Image: People walk through the streets to protest against ICE after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 10, 2026.Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images

Tear gas filled the air outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on January 9 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers led two demonstrators away in handcuffs. For hours on Friday, caravans of ICE vehicles passed in front of the pop-up protests, carrying immigrants to be processed for deportation. Amid a mass influx of federal immigration agents to Minnesota, the Whipple building, normally a hub for the Department of Veterans Affairs, has become a staging ground for ICE operations. A group of approximately 20 federal immigration agents stood guard outside the building.

After masked federal agents fired chemical irritants into the crowd, medics rushed to the scene to assist those who had been injured. One demonstrator could be heard exclaiming, “This is the fifth time I’ve been hit with a pepper ball here.” Others clutched their faces, struggling to breathe; one woman collapsed to the ground.

Protesters have been a regular fixture outside the Whipple building since January 7, when ICE officer Jonathan Ross killed Renee Nicole Good on a quiet residential street in Minneapolis after she stopped her car to observe what appeared to be a kidnapping in progress. Video filmed on Ross’s cellphone during the shooting, made public by a right-wing news site, shows him firing three shots into Good’s vehicle before someone off-camera, presumably Ross, calls her a “fucking bitch.”

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