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Criminal Investigation Bureau
There is no credible reporting that an ICE agent shot a six‑month‑old infant; contemporary coverage instead documents that a family’s van was hit with flash‑bangs and tear gas during clashes in north ...
There is no reporting in the provided sources that Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers quit MPD to join U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the departures widely documented are fe...
Reporting shows two overlapping but distinct threads: long-term public-safety and socioeconomic challenges in Minneapolis neighborhoods with large Somali populations, notably Cedar‑Riverside, document...
Operation Creep was a multi‑agency undercover sting in Bloomington, Minnesota, that resulted in 16 arrests of men alleged to have sought sex from a decoy they believed to be a 17‑year‑old; local polic...
Public reporting shows only agency statements, court filings and news descriptions about prior and immediate injuries to the ICE agent involved in the Minneapolis shooting — there have been no indepen...
Publicly available evidence does not conclusively show that the ICE agent was struck by Renee Good’s vehicle: federal officials including DHS and some pro-agency outlets say the agent was hit and trea...
Reporting shows that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent did shoot a Venezuelan man in the leg during a January 2026 enforcement action in north Minneapolis, but the claim that the ...
Tim Walz is facing bipartisan scrutiny after federal prosecutors and media reports tied more than $250 million in one child‑nutrition scheme and wider alleged abuses to nonprofits in Minnesota, with s...
Available public data sources list city and state crime dashboards but do not publish neighborhood crime rates explicitly tied to demographic groups; Minneapolis crime maps and Minnesota crime statist...
The fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is contested: federal officials say an agent fired after Good used her car as a weapon and tried to run over officers, while Minnesota state ...
Local and state law enforcement in Minnesota are not uniformly joining ICE operations: Minneapolis Police have publicly distanced themselves and adopted policies limiting cooperation with ICE, while a...
Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent, shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026; federal and state authorities are investigating but no criminal charges have been filed against R...
Multiple new videos have circulated: a 47‑second cellphone clip filmed by the ICE agent who fired, several bystander cellphone recordings and a trove of public submissions that Minnesota prosecutors a...
Six career prosecutors in Minnesota — including First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph (Joe) Thompson — and multiple supervisors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division resigned after what sou...
Official law-enforcement public statements about the Jan. 7, 2026, shooting present two conflicting positions: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/ICE has characterized Renee Nicole Good as “imp...
The immediate prosecutorial jurisdiction over the Minneapolis ICE shooting is bifurcated: the FBI and Department of Justice have assumed control of the federal criminal inquiry while Minnesota state p...
Prosecutors built their case against Vance Boelter on a combination of physical evidence seized from his car and property, unsealed search-warrant materials describing eyewitness accounts and scene ev...
Surveillance and bystander footage showing ICE, CBP and Border Patrol activity outside Minnesota schools has been widely shared on social platforms and republished by local outlets, while official rec...
Public reporting shows the FBI has opened an inquiry that includes examining whether Renée Good had ties to activist groups, but reporters and officials do not point to any public FBI release of concr...
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has not released new evidence or independent findings about the fatal Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good; instead the agency publicly announced it is not...