Turmoil in Minneapolis

Minneapolis finds itself at the center of another national controversy following a deadly encounter between a protestor and immigration enforcement officers. The incident unfolded in a south Minneapolis neighborhood when Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman using her car to block immigration enforcement activities, was shot and killed by an ICE agent after the woman appeared to attempt to ram her car into the agent.

Video shows Good blocking a road while honking her horn for several minutes in a residential neighborhood where ICE was engaged in immigration enforcement actives. Agents approached the vehicle, and the protestor’s partner stepped out of the vehicle to video the scene as the agents told the woman to get out of the car. The woman refused, and after a few seconds she drove aggressively toward another officer approaching the car. The agent pulled a weapon and shot the woman through the front windshield.

Local officials say the shooting was uncalled for, while federal officials say the officer was in imminent danger and acted out of self-defense, using justified force. Many videos from different angles documented the events but have been interpreted in radically divergent ways, generally differing along political party lines. The mayor of Minneapolis, a liberal Democrat, declared immediately and based upon a single video that the ICE agent was criminally at fault and insisted that federal agents leave the city. As more information came out, federal authorities pushed back hard, claiming that video evidence showed that the driver recklessly plowed forward, injuring the ICE agent who then shot in self defense. Further information then revealed that the driver was not a mere spectator but a member of an anti-ICE organization dedicated to harassing federal agents.

The ICE agent in question, earlier last year, was run over during an immigration enforcement operation, and was dragged about 100 yards, resulting in 20 stitches in his arm for the damage. This prior incident happened one month after Governor Tim Walz made public comments comparing immigration enforcement to the Gestapo.

This latest incident compounds an already difficult period for the Twin Cities area, which has experienced multiple high-profile violent incidents in recent months, including the murders of state officials and a school shooting.

Here are the video clips from the incident, at regular speed and in slow motion.

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