Renee Nicole Good’s closing moments had been spent in her maroon Honda Pilot, her son’s stuffed animals peeking out from the glove compartment. She had stopped in the center of a tree-lined south Minneapolis avenue and motioned for unmarked authorities automobiles to drive previous.
Whistle blasts pierced the early January chill in a now-familiar group response employed by activists in US cities to alert neighbors to the presence of immigration officers. For a number of minutes, Good partially blocked site visitors on the avenue. Some unmarked authorities automobiles idled; others drove round.
“Go home,” a bystander yelled.
On a snowy residential avenue Wednesday morning, Good crossed paths with a 10-year Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and Iraq War veteran named Jonathan Ross, who was dragged about 100 yards six months prior by a driver throughout an immigration operation in a Minneapolis suburb.
“I was fearing for my life,” Ross testified throughout the December trial of an undocumented immigrant who was behind the wheel.
Good and Ross – whose transient confrontation Wednesday ended with him firing his weapon no less than 3 times as she tried to drive away – at the moment are at the heart of livid debate over the Trump administration’s building immigration crackdown, either side angrily assigning blame to the different. Videos of the incident are nonetheless rising, and there’s extra to be realized.
Good, 37, had dropped off her 6-year-old son in school earlier than she was mortally wounded, in line with witnesses and metropolis officers. A US citizen, Good was described as a poet and loving mother.
Ross joined ICE in 2015. He works in fugitive operations in the Minneapolis space and as a part of a particular response crew. Before becoming a member of ICE, he served in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard, then turned a US Border Patrol agent in 2007.
Now, their fleeting but violent encounter has made them unwitting symbols of a darkish and unsure time in the nation’s historical past.
“Get the f**k out of my neighborhood,” a bystander shouted at an armed federal officer in a masks and physique armor as he walked behind Good’s SUV holding up his cellphone.
The agent, later recognized as Ross, pointed his digital camera at an onlooker later recognized as Good’s spouse, Becca Good, who pointed her cellphone again at him.
In a deeply divided nation, that second on Portland Avenue turned a stark instance of the never-ending political finger pointing over President Donald Trump’s militarized immigration crackdown in some US cities – and would foreshadow the heightened tensions in the days to return.
Federal officers, together with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, rapidly accused Good of making an attempt to make use of her automobile to kill or hurt ICE brokers. She referred to as it an “act of domestic terrorism.”
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and state officers pushed again, blasting the actions of the officers. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz referred to as the shooting “totally predictable” and “totally avoidable.”
“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying,” Frey stated. He demanded ICE “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
The shooting occurred greater than 5 years after the killing of George Floyd at the palms of Minneapolis police not removed from the place Good died – which sparked riots and a motion for racial justice in a metropolis nonetheless struggling to heal.
Car crashes – many captured on dramatic video – have been a trademark of the Trump administration’s crackdown, together with collisions between federal officers and suspects making an attempt to get away and alleged “ramming” assaults involving pro-immigration activists. Some crashes have led to shootings, accidents and dying.
The incident by which Ross was dragged by an undocumented immigrant on June 17, 2025, occurred when the suspect fled throughout a site visitors cease, pulling the officer alongside by his proper arm. The suspect was convicted in December of assault on a federal officer with a harmful or lethal weapon and leading to bodily damage.
The ICE veteran, who repeatedly fired his Taser at the driver in the June assault, sustained a lower to his proper arm that required 20 stitches, in line with court docket data. A lower to his left hand took 13 stitches.
Whistles after which gunfire
“On Wednesday … we stopped to support our neighbors,” Good’s spouse stated in a press release to Minnesota Public Radio.
“We had whistles. They had guns.”
Aidan Perzana, the father of a month-old child, woke as much as the sound of whistles and honking automobiles. He seemed out his window and noticed ICE officers approaching the maroon SUV outdoors his residence.
Lynette Reini-Grandell, an English professor and poet, was strolling alongside Portland Avenue at the time, like others, recording video of the scenario taking part in out in broad daylight.
“The tension had been building for so long … but it wasn’t real until I heard the gunfire,” she informed NCS Thursday.
Reini-Grandell had been outdoors a close-by elementary faculty earlier Wednesday following studies of ICE officers in the space.
“The staff and administration were asking people in the community to come and essentially watch while the kids were getting off the school buses … because ICE vehicles had been circling the school all morning,” she stated. “They were afraid that parents were going to be yanked and there was going to be horrible disruptions to the kids.”
In US cities focused by ICE, mother and father, lecturers, clergy and group organizers have began informal networks to intervene as immigration raids unfold, together with blowing whistles and honking automotive horns to warn others. Activists say they’re creating accountability for the actions of brokers; critics name it obstruction.
NCS has been unable to find out whether or not Good was concerned in such a community. What little is thought about her comes largely from her spouse’s assertion – and what was captured inside the frames of a number of cameras throughout her closing moments.
When Reini-Grandell returned to Portland Avenue from checking on studies of ICE brokers outdoors a college, the confrontation that ended with Good’s dying was escalating.
Video exhibits moments main as much as lethal ICE shooting
The cellphone video captured by Ross provided the closest glimpse into the pivotal moments earlier than he fatally shot Good. A DHS official confirmed the video, obtained by NCS, was recorded by the agent. The footage was initially obtained by conservative Minnesota media outlet Alpha News.
It opens with Ross strolling in entrance of the maroon SUV pushed by Good, who had stopped the automobile perpendicular to the avenue, obstructing site visitors. He doesn’t say something as he walks throughout the entrance of the Honda towards the driver’s aspect.
As he rounds the automobile, Good is seen along with her window down. She seems instantly at the officer.
“That’s fine dude. I’m not mad at you,” Good may be heard saying in the video. The sufferer’s spouse, standing outdoors the SUV, says to Ross: “show your face.”
He doesn’t reply. His reflection may be seen in the automotive window. He holds his telephone and retains shifting.
The ICE officer walks round to the again of the SUV, in line with the video. Becca Good, who was a passenger in the automobile and stepped outdoors earlier than the shooting, tells the officer, “We don’t change our plates every morning, just so you know. This will be the same plate when you come talk to us later,” in a attainable reference to studies immigration officers have swapped license plates throughout enforcement actions.
She holds the cellphone as much as Ross’s face.
“You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” Becca Good tells Ross.
A pair of ICE officers are seen in a separate video approaching Good’s SUV. One officer makes an attempt to open the driver’s aspect door, pulling on the deal with. “Get out of the car,” the officers say repeatedly.
“Get out of the f**king car.”
Becca Good tries to get again in the SUV, however the door is locked.
She is then heard telling Renee Good, “Drive, baby. Drive!”
Renee Good backs up her SUV barely, in line with the movies. She then begins to drag away. In Ross’ video, she turns the steering sharply towards the proper, away from the officers.
“She backed up and turned her wheels away from them to drive down the road,” Perzana recalled.
The automotive strikes ahead, and Ross, in his recording, cries out, “Whoa!” The video doesn’t present if the SUV made contact with Ross. The digital camera angle jerks as much as the sky.
Good accelerates and appears to clip the officer along with her automobile earlier than he opens fireplace, in line with one video. A separate video with a distinct angle doesn’t seize that attainable contact. Instead, the officer is seen shifting away from the entrance of the automobile and towards the driver’s aspect.
Three gunshots explode in fast succession, in line with a number of movies reviewed by NCS. In Ross’ video, the shooting is just not seen, however the photographs are heard as the telephone digital camera in his hand jostles additional after which faces the home behind Ross. Bystanders may be seen outdoors the home.
The officer first shoots into her windshield after which at shut vary via the open driver’s aspect window, different movies present.
Ross’ digital camera captures the SUV because it barrels ahead. Someone may be heard saying, “fucking bitch.” The influence of the SUV crashing right into a parked automotive and picket pole may be heard as the digital camera pans right down to the avenue.
Becca Good may be seen operating down the avenue to the driver’s aspect of the crashed SUV, staggering again after some time, lined in her spouse’s blood.
Tyrice Jones, 35, was in his house when he heard gunshots and a crash. He went outdoors and noticed the SUV pushed by Good had struck the mild pole in entrance of his constructing.
Jones noticed a girl who recognized herself as Good’s spouse. She sat in the snowy entrance yard of his constructing, crying alongside her black Labrador, he stated.
“You guys just killed my wife!” she shouted.
A person is heard in a single bystander video asking ICE officers if he can verify the sufferer’s pulse.
“No! Back up. Now!” one officer shouts.
“I’m a physician,” the man says.
“I don’t care,” the officer responds.
“We have medics on scene,” one other officer says.
“Where are they?” a girl is heard shouting. “You killed my f**king neighbor.”
Jones captured video of ICE brokers at the driver’s seat of Good’s SUV as bystanders berate the officers. Within minutes, officers elevate Good from the driver’s seat and place her on the floor. Jones’ video later exhibits a number of individuals carrying her by legs and arms to the finish of the block.
Emily Heller, 39, who stated she had been residence making breakfast at the time of the shooting, informed NCS it took no less than quarter-hour earlier than an ambulance responded. The avenue was clogged with ICE automobiles, forcing emergency personnel to strategy the sufferer on foot, with out a stretcher, in line with Heller.
“They were with her for a few minutes and then they carried her limp body away — by her limbs,” she informed NCS.
“My life is forever changed from having witnessed this,” Heller added.
Becca Good, in her assertion to Minnesota Public Radio, wrote: “Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father.”
“I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him.”