A new video of the moment in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shoots Renee Good to death in Minnesota has increased tension in the United States. In these new images, recorded by the police officer’s own camera, Good is seen smiling while telling him: “Don’t worry, buddy, I’m not mad at you.”
In the 47-second video, Agent Ross is seen getting out of the car and surrounding Good’s car, while her wife approaches the agent to reproach him for his attitude. “No problem, we don’t change the license plate every morning, it will be the same when they come back later,” he tells him while the agent focuses on the numbering.
ICE has described what happened as “domestic terrorism”
Afterwards, Ross finishes surrounding the vehicle, while Good’s wife continues to reproach him, and stands in front of it to demand that he get off. At that moment, Good is seen maneuvering backwards and then forwards to leave. In the video you can’t see if the car hits the agent, because the camera changes position and starts focusing on the sky just when the three shots are heard.
You do hear someone say “damn bitch” at the moment the cell phone shows the car again, which has already lost control and crashes into a light pole. The incident, described by ICE as “domestic terrorism,” took place after hundreds of people came out to demonstrate against the “abuses” of the more than 2,000 immigration agents sent by President Donald Trump.
Democrats say Good did not want to run over the officer
For his part, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, has reiterated that Good at no time tried to run over the officers. “Don’t accept my word. Don’t accept his word. Look at the video from all angles,” he said in a press conference, opposing the White House version that claims that the agent was attacked by the woman.
The Democratic opposition has criticized the misinterpretation that Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are making of the images. In his opinion, the video makes it “very clear” that Good at no time directed the vehicle towards the agents and that Ross shot the woman through the car door, while he was already away from the vehicle.
Frey has denounced that the FBI is “deliberately” marginalizing the Police. “The ICE agent was not injured. The hip injury they say could have been caused by closing the refrigerator door. No one ran over him,” the mayor insisted, while pointing out that the agent left the place on his own two feet.
Walz has deployed the National Guard and Bondi has warned of the consequences of damaging federal property
On the other hand, the governor of the State, Democrat Tim Walz, has announced that he has activated the National Guard “as a precaution” in case it were necessary “to help maintain peace, guarantee public safety and allow peaceful demonstrations.” After what happened, the mobilizations have continued to take place.
The State Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has also spoken through her X account and recalled that “peaceful protest is a sacred American right protected by the First Amendment”, but that “damaging federal property is a crime for which you will be arrested and prosecuted.”
Renee Good’s wife has published a letter in which she thanks the support and denounces that while “we had whistles, they had weapons.” Together they were raising three children, the youngest being six years old. Good’s death is the fifth since ICE operates under Trump.
