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Kate Menendez

Kate Menendez

U.S. District Court Judge

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Notable Quotes

"The plaintiffs have not met their burden for the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction." — Denying request to halt Operation Metro Surge

"The Minnesota Attorney General's Office made a strong showing that immigration agents' tactics, including shootings and evidence of racial profiling, were having 'profound and even heartbreaking consequences on the State of Minnesota, the Twin Cities, and Minnesotans.'" — Acknowledging harm while denying injunction

Stories

Federal agent kills Minneapolis woman during Trump's mass deportation campaign

Force in Play

Presiding over Minnesota AG lawsuit to halt Operation Metro Surge

An ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good through her car window on a Minneapolis street January 7, killing the 37-year-old mother instantly. Federal officials claimed self-defense, saying Good weaponized her Honda Pilot to ram agents. But video shows something different: a woman slowly backing up and pulling forward, trying to leave, before an officer fires three shots into her head. "Having seen the video myself, that is bullshit," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The shooter: Jonathan Ross, a 43-year-old deportation officer who was dragged fifty yards by a vehicle he tried to forcibly enter just six months earlier. Seventeen days later, on January 24, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and legal gun owner. Video shows Pretti filming agents with his phone, getting pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six agents, then shot at least ten times. DHS claimed he was armed and violent. Video evidence again contradicts the official account. At least six federal prosecutors resigned in protest over how investigations were being handled—pressure to investigate victims' families rather than the shooters. On January 24, FBI agent Tracee Mergen, supervisor of the Public Corruption Squad in Minneapolis, resigned over pressure to "reclassify/discontinue the investigation" into Good's killing and focus instead on her widow Becca. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara noted that two of the city's three homicides in 2026 were committed by federal agents.

Updated Feb 5