homeland Security Secretary Nome said that the state has no
Speaker 2: jurisdiction in this case because it involves a federal officer.
Speaker 2: But the Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz, who you may remember
Speaker 2: as Kamala Harris's running mate, he has demanded that Minnesota
Speaker 2: play a role in this investigation. Waltz pointed out that
Speaker 2: people in positions of power, like the president, like Nome,
Speaker 2: like the Vice president, have already passed judgment. They've already
Speaker 2: made statements that he says, are quote verifiably false and
Speaker 2: verifiably inaccurate. So Waltz is concerned that a federal investigation
Speaker 2: will not be balanced the Minneapolis men Mayor Fry, he
Speaker 2: told the media, quote, we want to make sure that
Speaker 2: there is a check of this administration to ensure that
Speaker 2: its investigation is done for justice, not for the sake
Speaker 2: of a cover up.
Speaker 1: Okay. So that's the political response, But what about the
Speaker 1: community response, because so often in incidents like this there
Speaker 1: is a huge community response. I mean, one person in
Speaker 1: this local neighborhood has been killed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a really significant protest movement that's come
Speaker 2: out of Minneapolis. As I mentioned, this is a city
Speaker 2: where there is particular sensitivity around law enforcement violence, as
Speaker 2: the city where George Floyd was murdered infamously in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Early protests took place at the scene of the shooting
Speaker 2: and outside of federal immigration offices. Demonstrators there were shouting
Speaker 2: slogans like no more Ice and go home Nazis, and
Speaker 2: in response, we saw federal offices using tear gas, deploying
Speaker 2: pepper spray to disperse crowds. The Minneapolis school district canceled
Speaker 2: classes in response for the remainder of last week as
Speaker 2: a precaution, and local authorities say they're working with community
Speaker 2: leaders to try to keep protests peaceful. The mayor told
Speaker 2: reporters that the Trump administration could be looking for an
Speaker 2: excuse to come in with militarized force to quote further
Speaker 2: occupy our streets and to cause more chaos. So really
Speaker 2: really high tensions there and an escalation or a concern
Speaker 2: of further escalation, and that friction between federal and local authorities.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fair to say that whilst they
Speaker 1: are protesters in the community and in the state, at
Speaker 1: the moment, this has now gone far beyond just that community.
Speaker 1: There have been protests all over the country.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the death of Good has really resonated across the country.
Speaker 2: As you mentioned, Billy, there have been protests taking place
Speaker 2: or planned in many large US cities. On Friday afternoon
Speaker 2: our time, we heard from Portland Police who confirmed that
Speaker 2: two people were hospitalized following a shooting involving federal agents
Speaker 2: in the state of Oregon. Portland Police Chief Bob Days said, quote,
Speaker 2: we understand the heightened emotion and tension many a feeling
Speaker 2: in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I
Speaker 2: am asking the community to remain calm, and that's certainly
Speaker 2: a sentiment that we are seeing echoed across many US states.
Speaker 1: It feels like, I mean, this already is a huge
Speaker 1: political story, but it feels like it's only going to
Speaker 1: become bigger from here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and especially after what has now been an entire
Speaker 2: year of attention concern around these immigration raids, I think
Speaker 2: we're going to continue to see this shooting become a
Speaker 2: focal point in this much larger debate about immigration in
Speaker 2: the US.
Speaker 1: And thank you for taking us through that, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me really, and thank you for listening to
Speaker 1: this episode of The Daily Ods. We'll be back this
Speaker 1: afternoon with your evening headlines, but until then, how a
Speaker 1: good day.
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