Viral video footage shows a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer lethally shooting Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, on Wednesday morning as she tried to drive her car away from ICE agents telling her to “get out of the f**king car” so they can apprehend her. Good, who was married to a woman, ended up crashing her car into an electric pole and other cars. She was later transported from the scene of the shooting and died in the hospital.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has claimed that the officer “fired defensive shots” at Good after she was “attempting to run over” him and other agents “in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called the DHS’ claim “bulls**t,” calling the agent’s actions “reckless” and telling ICE to “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.”

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“They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,” Good’s wife said through tears in footage taken soon after the shooting. “We stopped to videotape [ICE activity], and they shot her in the head.”

Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “She was probably terrified,” adding that her daughter has never protested against ICE agents.

“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” Ganger added. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

In a social media post, the president claimed that Good was “a professional agitator” who “viciously ran over the ICE officer.” He blamed the shooting on the “Radical Left.” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem praised the officer, adding, “This goes to show the assaults that our ICE officers and law enforcement are under every single day.”

An analysis of four different videos of the incident led the publication 404 Media to conclude that the DHS is lying and to point out that a federal judge

“The Honda was already turning to the right away from the officers when the one who allegedly feared for his life fired the shots. There were no other officers up the road where the car did fully level out, meaning no other fellow officers were at risk,” the publication wrote, adding that the DHS has previously published “misleading, wrong, or incendiary” statements that do “not reflect reality” and that have been called “not credible” by at least one federal judge.

Hundreds of supporters attended a vigil this evening in support of Good. While the U.S. Justice Department will never criminally charge the agent who killed Good, the agent could potentially be prosecuted after the current president leaves office, and state prosecutors could potentially charge the officer responsible with a homicide crime, if they found the shooting to be legally unjustified.

“We’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis,” Mayor Frey said in a Wednesday press conference. “Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that [the DHS’ claim of self defense] bulls**t. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”

“I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the f**k out of Minneapolis,” Frey continued. “We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead. That’s on you, and it’s also on you to leave.”

Frey urged residents not to respond in any ways that would encourage the federal government to send a military crackdown in response.

During a press conference, Gov. Tim Walz (D) called the shooting “preventable” and “unnecessary.” 

“[The presidential] administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety,” Walz continued. “What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It’s governing by reality TV. And today that recklessness caused someone their life.”

In a statement to The Advocate, Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson wrote, “Today, a woman was senselessly killed in Minneapolis during an ICE action — a brutal reminder that this agency and the Trump regime put every community at risk, spreading fear instead of safety. Reports that she may have been part of the LGBTQ+ community underscore how often the most vulnerable pay the highest price.”

“Her family and the people of Minneapolis deserve a full investigation, real accountability, and decisive action,” Robinson added. “And we must remove ICE and their terror from all our communities before even more preventable violence occurs.”

Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke (D), the state’s first out transgender legislator, called Good’s killing “devastating” and placed responsibility for her killing upon the federal government.

“My reaction is one of great sadness, Finkelstein said. “For those of us here in Minnesota who’ve been seeing what these federal agents — ICE, CBP, others — have been doing and how they’ve been treating our communities and our neighbors, something like this felt very possible. But we’ve just had so many tragedies here. Waking up to this news was heartbreaking. It’s terrible. It’s one too many of these things.”

“That kind of influx of law enforcement, often untrained young people coming in with a mandate to kidnap neighbors and abduct people and deport them, violence is the only way that something like that can go at some point or another,” she said.

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