an ICE agent just shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis today.
she was a bystander, not a suspect.
she was instructed to leave the scene and was moving to comply when an "ICE agent" shot her FACE at pointblank range 3-4 times
a citizen physician tried to check her pulse and attempt any kind of medical intervention. he was blocked by these so called "federal agents". urgent, available, onsite medical care was denied.
this was never about criminals. this was always about fear, intimidation, and absolute control.
ICE Shooting Witness Emily Heller Says Agent Shot Victim 'Right Into' Her Face | HuffPost Latest News
Mayor says ICE claims incident was self-defense are not true, and tells agency to ‘get the fuck out of Minneapolis’
Richard Luscombe, Rachel Leingang, and Anna Betts at The Guardian:
Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota congresswoman, said the victim was “a legal observer” of action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which had sent a surge of agents into the city in recent days tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A witness to the incident, Emily Heller, told local media that the victim was shot in the face multiple times. Heller said she saw a car blocking traffic that appeared to be part of a protest against the ICE operation, and heard an agent telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here”.
“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in – like his midriff was on her bumper – and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller told MPR News, a Minneapolis public radio station.
The woman has been identified as 37-year old Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports.
Speaking to the outlet, Good’s mother Donna Ganger said that her daughter had been living in the Twin Cities with her partner. She said that her daughter was “not part of anything like that at all”, referring to protestors who have challenged ICE’s presence in Minnesota.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known … She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being,” Ganger told the outlet.
A video posted online by the Minnesota Reformer and another video obtained by the Guardian appeared to capture the moment of the shooting as a dark red SUV drove away from agents moving toward it, although the front of the vehicle is obscured.
In a post to X, the homeland security department (DHS) insisted the person was a “domestic terrorist” who “weaponized her vehicle” and attempted “to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them”.
The department claimed several ICE officers were hurt, but said that they were expected to make “full recoveries”.
“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers,” the DHS post said.
The videos mentioned above appear to contradict that statement, as it shows the SUV clearly backing up away from ICE officers as they approach. There is one ICE officer that can be seen partially in front of the car as the car moves forward and then away from the officers. That same ICE officer is seen firing his gun as the car appears to drive by him. Three gunshots can be heard ringing out.
There is no visible sign in the videos of ICE officers being injured. The agent who appeared to have fired the fatal shots is seen returning to a silver SUV that was driven away from the scene shortly after – through a red traffic light.
Legal observer Renee Nicole Good was shot dead by a terrorist ICE thug agent in Minneapolis today.
The DHS, Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and the right-wing media are making excuses to defend the anti-American killing of Good by an ICE terrorist, and the videos contradict the lies spewed out by the “stand with ICE” crowd.
Abolish ICE!!!
See Also:
Common Dreams: Videos From Scene of Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis Betray ‘Garbage’ DHS Claims
Zeteo: BREAKING: ICE Kills Legal Observer Good in Cold Blood in Minneapolis
Reuters, via HuffPost: ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Driver In Minneapolis
The Parnas Perspective (Aaron Parnas): BREAKING: ICE Shoots and Kills Citizen and the Department of Homeland Security is Lying About What Happened
