Dramatic video shows the moment an ICE agent opened fire and killed a 37-year-old woman Wednesday after she barreled her SUV into the officer’s path in Minneapolis Wednesday morning — as the mayor furiously demanded the agency “get the f–k out” of the city.
The incident has inflamed long-simmering tensions in the city between immigration authorities and local Dem political leaders anti-ICE activists — who have openly defied and harassed federal agents as they enforced President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
In footage, ICE officers approach a plum-colored Honda Pilot and order the driver out of the vehicle after she blocked the path of their truck.
Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Facebook/Renee Good
An ICE agent approaching the vehicle moments before the shooting. X/@maxnesterak
The ICE agent firing as the car pulls away. X/@maxnesterak
As one of the agents attempts to open the door, she quickly throws the car into reverse before trying to speed forward in the direction of another agent in her path.
That agent dodges the SUV, swings around the side and fires three shots before the car crashes into a white sedan parked nearby on the side of the street and comes to a stop.
Another video taken from a different angle appears to show the SUV strike the officer who fired the deadly shots as he leaps out of the path of the rapidly accelerating vehicle.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference Wednesday evening that the driver, Renee Nicole Good, had been “stalking and impeding” the work of immigration agents “all throughout the day.”
“It’s very clear this individual was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations,” she said.
The ICE agent seen in front of the Honda Pilot as it comes towards him. X
President Trump said in a statement that the agent was hospitalized with injuries from the fracas, and that it’s “hard to believe he’s still alive.”
Hours later, Noem revealed the agent had been released from the hospital and was “spending time with his loved ones.”
Investigations are underway, but Trump said in a statement that Good is the one at fault, and that the shooting was justified.
“The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
Noem said the officer who opened fire was previously hit and dragged by a protester in June, and the shooting came as “agitators” tried to ram ICE agents with their cars in Minneapolis three times on Wednesday.
The DHS honcho called Good’s actions “domestic terrorist attack.”
The dead woman was later identified as a 37-year-old Minneapolis transplant originally from Colorado Springs, Colo., who described herself as a mother, a wife and a poet.
Her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Star Tribune she was “one of the kindest people I have ever known.”
The scene of the shooting after the Pilot crashed. Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV
“She was probably terrified,” Ganger added, saying the circumstances of the death were “so stupid.”
Following the shooting, a distraught woman who identified herself a Good’s wife could be seen covered in blood screaming that the shooting was “her fault.”
“They shot her in the head. I have a 6-year-old in school,” she said, telling a bystander that they were new to the area and she didn’t know who to call.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she said. “They just shot my wife.”
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Witnesses and protesters raged as the videos showing the deadly encounter from varying angles made the rounds online, with many questioning whether the officer’s use of deadly force was necessary.
Following the gunfire, a woman repeatedly screams “no! no! What the f–k? What the f–k did you do? You’re f–king criminals!”
Later in the footage, blood-spattered snow can be seen as the woman apparently filming approaches the crashed SUV — where someone is seen leaning over the driver’s side seat from outside the vehicle, apparently attempting to render aid to the morally wounded driver.
“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle,” the DHS alleges. Scootercaster/FreedomNewsTV
The deadly shooting comes amid the largest deployment of immigration agents — including some 2,000 officers across several agencies — since the start of President Trump’s second term.
A furious mob of protesters jammed the area around Portland Avenue and E. 34th Street where the shooting took place, which is less than a mile from where George Floyd died under the knee of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in 2020.
Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd in 2021 and is serving a 21-year prison sentence.
At an expletive-riddled news conference following the shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey accused the agent who fired the deadly shots of acting recklessly.
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly: that is bulls—t. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying,” he said, pledging a full investigation into the incident.
“To ICE: Get the f—k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being here is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin said the incident happened while ICE was conducting “targeted operations” when “violent rioters” began blocking the streets.
“One of the violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” she said in an X post.
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.”
DHS’s “use of force” policy says federal agents are authorized to use deadly force when dealing with fleeing suspects if they have “a reasonable belief that the subject poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm” to others, and “such force is necessary to prevent escape.”
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Embattled Minn. Gov. Tim Walz fired back “don’t believe this propaganda machine” and promised the state will conduct “a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice.”
He urged protesters to remain peaceful, but later issued a “warning order” to the Minnesota National Guard, ensuring they would be ready to be rapidly deployed if the growing protests spiral out of control.
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has long been a vocal opponent of immigration enforcement actions in the state, said “ICE must stop terrorizing our communities and leave our cities.”
The incident echoes a similar shooting in October in which US Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago who had tried to run them over after they were “boxed in” by 10 other cars.
A federal judge dismissed charges against the woman — who survived — of using her vehicle “to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago” the following month.