Blanche told Fox News on Sunday night that the Justice Department’s civil rights unit would not rebuff requests to look into the shooting death of Minneapolis resident and mother Good, 37, earlier this month.
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“We don’t just go out and look every time an officer is compelled to defend himself against someone,” Blanche said. When necessary, we take action.
“No, we are not looking into,” we replied. And we will do so if there is a need, Blanche continued.
Since Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot behind the wheel of her car on January 7 while protesting against ICE officer Jonathan Ross, there have been increasingly heated exchanges between residents and federal officers in Minneapolis.
Blanche added that the death of Good has already been “reviewed by millions and millions of Americans because it was recorded on phones at the time of its tragic death.”
However, according to analysis conducted by Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and APM Reports, questions remain regarding the shooting, including why it allegedly took more than ten minutes after Good was shot before she was administered CPR.
According to the MPR and APM reports, ICE agents “turned away a man identifying himself as a doctor who offered to help” and left Good “bleeding and alone in the car for almost three minutes.”
According to the president’s administration, Ross, the ICE agent who shot Good four times, was acting in self-defense.
ICE officers have “absolute immunity” for their immigration enforcement actions, according to top Trump figures, including Vice President JD Vance and White House adviser Stephen Miller.
Good’s family’s attorneys announced last week that they had launched their own “civil investigation” into her death.
Lawyer Antonio Romanucci said in a statement that “people in Minneapolis and across this country truly, truly care about what happened on January 7, 2026, and are committed to understanding how she could have died on the street after dropping her child off at school.
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Additionally, Blanche separately confirmed reports that the DOJ is looking into former vice presidential candidate Jacob Frey and governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, alleging that the two Democratic leaders were “encouraging criminals to go out on the street and impede ICE.”
The Trump administration’s first official confirmation of Walz and Frey’s status has been through Blanche’s comments.
No matter who you are, whether you’re a governor, mayor, or someone assaulting ice on the streets, you can’t, under federal law, impede a federal officer from carrying out their duties, Blanche said.
Frey said he would “not be intimidated” in response to earlier media reports that the DOJ had begun its investigation.
In a post on X, Frey wrote, “This is an obvious attempt to intimidate me because I support Minneapolis, local law enforcement, and residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our city.”
Walz, on the other hand, indirectly responded to the reports, saying in a statement that “weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.”
Source: Aljazeera
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