Minnesota prosecutors on Friday called on the public to share any recordings and evidence related to the incident with investigators. Renee Goode shot to death A new video has emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with immigration officials.
Minneapolis murders and shot separately A day later, Border Patrol agents in Portland, Oregon, sparked protests in multiple cities and denounced the U.S. government’s immigration enforcement tactics. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Goode in his car, saying he was protecting himself and other agents.
Reaction to the shootings focused on Witness mobile video encounter. A new 47-second video posted online by Alpha News, a conservative news site in Minnesota, and later retweeted by the Department of Homeland Security on social media, shows the shooting from this angle: ICE Officer Jonathan Rosswho shot.
Sirens blared in the background and he approached and circled Goode’s car in the middle of the road while apparently filming on his cellphone. Meanwhile, Goode’s wife is also recording the encounter, and he can be seen walking around the vehicle and approaching the officers. A series of exchanges took place:
“It’s okay, I’m not mad at you,” Goode said as the officer passed her door. She had one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the open driver’s side window.
“American citizen, former veteran,” her wife said, standing outside the passenger side of the SUV, holding up her cell phone. “You want to come to us, you want to come to us, I say go get lunch, big boy.”
Around the same time, other officers approached the driver’s side of the car and one of them said, “Get out of the car, get out of the car.” Ross was now on the front driver’s side of the vehicle. Good briefly reversed the vehicle, then turned the steering wheel to the passenger side as she drove forward and Rose fired.
The camera becomes unstable, pointing skyward, then returns to a street view, showing Goode’s SUV careening away.
“F—ing b—,” someone said at the scene.
A crash was heard as Goode’s vehicle hit other vehicles parked on the street.
Federal agencies encourage officers to record encounters in which people may be trying to interfere with law enforcement operations, but policing experts warn that recording on handheld devices can complicate an already volatile situation by tying up an officer’s hands and narrowing focus when quick decisions are needed.
According to an ICE policy directive, officers and agents are expected to activate body-worn cameras at the beginning of a law enforcement activity and record the entire interaction, and the footage must be retained for review in serious incidents such as deaths or use-of-force cases. The Department of Homeland Security has not yet responded to questions about whether the officer who fired the weapon or others at the scene were wearing body cameras.
Homeland Security says video shows self-defense
Vice President J.D. Vance and Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in the post X The new video supports their contention that the officer fired in self-defense.
“Many of you have been told that this law enforcement officer was not hit by a car, was not harassed, and did not murder an innocent woman,” Vance said. “The reality is that his life was threatened and he fired in self-defense.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said any self-defense argument was “garbage.”
Police experts said the video did not change their views on the use of force, but it did raise more questions about officer training.
“Now that we can see him holding a gun in one hand and a cellphone in the other during the filming, I would like to see officers trained to do that,” said Geoff Alpert, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina.
John P. Gross, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Law who has written extensively about police shooting into moving vehicles, said the video showed that officers did not consider Goode to be a threat.
“If you were a police officer who viewed this woman as a threat, you wouldn’t be holding a cell phone in one hand. You wouldn’t be walking around this alleged weapon, randomly filming,” Gross said.
Ross, 43, is an Iraq War veteran who served with Border Patrol and ICE for nearly two decades. Last year, he was injured while being dragged away by a driver fleeing immigration arrest.
Attempts to contact Rose at phone numbers and email addresses associated with him were unsuccessful.
Prosecutors request video, evidence
Meanwhile, Hennepin County Prosecutor Mary Moriarty said that while her office has effectively cooperated with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned about the Trump administration’s decision to bar state and local agencies from playing any role in the investigation of Goode’s killing.
She also said the officer who shot Goode in the head did not have full legal immunity because Vance declared.
“We do have the authority to make that decision based on the circumstances of this case,” Moriarty said at a news conference. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a federal law enforcement officer.”
Moriarty said her office will post a link for the public to submit footage of the shooting, although she admitted she was unsure what the legal consequences of the submission might be.
“She just radiated kindness,” Goode’s wife, Becca Goode, said in a statement to Minnesota Public Radio on Friday.
“On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Goode said.
“I now get to raise our son and continue to teach him, as Renee believed, that he had someone to build a better world for him,” she wrote.
Goode’s shooting sparked an immediate reaction in the city Police kill George Floyd In 2020, hundreds of protesters gathered at shooting sites and School district cancels classes As a precautionary measure, we will remain open the rest of the week with an online option until February 12th.
Protesters gathered on Friday outside a federal facility at the center of an immigration crackdown that began on Tuesday in Minneapolis and St. Paul. That evening, hundreds of people protested and marched outside two downtown Minneapolis hotels where immigration enforcement officers were supposed to be housed. Some were seen breaking windows or spray-painting, and state law enforcement officers wearing helmets and carrying batons ordered the fewer than 100 people who remained to leave Friday night.
Portland shooting
The Portland shooting happened Thursday outside a hospital. A federal border officer shot and wounded a man and a woman in the car, who were identified by the Department of Homeland Security as Venezuelan nationals Luis David Nico Moncada and Yolanis Bezabes Zambrano-Contreras. Police said they were in stable condition after surgery Friday, and the Department of Homeland Security said Nico Moncada was in FBI custody
The Department of Homeland Security has defended the actions of its Portland police officers, saying the shooting occurred after a driver with alleged gang ties tried to “weaponize” his vehicle to attack them. No officers were reportedly injured.
Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed that the two people who were shot had “some connection” to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Day said they came to police’s attention while investigating a shooting in July that was believed to have been carried out by gang members, but they were not identified as suspects.
The chief said any gang affiliation does not necessarily justify a shooting by the U.S. Border Patrol. The Oregon Department of Justice said it would investigate.
Hundreds of protesters marched to the ICE building in Portland on Friday night.
The largest crackdown to date
The shooting in Minneapolis came a day after an immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, which the Department of Homeland Security said was the largest immigration enforcement operation in history. More than 2,000 officials and the Secretary of Homeland Security attended Kristi Noem said they had arrested more than 1,500 people.
this The government is also changing immigration officials from to minneapolis Sweeping Louisianaaccording to documents obtained by The Associated Press. This represents a turning point as the crackdown in Louisiana that began in December is expected to continue into February.
Death of Good—— At least the fifth President has been linked to immigration sweeps since Donald Trump Once in office — it resonated far beyond Minneapolis. Indivisible, a group formed to resist the Trump administration, said it planned more protests this weekend.
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Associated Press reporters Steve Karnowski and Mark Vancleave in Minneapolis; Ed White in Detroit; Valerie Gonzalez in Brownsville, Texas; Graham Lee Brewer in Norman, Oklahoma; Michael Bieseke in Washington; Jim Mustian and Safia Riedel in New York; Ryan Foley in Iowa City, Iowa; and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.