ICE Agent Calls Renee Good ‘B***h’ After Minneapolis Shooting
New footage has been released that I guess was intended to justify the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this week, but has arguably made the ICE agent look even worse.
The video shows Good, 37, sitting at the wheel of her car on Wednesday as she tells agent Jonathan Ross: ‘‘that’s fine dude. I’m not mad’. The phone camera pans to her wife, Rebecca Good, 40, who is standing outside the Honda Pilot and antagonising the ICE agents.
One of the agents then orders Good to ‘get out of the car’. She refuses and drives away. At that moment, Ross believes she has tried to run him over and shoots her in the face 3 times [warning = potentially distressing footage]:
As the shots are fired, an agent can be heard calling the mother-of-three a ‘f*****g b***h.’
Trump, JD Vance and the Department of Homeland Security assert that this footage proves that Good was a ‘domestic terrorist’ and that the agent’s life was in danger, which justifies his decision to shoot her.
Vance wrote on X: ‘Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed and murdered an innocent woman.
‘The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defence.’
Others still believe that killing Good was completely avoidable and unnecessary, and that Ross was infuriated that this woman was disobeying him and unafraid of him, and looking for any reason to start firing.
Indeed, I’m not sure that video makes the killing any more justifiable. Seeing Good’s face – here was virtually no tension in the situation. She wasn’t being abusive or threatening at all, and certainly did not seem to intend to ram into Ross with her car. She was literally just trying to drive away, which is why she reversed to give herself room to turn right and swerve away from the officer.
In fairness, her wife isn’t helping matters by winding up and goading the ICE agents, but there’s also no way she could have known that things would have ended as horrifically as they did.
The killing has sparked mass protests across US cities and in Minneapolis, with some demonstrators being detained and fired at with non-lethal rounds.
It was also reported that agent Ross was previously ‘dragged and injured’ by a car 6 months ago. Maybe he shouldn’t still be on the job if he has PTSD from that incident?
