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A Minnesota authoritative connected Friday (January 9, 2026) called connected the nationalist to stock with investigators immoderate recordings and grounds connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good arsenic a caller video emerged showing the last moments of her brushwood with an migration officer.
The Minneapolis sidesplitting and a abstracted shooting successful Portland, Oregon, a time aboriginal by the Border Patrol person acceptable disconnected protests successful aggregate cities and denunciations of migration enforcement tactics by the U.S. government. The Trump medication has defended the serviceman who changeable Good successful her car, saying helium was protecting himself and chap agents.
The absorption to the shooting has mostly been focused connected witnesser cellphone video of the encounter. A new, 47-second video that was published online by a Minnesota-based blimpish quality site, Alpha News, and aboriginal reposted connected societal media by the Department of Homeland Security shows the shooting from the position of ICE serviceman Jonathan Ross, who fired the shots.
Sirens blaring successful the background, helium approaches and circles Good's conveyance successful the mediate of the roadworthy portion seemingly filming connected his cellphone. At the aforesaid time, Good's woman besides was signaling the brushwood and tin beryllium seen walking astir the conveyance and approaching the officer. A bid of exchanges occurred: “That's fine, I'm not huffy astatine you,” Good says arsenic the serviceman passes by her door. She has 1 manus connected the steering instrumentality and the different extracurricular the unfastened operator broadside window.
“US citizen, erstwhile f---ing veteran,” says her wife, lasting extracurricular the rider broadside of the SUV holding up her phone. “You wanna travel astatine us, you wanna travel astatine us, I accidental spell get yourself immoderate luncheon large boy.” Other officers are approaching the driver's broadside of the car astatine astir the aforesaid clip and 1 says: “Get retired of the car, get retired of the f---ing car.” Ross is present astatine the beforehand operator broadside of the vehicle. Good reverses briefly, past turns the steering instrumentality toward the rider broadside arsenic she drives up and Ross opens fire.
The camera becomes unsteady and points toward the entity and past returns to the thoroughfare presumption showing Good's SUV careening away.
“F---ing b---,” idiosyncratic astatine the country says.
A crashing dependable is heard arsenic Good's conveyance smashes into others parked connected the street.
Federal agencies person encouraged officers to papers encounters successful which radical whitethorn effort to interfere with enforcement actions, but policing experts person cautioned that signaling connected a handheld instrumentality tin complicate already volatile situations by occupying an officer's hands and narrowing absorption astatine moments erstwhile accelerated decision-making is required.
Under an ICE argumentation directive, officers and agents are expected to activate body-worn cameras astatine the commencement of enforcement activities and to grounds passim interactions, and footage indispensable beryllium kept for reappraisal successful superior incidents specified arsenic deaths oregon use-of-force cases.
The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to questions astir whether the serviceman who opened occurrence oregon immoderate of the others who were connected the country were wearing assemblage cameras.
Homeland Security says video shows self-defence
Vice-President JD Vance and Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said successful posts connected X that the caller video backs their contention that the serviceman fired successful self-defence.
“Many of you person been told this instrumentality enforcement serviceman wasn't deed by a car, wasn't being harassed, and murdered an guiltless woman,” Vance said. “The world is that his beingness was endangered and helium fired successful aforesaid defence.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has said immoderate self-defence statement is “garbage.” Policing experts said the video didn't alteration their thoughts connected the use-of-force but did rise further questions astir the officer's training.
“Now that we tin spot he's holding a weapon successful 1 manus and a cellphone successful the different filming, I privation to spot the serviceman grooming that permits that,” said Geoff Alpert, a criminology prof astatine the University of South Carolina.
The video demonstrates that the officers didn't comprehend Good to beryllium a threat, said John P. Gross, a prof astatine the University of Wisconsin Law School who has written extensively astir officers shooting astatine moving vehicles.
“If you are an serviceman who views this pistillate arsenic a threat, you don't person 1 manus connected a cellphone. You don't locomotion astir this expected weapon, casually filming,” Mr. Gross said.
Ross, 43, is an Iraq War seasoned who has served successful the Border Patrol and ICE for astir 2 decades. He was injured past twelvemonth erstwhile helium was dragged by a operator fleeing an migration arrest.
Attempts to scope Ross astatine telephone numbers and email addresses associated with him were not successful.
Prosecutor asks for video and grounds
Meanwhile, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that though her bureau has collaborated efficaciously with the FBI successful past cases, she is acrophobic by the Trump administration's determination to barroom authorities and section agencies from playing immoderate relation successful the probe into Good's killing.
She besides said the serviceman who changeable Good successful the caput does not person implicit ineligible immunity, arsenic Vance declared.
“We bash person jurisdiction to marque this determination with what happened successful this case,” Ms. Moriarty said astatine a quality conference. “It does not substance that it was a national instrumentality enforcement agent.” Ms. Moriarty said her bureau would station a nexus for the nationalist to taxable footage of the shooting, adjacent though she acknowledged that she wasn't definite what ineligible result submissions mightiness produce.
Good's wife, Becca Good, released a connection to Minnesota Public Radio connected Friday (January 9) saying, “kindness radiated retired of her.” "On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to enactment our neighbours. We had whistles. They had guns," Becca Good said.
“I americium present near to rise our lad and to proceed teaching him, arsenic Renee believed, that determination are radical gathering a amended satellite for him,” she wrote.
The absorption to Good's shooting was contiguous successful the metropolis wherever constabulary killed George Floyd successful 2020, with hundreds of protesters converging connected the shooting country and the schoolhouse territory cancelling classes for the remainder of the week arsenic a precaution and offering an online enactment done February 12.
On Friday, protesters were extracurricular a national installation serving arsenic a hub for the migration crackdown that began Tuesday successful Minneapolis and St. Paul. That evening, hundreds protested extracurricular a edifice successful downtown Minneapolis, banging connected pots and drums and carrying signs that said, “ICE Out" and “Don't Shoot.”
Shooting successful Portland
The Portland shooting happened extracurricular a infirmary Thursday. A national borderline serviceman changeable and wounded a antheral and pistillate successful a vehicle, identified by the Department of Homeland Security arsenic Venezuela nationals Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras. Police said they were successful unchangeable information Friday aft surgery, with DHS saying Nico Moncada was taken into FBI custody DHS defended the actions of its officers successful Portland, saying the shooting occurred aft the operator with alleged pack ties tried to “weaponize” his conveyance to deed them. It said nary officers were injured.
Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed that the 2 radical changeable had “some nexus” to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. Day said they came to the attraction of constabulary during an probe of a July shooting believed to person been carried retired by pack members, but they were not identified arsenic suspects.
The main said immoderate pack affiliation did not needfully warrant the shooting by US Border Patrol. The Oregon Department of Justice said it would investigate.
On Friday evening, hundreds of protesters marched to the ICE gathering successful Portland carrying banners and yelling.
The biggest crackdown yet
The Minneapolis shooting happened connected the 2nd time of the migration crackdown successful the Twin Cities, which Homeland Security said is the biggest migration enforcement cognition ever. More than 2,000 officers are taking portion and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they person made much than 1,500 arrests.
The authorities is besides shifting migration officers to Minneapolis from sweeps successful Louisiana, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. This represents a pivot, arsenic the Louisiana crackdown that began successful December had been expected to past into February.
Good's decease — astatine slightest the 5th tied to migration sweeps since President Donald Trump took bureau — has resonated acold beyond Minneapolis. More protests are planned for this weekend, according to Indivisible, a radical formed to defy the Trump administration.
