Happy Friday in New York City, where residents are seeing themselves in Renee Nicole Good. “[She] could have been my neighbor. She could have been me,” Brooklynite Madeleine Macgillivray told Spectrum News.
Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Video recorded by a bystander shows the moments leading up to the shooting: a group of masked officers demand Good exits her vehicle; she attempts to drive away, and an officer shoots her three times from point-blank range through the driver’s side window.
Members of the Trump administration, most notably Vice President J.D. Vance, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and President Trump himself, have publicly defended the officer, arguing he followed his training and calling Good a “domestic terrorist” and “radical leftist.” But New Yorkers aren’t convinced.
Outraged protesters gathered throughout the five boroughs in the days following the shooting, demanding accountability and calling for ICE to leave New York. Hundreds of people congregated in Foley Square on Wednesday night and again on Thursday, before marching to One World Trade Center, where Secretary Noem was delivering a press conference on a federal raid that resulted in the arrests of 54 New Yorkers with alleged ties to the Dominican American Trinitarios gang.
“ICE murdered someone,” one protester told The City. “It’s authoritarianism. It’s fascism. I don’t like it. I don’t think anybody should.”
In a city that has seen plenty of ICE activity over the last year, the senseless shooting is sharpening fears about how quickly federal law enforcement can turn lethal, and underscoring how little distance there is between a suburban street in Minneapolis and a bustling Manhattan thoroughfare.
Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced an expansion of universal child care to deliver free childcare for two-year-olds.
The Fort Hamilton Parkway bridge will be closed nights from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. through Saturday morning. The Brooklyn Eagle has a list of detours.
Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation extending the now-expired health care subsidies for Americans who subscribe to the Affordable Care Act. The bill now moves to the Senate.
God’s Love We Deliver expanded into a new 30,000-square-foot distribution center in Industry City. The organization, which serves medically tailored meals, celebrated with a ribbon-cutting on Thursday, Jan 8.
A man armed with a knife was shot and killed by NYPD officers Thursday evening after he barricaded himself and two others inside a room at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. No bystanders were physically injured.
A drone carrying cargo will fly over the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays today through Jan. 23. The city said the operation is a trial to expand last-mile delivery infrastructure.
Lily Allen and David Harbour slashed the asking price of their Carroll Gardens townhouse by $695,000 amid their contentious divorce.
Winter Restaurant Week in Williamsburg begins! Now through Jan. 18, more than a dozen restaurants on the Grand Street strip have slashed prices, charging no more than $35 for three-course dinners.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Several forms of exercise, including First Amendment rights: Demonstrators march to the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, as they protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
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ICE killing of driver in Minneapolis involved tactics many police departments warn against, but not ICE itself
A detail including the badge and shield of one of the newest members of the New York City police is seen during his graduation ceremony, June 29, 2017, in New York. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File
Minneapolis is once again the focus of debates about violence involving law enforcement after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, in her car.
The incident quickly prompted dueling narratives. Trump administration officials defended the shooting as justified, while local officials condemned it.
The shooting will also likely prompt renewed scrutiny of the training and policy of officers and the question of them shooting at moving vehicles. There has been a recent trend in law enforcement toward policies that prohibit such shootings. It is a policy shift that has shown promise in saving lives.
🔎 Today’s lighter note
The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children
In case you managed to miss it, 6-7 is a slang term – spoken aloud as “six seven” – accompanied by an arm gesture that mimics someone weighing something in their hands.
It has no real meaning, but it spawned countless videos across various platforms and infiltrated schools and homes across the globe. Shouts of “6-7” disrupted classrooms and rained down at sporting events. Think pieces proliferated.
For the most part, adults responded with mild annoyance and confusion.
But as media scholars who study children’s culture, we didn’t view the meme with bewilderment or exasperation. Instead, we thought back to our own childhoods on three different continents – and all the secret languages we spoke.
There was Pig Latin. The cool “S” doodled on countless worksheets and bathroom stalls. Forming an L-shape with our thumb and index finger to insult someone. Remixing the words of hand-clapping games from previous generations.
6-7 is only the latest example of these long-standing practices – and though the gesture might not mean much to adults, it says a lot about children’s play, their social lives and their desire for power.
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Look up: A drone show sets off at 6:15 p.m. Sunday night over the Greenpoint waterfront with over 300 synchronized drones. The show is a “Balloon Signal,” Children’s Miracle Network’s take on the iconic bat signal, rallying the community to help the kids. Get more details on where to watch at brooklyneagle.com.
Happy Birthday to Catherine, Princess of Wales.
On This Day in 1952, the Eagle reported, “Twice as much petroleum, or crude oil, has come from the wells of North America as from all other continents combined. A statement almost as strong as that might be made about the United States alone — American wells have produced three fifths of the world’s oil during the last hundred years. A good supply of oil has been found, however, on other continents, especially South America.”
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