Minneapolis college students given choice to be taught from dwelling as lethal ICE taking pictures rattles colleges

All Minneapolis Public Schools will offer students E-learning classes until February 12 out of an abundance of caution following the shooting death of Renee Good.

Classes were canceled on Thursday and will remain canceled on Friday due to heightened tensions across the city.

But now, the school district has gone one step further following a request from the teachers’ federation.

‘MPS is going to be offering an option for students to learn from home until February 12,’ Marcia Howard, the President of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators, revealed on social media on Thursday night.

‘This is an OPTION and exactly what so many families need right now. MFE members brought this to MPS and MPS listened. Let’s stay strong together Minneapolis.’

Generally, E-learning and learning from home is only offered during extreme weather events.

But there are concerns about protests and civil unrest after an ICE agent shot Good while she was in her car during an immigration operation.

All district-sponsored programs, including athletics and community education classes, were also canceled for the remainder of the week.

‘When a president endorses tearing families apart and attempts to govern through fear and hate, you foster an environment of lawlessness and recklessness.

‘Federal agents are shattering trust. They are hurting people and they are destroying people, day by day, what we hold dear: our sense of safety.

‘I’m so thankful that noone died, and that more people weren’t hurt.’

FBI Portland has revised a statement it earlier deleted focusing on a shooting in Portland, Oregon.

The updated statement reads: ‘FBI Portland is investigating an assault on a federal officers that happened at approximately 2:15pm near the 10000 block of Main St. in Portland involving two Customs and Border Patrol agents.

‘The two assailants fled the scene immediately following the shooting and are currently being treated for their injuries.’

Initially, the statement read: ‘FBI Portland is investigating an agent involved shooting that happened at approximately 2.15pm.

‘This remains an active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI. Please follow this thread for updates regarding this matter.’

Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin has addressed the shooting in Portland, arguing that the agent involved ‘feared for his life and safety’ after a motorist attempted to ‘weaponize his vehicle’ and run the agent over.

It is the same argument that was made regarding the shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

‘Here are the facts,’ she said. ‘US Border Patrol agents were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Portland, Oregon.

‘The passenger of the vehicle and target is a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring and involved in a recent shooting in Portland.

‘The vehicle driver is believed to be a member of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

‘When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants, the driver weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.

‘Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired defensive shots. The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.’

Portland’s Democrat Mayor Keith Wilson has slammed ICE and demanded agents ‘end all operations in Portland’ following news of a double shooting on Thursday.

‘Just one day after the horrific violence in Minnesota at the hands of federal agents, our community here in Portland is now grappling with another deeply troubling incident,’ he said in a statement.

‘Earlier this afternoon, two people were shot and injured by federal agents in the Hazelwood neighborhood.

‘We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts.

‘Portland is not a “training ground” for militarized agents, and the “full force” threatened by the administration has deadly consequences.

‘As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.’

Wilson argued that ‘federal militarization undermines effective, community‑based public safety, and it runs counter to the values that define our region.

‘I will use every legal and legislative tool available to protect our residents’ civil and human rights.’

Speaking directly to voters, Wilson called on ‘every Portlander to represent our values and to show up with calm and purpose during this difficult time.

‘Portland does not respond to violence with violence. We respond with clarity, unity, and a commitment to justice. We must stand together to protect Portland.’

US Customs and Border Protection agents have shot two people in Portland, Oregon just one day after an ICE officer shot and killed a mother-of-three in Minneapolis.

Portland police officers said they responded to Southeast Main Street for a report of a shooting at 2.18pm, KPTV reports.

The condition of those who were shot on Thursday was not immediately clear, but Portland City Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney told KATU as far as she knew they were still alive.

The FBI in Portland initially released a statement acknowledging the shooting, describing it as an ‘agent involved shooting’ and vowing to investigate.

The statement read: ‘FBI Portland is investigating an agent involved shooting that happened at approximately 2.15pm.

‘This remains an active and ongoing investigation led by the FBI. Please follow this thread for updates regarding this matter.’

The post has since been deleted from the official FBI Portland X account.

Portland Chief of Police Bob Day said: ‘We are still in the early stages of this incident.

‘We understand the heightened emotion and tension many are feeling in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis, but I am asking the community to remain calm as we work to learn more.’

Eleven people were arrested outside an ICE field office in Minneapolis on Thursday, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News.

The spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, characterized those who were arrested as ‘rioters,’ saying: ‘600 rioters swarmed the ICE Field Office and began assaulting and spitting on federal law enforcement and were blocking law enforcement vehicles from entering the facility.’

The 11 people who were arrested now face assault and obstruction charges.

A counter-protester appeared to be escorted away from the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

Demonstrators gathered there to protest the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Johnathan Ross.

Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey’s anger was evident as he appeared on CNN to discuss the killing of Renee Nicole Good, 37, who was shot three times in the face at a protest in his city yesterday afternoon.

Dozens of protesters were seen banging on the doors of the federal Diana E Murphy courthouse while chanting ‘ICE out now!’ just hours after the shooting in shocking footage shared to social media by Mercado Media.

One walked out of the courthouse while appearing to wear a keffiyeh, a traditional Middle Eastern scarf worn by those showing support for Palestine.

They were at the courthouse to protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a woman who was shot three times in the face by an ICE agent after she ignored demands to exit her car and attempted to flee.

Protesters have erected makeshift barricades in the area where an ICE agent shot and killed a Minneapolis woman yesterday, with locals now attempting to keep federal agents out of their neighborhood while the city shuts down.

The barricade was constructed using palettes, traffic cones, garbage cans, and wooden boards.

Residents guarding the barricades told CNN they were a part of the immigrant community in Minneapolis.

Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE ‘warrior’ who worked to ‘document and resist’ the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the New York Post reports.

She linked up with other activists through her six-year-old son’s woke charter school, Southside Family Charter School, which boasts that it puts ‘social justice first’ and involves ‘kids in political and social activism.’

‘She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,’ a mother named Leesa, whose child also attends the charter school, told the outlet.