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Video footage from Minneapolis shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent rejecting medical help from a man claiming to be a doctor after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old American citizen.
Highlights
- An ICE agent refused medical help from an apparent physician at the fatal shooting scene of Renee Good, responding with “I don’t care.”
- Renee Good, 37, an American citizen, was fatally shot by an ICE agent during a Minneapolis protest near George Floyd’s killing site.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good attempted to ram an ICE vehicle and called it an act of domestic terrorism.
- Minneapolis officials and witnesses disputed ICE's account, condemning the shooting as reckless use of power by the agent.
In the video, the man at the scene can be heard shouting, “I’m a physician,” but is met with a cold “I don’t care” by an ICE agent keeping bystanders away.
Witnesses said ICE officers also blocked paramedics who were positioned farther down the road, claiming they had their own medics on site.
Footage shows an ICE agent rejecting medical help from a doctor after the shooting of Renee Good
The shooting occurred on Wednesday during a protest in a Minneapolis neighborhood located about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020.
Good was killed by an ICE agent, who alleged she tried to ram him with her car during the protest.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem addressed the incident during a press conference on Wednesday evening. She said Good had been “stalking and impeding” the agency’s “lawful operations” throughout the day before the shooting.
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According to Noem, Good drove her vehicle toward an ICE car that was stuck in the snow and surrounded by “a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day.”
ICE officers ordered her to move the vehicle, but Noem alleged that Good chose to “weaponize her vehicle” in an “attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.”
Noem called it “an act of domestic terrorism,” one of three she said took place in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Noem did not provide details about the other alleged incidents.
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Good, a U.S. citizen and a mother of three, lived in the neighborhood with her wife.
Nationwide protests have broken out since the incident. People gathered at the shooting site throughout the day, first to protest and then to hold a vigil in her memory.
Good’s mother described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.” She told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz criticized the incident, saying he had been “warning for weeks” that ICE operations were a threat to public safety.
“We have been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s dangerous and sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt,” he said at a news conference, adding that they are now witnessing “the consequences of governance designed to generate fear.”
Tim Walz called ICE operations a ‘threat to our public safety’
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Separately, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey disputed the DHS’ account and told agents to “get the f**k out of Minneapolis.”
“They’re sowing chaos on our streets, and, in this case, quite literally killing people. So they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense,” Frey said.
“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.”
Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo told CNN that the ICE agent could have de-escalated the situation.
Arradondo said police departments “are trained specifically when you’re dealing with individuals in a vehicle. De-escalation. But you’re also trained to do what you can as a law enforcement officer to eliminate your risk and to eliminate the public’s risk.”
Arradondo added the ICE agent could have gotten “out of the way of the car.” Considering the woman was not the immediate target of the operation, ICE agents could have let her go and revisited her case later, he said.
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ICE officer trainees typically had to complete the basic 13-week academy training. However, this time was cut in half in 2025, running six days a week for eight weeks.
Spanish-language courses were eliminated, and academy training was reduced to 47 days. Critics have long warned that this approach could worsen longstanding issues of accountability and violence within ICE.
President Donald Trump and Noem both said the ICE agent who fired the fatal shot suffered injuries during the encounter. Noem said the agent received hospital treatment and was later released.
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She added, “The fact of the matter is, he’s an experienced officer. He’s been in situations like this before. And he certainly has been out there and followed his training today.”
The DHS honcho also said the same officer was previously “dragged by an anti-ICE rioter” in a car ramming attack in June. Noem further claimed that more than “100 of these vehicle rammings” against federal officers were reported over the last few weeks.
“It’s clear that it’s being coordinated. People are being trained and told how to use their vehicles to impede law enforcement operations, and then to run over anybody who gets in their way, while they go out there and try to disrupt peace and public safety. Americans deserve better,” Noem said.
Good was killed by an ICE agent, who alleged she tried to ram him with her car
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar took to X to accuse the Trump administration of spreading false information. She said she was “beyond outraged” by ICE’s “reckless, callous actions.”
She accused the Trump administration of lying, claiming, “There was no attempt to run the officer over and no ICE agents appear to be hurt.”
An eyewitness corroborated this claim to MPR News. A neighborhood resident who witnessed the shooting told the media outlet that Good “posed absolutely no threat to any of these agents,” contradicting the narrative shared by federal officials.
The woman, Betsy, said she came home to the sight of a maroon SUV and a cluster of vehicles, along with federal officers. She said she saw “what appeared to me to be a federal agent. He was a man wearing a black bulletproof vest, and he was kind of yelling at the driver of the maroon SUV.”
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“She [Good] appeared to me to be trying to move her vehicle south on Portland Avenue to kind of get out of the way of the activity that was happening, and the officer was on the driver’s side of the car, like near the driver’s window,” Betsy said.
She added, “He was yelling at her and as she started to accelerate her vehicle to kind of go south on Portland, he reached his arm into the driver’s side of the car and fired multiple shots.”
Betsy added that the neighbors wanted to provide aid to the woman but were told to back up by ICE officers.
“From what I could tell it looked like she was attempting to leave,” she said.