The national poll was conducted days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, sparking outrage and mass protests.

Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.

It's not the first time the 44-year-old three-term mayor has been thrust into the center of a contentious national debate.

The top House Democrat is accusing the DHS secretary of "depraved indifference" after an ICE agent shot U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good during a Minneapolis operation.

The Quinnipiac University poll found wide disparities on the shooting among Republicans, Democrats and independents.

President Donald Trump has appealed to Minnesota residents in a bizarre rant about the “patriots of ICE” coming to save them and imminent “retribution.” In an early morning Truth Social tirade, the 79-year-old president appeared to lash out at Minnesotans after state officials sued to stop more federal immigration agents from entering the state following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis mother Renee Good.

Joe Thompson and other prominent prosecutors resigned Jan. 13 with their integrity and reputations intact, columnist Rochelle Olson writes. The same cannot be said of the office they leave behind.

The Department of Homeland Security has altered its account of an immigration enforcement-related shooting in a Baltimore suburb on Christmas Eve after details in its initial statement were contradicted by local police.