Newly released video of Wednesday’s ICE shooting in Minneapolis appears to show the officer’s point of view just moments before he opened fire, leaving a 37-year-old mother of three dead.
Footage obtained by Minnesota outlet Alpha News on Friday begins with victim Renee Nicole Good speaking to the federal officer who would shoot her seconds later while she was in her vehicle. The agent has since been identified by local media as 43-year-old Jonathan Ross.
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“That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you,” Good says to Ross, who’s filming the encounter on his cellphone.
He then circles around the vehicle where the victim’s wife, Rebecca Good, begins arguing with the agent on the street while recording on her own phone. Rebecca appears to tell Ross that she’s a U.S. citizen and a military veteran.
“You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” she defiantly adds.
Rebecca then tries to get back inside the SUV but realizes the passenger side door is locked. As other federal agents approach the vehicle and shout at Renee to “get out of the car,” Rebecca can be heard saying, “Drive baby, drive!”
At that point, Ross has made his way around the front of the SUV when Renee starts driving away, the vehicle appearing to make contact with the officer. Still holding a cellphone in one hand, Ross fires a shot through the windshield. 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 parked car.
Renee died of gunshot wounds to her head.
Video released on Thursday shows Rebecca grieving in the aftermath of the shooting, which took place just a few blocks from where she and Renee lived.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she sobs.
Former neighbors told the media the couple had previously lived in Kansas City, Mo., but moved to Canada when Trump was elected in 2024. They returned to the U.S. in recent months and settled in Minnesota.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has justified the shooting, saying Ross acted in self-defense to protect himself and his fellow law enforcement officers. She claimed Renee was engaging in “an act of domestic terrorism” when she pulled her vehicle toward him and that he was lucky to be alive.
Vice President JD Vance, who earlier claimed Renee was part of a “broader leftwing network,” reposted Ross’ cellphone footage, claiming it exonerates his actions.
“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,” Vance wrote on social media Friday. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense.”
Renee’s defenders argue the officer put himself in harm’s way and exercised poor judgement by standing in front of the vehicle. Policing experts have said some of the choices he made in that moment defy practices that nearly every law enforcement agency has followed for decades.
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