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 Renee Good.
“There’s another person that’s dead,” Frey said during an appearance on ABC World News Tonight. “He held onto his cellphone. I think that speaks for itself.”
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 fatally shot her 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, which doesn’t stop moving until it crashes into a nearby parked car.
Renee Good 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 37-year-old Good, who “weaponized her car” in a “domestic terror attack” against federal agents.
President Trump, meanwhile, called Good a “professional agitator” in a post on his own platform Truth Social, adding that she was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting.” She “then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense,” he claimed.
Others have blamed Trump’s escalating immigration crackdown, which has seen federal agents deployed to city’s across the U.S., mostly those with Democratic elected officials.
State and local officials have said the White House is lying, and that Good was not a threat at the time she was shot. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the shooting was “totally predictable” and “totally avoidable,” specifically blaming the overwhelming number of officers in Minneapolis. Mayor Frey has similarly pushed back, but he also urged Americans to watch clips 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.”
