UPDATES: ICE Shooting in Minneapolis: Video Contradicts DHS Account

DHS claims the vehicle was used as a weapon. Video shows it moving away from officers.

People protest as law enforcement officers attend to the scene of the shooting on Wednesday in Minneapolis. Tom Baker/AP

What happened in Minneapolis today is already being spun — and the video undercuts the official story.

Early Wednesday morning, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a woman in a residential neighborhood at 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis, just blocks from where George Floyd was murdered in 2020. You can see the video below. It shows the vehicle moving away from the agents, not toward them — directly contradicting the Department of Homeland Security account.

What DHS says — and what the video shows

According to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, federal agents were conducting what she called a “targeted operation” when their vehicle became stuck in the snow. Noem claimed a woman “weaponized her vehicle” and tried to ram agents in an act of domestic terrorism. An agent then fired what DHS described as “defensive shots,” hitting the woman in the head.

The video tells a different story. It shows the car pulling away from the scene — not accelerating toward officers.

WARNING: The video is graphic and contains strong language.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who says he has viewed the footage, called the self-defense claim “garbage” and “bullshit.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz echoed that criticism, saying DHS’s version does not match what the video shows.

Who the woman was — and what witnesses report

The woman was identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, an American citizen with a 6-year-old child. Local reporting and posts from Ilhan Omar say she was a legal observer or a bystander caught in the gridlock created by the federal operation.

Multiple witnesses say ICE agents blocked medical aid after the shooting, including stopping a doctor who was on scene. They estimate the delay lasted ten to fifteen minutes.

Federal escalation on the ground

Within hours, more than one hundred federal agents flooded the neighborhood. Protests broke out. Witnesses report snowballs being met with pepper spray and non-lethal paintball rounds. Residents described the scene as chaotic and heavily militarized.

The Response

A vigil was held Wednesday evening.

Governor Walz says he is preparing the state’s National Guard for possible deployment. Walz said the move is precautionary, as tensions remain high on the ground.

Noem claimed the woman who was killed tried to run over ICE agents and “ram them with her vehicle.” Videos from the scene and multiple eyewitness accounts dispute that version of events.

President Trump posted on Truth Social that the officer had been “run over.” However, video does NOT show the agent being hit, and he can be seen running to the vehicle after the shooting. This also flies in the face of Noem’s claim that he was injured and had been treated at a hospital.

Mayor Frey delivered his own message to ICE during a news conference.

“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis,” Frey said. “We do not want you here.”

Calls for investigation grow

Top Democrats in both chambers of Congress are now calling for a full investigation into the shooting.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused Noem of lying about what happened.

“She is a stone-cold liar who has zero credibility,” Jeffries wrote on X.

Jeffries said there is “nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified” and called the killing “heinous,” demanding a criminal investigation “to the full extent of the law.”

Prosecution is unlikely

Despite the calls for accountability, federal prosecution of immigration agents for excessive force is unlikely.

Under federal policy, immigration agents are allowed to use deadly force only when there is an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm. Historically, those cases are reviewed over weeks or months before any determination is made.

But in recent high-profile incidents, federal officials have moved quickly to defend agents, raising questions about whether accountability mechanisms still function at all during President Trump’s second term.

The administration has argued that immigration agents are immune from prosecution by state or local authorities. Federal prosecutions are also viewed as improbable, after Trump’s placement of political loyalists at the top of the Department of Justice and the FBI — the agencies traditionally responsible for investigating civil rights violations by law enforcement.