On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an immigration crackdown on the city. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers and said the victim “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
State and local officials disputed the accounts, and The New York Times and The Washington Post later reported that videos of the shooting countered Noem’s claims.
But Fox was quick to push dubious claims from the administration, saying that “we have more facts now” while suggesting that what happened was a “ramming incident” and that the woman was using the car as a “deadly weapon.” According to a Media Matters review, Fox News aired clips or read quotes from statements made by Noem in press conferences at least 17 times during its January 7 coverage of the incident.
As videos of the events started to emerge, some Fox figures briefly tempered their language, saying people should “let the facts come in” and noting that “we don’t know everything that has happened.” In some instances, they noted that there is a “shifting narrative” and that some Trump administration claims might have been “bad information.”
The moderation didn’t last long. Fox’s evening programming went back to toeing the administration’s line, framing the incident as the woman “blocking” the ICE agents, refusing to comply, and trying “to ram them with her car.”
State and local officials have called the administration’s claims that were parroted by Fox a “garbage narrative” by a “propaganda machine.” CNN reported that multiple Department of Homeland Security officials have “privately expressed shock” over the agency’s “immediate response” to the shooting. A New York Times analysis of the incident stated that “the vehicle appears to be turning away” from the officer involved and that he was “standing to the left of the SUV” at the time he opened fire, while the SUV’s wheels are “pointing to the right, away from the agent.” And as The Washington Post notes, “As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.”
This isn’t the first time the administration has been caught being dishonest about ICE actions. In October 2025, Noem claimed that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained” by ICE, but according to a ProPublica investigation published the same month, more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained at raids and protests. In October, The Daily Beast reported that DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin was “caught posting inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl.” In November, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported, a federal judge found that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino — who led raids in Chicago and its suburbs — had “lied in a court deposition … about his own use of tear gas in a confrontation with protesters in Little Village.”
Here’s a timeline of Fox’s coverage of the January 7 Minneapolis shooting, which shows that the network largely pushed the administration’s propaganda:
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