William Morgan
The last words of the 37-year-old mom killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis were captured during the fateful few seconds between driving away and tragically being shot dead.
Renee Nicole Good died just a few blocks from her home after being gunned down by an ICE agent on Wednesday (January 7), sparking outrage across the US.
Cellphone footage, obtained by local outlet Alpha News, appears to show the moments before the incident from the perspective of the agent who fatally shot Good.
In the 47-second recording, the ICE officer gets out of his vehicle and approaches Good’s Honda Pilot. As he makes his way around the car, sirens can be heard blasting in the background of the footage.
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Looking directly at the officer, Good tells him: "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."
A woman, reported to be Good's wife, Becca Good, can also be seen recording the interaction with her phone.
"That's OK, we don't change our plates every morning just so you know. It will be the same plate when you come talk to us later," she says to the officer, before adding: "You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say go and get yourself some lunch, big boy."
A few seconds later, officers tell Good to get out of her car, but the vehicle moves forward and what happened next has now been broadcast around the country.
The footage then pans up to the sky and a person can be heard saying 'woah'.
In a marked contrast to Good's benevolent words, a voice then mutters 'f***ing b***h' as bangs are heard.
Barely 40 seconds seem to elapse between the officer demanding that Good step out of her vehicle and her being fatally shot, which the Trump administration has repeatedly insisted was an attack on ICE.
The Department for Homeland Security has claimed that the agent's shots were 'defensive' and that Good was carrying out an act of 'domestic terrorism' when she drove her vehicle.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has had nothing but harsh words for the immigration agency since the shooting, telling ICE to 'get the f**k out' of the city, adding separately that DHS' claims are wrong. "Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is b***s***," he said.
While many who viewed the ICE agent's cell phone footage were appalled, the video was quickly shared on White House socials, with Vice President JD Vance calling it a 'tragedy' but claiming that the officer was under threat.
DHS confirmed that the footage was real and said in a statement that Good 'was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement' and the 'officer was in fear of his own life'.
But on a state level, officials have stated that they will seek criminal charges against the agent for the fatal shooting, with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty calling on the public to submit any evidence that could help their investigation.
This is despite claims from both the White House and Vice President Vance that Minnesota will not be able to pursue the ICE agent for the fatal shooting of one of the state's residents.
In a tribute to her wife, Becca told MPR: "Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole."
She added that they had used whistles to show their opposition to ICE in Minneapolis, which federal officers had opposed with guns.
Renee leaves behind three children, the youngest just six years old.
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