Amid public uproar in the United States over the shooting and local authorities’ exclusion from the investigation, a new video has been released showing the final moments of a Minnesota woman’s encounter with immigration officials before she was killed.
Minnesota prosecutors on Friday called on the public to share with law enforcement any audio recordings or evidence related to the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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A new 47-second video published online by Minnesota-based conservative news site Alpha News on Friday and later reposted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security shows the shooting from the perspective of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who opened fire Wednesday.
As sirens wailed, Ross, 43, approached Good’s car in the middle of the road and circled around the car, which appeared to be filming with a mobile phone. At the same time, Good’s wife recorded the encounter and can be seen walking around the vehicle and approaching the officers.
A series of exchanges occurred.
“That’s fine, I’m not mad,” Good says as the officer walks past the door. She has one hand on the steering wheel and her other hand is outside the open driver’s side window.
“I’m an American citizen and a former military veteran,” my wife said, standing outside on the passenger side of the SUV, holding her cell phone. “You want to attack us, you want to attack us? I’m going to go get lunch, brother.”
At about the same time, other officers approached the driver’s side of the car and one said, “Get out of the car. Get out of the car.”
Mr. Ross is currently in the front driver’s seat of the car. Good backed away momentarily, turned the steering wheel toward the passenger side, and drove forward, causing Ross to fire. The camera becomes erratic and looks skyward before switching back to street view and showing Good’s SUV driving away.
“F—ing b—-,” someone at the scene said.
A crash can be heard as Good’s car collides with another car parked on the street.
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President Donald Trump’s administration has defended the ICE officer who shot and killed Goode in her car, painting her as a “domestic terrorist” and insisting that Ross, an Iraq War veteran, was protecting herself and her fellow employees. The White House argued that the video gave weight to the officer’s claim of self-defense, even though the video did not show the moment the car started moving or the officer fired.
Local authorities in Minnesota have accused federal authorities of excluding Good from the investigation, and local prosecutors announced Friday that federal agents had removed Good’s car and shell casings from the scene.
“Now is not the time to bend the rules. This is the time to follow the law…The fact that Pam Bondi’s Justice Department and the current presidential administration have already concluded these facts is deeply disturbing,” Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said at a press conference Friday.
“I know that they have already decided on most of the investigations,” he said, adding that the state’s Criminal Enforcement Division within the state Department of Public Safety consistently conducts such investigations.
“Why not include them in the process?” Frey said.
Goode was the fourth person to be killed by ICE agents since President Trump began his immigration crackdown last year.
Good’s wife, Becca Good, told local media that he went to the scene of the immigration enforcement operation to “support our neighbors.” “We had whistles. They had guns,” she said.
The killings in Minneapolis and the Border Patrol shooting in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday have sparked protests in several U.S. cities and condemnation of the U.S. government’s immigration enforcement tactics.
Protests in Minneapolis continued Friday, with hundreds of people gathering at a federal facility that has been the center of anti-ICE demonstrations. Organizers say about 1,000 protests are planned across the United States over the weekend over the killing.
