As Renee Nicole Good rolls out of bed on January 7, 2026, the city she lives in is in the grip of an immigration crackdown.
The city she lives in — Minneapolis, in the mid-west state of Minnesota — is in the midst of a crackdown a local official says is unlike anything they've ever experienced.
"What we know happens when ICE comes into a city," says Molly Coleman, a councillor in the neighbouring city of Saint Paul.
"It's an enforcement in which every single person is on guard and afraid."
In just a few hours the 37-year-old mother of three will be dead.
Ms Good and her wife moved to Minneapolis "to make a better life" with their six-year-old son.
What they've found, according to her wife Becca Good, is "peace and safe harbour".
They make friends with their neighbours. Their son attends a charter school not far from the family's home.
He plays with the neighbour's dog, an Australian shepherd named Hazelnut, which gets excited every time it walks by the house.
A day before that Wednesday the Department of Homeland Security announces it's sending 2,000 agents to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
The next morning ICE agents on an "enforcement operation" get their car stuck in the snow on Portland Avenue.
Residents are on high alert and watching — it's school drop-off time, and the nearby primary school is just a seven-minute drive away.
At 9:35am Ms Good's car is stopped diagonally on the street as masked agents approach.
At 9:36am Becca Good is videoed on the street interacting with one of the agents, who circles around the car.
As he does, Renee Nicole Good speaks to him through the open car window. She gestures for another car to pass in front of her.
Other officers exit their vehicle and order her to get out of the car, appearing on video to try and open the door.
As Ms Good attempts to pull away, the original agent pulls out his gun and fires — one shot goes through the front windscreen and more go through the open window.
Just over two minutes after the entire encounter began Ms Good is fatally wounded.
The ICE sweep of the city continues.
January 8: Schools close as killing labelled 'preventable'
By the early hours of Thursday morning the death of Ms Good is making international news.
Hundreds gather on the street to leave candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial near the scene of the shooting.
But another narrative has already taken shape overnight.
Flanked by federal agents at a nearby military base, US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the incident "preventable".
"We're just enforcing the laws that have been in this country for years," she said.
Ms Good, she alleged, was harassing ICE agents.
She then — according to Ms Noem — "proceeded to weaponise her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over".
Ms Noem's account is challenged by analysis of multiple videos showing the shooting, but more Trump administration officials have already begun to blame Ms Good for her own death.
Vice President JD Vance also speaks out about Ms Good, insisting the officer acted in "self-defence".
"That woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job," he says.
Neither official provides evidence to support their allegations.
The Minneapolis public school system cancels all classes for the rest of the week.
The same day Ms Good was killed, ICE agents surge on two Minneapolis schools just a few kilometres away from the shooting.
Armed officers appeared on the lawn of Roosevelt High School as students were leaving for the day.
The school was forced to institute a lockdown.
One parent near the school tells local media she saw US Border Patrol agents dragging someone from a vehicle with smashed windows.
The parent, Jennifer Newberg, says she saw agents tackle and handcuff people.
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers confirms an educator was arrested and released, alleging agents deployed tear gas at the scene.
On Thursday night, the varsity baseball coach of a Minneapolis high school gets a text from one of his star players.
The athlete's father and other family members have been detained. He's leaving Minnesota, fearing he could be next.
All involved ask to remain anonymous for their own safety.
January 9: Native Americans detained and concrete barriers installed
Overnight, news breaks of four members of a Native American tribe being detained in the city's East Phillips neighbourhood.
The four men, according to tribe president Frank Star Comes Out, are homeless and have been sleeping under a bridge near a housing complex.
Another Native American woman also speaks out stating her 20-year-old son was detained and released by ICE.
Raelyn Duffy, whose son Jose Roberto Ramirez was born in Minneapolis, says she learned of the arrest after a co-worker showed her a video of the encounter.
"It just looked like he got rushed," she says.
"They just punched him, pulled him out of the car, arrested him."
On Friday morning city crews gather around the Whipple Federal Building to set up concrete barriers.
The building is being used as a command centre for ICE and has already been the scene of tense protests.
The large, block-shaped building, set between the city limits of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, is named for Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple.
Whipple was Minnesota's first Protestant Episcopal bishop known for advocating for Native Americans and standing up to government officials on their behalf.
The current bishop of Minnesota's Episcopal Church, Craig Loya, tells CNN that Whipple arrived in Minnesota "at a national moment … full of lots of conflict and tension".
"He spent his whole ministry, oftentimes at great personal cost, standing with Jesus on the side of those who were marginalised and excluded," Mr Loya says.
Later that afternoon Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar tells media there are more ICE agents in the state than there are "combined [police] forces of Minneapolis and St Paul".
As the day progresses hundreds gather outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel believed to be housing ICE agents.
They shine flashlights and bang on the windows. They play drums, guitars, and bang on pots and pans.
January 10: An unmarked car follows a university student
On Saturday afternoon an unmarked car enters the Augsburg University campus.
Masked officers exit the vehicle and detain a student as others watch on from the windows of a nearby residence hall, the university says in a campus-wide email.
The agents allegedly do not provide a warrant to staff who rush to the scene. They allegedly aim their weapons at nearby witnesses.
"At this time we believe the student was specifically targeted and was followed to campus," the email to students and staff says.
The email also gives students instructions on what to do if ICE returns to campus, explaining their rights.
If possible, university officials note, students, staff and faculty should carry all valid immigration documents with them.
Local officials call for calm, with Governor Tim Walz urging Minnesotans to "remain peaceful and know that local law enforcement has one goal in mind — your safety".
Outside the Whipple Building, three Democrat congresspeople are denied access.
Representatives Angie Craig, Ilhan Omar and Kelly Morrison tell media they were initially allowed inside, but then told to leave.
"Shortly after we were let in two officials came and said they received a message that we were no longer allowed to be in the building," Ms Omar says.
A Homeland Security spokesperson later tells CBS seven days notice is required for congressional visits "for the safety of detainees and staff".
January 11: Hundreds more agents deployed to Minneapolis
On Sunday Kristi Noem makes an appearance on Fox News.
Hundreds more federal agents are coming to Minneapolis, she tells the outlet's Sunday Morning Features.
The move, according to Ms Noem, is to help ICE and Border Patrol agents do their work "safely".
"Today and tomorrow they'll arrive," she says.
"If [people] conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime.
"And we will hold them accountable to those consequences."
Ms Noem also condemns state and local officials who she accuses of stoking tensions in the city and surrounding areas.
That same day Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey accuses the White House of promoting a false narrative in the death of Renee Nicole Good.
"When there is debate about the baseline facts, like for instance, 'did the ICE agent get run over?'" he says.
"Guys, the answer is no, it didn't happen."
He also defends a heated comment during a press conference in the hours after the shooting when he told ICE to "get the f*** out of Minneapolis".
"I dropped an F-bomb, and they killed somebody," he says.
"I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here, not the F-bomb."
The memorial for Ms Good — set up on the street where she was killed and at one point surrounded by concrete barriers — continues to grow.
Agents are seen detaining people in residential areas across the city.
On Sunday night US President Donald Trump is asked if deadly force was justified in Ms Good's killing.
He calls her "violent" and "very, very disrespectful to law enforcement".
"These are professional agitators," he tells reporters on Air Force One.
"Law enforcement should not be put in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 12: ICE agents target childcare centres as students protest
Schools are back in session on Monday morning.
At Roosevelt High School — the same school targeted by ICE in the hours after the shooting — students walk out.
More than 100 students carry signs denouncing ICE and march for more than an hour.
Their route begins and ends at the spot where agents clashed with students and staff.
The march is one of several reportedly planned by schools across the Twin Cities that week.
Even though classes have resumed, the school district has said families could opt-in to online learning if they were concerned about returning to campuses.
They're given the option to stay online until at least February 12.
Local childcare centres tell media they've had federal agents visiting their facilities and have had staff detained.
One teacher, unnamed, tells Reuters the ICE crackdown is "terrorism".
"[ICE] been targeting schools around here, making it difficult for children to just, like, get a public education," she says.
"Terrorising parents … living here. I think this is a neighbourhood that is neighbourly.
"People look out for each other. You know, kids are playing out on the street, in each other's homes.
"The fact that I have to worry about my kids being outside because of this sort of terrorism happening out front is ridiculous."
That afternoon Minnesota leaders launch a joint lawsuit in an effort to end the immigration crackdown which has been dubbed Operation Metro Surge.
State Attorney General Keith Ellison says the operation "is in essence a federal invasion of the Twin Cities and Minnesota, and it must stop".
January 13: 'It's unconscionable to not stand up'
Protests continue outside the Whipple Federal Building on Tuesday.
Demonstrators and officers clash on the street — agents deploy flash bangs, tear gas and pepper balls.
Kelly Gregg, a Minneapolis native and combat veteran, tells Reuters he feels compelled to join the crowd despite nearing retirement.
"I don't want to be here … but if I don't show up, that's even worse," he says.
"It's unconscionable to not stand up and say this is wrong. This is part of democracy."
That morning, hundreds attend a board meeting in Washington County after reports ICE may turn an empty warehouse in the area into an immigration detention centre.
The warehouse is located in Woodbury, the third-largest Twin Cities suburb.
A Washington Post report in December stated the 46,451-square-metre warehouse is among 16 planned "smaller processing sites" spread across the United States.
The smaller sites would reportedly be capable of processing up to 1,500 people at a time.
"This is not how we are in Minnesota, it's not how we are in Washington County," says county board commissioner Karla Bigham.
Meanwhile the Justice Department announces it will not be opening a civil rights investigation into the killing of Ms Good.
There is no basis for such an investigation, according to the department.
Half a dozen federal prosecutors and multiple Civil Rights Division supervisors in Minnesota have already resigned.
That same day, news breaks of a 32-year-old Libyan man who arrived in Minnesota for medical treatment only to be detained by ICE.
Hani Duglof suffers from epidermolysis bullosa, a condition which makes his skin extremely fragile and prone to tearing, sores, and infection.
He arrived in the US legally in 2014, but his lawyer says his asylum request has been delayed by federal officials for almost a decade.
Mr Duglof eats a special diet and works to protect his skin.
According to his brother the damage to his throat left him unable to even eat the sandwich offered to him by ICE.
Agents transferred him to a nearby hospital when they realised they could not manage his condition.
His lawyer says they refuse to remove the metal restraints irritating his skin.
Instead, Mr Duglof is trying to keep the cuffs from riding up past his hospital socks.
His immigration attorney, David Wilson, has filed a motion in court to set a bond so Mr Duglof can be released.
"His skin is going to slough off [from friction] and that causes an infection, and then the spiral begins," Mr Wilson tells the Minnesota Star Tribune.
"I remain hopeful someone will realise, 'Man, we don't want this medical bill. We don't want responsibility for what happens to him if he's in custody for too long.'"
January 14: A week later, another shooting
It has now been one week since the death of Renee Nicole Good.
Her family announces it is hiring a law firm to independently investigate her killing. If successful, it could mean a lawsuit for the federal government.
The law firm, Romanucci and Blandin, also represented the family of George Floyd, a black man murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020.
"The community is not receiving transparency about [Ms Good's] case elsewhere, so our team will provide that to the country," the firm says in a statement, vowing to provide regular public updates.
At 9:37am another vigil is held at the scene of the shooting.
In an interview with Reuters, Mr Trump calls her death "unfortunate".
"I don't get into right or wrong. I know that it was a tough situation to be in," he says of the officer's involvement.
"There was very little respect shown to the police, in this case, the ICE officers.
"It's so sad to see on both sides."
Shortly before 7pm a man is pulled over for a "targeted traffic stop" near the 600 block of 24 Avenue North.
The home is less than a 15 minute drive across the city from the scene of Ms Good's death.
The man, a Venezuelan immigrant who arrived in the US in 2022, attempts to flee, crashing his car before taking off on foot.
Two people from a nearby apartment come outside as a federal agent gives chase.
They attack the officer with a shovel and a broom handle.
The officer — "fearing for his life", according to Homeland Security — fires his gun.
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