Moments after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, officers prevented a man who said he was a doctor from checking on her, according to witness video obtained by the Huffington Post.
The footage, recorded Wednesday, Jan. 7, begins after the woman’s SUV — struck by gunfire — rolled forward and crashed into a parked vehicle. In the clip, a man asks, “Can I go check a pulse?” An agent replies “No” and orders him to back up. When the man says, “I’m a physician,” another voice responds, “I don’t care.” An agent also says emergency medical services were on the way and claims medics were already on scene.
At one point, a woman in the crowd appears to demand to know where medical responders are. She’s told to calm down, but answers angrily: “How can I relax when you just killed my f—ing neighbor?” Over the 32-second video segment published by the Huffington Post, no one is seen providing medical care to the woman.
Authorities later identified the victim as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, the Associated Press reported.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told The Minnesota Star Tribune. She described her daughter as “extremely compassionate,” saying Good had spent her life caring for others and was “loving, forgiving and affectionate.”
Earlier video of the incident showed a masked federal agent firing multiple shots into Good’s vehicle. The SUV then continued up the street before slamming into the back of another car.
The Department of Homeland Security has claimed Good attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon and said the agent acted in self-defense. Local leaders, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have pushed back on that account.
“They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense,” Frey said at a press conference, adding that after watching the video himself, “that is bulls—.” He called the shooting “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody getting killed.”
