ICE Agent Captured in Video Asking Woman Following Him ‘Have Y’all Not Learned’ Since Renee Good’s Fatal Shooting

A cellphone video recorded in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent confronting a woman who said she had been tracking agents to document arrests. In the clip, the agent asks her, “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?” — a remark made two days after Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent.

The woman, who did not share her real name, described the incident in an interview with WCCO radio in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 13. She said she began following ICE vehicles in St. Louis Park on Friday, Jan. 9, after hearing agents had been at Knollwood Mall. Her goal, she said, was to record any arrests and capture the names of people taken into custody.

She alleged that before the confrontation, an ICE vehicle a couple of cars ahead abruptly slammed on its brakes, triggering a crash when the car behind it hit the ICE vehicle. After witnessing the collision, she said she stayed back and started filming from a distance — and that an agent then walked over to her.

According to her account, she called out, “Shame on you,” and the agent responded, “Listen. Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days?”

In the video, she can be heard replying, “Learned what? What’s our lesson here? What do you want us to learn?”

“Following federal agents,” the agent says. She then claims he grabbed her phone, and the video ends.

“I knew what he meant,” she told WCCO, “but I wanted him to say it on my video.”

She said she demanded her phone back, but the agent told her to leave. When she refused to go without her phone, she said the agent threatened to arrest her — claiming she was blocking traffic. She disputes that, saying a nearby lane was open and she had only stopped to record what was happening after seeing the crash.

She alleges the situation escalated quickly. According to her, the agent told her she was under arrest, grabbed her, slammed her head onto the hood of her car, and placed her in handcuffs. She said he then pushed her toward an ICE truck, forced her against it, and threatened her with violent language, including: “You don’t look like you could be more than 18 years old. Is this how you want to die with a f–king bullet in your skull?”

She said she responded with an insult, and that the agent then grabbed the back of her neck and squeezed her throat so tightly she struggled to breathe.

“I felt like I was choking,” she told WCCO. “I said, ‘I can’t breathe.’”

She said other people who were also observing ICE arrived and she asked them to call police. She alleges agents ordered her to the ground, and that when she saw one agent was armed, she feared she would be shot.

“At that point, I start to hyperventilate,” she told WCCO. “I started panicking. I thought I was gonna get shot. I couldn’t breathe.”

She said another agent approached and suggested they would let her go — but first asked if she had “learned her lesson.” She said she challenged the agent, and claims the response changed immediately: “We were gonna let you go, but now we’re not going to,” adding that she felt agents were laughing at her.

The woman said she does not know how long she was kept on the ground while crying. She alleges she later fainted after an agent yanked her up forcefully.

“I pass out,” she told WCCO. “When I come to, I’m laying on the pavement… and I hear [agents] laughing and say, ‘See, she’s faking.’”

She claims she fainted a second time. When she regained consciousness, she said the handcuffs had been removed.

ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday she planned to send hundreds more agents to Minnesota to support ICE operations as President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown continues.

Good’s killing in Minneapolis has fueled protests against ICE in cities and towns nationwide. She and her wife were participating in a protest in response to reports of ICE activity in south Minneapolis the morning she was shot. Good had recently moved to the area with her wife and their 6-year-old son.

The woman who spoke to WCCO said she belongs to a community chat group that tracks ICE activity locally. She said she believes she broke no laws, and that her intent was to make sure the public sees what she describes as abuse of power.

“We need to document it,” she said. “We need to make sure that people that aren’t living in our city can see the atrocities that are happening.”