An Immigrations and Customs enforcement agent officer fatally shot a woman on Wednesday Jan. 7 in South Minneapolis.
Jonathan Ross shot the windshield of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle as she drove forward into one of two ICE agents at the request of her wife, Becca Good.
Ross was caught recording Renee and her license plate with Renee repeating that she’s “not mad” at the agent.
In the recently released footage from the assailant’s phone, Becca can be seen antagonizing the ICE agent.
With direction to get out of the car, Renee began to pull away at the request of her wife. While pulling away, the car’s front grazes the officer. Then one of the agents proceeds to fire three times at the vehicle’s windshield, killing Renee with one of them.
Once it was confirmed that Renee was dead, protests had swarmed their area of Minneapolis and the city as a whole.
Federal officials say the officer who was involved in the shooting later went to the hospital. On Wednesday Jan. 14 officials announced that he suffered from internal bleeding due to the incident.
During an unrelated arrest attempt in Bloomington, Minnesota on June 17 officer Ross was dragged about 100 yards by a car driven by an undocumented immigrant.
I was fearing for my life,” Ross said during the trial, correlating the two incidents and explaining the sudden violent reaction.
According to CNN, “for several minutes, Good partially blocked traffic on the street. Some unmarked government vehicles idled; others drove around.”
JD Vance says that Good belonged to a group of activists who plot, “to attack, to dox, and to assault,” federal law enforcement. Trump further pushes the point with a statement made when probed on Jan. 9, referring to unnamed agitators and reinforcing support for ICE.
Thousands of people joined a night of protests in Minneapolis on Saturday Jan. 10 protesting against ICE following Good’s death.
Six prosecutors having resigned after being pressured into treating the shooting as an assault on a federal officer, with the heavy defense of ICE by Trump and Vance, tensions are radiating from Minneapolis all the way throughout the U.S.
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar posted on X, “these career public servants have served our state through multiple tragedies and critical investigations. We cannot allow prosecutions to be driven by politics. The family and loved ones of Renee Good deserve justice, not political attacks.”