ICE agents blocked doctor from helping shot Minneapolis woman

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ICE agents blocked doctor from helping shot Minneapolis woman

WARNING: The above video contains confronting footage.

Video has emerged of a confrontation in the US city of Minneapolis that ended with an immigration enforcement officer shooting a driver dead.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed by the ICE agent as she drove on a residential street in the midwestern city.

Good's Honda appeared to be blocking the street to the officers' unmarked car - though it is not apparent if it was a deliberate effort or an attempt at a three-point turn.

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An ICE agent grabs the door handle of her car moments before the shooting.

"Get out of the f------ car," one masked agent says as he walks to her vehicle, before grabbing the door handle.

She reverses less than a metre before moving forward.

As she does, another agent in front of the car pulls out a handgun and fires three shots in quick succession.

"What the f--- did you do?" the bystander filming the confrontation shouts as Good's Honda smashes into a parked car.

Doctor stopped from helping

The ICE agents on the scene appeared to prevent a doctor from helping Good after she was shot.

"Can I go check a pulse? I'm a physician," the man was filmed saying as he stood on the side of the road with his hands up.

Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent in Minnesota.

"I don't care," one agent replies.

Another told him there were paramedics on the way.

"We have our own medics," he said.

"Where are they?" the woman filming the video, Emily Heller, can be heard shouting.

An agent then tells her to relax.

"How can I relax? You just killed my f—ing neighbour," Heller replied.

Good was pronounced dead in hospital.

She lived a couple of blocks from the place where she was killed, neighbours said.

Trump claims self-defence

In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump described the shooting as "self-defence".

"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully (sic) and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defence," Trump said.

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The ICE agent fired three shots, killing Renee Nicole Good.

"Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in hospital.

"The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis."

Trump posted a video of the shooting from further down the road.

An ICE statement described Good's actions as "domestic terrorism".

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Good's Honda crashed into a parked car after she was shot.

"One of these violent rioters weaponised her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them - an act of domestic terrorism," the statement read.

"An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

"He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers."

Local politicians fume at ICE

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey described the Trump administration's characterisation of the shooting as "bullshit".

"This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody getting killed," Frey said.

"We've dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis.

"They are not here to create safety in this city, what they are doing is causing chaos and distrust.

"ICE, get the f--- out of Minneapolis."

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described the shooting as a "public murder".

"What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman and shoot her in the head was she was trying to escape and flee for her life," she said.

"What we saw today was a manifestation of every American's worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny."

She called for the officer to be arrested and prosecuted.

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Child orphaned after shooting

Good's mother Donna Ganger said her daughter was "not part of anything like that".

"Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known," Ganger told the Star Tribune.

"She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life."

The 37-year-old leaves behind a six-year-old child. The child's father died two years ago.

The ICE agent has not been identified.

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Vigils, marches after Good's death

Governor Tim Walz has put the National Guard on standby in fear of riots breaking out.

"Donald Trump and his administration may not care much about Minnesota — that's been pretty evident — but we love this state," he said.

"To Minnesotans, on the National Guard, they're there to protect you and protect your constitutional rights.

"These are our neighbours. They don't wear masks. They don't bust in from somewhere else.

"They're not here to cause hassles to you or what we saw today, the tragedy."

Riots broke out in the city in 2020 after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer.

People participate in a protest in response to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.

But it appears there has been no rioting in the wake of Good's death.

Instead, protesters have participated in peaceful marches or mourned at candlelight vigils.

Classes have been cancelled at Minneapolis public schools for tomorrow and the next day nevertheless.

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