On January 14, MS NOW host Katy Tur pushed the latest claims of ICE "terrorizing" people as she also compared ICE agents to "jerks" who believe everyone else is a jerk.
Shortly after 2:00 p.m. Eastern, she began the segment:
People in Minneapolis say they are being terrorized by the federal government. In video after video posted online, you can see ICE or immigration officers grabbing people off the street, clashing with protesters, telling demonstrators to learn a lesson from the shooting of Renee Good, and even getting into it with people who say they're just trying to travel through their community.
She continued: "They break windows, knock down doors, physically drag people away. And the administration says all of this is justified, that it isn't federal law enforcement escalating the tensions. It's the community who won't leave them alone."
After three video clips of federal agents having to aggressively react to left-wing activists, The MS NOW host commented:
It's hard to definitively determine what is going on in each of those videos, because we don't know the full context. We don't know identities. We don't know much beyond what you see for yourself. What we do know, though, is that confrontations like that are happening over and over and over again. And in each one we see a pattern of aggressive behavior from the feds and operations that have only intensified since that ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
A bit later, as MS NOW senior investigative reporter Carol Leonnig appeared for the segment, Tur further excoriated immigration enforcement agents:
There's this rule, this common saying that -- and it uses an expletive that I won't use, but I'll replace it -- that if you encounter one jerk, that's -- that's too bad. If you encounter two jerks, bad luck. Three jerks, you're the jerk. Is that what we're seeing with this pattern of these ICE interactions, these ICE confrontations? Because I know ICE keeps saying and immigration keeps saying it's all the demonstrators. But the videos all follow a very similar script.
Leonnig, who used to work for the Washington Post, began by expressing her approval for Tur's choice of words: "Katy, I think it's so smart for you to focus on exactly that question, and we can't know the answer definitively."
She soon fretted that the Trump administration for the ICE officer who shot Renee Good was emboldening similar actions by other agents:
But that pressure to do something is causing a lot of tension in the streets. And the shooting of Renee Good, which the President of the United States and the Vice President both declared as justified prior to any investigative work being done. In fact, some sources say when evidence was ignored of a potentially -- that this shooting was illegal and unjustified, their declaration has emboldened a certain element of enforcement on the streets who might believe they're under attack from residents who are angry about this -- this surge in their communities.
Transcript follows:
MS NOW's Katy Tur Reports
January 14, 2026
2:00 p.m. Eastern
KATY TUR: People in Minneapolis say they are being terrorized by the federal government. In video after video posted online, you can see ICE or immigration officers grabbing people off the street, clashing with protesters, telling demonstrators to learn a lesson from the shooting of Renee Good, and even getting into it with people who say they're just trying to travel through their community. They break windows, knock down doors, physically drag people away. And the administration says all of this is justified, that it isn't federal law enforcement escalating the tensions. It's the community who won't leave them alone. Here are three videos -- we'll let you decide for yourself.
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It's hard to definitively determine what is going on in each of those videos, because we don't know the full context. We don't know identities. We don't know much beyond what you see for yourself. What we do know, though, is that confrontations like that are happening over and over and over again. And in each one we see a pattern of aggressive behavior from the feds and operations that have only intensified since that ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
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There's this rule, this common saying that -- and it uses an expletive that I won't use, but I'll replace it -- that if you encounter one jerk, that's -- that's too bad. If you encounter two jerks, bad luck. Three jerks, you're the jerk. Is that what we're seeing with this pattern of these ICE interactions, these ICE confrontations? Because I know ICE keeps saying and immigration keeps saying it's all the demonstrators. But the videos all follow a very similar script.
CAROL LEONNIG, MS NOW SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Katy, I think it's so smart for you to focus on exactly that question, and we can't know the answer definitively. But let me tell you what I'm hearing from law enforcement sources. One, the ICE officers from various elements, by the way, of the Department of Homeland Security -- they may be TSA employees who got drafted into this immigration work.
They may be FBI agents who were also pulled, as you remember, into immigration raids. They may be other components of the Department of Homeland Security, in which obviously FBI is not. But all of these officers are being ordered to meet a quota of arresting and deporting illegal or undocumented immigrants, and that oftentimes they're arresting and detaining people that are legally here or have not been involved in any crime or are complying with their asylum requirements
But that pressure to do something is causing a lot of tension in the streets. And the shooting of Renee Good, which the President of the United States and the Vice President both declared as justified prior to any investigative work being done. In fact, some sources say when evidence was ignored of a potentially -- that this shooting was illegal and unjustified, their declaration has emboldened a certain element of enforcement on the streets who might believe they're under attack from residents who are angry about this -- this surge in their communities.
But also, Katy, so important if I can just defend law enforcement officers who have the right intentions and the right motives. Here they are saying this is a recipe for disaster, to send thousands of officers into the street and urge them to crack down on immigration and crack down on civil protests, which are all apparently right now legal, that this creates a tinder keg. This creates a situation that is going to explode again and again.
