In a chaotic couple of seconds
A video filmed by the US immigration agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday has emerged, showing the moments before gunfire rang out.
The gunfire didn’t “ring out”. Quite the contrary. There’s nothing bell-like about gunshots. End all stupid journalistic clichés.
The 47-second footage, obtained by Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News, shows Renee Nicole Good sitting behind the wheel of her car and speaking to the officer.
US Vice-President JD Vance shared the clip on social media, commenting that the agent had acted in self-defence.
US VP lied, not for the first time.
The Trump administration says Good was blocking the road and impeding the work of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
That may be true. It is not a reason to shoot her in the head. Not even slightly.
Another agent approaches Good on the driver’s side and uses an expletive as he says: “Get out of the car.”
The agent filming the clip moves in front of Good’s car as she reverses.
In a chaotic couple of seconds, she turns the wheel to the right and pulls forwards.
The camera jerks up to the sky. “Woah, woah!” a voice says, as bangs are heard.
In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears.
No the ICE agent doesn’t swear, the ICE agent calls the woman he’s just killed “fucking bitch”.
From all accounts and the videos, it looks like the murderer was eager for the chance to shoot and kill someone. There was literally no hesitation. The ICE force more than doubled in 2025 from 10,000 to 22,000. How many others of those hires have the credible potential to use excessive force? This anti-immigration campaign by the government isn’t just killing and injuring immigrants, it’s killing and injuring US citizens. They lie and propagandize. They kill their own citizens. They are aggressive toward other nations. If this isn’t a fascist authoritarian dictatorship, it’s sure doing a good impression of one. Trump is turning the US into one of those “shithole countries” that he says he hates. Are we “great” yet?
If someone is driving towards you and you think you are about to be run over, what good does shooting the driver do? The car will not stop immediately. The best thing to do is to step out of the way. A car is not like a gun where if you step out of the line of fire the person pointing the gun can easily re-point the gun at you. A car has much more limited range of motion.
Some people obviously don’t understand the laws of physics. A bullet or several won’t stop a moving car. But neither will training, laws, or morality stop a bloodthirsty ICE agent.
It’s proof that he wasn’t in danger. He was on the front left of her car, and managed to get off three shots in rapid succession, one through the lower left corner of her windshield and two through the driver side windows.