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A day after the ICE officer shot Renee Good in the head as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions remained high, with dozens of protesters venting their outrage outside a federal facility serving as a hub for the administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major city.

"We should be horrified," protester Shanta Hejmadi said as demonstrators shouted "No More ICE," "Go Home Nazis," and other slogans at a line of Border Patrol officers, who responded with tear gas and pepper spray. "We should be saddened that our government is waging war on our citizens. We should get out and say no. What else can we do?"

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump and others in his administration claimed the shooting was an act of self-defense and cast Good as a villain, claiming she used her vehicle as a weapon to attack the officer who shot her.

State and local officials and protesters rejected that characterization, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey saying video of the shooting shows the self-defense argument to be "garbage."

Meanwhile, authorities said federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Ore., on Thursday. Their conditions were not immediately known.

The Department of Homeland Security described the vehicle's passenger as “a Venezuelan illegal alien affiliated with the transnational Tren de Aragua prostitution ring” who was involved in a recent shooting in the city. When agents identified themselves to the vehicle occupants Thursday afternoon, the driver tried to run them over, the department said in a written statement.

“Fearing for his life and safety, an agent fired a defensive shot,” it said. “The driver drove off with the passenger, fleeing the scene.”

There was no immediate independent corroboration of those events or of gang affiliation of the vehicle's occupants. During prior shootings involving agents, video evidence cast doubt on the administration's descriptions of what prompted the shootings.

Investigation

On Thursday, the Minnesota agency that investigates officer-involved shootings said it was informed that the FBI and U.S. Justice Department would not work with the department, effectively ending a role for the state to determine if crimes were committed. Noem said the state has no jurisdiction.

"Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands," Drew Evans, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension's superintendent, said in a statement.

Walz publicly demanded the state be allowed to take part, emphasizing it would be "very, very difficult for Minnesotans" to accept that an investigation that excludes the state could be fair.

Noem, he said, was "judge, jury and basically executioner" during her public comments defending the officer's actions.

"People in positions of power have already passed judgment, from the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem — have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate," said the governor, who repeated his calls for protesters to remain calm.

Mary Moriarty, the prosecutor in Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis, said her office will explore whether a state investigation can proceed.

"We want to make sure that there is a check on this administration to ensure that this investigation is done for justice, not for the sake of a cover-up," Frey, the mayor, said.

Crackdown turns deadly

The shooting happened on the second day of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown on the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which the Department of Homeland Security said is the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers are taking part, and Noem said they already made more than 1,500 arrests.

It provoked an immediate response in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of people turning up to the scene to vent their outrage at the ICE officers and the school district later canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution.

Several bystanders captured footage of Good's killing, which happened in a residential neighborhood.

The videos show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull away, and a different ICE officer standing in front of it pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.

It isn't clear from the videos if the vehicle makes contact with the officer, and there is no indication of whether the woman had interactions with ICE agents earlier. After the shooting the SUV drives into two cars parked on a curb before crashing to a stop.

In another recording made afterward, an unidentified woman who identifies Good as her spouse is seen crying near the vehicle. She says she and Good recently arrived in Minnesota and that they had a child.

The mayor said he's working with community leaders to try to keep Minneapolis calm and ensure that residents keep their protests peaceful.

"The top thing that this Trump administration is looking for is an excuse to come in with militarized force, to further occupy our streets, to cause more chaos, to have this kind of civil war on the streets of America in a Democratically run city," Frey told the AP. "We cannot give them what they want."

Officer identified 

Noem didn't publicly name the officer who shot Good, but a Homeland Security spokesperson said her description of an event last summer refers to an incident in Bloomington, Minnesota, in which court documents identify him as Jonathan Ross.

Ross got his arm stuck in the window of a vehicle of a driver who fled arrest on an immigration violation, and was dragged about 100 yards before he was knocked free, records show. Ross was transported to a hospital, where he received more than 50 stitches.