Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump said that the fatal shooting by ICE in Minneapolis yesterday was justified.
Noem said the woman who was killed was engaged in “an act of domestic terrorism” and that the ICE agent acted in self-defense when he fired.
Noem said in a news conference yesterday that ICE officers approached the driver of a vehicle that was “blocking the officers in,” and that the woman “had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.” Officers ordered her our of the vehicle, Noem said.
“She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over,” Noem said. “This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism.”
The shooting, which was captured on video by a bystander, has been widely shared online and in the news media. Local officials, including the mayor of Minneapolis and Minnesota’s governor, have pointed to that video in objecting to the fatal shooting.
Trump on Truth Social also defended the ICE agent who fatally shot the woman.
“The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote.
The woman who was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis has been identified by a woman who said she was the woman’s mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37.
Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that Good was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
“She was extremely compassionate,” Ganger told the Tribune. “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Local officials have also identified the woman who was killed as Good.
The Minneapolis City Council described Good as a resident who was out “caring for her neighbors” when she was killed.
U.S. Sen. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., said she was “heartbroken and angry” about the death of Good, whom she called “a U.S. citizen, a mother, and a Twin Cities resident.”
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