Protests have taken place in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother of three by an Immigrants and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent.
The deceased has been named as Renee Nicole Good, who agents say was “blocking the street” with her car as they conducted a raid in the city on Wednesday.
Now, a video of the incident shows ICE agents approaching a burgundy SUV in the middle of the street. It appears to show the car attempting to drive off, but then one of the agents points his gun at the driver and at least two shots are heard.
WATCH: Video shows shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent
More details have emerged about Ms Good, who was a US citizen. Her father told the Washington Post on Thursday: “She had a good life, but a hard life. She was a wonderful person.”
Donna Granger, Ms Good’s mother, told the Star Tribune that her daughter was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known”.
She hit back at claims that her daughter was threatening agents, saying: “That’s so stupid. She was probably terrified.”
It is understood Ms Good was shot a few blocks away from her home, having dropped her six-year-old son to school.
The fatal shooting comes as the Trump administration ramped up its immigration enforcement efforts in recent weeks, after putting an end to a protection programme for Somali residents living in the State.
Trump has insisted that he does not want Somali residents in the US, and that “their country is no good for a reason.” Minnesota has the largest population of Somali immigrants in the US.
The North Star State has witnessed a growing scandal over welfare fraud, with Operation Metro Surge revealing massive fraud among the State’s Somali population. Prosecutors claim that more than $1 billion intended for hungry and autistic children had been stolen.
Protestors today marched, chanted and held signs calling for ICE to leave the city. Hundreds have taken to the streets in Minneapolis and St. Paul since news of the shooting broke. Protests have spread nationwide, with demonstrators rallying at Foley Square in Manhattan with signs reading: “ICE out of New York.”
President Trump, addressing the killing in a statement posted online, claimed self-defence as its motive. Meanwhile, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Ms Good was “stalking and impeding” officers and tried to “weaponise her vehicle”.
Speaking at a press conference, Noem said: “ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement but she refused to obey their commands.
“She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle … The ICE officer, fearing for his life, and the other officers around him … fired defensive shots. He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.”
“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” said Mr Trump. “It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and 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.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” he added.
TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON SELF-DEFENCE CLAIM
In an interview with the New York Times this afternoon, Mr Trump doubled down on the claim that the ICE agent acted in self-defence.
“She behaved horribly,” Trump a reporter. “And then she ran him over. She didn’t try to run him over. She ran him over.”
“It’s a terrible scene,” the president said. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
“They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!” Trump said earlier in the day.
However, analysis of the video posted online details how Ms Good seems to have moved her car away from the ICE agent, with whom there was no contact, throwing doubt on the White House’s account for some.
Claims of self-defence have also been disputed by the Minneapolis City Council, who claim that Good was simply “caring for her neighbours” when she was shot and killed at around 10:25am local time on Wednesday.
In a post on X today, US Vice-President JD Vance said: “You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making”.
“Don’t illegally interfere in federal law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It’s really that simple,” said Vance.
Vance doubled down further this afternoon, writing: “Every congressional democrat and every democrat who’s running for president should be asked a simple question: Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over?
“These people are going to try to arrest our law enforcement for doing their jobs. The least the media could do is ask them about it.”
In an update this afternoon, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara claimed that the shooting was “entirely predictable.”
Mr O’Hara told CBS News: “We recognise quite obviously that this has been building over the course of of several weeks. This was a very tense situation on the ground.”
He claimed that Ms Good was not the target of any “pre-planned law enforcement,” and that officers had approached her car because “to was blocking the street”.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, rejected the Trump administration’s claims of self-defence, stating that the ICE agent was “reckless” while hitting out at the Government’s “garage narrative.”