Pat Fahey, host and producer of the weekly program Megatrends, devoted portions of the Jan. 15 show to the killing of a Minneapolis woman identified in the program as Renee Nicole Goode and to community responses that followed.
A contributor in a clip describing on-the-ground conditions in Minneapolis said restaurant workers were fearful and that the scene there was "chaos," recounting an exchange in which a bartender — a U.S. citizen of two years — kept his passport on his person out of fear of stops. The contributor said videos circulating online do not capture the full extent of what is happening and called the federal operations "terror" against local communities.
Photographs and a short on-site description by journalist David Guttenfelder, played later in the program, showed crowds gathered at the location the host described as the site of the killing, with demonstrators confronting masked federal agents. Guttenfelder said agents in militarized clothing appeared to detain people, and that the site has become a living memorial where hundreds of people gathered.
Fahey read prior reporting and internal reviews he said linked Border Patrol use-of-force practices — including accounts that agents sometimes placed themselves in front of vehicles — to long-standing organizational concerns. He also reported that a whistleblower allegedly disclosed personal details for roughly 4,500 DHS enforcement staff and that the volunteer accountability group Ice List planned to publish verified names of frontline agents (with limited exceptions for non‑enforcement staff).
The program presented these developments as part of what Fahey called a broader pattern of secrecy and lack of accountability inside DHS and ICE. Fahey described the leak and surge in tips to Ice List as evidence of "dissent inside the agency" but did not present an on-air statement from DHS or ICE rebutting those claims.
The show mixed eyewitness description, photographic reportage and editorial framing; assertions that the killing was committed by an ICE agent and characterizations of enforcement actions as "terror" were presented on-air as reporting or commentary and attributed to program contributors and clips. No formal legal finding establishing criminal liability was reported during the broadcast.
Next steps noted on the program included ongoing protests and legal action in Minnesota; the host urged continued public attention and sharing of the reporting.
The program aired from Pacific Coast TV in Pacifica, California, and the segment combined a contributor clip (unidentified in the transcript), a reel by David Guttenfelder and host narration.