The last ever words of the 37-year-old mom and poet killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis were captured during the fateful few seconds between driving away and tragically being shot dead.
Phone footage from the agent who shot Renee Nicole Good appears to show the mom-of-three’s final poignant words to ICE before being shot by federal agents. Good tells the officer: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,”
A few seconds later, an ICE officer tells her to get out of her Honda Pilot, but her car moves forward and what happened next has now been broadcast around the country, with the officer taking out his gun and shooting into Good’s vehicle.
In a marked contrast to Good’s benevolent words, the ICE agent can then be heard calling her a ‘f***ing b*tch* just seconds after firing his weapon and fatally killing the mom in her car, which barrels off towards the curb.
Renee told the officer ‘I’m not mad at you’ before attempting to drive away (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Barely 40 seconds elapse between the officer demanding that Good step out of her vehicle and her being fatally shot while attempting to drive away, which the Trump administration has repeatedly insisted was an attack on ICE.
The federal agent who shot Good dead has since been identified as Jonathan Ross, who works in the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Special Response Team.
The Department for Homeland Security has claimed that Ross’ shots were ‘defensive’ and that Good was carrying out an act of ‘domestic terrorism’ when she drove her vehicle.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has had nothing but harsh words for immigration agency since the shooting, telling ICE to ‘get the f*ck out’ of the city, adding separately that DHS’ claims are wrong. “Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is b—s—,” he said.
While many who viewed the ICE agent’s cell phone footage were appalled, the video was quickly shared on White House socials, with Vice President JD Vance called it a ‘tragedy’ but said that the officer was under threat.
A physician was denied access to the vehicle after Renee Good was fatally shot (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
DHS confirmed that the footage was real and said in a statement that Good “was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement” and the “officer was in fear of his own life”.
But on a state level, officials have stated that they will seek criminal charges against Ross for the fatal shooting, with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty calling on the public to submit any evidence that could help their investigation.
This is despite claims from both the White House and Vice President Vance that Minnesota will not be able to pursue the ICE agent for the fatal shooting of one of the state’s residents.
Renee’s wife Becca Good, who was present at the shooting, has told MPR in a tribute to her wife: “Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.”
She added that they had used whistles to show their opposition to ICE in Minneapolis, which federal officers had opposed with guns.
Renee leaves behind three children, the youngest just six-years-old.