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HARROWING videos have captured the full scope of the tense confrontation that led to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer gunning down a Minnesota mom.
The newest angle appears to show Renee Good, 37, striking an agent with her SUV, leading him to fire three fatal shots at the intersection of a quiet residential Minneapolis neighborhood.
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The newest video of Wednesday’s incident, apparently taken from a nearby balcony, offers a wide-angle view of the encounter from in front of the vehicle.
In the video, which is lower quality than other available angles, the agent appears to lurch backward as the Honda SUV accelerates forward and as he fires the three shots.
The clip captures the car accelerating out of control and smashing into another vehicle parked on the street after the driver was shot.
A much clearer video taken just a few feet away from the car captures the moments leading up to the shooting.
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It shows ICE agents rolling up in a truck behind the Honda, which appeared to be stopped in the middle of a turn.
Moments before the ICE vehicle arrived, the driver had been waving cars along and signaling for them to pass as she remained stalled.
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She also waved at the ICE agents’ truck, but they stopped and got out of their car, quickly approaching her SUV from the side.
As they walked up, another car remained parked just feet away from the Honda, with the apparent driver standing nearby and watching the events unfold.
After repeatedly yelling at the driver to get out of the car, one agent then suddenly walked up and unsuccessfully tried the door before the vehicle was thrust into reverse.
The driver can be seen shifting from reverse into drive and beginning to pull forward and turn right.
The video appears to show the vehicle touch another agent who had moved in front of it.
That agent quickly pulls his gun and points it at the driver’s side window, firing three shots as the car accelerates away, according to the video.
President Donald Trump and other federal authorities have insisted the video is crystal clear proof that Good was attempting to block federal agents in an act they deemed “domestic terrorism.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed Good, “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.”
Trump said the videos were a “horrible thing to watch” and stressed that the agent’s life was at risk.
They’ve claimed the officer was well within his rights to shoot because it was in self-defense.
Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the reasoning behind the shooting “bulls**t” and told ICE agents to “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.”
He and Governor Tim Walz have made it clear they believe the shooter was out of line, and said that a thorough investigation would be conducted.
“The things that are taking place are not just illegal, they are unconstitutional,” Frey said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday evening.
“They are coming in here, they are claiming it’s about safety, and it ain’t.
“They are claiming it’s about enforcing the law, and it’s not. What they are doing is terrorizing communities.”
Protests started to heat up on Thursday morning, with hundreds of demonstrators braving the icy cold to demand ICE’s exit from their city.
The fiery clashes have already caused all schools in the city to shut down for the remainder of the week.
Anti-ICE activists have been taking to the streets in recent days to call for an immediate end to Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Fears of incoming violence are being felt across the country as the shooting unfolded just one mile from where George Floyd was killed by a police officer in 2020.
His death led to some of the most destructive riots in recent American history, which turned the Twin Cities into a graveyard of torched businesses and smashed cars.
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This time around, Walz, who has been in his post since 2018, has urged his constituents to prioritize peace as they investigate Wednesday’s events.
“Trump wants a show. Don’t give it to him,” he wrote in a statement.
BY The Sun’s Editor-at-Large Harry Cole
JUST a few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020, sparking the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have another polarizing tragedy on the streets of Minneapolis.
A woman has been shot, a child has been orphaned, but this horrific incident has inevitably been weaponized by politicians as an attack on Donald Trump and the wider mission to deport illegal migrants from America.
Various angles have emerged showing footage of the incident and it has become clear events are not as clear-cut as the American public had been led to believe.
It’s now clear that the car was moving towards the officer who opened fire, and the bullet went through the front windshield.
And yet.
Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, has come out with extraordinary claims that he’s going to put the state’s National Guard on duty to protect citizens against ICE agents.
The man who stood against Donald Trump as Kamala Harris‘s running mate, is saying that he’s going to potentially pit American troops against American agents.
Now, just imagine for a second.
Had a Republican said that, the Democrats would be screaming blue murder.
They would be suggesting this is somehow stirring up a civil war.
But because it’s a “progressive” politician, he seems to get away with it. The media aren’t jumping on those comments quite like they would, I suspect, if it had been someone on the right.
This tragedy is even more incendiary because it happened in Minneapolis.
Minnesota right now is very much on the front line in the American immigration debate after billions and billions of dollars of benefit frauds by the Somalian community have been exposed.
Walz, who’s just announced that he won’t be seeking another term as the scandal grows, has been resisting investigations into the Somalian population and their daycare centers, which have diverted billions of dollars, it’s alleged, in fraud away from the taxpayers, channelled back to Somalia, and even, in some cases, funding terrorism in Somalia.
The situation in Minnesota was already tense.
The progressive left, they’re activists, they’re already on the streets, campaigning against the government, and this is only going to pour fuel on the fire.
And don’t forget, this is also a city that has been used to protest and been used to riots.
Floyd’s murder in 2020 ignited BLM but also riots right across America.
So, when people start to gather for vigils, you can understand why law enforcement are going to be nervous.
This is a highly charged city that has seen yet another politically toxic incident. I suspect this one’s going to run for days and days and days.
But what is fascinating is just how quickly, almost minutes after the incident happened, the debate polarized down political lines.
Rather than view the evidence, people are deciding what they think based on their party lines, based on their ideology, based on their political viewpoints.
And that doesn’t really bode well for the truth, because there’s gonna be a hell of a lot of shouting around this case.
I’ve watched the footage from a number of angles. It is upsetting, it’s quite hard to watch.
But I do think without watching all of the footage you’re jumping into a debate already that is politically charged rather than evidence-led.
Those who are saying this is an execution in cold blood – well, the evidence doesn’t quite stack up on that.
And those that are saying that the attack was completely justified, I think people will have to take their own mind up on that.
And at the end of the day, it’s a horribly tragic case. No one needed to die in this scenario.
But, once again, gun violence and the toxic political elements of American politics have come together in one incident
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