Not in the vehicle’s path
The NY Times has an excellent analysis of who was where when the federal agent shot and killed the protester, complete with diagrams and slowed video.
The Washington Post headline:
ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired at driver, video shows
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said the woman had committed an act of “domestic terrorism,” first disobeying officers’ commands and then weaponizing her SUV by attempting to “run a law enforcement officer over.” President Donald Trump said the woman “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”
A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage, however, raises questions about those accounts. The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis.
The agent was able to move out of the way, but he did have to be nippy about it. There is that tiny shred of truth in the torrent of lies. She did start to pull away while he was in front of her left bumper.
The agent who was first seen behind Good’s SUV reemerges in front of the vehicle, still appearing to hold up a phone. The SUV quickly pulls forward, and then veers to the right, in the correct direction of traffic on the one-way street.
As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.
Videos examined by The Post, including one shared on Truth Social by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him. Referring to the officer, Trump wrote in his post that it was “hard to believe he is alive.” Video shows the agent walking around the scene for more than a minute after the shooting.
No, it isn’t a bit hard to believe he’s still alive.
Trump and his goons want us to think that she deliberately forced him to step out of her way. I doubt that. There were feds screaming at her to do incompatible things – back up, get out, stop, go – that kind of thing.
It’s Trump’s war on all of us that’s the problem.
No new information in this one, but a very angry rant about this shooting (youtube, duration 8:34), its enablers, and the appeasers (Democrats included). Worth watching, I think. I didn’t know about Steve Schmidt until a day or two ago.
I am curious how many people were yelling commands and what those commands were. The multiple commands reminds me of the shooting of Daniel Shaver. In the Wikipedia article the third paragraph under “Shooting” gives the details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver
“Langley then ordered Shaver, who was lying prone at Langley’s request, to cross his legs. Moments later, he ordered Shaver to push himself “up to a kneeling position”. While complying with the order to kneel, Shaver uncrossed his legs and Langley shouted that Shaver needed to keep his legs crossed. Startled, Shaver then put his hands behind his back and was again warned by Langley to keep his hands in the air. Langley yelled at Shaver that if he deviated from police instructions again, they would shoot him. Sergeant Langley told Shaver not to put his hands down for any reason. Shaver said, “Please don’t shoot me”. Upon being instructed to crawl, Shaver put his hands down and crawled on all fours. While crawling towards the officers, Shaver moved his right hand towards his waistband. Brailsford, who later testified he believed that Shaver was reaching for a weapon, then opened fire with his AR-15 rifle, striking Shaver five times and killing him almost instantly. Shaver was unarmed and may have been attempting to prevent his shorts from slipping down…..”
Looks like the ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross. He’s a veteran who was apparently dragged by a car during another arrest six years ago. https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214?utm_source=gift?utm_source=copy
The shooter shows up in one of the NYT video clips, filming the victim’s car with his cell phone, moments before the shooting. I hope that the phone is recovered, and that he hasn’t “accidentally” erased it.
YNnB,
Yeah, also, there was a person shadowing him just before the shooting who was also filming.
Apparently, though, the feds aren’t cooperating with the Minnesota authorities.