Over a thousand protests have taken place nationwide as part of a "weekend of action" since the shooting by an ICE agent of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. A GoFundMe account, paused as of this writing, has raised over $1.5 million for Good's widow Becca, their son, and Renée's two other children. In San Francisco on January 10, demonstrators gathered at Van Ness Avenue and O'Farrell Street. San Francisco Bay Times columnist Joanie Juster, who took this footage, was among the many participants.
Hennepin county prosecutor Mary Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration's decision to bar state and local agencies from playing any role in the investigation into Ms Good's killing. She also said the officer who shot Ms Good in the head does not have complete legal immunity, as US vice president JD Vance declared. "We do have jurisdiction to make this decision with what happened in this case," Ms Moriarty said at a news conference. "It does not matter that it was a federal law enforcement agent."
The European Commission, which concluded negotiations a year ago, and countries such as Germany and Spain argue it is a vital part of an EU push to unlock new markets to offset business lost from U.S. tariffs and to reduce reliance on China by securing access to critical minerals. Opponents led by France, the European Union's largest agricultural producer, say the agreement will jack up imports of cheap food products, including beef, poultry and sugar, undercutting domestic farmers.
Two people were shot and wounded by US federal agents in Portland, Oregon, authorities said. it comes a day after a US citizen was shot dead in Minneapolis, sparking major protests. Two people were shot and wounded by US federal agents in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Portland police said officers responding to emergency calls found a man and a woman with apparent gunshot wounds.
French farmers rolled into Paris on tractors on Thursday morning in a show of dissent against an EU trade deal they fear will create unfair competition. Dozens of tractors arrived before dawn and cruised through Paris, with some reaching the Eiffel Tower and others at the Arc de Triomphe, in a protest organised by farming unions. "We said we'd come up to Paris - here we are," said Ludovic Ducloux, co-head of one of the Coordination Rurale union's chapters.
A mass ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally against military conscription turned deadly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, when a teenage boy was crushed and killed after a man driving a bus hit the crowd. The Israeli police said they detained the driver and are investigating. Video of the scene shows a bus driving straight into a crowd of ultra-Orthodox men at the demonstration, attended by thousands.
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