The Hennepin County District Attorney is asking the public to share evidence of Renee Good’s shooting with her office

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday called on members of the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Judd directly to her office, challenging the Trump administration’s decision to leave the investigation solely to the FBI.

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Moriarty said that although her office has cooperated effectively with the FBI in previous cases, she is concerned about the Trump administration’s decision to bar state and local agencies from playing any role in the investigation into Judd’s killing on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. Specifically, she said she was concerned that the FBI would not share evidence with state investigators.

“We have the jurisdiction to make this decision regarding what happened in this case,” she said at a news conference. “It didn’t matter that he was a federal law enforcement agent.”

Moriarty said her office would post a link for the public to provide footage of the shooting, though she acknowledged she was unsure what legal outcome the reports might yield.

She also said that although the Trump administration insisted that the officer who shot Judd had full legal immunity, that was not the case.

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The attorney general’s announcement came as Minneapolis braced for another day of protests over Judd’s killing and a day after federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon.

Reaction to Good’s shooting was immediate in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people showing up to the scene to vent their anger at ICE officers and the school district canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.

Thursday night, hundreds marched in freezing rain down a major Minneapolis thoroughfare, chanting “Ice out now!” They carried signs reading “Deadly ice from our streets.” The day began with a charged demonstration outside a federal facility serving as the epicenter of the immigration crackdown that began Tuesday in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Authorities set up barriers outside the facility on Friday.

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Meanwhile, city workers removed barricades made of old Christmas trees and other debris that were blocking streets near where Judd was shot. Officials said they would leave a temporary shrine for the 37-year-old mother of three.

Portland shooting

The shooting happened in Portland outside a hospital Thursday afternoon. A man and a woman, who the Department of Homeland Security said were Venezuelan citizens Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenis Pizzabeth Zambrano Contreras, were shot inside a car, and their condition was not immediately known. The FBI and Oregon Department of Justice were investigating.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and the City Council called on ICE to end all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed. Hundreds of people protested Thursday night at a local ICE building. Early Friday, Portland police reported that officers arrested several protesters after asking demonstrators to move from the street to the sidewalk to allow traffic to flow.

Just as it did after Judd’s shooting, the Department of Homeland Security defended the officers’ actions in Portland, saying they occurred after a Venezuelan man with alleged gang ties who was involved in a recent shooting tried to “weaponize” his car to strike officers. It was not immediately clear whether the shootings were captured on video, as happened with Good’s.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump and others in his administration have repeatedly called the Minneapolis shooting an act of self-defense and portrayed Judd as a villain, suggesting she used her car as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.

But state and local officials and protesters rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video recordings show the self-defense argument is “garbage.”

The immigration crackdown quickly turns deadly

The shooting in Minneapolis occurred on the second day of an immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, which the Department of Homeland Security said was the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers are participating, and Noem said they have made more than 1,500 arrests.

The government is also transferring immigration officials to Minneapolis from sweeps in Louisiana, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. This marks a pivotal point, as the Louisiana crackdown that began in December was expected to last until February.

Judd’s death — at least the fifth death linked to immigration crackdowns since Trump took office — has reverberated far beyond Minneapolis, where protests have erupted elsewhere, including Texas, California and Detroit, Missouri.

In Washington, D.C., on Thursday, a woman carried a sign that read, “Stop Gestapo Trump,” as hundreds of people marched to the White House. Protesters in Pflugerville, Texas, north of Austin, beat the walls of an ICE facility. A man in Los Angeles burned an American flag in front of a federal detention center.

Who will investigate?

A day before Moriarty called on the public to help her office investigate Goode’s killing, the Minnesota agency that investigates officer-involved shootings said it had been informed that the FBI and US Department of Justice would not work with it, effectively ending any role for the state in determining whether crimes were committed. Noem said the state had no jurisdiction.

“Without full access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards demanded by Minnesota law and the public,” Drew Evans, chief of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said Thursday.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called for the state to be allowed to participate, repeatedly stressing that it will be “very difficult for Minnesotans” to accept that an investigation that excludes the state is fair.

A deadly confrontation from multiple angles

Several bystanders captured a video of Judd’s killing, which occurred in a neighborhood south of downtown.

The recordings show an officer approaching an SUV that stopped in the middle of the road, asking the driver to open the door and hold the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and another ICE officer standing in front of it draws his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, then jumps back as the car moves toward him.

It is not clear from the videos whether the vehicle made contact with the officer, and there is no indication whether the woman had interacted with customers earlier. After the shooting, the SUV sped off, hitting two cars parked on the sidewalk before crashing and stopping.

The officer was identified in records

The federal agent who shot and killed Judd is an Iraq War veteran who served nearly two decades with the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained by the AP.

Noem has not publicly named him, but a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said her description of his injuries last summer referred to an incident in Bloomington, Minn., in which court documents identified him as Jonathan Ross.

Ross stuck his arm in the window of the car whose driver was evading arrest for an immigration violation. Ross was dragged and his stun gun was fired. The jury found the driver guilty of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.

Attempts to contact Ross (43 years old) at the phone numbers and email addresses associated with him were unsuccessful.

Associated Press reporters Steve Karnovsky and Mark VanCleave in Minneapolis; Ed White in Detroit; Valerie Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas; Graham Lee Brewer in Norman, Oklahoma; Michael Biesecker in Washington; Jim Mustan in New York; Ryan Foley in Iowa City, Iowa; Haley Golden in Seattle contributed to this report.