Noem Attempts to Distract From ICE Execution

[Celerity]

A day after one of her ICE agents shot a woman to death in broad daylight, the secretary of homeland security was in Manhattan urging Americans to buy them lunch.

https://prospect.org/2026/01/08/minneapolis-ice-noem-homeland-security/


Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference at One World Trade Center in New York, January 8, 2026. Credit: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA via AP Images

NEW YORK – A day after federal agents executed legal observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis with three shots to the face, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was in Manhattan attempting to redirect attention to an unnamed Customs and Border Protection agent who was shot while off duty six months ago. Speaking behind a podium bearing the phrase “One Of Ours, All Of Yours” at One World Trade Center, Noem recounted the July 2025 shooting, in which two men allegedly shot a 42-year-old officer in the face during a botched robbery in Fort Washington Park.

The incident was the genesis of an ongoing investigation within New York called Operation Salvo, she said, which “is just the beginning of a broader and a much more sustained effort.” “We learned these scumbags were affiliated with the transnational criminal organization, the notorious Trinitarios gang,” Noem said of the two suspects. “We began to target every single last person who is affiliated with them.” Fifty-four people have since been arrested as part of the ongoing operation, she said, more than 32 of whom have been “returned back to their home countries to face justice for their crimes there as well.”

Noem’s press conference came just hours after her immigration agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Good. Ross and his fellow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were performing an operation in south Minneapolis when Good briefly blocked traffic. As David Dayen described yesterday, an agent walked to the car yelling, “Get out of the fucking car,” then Ross shot her through the open window as she tried to get away.

Noem repeated the lie that the officer who shot Good to death had done nothing wrong and that officers had been “surrounded, assaulted, and blocked in by protesters,” something contradicted by video and eyewitness evidence. She also said that Good had been following officers all day prior to her murder, but would not say for how long or whether there had been earlier interactions, or how many, between Good and the officers. “This was an act of domestic terrorism,” Noem said. “In every single thing the Trump administration does, we put the American people first.”

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[yankee87]

1. MAGA Blindness

Let's all remember January 6 and now MAGA says it never happened.

[AZJonnie]

2. IT WAS 9:30 AM YOU LYING FUCKING ****

that Good had been following officers all day prior to her murder,

He ex-husband said that she was most likely on her way home from dropping her 6 year off at school or daycare or wherever 6 year old's go at that time. He also said she never attended a protest a day in her life as far as he knew, and was a devoted Christian.

[The Blue Flower]

3. Blowup doll says wut?

There is neither a brain nor a soul in there.