By Harold Hutchison & Hudson Crozier
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fired multiple shots at a driver while standing in front of her car during protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday, video footage shows.
At least three federal agents were seen approaching the now-deceased driver’s SUV and ordering her to step out just before the altercation occurred in a video posted on X by Minnesota Reformer journalist Max Nesterak and by Insider Wire. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blamed the driver for the incident in a statement, claiming she attempted to run an officer over just before he fired. . (RELATED: Transgender Anti-ICE Rioter Already Out Of Jail After Butcher Knife Episode)
“Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car,” one agent was heard saying in the video as the group approached the vehicle on a snowy road in a suburban neighborhood. The agent then grabbed the car’s door handle, and a bystander is heard yelling “No!” as the driver begins to move the car backward.
Another agent was seen circling the car just as it was moving, eventually standing in front of it just before it lunged forward. He fired at least two shots at the driver as the car came towards him before moving out of the way as it continued moving forward, the footage shows. The car then veered off the side of the road and crashed into another vehicle.
“You’re fucking criminals!” a bystander is heard yelling at law enforcement after the shots.
“Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” a DHS spokesperson said. “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.”
The Minneapolis City Council identified the woman killed by a federal agent as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.
Good was fatally shot by a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Wednesday, prompting angry reactions from Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Minneapolis officials told CBS News Minnesota that Good was a legal observer monitoring federal law enforcement. (RELATED: ‘Get The F*ck Out!’: Minneapolis Mayor Demands ICE Leave Following Fatal Shooting)
“This morning an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a member of our community. Renee was a resident of our city who was out caring for her neighbors this morning and her life was taken today at the hands of the federal government,” the city council said in a statement obtained by Fox 9. “Anyone who kills someone in our city deserves to be arrested, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
“To Minnesotans, know that our administration will stop at nothing to seek accountability and justice. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are working on the investigation,” Walz said during a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
ICE surged into the Minneapolis area following revelations into welfare fraud in Minnesota that federal officials say totals at least $9 billion after Trump announced he would end “Temporary Protected Status” for Somalis in Minneapolis in response to the allegations.
A Dec. 15 ICE operation in Minneapolis was surrounded by protesters, leading to a standoff where agents used paintball guns to try to control the crowd before Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived.
