The chilling final moments of Renee Good’s life were recorded by the ICE agent before he fired fatal shots at her.
The Trump administration has doubled down, insisting the ICE agent involved in the fatal shooting of an American woman had acted in “self-defence” after new footage emerged.
The clip published overnight showed Renee Nicole Good sitting in her car as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross filmed the interaction on Wednesday.
Her wife Rebecca Good was outside next to the car and was filming the tense situation as Ross circled the vehicle before stopping at the front of Renee’s car.
Rebecca is then heard saying “drive baby, drive” as an agent approached to open the door before fatal shoots were fired, the vision obtained by Alpha News showed.
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Vice President JD Vance took to X hours after the clip surfaced, accusing the media of lying about the law enforcement officer’s actions in Minneapolis.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves,” he wrote on the platform.
In a separate post sharing the clip again, Vice President Vance stood by the ICE agent’s actions.
“Watch this, as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman,” he continued.
“The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defence.”
What the footage shows
Renee can be seen behind the driver’s seat of the plum-coloured Honda Pilot, while her wife, Rebecca, stands in the street next to the car.
As Ross records the interaction, Renee says to him: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.” Her spouse starts jawing at the federal officer as whistles and sirens can be heard in the background.
“It’s OK, we don’t change our [license] plates every morning, just so you know,” Rebecca said.
“It’ll be the same plate when you talk to us later, that’s fine, US citizens.”
“You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”
Rebecca then tries to get back into the passenger side, as an agent orders, “Get out of the f**king car” and Renee proceeds to back up.
As the car is in motion, Rebecca, who is still out of the car, can be heard shouting, “drive baby, drive, drive” before Renee peels off and clips Ross, prompting him to open fire.
Local officials in the Democratic city have disputed the Trump administration’s self-defence claim and called the fatal shooting a “murder”.
Rebecca Good, in a Friday statement, said she and her spouse were on the block to “to support their neighbours, adding “we had whistles. They had guns,” according to the Washington Post.
“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness,” Rebecca also said.
“Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.”
Local activists told The Post this week that Renee was part of loosely organised anti-ICE group that used whistles to alert others to federal officials’ presence around the area.
In the aftermath of the shooting, a different video showed Rebecca sobbing.
“It’s my fault,” she cried, while her face was covered in blood after trying to help her wife.
“I made her come down here; it’s my fault.
“They just shot my wife. They shot her in the head. I have a 6-year-old in school.”
– with The New York Post
