How Trump and Vance's accounts of Minneapolis ICE shooting differ from video evidence
CBC
The official White House narrative of how a U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in her vehicle in Minneapolis is bumping hard up against what can be seen in videos of the incident.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice-President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are all insisting that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, deliberately rammed her vehicle into an ICE officer who then fired shots in self-defence because he feared for his life.
Yet three videos from the scene — each verified by CBC News as authentic — contradict these claims and raise serious questions about why the White House is defending the fatal shooting as justified.
Two of the videos were filmed from street level in close proximity to Good's vehicle, at similar angles from the rear and sides. The third was filmed from above, at some distance away, showing the front of the vehicle.
Good's SUV, a burgundy Honda Pilot, is seen parked horizontally across partially snow-covered Portland Avenue, its engine idling and driver's side window rolled down.
A grey pickup truck drives up to about a car-length away from the driver's side of Good's vehicle. Two masked ICE officers emerge, walk briskly toward the SUV and repeatedly order Good to get out. One of the officers grabs the driver’s side door handle and tries to open it.
Then, as the SUV reverses briefly, a third ICE officer is seen stepping in front of the vehicle, from the passenger side.
Good turns her front wheels to the right and her vehicle starts to move forward. At that point, the third officer appears to be less a metre in front of the driver's side edge of the SUV's hood.
The officer then pulls his gun and fires what appears to be three shots into the vehicle. Even as he fires the first shot, the front of the vehicle has clearly passed him as it turns right and he is shooting as he stands beside it.
Just two hours after the shooting, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a statement blaming Good. The statement, posted on X, claimed that "rioters began blocking ICE officers" as the incident unfolded. No sign of rioters can be seen in any videos of the shooting.
“One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them,” read the DHS statement. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.”
A few hours later, Noem told reporters the woman "attacked" ICE officers "and attempted to run them over" in what she described as "an act of domestic terrorism."
Trump issued a social media post on Wednesday afternoon, attaching the video that was filmed from furthest away. He claimed that Good was "very disorderly, obstructing and resisting" and that she "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
None of the videos show Good's vehicle running over the officer.
