New video emerged Friday that was filmed by the U.S. immigration officer who fatally shot a woman in her car in Minneapolis, revealing new angles of the incident as well as audio of the crucial seconds before the encounter turned deadly.
The cellphone video, initially published by right-wing outlet Alpha News and verified as genuine by CBC News, lasts 47 seconds and shows the perspective of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fired three shots at Renee Nicole Good.
In previously verified videos, the agent can be seen holding up a phone in his left hand as he walked around the front of Good’s SUV in the moments before the shooting.
The latest video begins by showing the officer’s view as he gets out of a vehicle and approaches the passenger side of Good’s burgundy Honda Pilot. A black dog can be seen in the back seat, its head out of the open window.
With sirens occasionally sounding in the background, the video moves around the front of the Honda toward the driver’s side.
Good, sitting with a hand on the steering wheel, looks directly at the camera through her open window, smiles and says, “It’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
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The officer then starts to circle the vehicle, walking toward its rear and showing the licence plate, as a woman — reported to be Good’s wife — says, “That’s OK, we don’t change our plates every morning.”
The video shows the woman filming the agent with her phone as she says, “It’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.”
‘You want to come at us?’
The agent completes his walk around the vehicle and is again on the passenger side as the woman can be heard saying, “You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”
That’s when two other ICE agents approach the vehicle from the other side and can be heard ordering Good to get out, a scene shown in at least three other previously published bystander videos.
Over the course of the next five seconds, the agent filming the video moves around the front of the car from the passenger side toward the driver’s side, then Good can be seen turning the steering wheel to the right and the car starts to move forward; a shout of “Whoa!” is then heard, followed by three gunshots in quick succession, as the video veers wildly to film the sky.
About three seconds later, a voice can be heard saying, “F—ing bitch,” as Good’s vehicle is seen moving slowly down the street before the video ends. It is unclear who said those words.
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Federal officials have declined to identify the agent by name and CBC News has been unable to independently verify his identity, but details supplied by U.S. Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Wednesday closely match those contained in federal court documents about an incident involving an ICE officer named Jonathan Ross in Bloomington, Minn., last June.
‘His life was endangered,’ Vance says
While the new video provides more detail about the interaction between the officer and the driver in the moments before the shooting, it does not appear to be changing views about whether the use of force was justified.
The White House seized on the new video to support its disputed conclusion that the officer fired in self-defence as the driver attempted to run him over.
Vance reposted the video on social media platform X on Friday and urged people to watch it.
“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. The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense,” Vance wrote in the post.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also said the video confirmed the narrative it first declared just two hours after the shooting.
“This footage corroborates what DHS has stated all along — that this individual was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement,” said Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for public affairs, in a statement.
Federal agents stand outside the Whipple Building in Minneapolis, where protesters were gathered on Friday. (Adam Bettcher/The Associated Press)
However, a security expert who analyzed the new video says it does not support the claim that the vehicle was being used as a weapon.
Thomas Warrick, former deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism policy at DHS, says deadly force was not required to resolve the incident.
“The circumstances, especially with the additional sounds that we now know of from this video — it doesn’t look like anybody has hostile intent,” Warrick told CBC News on Friday.
Warrick, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think-tank, said it’s not clear from the video whether the vehicle struck the officer or the officer struck the vehicle before he drew his weapon.
“If anything, it looks like whatever bump there was, the officer got out of the way,” he said.
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Minnesota investigators said they were unable to access any evidence in the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis after the FBI took over the case, and Gov. Tim Walz criticized the Trump administration for freezing them out: “It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome.”
A Minnesota prosecutor is now asking members of the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting directly to her office.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Friday that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, the Trump administration’s decision to keep the investigation solely in federal hands concerns her.
Moriarty said she’s worried that the FBI won’t share evidence with state investigators.