The ongoing release of information about the woman, now identified as Renee Nicole Good, who was killed during an altercation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis on Tuesday, continues to feed a national partisan divide.
Moments after the altercation, social media was full of videos from different angles (note: graphic language and violence) of the altercation, with people debating whether it was actually an act of self-defense by the ICE agent who shot Good.
In the initial videos shared, a maroon Honda is in the middle of a road, surrounded by ICE agents, with one trying to open the driver’s door. As the car appears to drive away, a different officer standing in front of the vehicle opens fire. The car appears to make contact with the ICE agent, but he was not fully knocked down. After the woman was shot, her car then rams into vehicles in front of it before coming to a stop.
After the release of the latest video, which appears to be cellphone footage from the ICE agent who pulled the trigger, the debate continues.
The video released Friday shows Good and another woman, who appears to be her wife, having a tense altercation with the ICE officers before Good reverses her car then drives forward, hitting the officer, after which the officer fires his gun.
After the footage was released, those on the political right largely continued to defend the agent, while those on the political left saw the situation differently.
As journalist Robby Soave said in a post on X: “It’s incredible that the new ICE footage has convinced everyone — and I mean, absolutely everyone — that their initial, extremely partisan take was correct. I have not seen a single person change their mind, or at least soften their initial take, in the face of new evidence. You’re all very righteously certain of yourselves!"
The Trump administration continues to say that the agent was acting in self defense — President Donald Trump commented on it, JD Vance discussed it with the media at the White House and in a press conference the day of the incident, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Good “weaponized her vehicle” to harm a federal officer, which if true, is an act of domestic terrorism.
During a press conference on Friday morning, Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey demanded that Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigate the altercation. Though they were initially on the scene Tuesday, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans released a statement saying that “the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
If an independent investigation is not given, independent of the FBI’s, Frey said, distrust in the government will spread.
“They should have no concern about having a full and transparent investigation here. See where that investigation leads, look at the facts, collect the evidence,” Frey said.
The FBI had not released any decision, as of Friday, regarding whether they would charge the ICE agent involved in the shooting.