Just days after the killing in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Renee Good, the schools in Minneapolis remain closed, and tensions in the city remain high.
The city did have one bit of normalcy on Thursday night, when the Minnesota Timberwolves’ home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers was held at Target Center in downtown Minneapolis and was played as scheduled.
The Timberwolves had announced before the game that they would hold a moment of silence for Good before the game.
“As we all know, our community has suffered yet another unspeakable tragedy,” Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said before the game, per ESPN.com. “We want to just convey our condolences and heartfelt wishes and prayers and thoughts to the families and loved ones and all of those that are greatly affected by what happened.”
During the moment of silence the Minnesota Timberwolves held before their game with the Cavs tonight, a fan yelled “Go home ICE,” and everyone else started cheering.pic.twitter.com/npIdkCgg1S
— Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) (@JPHilllllll) January 9, 2026
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Toward the end of the moment of silence, one fan shouted, “Go home ICE,” while another fan shouted an expletive directed at the agency.
The Timberwolves won the game, 131-122, for their fourth straight win.
Also in Minnesota on Thursday, a rebuke came at Trump from an unlikely source: Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor whose eclectic career has also included stints as a Navy SEAL, professional wrestler, wrestling announcer, movie actor, cable news and radio host, and numerous other things. He attacked Trump and the Republican Party, while establishing himself as an alumnus of Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis, where ICE officers clashed with staff this week.
Jesse Ventura: “We have leadership now that has destroyed the Constitution. They don’t follow it, they could care less about it. I took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I view, after January 6th, the Republican party is a domestic enemy… pic.twitter.com/SqguoL5cof
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) January 8, 2026
“We have leadership now that has destroyed the Constitution. They don’t follow it, they could care less about it. I took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I view, after January 6th, the Republican party is a domestic enemy to our Constitution.”
