January 8, 2026 • 23 mins
First there was a fraud scandal involving the Somali community in Minnesota. Then, Trump sent in ICE. Now a woman is dead and people want answers.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Jolie Myers, fact checked by Andrea López-Cruzado and Ariana Aspuru, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Bridger Dunnagan, and hosted by Noel King.
A protestor at the scene where an ICE officer shot a woman in her car in Minneapolis, MN. Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images.
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