Minneapolis mayor demands state be included in ICE-involved shooting probe, slams Pam Bondi's DOJ

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made a plea Friday for authorities investigators to go progressive successful the probe into the shooting decease of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, calling the Trump administration’s statement of the events "deeply concerning." 

Frey spoke aft the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said Thursday it was withdrawing from the probe aft being told by the FBI it would not person entree to the materials required for a "thorough and independent" review. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem aboriginal said, "They person not been chopped out, they don’t person immoderate jurisdiction successful this investigation." 

"In Minneapolis, erstwhile a calamity strikes, there's 1 connection that summarizes what is astir important. And that connection is integrity. This is not the clip to crook the rules. This is simply a clip to travel the law. This is not a clip to fell from the facts. This is simply a clip to clasp them, making definite that we're pushing for transparency each measurement of the way," Frey said Friday. 

"The information that Pam Bondi's Department of Justice and this statesmanlike medication has already travel to a decision astir those facts is profoundly concerning. The facts that from the precise beginning, they're calling the unfortunate a ‘domestic terrorist.’ They're calling the actions of the cause progressive arsenic immoderate signifier of antiaircraft posture. We cognize that they've already determined overmuch of the investigation, and adjacent if they haven't, determination is the quality that determination is immoderate decision drawn from the precise beginning," helium continued.

AG PAM BONDI WARNS MINNESOTA PROTESTERS AFTER ICE SHOOTING: 'DO NOT TEST OUR RESOLVE'

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, left, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. (Tyrone Siu/Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

"Our inquire is to clasp the truth. Our inquire is to see the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension successful this process, due to the fact that we successful Minneapolis privation a just investigation. Is it profoundly concerning that this administration, from the precise get go, is drafting the decision that they whitethorn yet travel to? Of course, it is," Frey added. "And if you got thing to fell from, past don't fell from it. Include section experts successful the process. We got thing to fell from here. All we privation successful Minneapolis is justness and the truth." 

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Frey said Friday, "There is immoderate precedent that is important here."

CROCKETT WARNS OF NATIONWIDE PROTESTS OVER ICE SHOOTING: 'STATE-SANCTIONED EXECUTION'

A Border Patrol Tactical Unit cause sprays capsicum spray into the look of an agitator attempting to artifact an migration officer’s conveyance successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected Jan. 7, 2025. (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

"There person been instances successful the past wherever determination was immoderate signifier of shooting oregon an officer-involved sidesplitting that took spot by national agents oregon U.S. marshals oregon beyond, that did person section and authorities entities successful control. By the way, we're not adjacent talking conscionable astir afloat power here," the Democratic politician said. "We're talking astir being astatine the table. We're talking astir an probe that includes the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension." 

Frey besides insisted Friday that his metropolis is "safe" and is not a "post-apocalyptic hellscape."

"I person heard countless radical speech astir Minneapolis — galore of them who person ne'er been present — it is immoderate signifier of post-apocalyptic hellscape. As a spot that is dangerous. Well fto maine springiness you a statistic. Fifty percent of the shootings that person happened frankincense acold successful Minneapolis this twelvemonth person been ICE," Frey told reporters, days aft the shooting decease of Renee Nicole Good.  

Members of instrumentality enforcement enactment the country pursuing a shooting by an ICE cause during national operations connected Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)

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"In different words, we've lone had 2 shootings. One of them has been ICE. We are a harmless city," Frey added. "ICE is making it little so. We are a metropolis of unity. But ICE is trying to disagreement america and teardrop america apart."