Around 1,000 more immigration officers headed to Minneapolis, CNN sources say, as tensions flare after fatal ICE shooting

Minnesota State Patrol officers are seen during a protest and noise demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city, in Minneapolis on January 9, 2026. (John Locher/AP via CNN Newsource)

Around 1,000 additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are expected to deploy to Minneapolis, according to two federal law enforcement sources, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

The agents started deploying Friday and continued over the weekend, one of the sources said. That comes on top of a deployment of about 2,000 federal agents to the area that CNN reported early last week.

Videos of last week’s shooting are still emerging, and there’s more to be learned, but the surge is the latest development in the monthslong spat between the Democratic-led city and the federal government after President Donald Trump first ramped up immigration enforcement in the Minneapolis area in December – dubbed Operation Metro Surge, which a federal official initially said was targeting undocumented Somali immigrants but also led to the arrests of immigrants from other nations.

“DHS law enforcement have made over 2,000 arrests since Operation Metro Surge began,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Monday.

Officials in the North Star State have continued to echo each other’s calls for immigration officials to cooperate with local law enforcement and leave – which has prompted biting rhetoric in return from federal officials.

After a weekend fraught with high-level name-calling, new shooting videos surfacing and widespread protests, here’s the latest.

New video shows minutes before Renee Good was fatally shot

On Saturday, DHS posted a new video on X showing the three minutes and 30 seconds that preceded an ICE agent’s gunfire, which struck and killed 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

The new video shows Good’s vehicle — a maroon Honda Pilot — partially blocking the street. Several vehicles that stopped behind her appear to belong to federal agents, based on activity observed in other videos.

In its post, DHS claimed, without providing evidence, Good was “stalking and impeding a law enforcement operation over the course of the morning.”

Several vehicles pass Good’s car during the video. About 40 seconds into the clip, the camera focuses on Good moving in her vehicle as honking can be heard, but it’s unclear where the honking is coming from.

Three minutes in, law enforcement sirens go off and there are more car horns. At 3:11, two vehicles pass Good’s car. A truck that appears to belong to a federal agent pulls up perpendicular to Good, and agents get out of the vehicle. Good appears to be motioning to them with her hands.

The agents then exit the vehicle and the video cuts off right before the deadly shooting.

DHS’s post came the day after CNN obtained cellphone video of the interaction captured by the agent who fired at Good, Jonathan Ross.

Ross’ video does not show if the SUV made contact with him, as the camera angle jerks up to the sky. Another video, shot by a bystander, shows the SUV may have made contact as it lurches forward, and he moves to the side.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Ross’ video supports what the agency has said – that the ICE agent acted in self-defence.

The shooting itself is not visible, but three gunshots are heard as the phone in Ross’ hand jostles further and then is facing the house behind Ross.

Conflict between local and federal officials reaches new heights

National-level tensions mounted Sunday morning as Noem called on officials in Minnesota to “grow up,” following their complaints that federal agencies aren’t cooperating with state and local officials investigating Good’s killing. The Justice Department has blocked state investigators from participating in what initially was meant to be a joint FBI and state criminal investigation, state officials said.

Noem homed in on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Democrats she said have politicized the shooting and encouraged “destruction” and “violence” in the city.

“They’ve extremely politicized and inappropriately talked about the situation on the ground in their city. They have inflamed the public. They have encouraged the kind of destruction and violence that we have seen in Minneapolis the last several days,” Noem said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

“I would encourage them to grow up, get some maturity, act like people who are responsible, who want people to be safe, and the right thing be done,” she said.

Moments later, Frey strongly condemned the incident to CNN’s Jake Tapper and urged ICE officers to get out of Minneapolis.

“She’s calling Minneapolis this dystopian hellhole. You know how many shootings we’ve had so far this year? Two, and one of them was ICE,” Frey told Tapper less than two weeks into 2026.

Frey doubled down on his assertion that the officer who shot Good was “a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying.”

“Am I biased in this? Of course. I’m biased, because I got two eyes. Anybody can see these videos, anybody can see that this victim is not a domestic terrorist,” Frey said.

The mayor called for an independent investigation into the shooting.

In DC, US Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, said the federal government is stoking “chaos” with its heavy-handed immigration enforcement efforts in the wake of last week’s shooting death of a US citizen.

CBP Commander Gregory Bovino was already in the Minneapolis area last week with hundreds of agents. He is conducting targeted operations, including door knocks, a federal law enforcement source told CNN. The documents provided to those who receive door knocks are either administrative warrants – which are signed by an immigration officer but don’t carry the same legal weight as a judicial warrant – or copies of their final orders of removal.

“What we have seen in Minneapolis is ICE agents oftentimes jumping out of their cars. These are unmarked cars. Oftentimes, they’re wearing a mask,” Omar said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “What they are doing is creating confusion, chaos, trying to intimidate people from being able to exercise their regular, normal activities that they would.”

Omar, accompanied by fellow Minnesota Democratic Congress members, said she was denied access to a Minneapolis-area ICE facility on Saturday morning after being inside briefly.

Noem issued a directive on Thursday barring lawmakers from visiting detention facilities without a week’s notice, McLaughlin said in a statement, due to “escalating riots and political violence targeting buildings and facilities used by ICE.”

The DHS secretary acted to “ensure adequate protection for Members of Congress, congressional staff, detainees, and ICE employees alike,” McLaughlin said in Sunday’s statement.

Nationwide anti-ICE protests erupt over the weekend

As outrage has grown following Good’s death, more than 1,000 demonstrations were planned across the United States over the weekend in protest of the Trump administration’s surge of immigration action in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Saturday’s massive protest in the Twin Cities took many shapes throughout the day, starting at Powderhorn Park, located about a mile from where Good was shot and which had been a prime gathering place for protests following the 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. After marching through a Minneapolis neighborhood, the crowd of thousands gathered on the street where Good was fatally shot.

Even with the decision of Gov. Tim Walz to put the National Guard on standby, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara is concerned that frequent confrontations between protesters and law enforcement may get out of control, O’Hara said in a podcast published Monday by The New York Times.

“It could very, very quickly explode,” O’Hara told the Times’ “The Daily” podcast. “And with the level of staffing that we have and the time that it takes to get the National Guard to come in, it will be too late. That’s my fear.”

Meanwhile, thousands protested elsewhere in the country in rallies opposing aggressive immigration enforcement policies and tactics.

In Los Angeles, a police helicopter’s search light beamed down on protesters on Alameda Street, who were outfitted with upside-down American flags and handmade anti-ICE posters.

The street was also the site of clashes between protesters and police in June last year, when crowds gathered to rally against immigration raids and Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.

With signs declaring, “The Trump Fascist Regime MUST GO NOW!!” And “WAKE UP AMERICA,” protesters marched in front of the White House despite the steady rain across the capital.

One protester, Claudia Schur, joined the march to share her grievances against several Trump administration actions.

“There’s no rules anymore, no shame, no integrity,” Schur said while holding a sign that said, “ICE Out.” “It’s just a country I can’t even, I can’t, I don’t recognize.”

Julia Doherty, who marched alongside Schur, said she’s concerned about the polarization among Americans.

“There’s no sense of community. We’re just so polarized, it’s horrifying,” Doherty said. “And we need to stand up and do whatever we can to, to effect change.”

By Danya Gainor, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN