Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said ICE agent Jonathan Ross “walked away with a hop in his step” after reviewing new footage of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good.
“He held onto his cellphone. I think that speaks for itself,” Frey said during an appearance on ABC’s “World News Tonight.”
Frey’s comments were in direct response to cellphone video recorded by Ross, a law enforcement veteran with nearly two decades of experience in Border Patrol and ICE. The footage shows Good speaking to the federal agent from inside her car in the moments before he open fired Wednesday morning.
“That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you,” Good says to Ross from the driver’s seat of her Honda SUV.
The officer then circles her vehicle before getting into an argument with Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, who appears to tell Ross she’s a citizen of the United States and a military veteran.
“You want to come at us?” she asks him. “I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.”
Rebecca then attempts to get inside the SUV with Renee, only to realize the door is locked. As additional agents approach — demanding that Renee exit her vehicle — Rebecca can be hear telling her wife: “Drive baby, drive!”
By then, Ross has made his way in front of the vehicle, which appears to make contact with him. Cellphone still in hand, Ross then fires into the window of the SUV. A total of three gunshots can be heard.
Renee’s vehicle continues moving forward as a voice off-camera says, “F—ing b—h!” The 47-second clip ends with her SUV crashing into a nearby parked car.
Renee, a mother of three, died on the scene from gunshot wounds to her head.
In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, two sharply contrasting accounts began to emerge.
According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Ross was only defending himself from Good, who “weaponized her car” in a “domestic terror attack” against federal agents.
President Trump, meanwhile, called Good “very disorderly” in a post on his own platform Truth Social, claiming she “violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
State and local officials have said the White House is lying, and that Good was not a threat at the time she was shot. Policing experts have said some of the choices Ross made in the moment, such as standing in front of the vehicle — and shooting as it was moving, not fleeing — defy the practices that nearly every law enforcement agency has followed for decades.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the shooting was “totally predictable” and “totally avoidable,” specifically blaming the overwhelming number of ICE officers in Minneapolis. There are believed to be more than 2,000 agents currently deployed there.
Mayor Frey has similarly pushed back, but urged Americans to watch footage of the incident for themselves.
“I think an investigation could change or affirm my perspective,” Frey said. “But we’ve all got two eyes, and I can see a person that is trying to leave. I can see an ICE agent that was not run over by a car. That didn’t happen.”
BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0
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Minnesota law enforcement said Thursday that the FBI, headed by Trump loyalist Kash Patel, would take charge of the investigation into Wednesday’s shooting.
The killing of Good marks at least the fifth death to result from the aggressive immigration crackdown launched by the Trump administration last year. No officers or agents have been charged in any of the earlier incidents.
