New footage surfaced on Friday captured by a U.S. immigration officer who fatally shot a woman in her car in Minneapolis, providing fresh perspectives and audio recordings of the moments leading up to the tragic incident.
The video, first shared by Alpha News and confirmed as authentic by CBC News, runs for 47 seconds and reveals the viewpoint of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who discharged three shots at Renee Nicole Good. In previously verified footage, the agent is seen holding a phone in his left hand as he moves around the front of Good’s SUV just before the shooting.
The newly released video commences by showing the officer exiting a vehicle and approaching the passenger side of Good’s burgundy Honda Pilot. A black dog is visible in the back seat with its head out of the open window. With distant sirens intermittently audible, the video then pans around the front of the Honda towards the driver’s side.
Good, seated with a hand on the steering wheel, looks directly at the camera through her open window, smiles, and utters, “It’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” The officer proceeds to circle the vehicle, heading towards the rear and capturing the license plate, while a woman, purportedly Good’s wife, comments, “That’s OK, we don’t change our plates every morning.”
The video shows the woman filming the agent with her phone, remarking, “It’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.” As the officer completes his circuit around the vehicle and returns to the passenger side, the woman challenges him by saying, “You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”
Subsequently, two other ICE agents approach the vehicle from the opposite side and instruct Good to exit, a scene depicted in multiple previously released bystander videos. The woman outside the vehicle appears to say, “Drive, baby, drive.” In the ensuing seconds, the officer filming moves towards the driver’s side, capturing Good turning the steering wheel to the right as the car begins to move forward. An exclamation of “Whoa!” is heard, followed by three quick gunshots, causing the video to abruptly shift towards the sky.
Approximately three seconds later, a voice is heard saying, “F—ing bitch,” as Good’s vehicle slowly progresses down the street before the video concludes. The speaker of those words remains unidentified. Federal officials have refrained from disclosing the agent’s identity, but details provided by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem align closely with federal court documents concerning an incident involving an ICE officer named Jonathan Ross in Bloomington, Minn., last June.
While the latest video offers additional insight into the pre-shooting interaction between the officer and the driver, it does not appear to alter prevailing opinions on the justification of the use of force. The White House utilized the new video to bolster its contentious assertion that the officer acted in self-defense when the driver purportedly attempted to run him over.
Vance shared the video on X and encouraged viewers to watch it, emphasizing the officer’s perceived endangerment and self-defensive actions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asserted that the video substantiated its initial declaration made shortly after the shooting, alleging that the driver had threatened law enforcement by weaponizing her vehicle.
However, a security analyst reviewing the new video disputed the claim that the vehicle was used as a weapon. Thomas Warrick, a former DHS official, opined that lethal force was unnecessary to resolve the situation and questioned the intent behind the officer’s actions as depicted in the footage.
As the investigation unfolds, a Minnesota prosecutor has urged the public to submit any relevant evidence directly to her office, citing concerns over federal authorities potentially withholding crucial information from state investigators. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty expressed apprehensions regarding the handling of the case solely at the federal level, highlighting the need for transparency and collaborative efforts between federal and local investigative entities.