The Latest on the ICE Killing in Minneapolis, and a Shadow Fleet of Oil Tankers

0:02From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, January 8th. Here's what we're covering.

0:14My name is Nicholas Bogle-Burrows, and I am a reporter for The New York Times. I am at the corner of Portland Ave and East 34th Street in Minneapolis. It's about 1130 at night, and there are about 100 protesters still here at the intersection where an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good earlier today. My colleagues are on the ground in Minneapolis, where a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Good, a U.S. citizen who lived in the city, was killed by a federal officer who was part of the Trump administration's escalating immigration crackdown. Multiple videos posted on social media and verified by the Times show the shooting and the moments before and after.

0:58In the footage, the woman's SUV is stopped in the street, partly blocking one lane. As cars approach, she waves at them to go around. But a truck, flashing its lights, stops, and federal agents get out. They tell the driver to get out of her car. One agent tries to open the driver's door and reaches through the window. Another agent crosses in front of her SUV as she starts to back up. She then shifts into drive and starts to move forward. The agent, standing at the front near the driver's side headlight, pulls out a gun and fires. He continues shooting as the vehicle moves past him. A Times analysis of three different camera angles shows she was driving away from the officer when he opened fire, and it appears he was not in the path of the SUV.

1:44In the footage, the vehicle then accelerates and crashes into parked cars and a utility pole. The Minneapolis police chief said later the victim had been shot in the head and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Do you have a conscience? Do you have a conscience? The shooting happened in a part of the city where, for weeks, people had been blowing whistles and blaring car horns to warn their neighbors whenever they see ICE agents nearby. All that noise had drawn some people out to the street, where some yelled at the officer who fired the shots. Don't let the murderer leave! Don't let the murderer leave!

2:21In the aftermath, federal officials quickly defended the shooting. This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism. Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, said the victim had weaponized her vehicle. The ICE officer fearing for his life and the other officers around him and the safety of the public fired defensive shots. President Trump also weighed in, claiming that the victim ran over the agent willfully and viciously. State and local officials called the administration's framing garbage and propaganda. They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense.

3:02Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit. Mayor Jacob Fry condemned the shooting as reckless and demanded that ICE leave the city. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. And Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called the killing, quote, totally avoidable, and said the administration's recent decision to ramp up immigration enforcement there, sending in up to 2 ,000 federal agents, had set the stage for potential violence. Yesterday's shooting was the ninth time immigration officers have fired on people in U.S.

3:45cities since September. In all of those cases, the agents fired at people who were in their vehicles. And in each case, the officers claimed self-defense.

4:07Last night in the Oval Office. How long do you think he'll be running Venezuela? A team of Times reporters sat down with President Trump for a wide-ranging interview. Only time will tell. Three months, six months, a year, longer? I would say much longer than that. Months longer. And we have to rebuild, you have to rebuild the country, and we will rebuild it in a very profitable way. We're going to be using oil, and we're going to be taking oil. Over the course of the two-hour interview, Trump touted his plans for long-term U.S. involvement in Venezuela. We're getting along very well with the administration that is there right now.

4:47They're giving us everything that we feel is necessary. The president's comments built on what Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out yesterday. he detailed a three-phase mission for the U.S. in Venezuela that includes selling the country's oil and eventually installing a new government there. And the reason why we understand and believe that we have the strongest leverage possible is our quarantine. As you've seen today, two more ships were seized. Rubio also talked up the U.S.'s blockade, where American troops off the coast of Venezuela have been trying to cut off any oil tankers coming or going.

5:23Just yesterday, U.S. forces dropped from a helicopter to take over one ship near the Caribbean and swooped in to intercept another ship that had been on the run from the region for days, stopping it all the way up in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Scotland. Seizing that tanker showed not only how far the Trump administration is willing to go to enforce the Venezuelan blockade, but it was also a provocative move against Russia. While the ship was fleeing the Coast Guard, the crew had painted a slapdash Russian flag on the hull to try and deter the U.S. from approaching it. Russian officials then asked the U.S.

6:03to stop its pursuit and even sent a naval vessel to escort the ship, though it wasn't there when American forces moved in. In the past few days, several other ships from what's known as the Shadow Fleet of Tankers, which transport oil in defiance of global sanctions, have taken on the Russian flag after operating in Venezuelan waters, potentially setting the stage for future standoffs between the U.S. and Russia.

6:36As Secretary of Health and Human Services, my message is clear, eat real food. Yesterday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a striking reversal of the government's dietary guidelines. He effectively flipped the food pyramid on its head. These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation's food culture and make America healthy again. For years, Americans have been told to avoid eating too much red meat and foods that are high in fat. But now steak, cheese and whole milk are getting a big thumbs up. It's part of what Kennedy says is a push to get Americans to prioritize protein and avoid sugary processed foods.

7:19The new guidelines echo some of Kennedy's frequent talking points that scientific evidence does not support, like recommending that people cook with beef tallow. But on other points, the new guidelines stick closely to mainstream nutrition advice. For example, they still encourage Americans to eat lots of fruits and vegetables. The administration came up with the new guidelines after Kennedy dismissed the recommendations of an expert committee from the Biden administration and handpicked a new set of advisers who worked on the project in secret. As of yesterday, the federal government also overhauled its guidance for alcohol consumption.

7:57It had previously said men should have no more than two drinks a day and women should have no more than one. The new advice calls for people to, quote, limit alcoholic beverages, but sets no clear amount, and no longer warns that alcohol may increase the risk of cancer. Several public health experts the Times talked with said they were puzzled by the lack of clear-cut amounts, with one saying, the word limit isn't satisfactory. Limit to what?

8:36And finally, as driverless cars zoom around more and more U.S. cities operating as taxis, they're finding fans among an unexpected group. Parents who just need someone, or it turns out, something, to pick up their kids from school or soccer practice or both. The Times talked with parents in Los Angeles who say that sending a robot car has turned out to be the answer for juggling chaotic schedules, even though California law technically prohibits minors from riding in those cars alone. One woman, who was often stuck at work as a social worker while her husband is busy at his job installing glass, started using Waymo for her 13-year-old daughter after exhausting other options for getting her kids around.

9:23She tried Uber and Lyft, but those drivers often canceled after discovering they were picking up a kid. Of course, there are still a lot of skeptics of self-driving technology in general. In recent years, Waymos have been documented ignoring flashing lights or breaking other traffic rules. But one dad told the Times he thinks of it as safer than any human driver, saying, quote, there's no way I can step on a brake as fast as a computer can. And for most parents using Waymo to pick up their kids, the absence of a driver is a selling point. They say they don't have to worry about who their kid is getting in the car with.

10:00For their part, the teenagers don't seem to think it's weird at all, with one 16-year-old telling The Times, it feels normal.

10:11Those are the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.