Erika D. Smith, Columnist

Simple Reforms Could Help Prevent the Next ICE Shooting

January 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

Erika D. Smith is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. She is a former Los Angeles Times columnist and Sacramento Bee editorial board member.

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Hours after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on a snowy Minnesota street, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he’d been worried just such a thing might happen ever since the Trump administration made his city the latest focus of its aggressive immigration crackdown.

“We have stated that something like this, where either a civilian, a police officer or even an ICE agent was going to get badly injured or killed,” he told CNN on Wednesday. “Tragically, it’s happened.”