A newly surfaced cellphone video shows Renee Nicole Good speaking calmly to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent moments before she was fatally shot during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis earlier this week.
The footage, first published by the conservative outlet Alpha News and later shared by the White House’s Rapid Response account on X, captures Good telling the agent that everything was “fine” and adding, “I’m not mad at you,” shortly before gunshots are heard. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed to The Guardian that the video is authentic.
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The 47-second clip, filmed from the perspective of the ICE agent involved, shows Good seated in the driver’s seat of a maroon Honda Pilot stopped on a roadway with sirens audible in the background. As the masked agent walks around the vehicle, Good continues speaking through the open window in a calm tone.
What the video shows
The footage also records an exchange involving another woman identified as Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, who appears to question the officers’ actions while holding her own phone. As tensions escalate, another masked officer is heard ordering Good to exit the vehicle. Moments later, the SUV begins moving slowly forward and to the right.
As per a Guardian report, gunshots are fired as the vehicle pulls away. A voice can be heard using a derogatory slur after Good is struck. The SUV then crashes a short distance away. A dog visible in the back seat was reported unharmed.
The ICE agent who fired the shots has been identified as Jonathan E. Ross, a 10-year veteran of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations special response team. Ross was participating in a broader immigration sweep in Minneapolis at the time of the shooting.
In a statement, Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Good had “impeded law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle,” adding that the officer feared for his life. Vice President JD Vance echoed that view on social media, calling the death a tragedy but defending the officer’s actions as self-defence.
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The account has been strongly disputed by Minnesota officials and residents. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey publicly condemned ICE’s presence in the city, while protests near the site of the shooting have drawn thousands. Rights groups and Democratic lawmakers have also questioned whether the use of deadly force was justified, particularly given policies in some US jurisdictions that restrict officers from firing at moving vehicles unless there is an immediate lethal threat.
Rebecca Good, in a public statement, described her wife as a person driven by compassion and faith, saying Renee believed deeply in caring for others regardless of background.
