The fatal shooting of a woman by a US federal agent in Minneapolis in a roadside confrontation on Wednesday has sparked a series of claims and counter-claims about the incident and a wave of protests across the country.
The 37-year-old mother-of-three, named locally as Renee Nicole Good, was shot as she tried to drive her car away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
But details around the incident have become a matter of dispute.
Kristi Noem, the US Homeland Security Secretary, said Good blocked their vehicles, refused orders to move out of the way and then attempted to run over an agent.
Noem accused Good of domestic terrorism and said ICE officers, deployed to Minnesota, were harassed by a “mob of agitators” one of whom was later identified as Good.
But the Minnesota City Council said in a statement that Good had been “out caring for her neighbours this morning and her life was taken today at the hands of the federal government”.
The council has demanded that ICE agents leave the city immediately.
Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter was not part of any protest and was probably terrified during the incident.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate.”
The FBI has now been called in to investigate the incident, while state officials said they would launch their own inquiry.
How did the shooting occur?
Federal officials have said Good tried to run over immigration agents with her car. Noem said she tried to “weaponise her vehicle” in an attempt to run over the officer in an act of “domestic terrorism”.
However, footage of the car’s wheels appear to conflict with that account.
In unedited footage, verified by The i Paper, which captures the moment from behind the car, the Honda Pilot is initially seen at a standstill across a road, blocking the path of ICE agents.
The front wheels of the stationary vehicle are turned partially left, towards the agents, when the confrontation begins.
However, at the point when one of the agents seizes the car door-handle and attempts to open it, the car begins to reverse and we see the car tyres move which means she must be turning the steering wheel.
A second agent, who would open fire, is seen walking to stand in front of the car.
The footage shows that as he approaches, the car is already reversing. The moment the car begins to pull forward, the front wheels can be seen moving to the right – away from the agents.
Within three seconds of moving to the front of the vehicle, the agent fires.
Another angle of the incident filmed from further up the road shows that as the car slowly moves forward, before the gun is fired, the vehicle appears to hit the officer. He is pushed and does not lose his balance nor move greatly from the spot he was standing in, but he does appear to lean forward over the bonnet towards the windscreen with his gun arm outstretched.
It is almost at the same moment that he fires, which could raise the question of whether the first discharge was accidental rather than deliberate. The next two bullets are fired as the car pulls further away.
While it does not appear the agent who fired was wearing a body camera, earlier in the footage we can see him holding a smartphone in a way that suggests he is filming. This footage may be released at a later date.
How has Trump responded?
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he had viewed the footage of the incident and it appeared Good, “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer”.
He wrote on Truth Social: “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defence.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he (ICE officer) is alive, but is now but is now recovering in the hospital.”
Noem flew to Minneapolis for a news conference on Wednesday, in which she gave the department’s account.
Today, in an act of domestic terrorism, an anti-ICE rioter weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement. Our officer relied on his training and saved his own life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers.Sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages… pic.twitter.com/OGZUkdbr3R
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 8, 2026She said federal agents were returning to the office after an operation when their vehicles became stuck in the snow. They were trying to push them out when they were blocked by protesters, one of whom drove a vehicle at the officers.
She said: “ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands.”
Brian O’ Hara, the city’s police chief, told reporters that a preliminary investigation indicated the woman’s vehicle was blocking traffic when a federal officer approached on foot.
However, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey rejected the Trump administration’s assertion that the agent fired in self-defence, saying video footage directly contradicted what he called the government’s “garbage narrative”.
He said: “They’re already trying to spin this as an action of self-defence. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly – that is bullshit.”
Frey, a Democrat, blamed federal immigration agents for sowing chaos in the city, but he also urged residents to remain calm.
Minneapolis Governor Tim Walz, also a Democrat, urged people not to “believe this propaganda machine”.
He said the state “doesn’t need any further help from the federal government”, referring to the presence of ICE officers in the city.
Speaking at a new conference after the incident, he added: “To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you’ve done enough.”
“We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous, sensationalised operations are a threat to our public safety and that someone was going to get hurt,” he said.
Who was Renee Nicole Good?
Good was a mother-of-three originally from Colorado Springs. The 37-year-old is understood to have two teenage children and a six-year-old son.
Her mother told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Good had been living in Minneapolis.
“She’s taken care of people all her life,” Ganger said, “She was loving, forgiving and affectionate.
A former student of creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia, Good was awarded the school’s undergraduate poetry prize in 2020 and described herself on Instagram as a “poet and writer and wife and mom”.
Her father-in-law, Timmy Ray Macklin Sr, told the newspaper he would be heading to the city to look after his six-year-old grandson. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come and get my grandchild.”
Why are ICE agents in Minneapolis?
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement was created in 2003 to uphold US immigration law and now has more than 20,000 law enforcement and support personnel in the US and around the world.
Under Trump, ICE’s powers have been ramped up as part of his campaign promise to create “the largest deportation program in American history.”
This led to raids on a number of US cities last year, including Portland, Chicago and Los Angeles, and has become a major source of tension in these Democrat strongholds, sparking protests and litigation.
In October, a judge blocked the deployment of National Guard troops for several weeks in Illinois, while litigation is ongoing in Portland, where authorities have hit back at the President’s decision to send in the National Guard to protect ICE facilities.
A demonstrator holds a sign during a vigil following the shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations (Photo by David Berding/Getty)When protests erupted in LA last June, following an immigration crackdown, Trump sent thousands of National Guard troops to the city.
And as eyes turned to Venezuela over the weekend, the US administration was also busy with plans for what officials described as the largest federal immigration enforcement operation ever carried out.
A source told the Associated Press that the Department of Homeland Security aimed to dispatch as many as 2,000 officers to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in a crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
What has been the wider reaction to the shooting?
The location of the shooting is less than two miles from the site where George Floyd was killed by former police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, igniting nationwide protests during Trump’s first term in office.
As night fell on Wednesday, thousands gathered at the most recent site. Candles and floral tributes were placed. Earlier, some protesters were met by heavily armed federal agents wearing gas masks who fired chemical irritants.
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“Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota,” they chanted.
Further protests have taken place in New York and San Francisco. Crowds gathered in Foley Square in New York while others protested outside the ICE building in San Francisco, before marching to the city’s Civic Centre.
Minneapolis Public Schools announced all classes were cancelled for the rest of the week after the shooting “due to safety concerns”.
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