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Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the 37-year-old shot dead by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, has become the centre of a fast-moving political storm as President Donald Trump defended the killing and officials offered sharply different accounts of what happened.
Good, a US citizen originally from Colorado, was driving with her partner after dropping her six-year-old son at school when she encountered ICE agents during an enforcement operation. Bystander video shows an officer approaching her car, trying to open the door and another officer firing multiple shots at close range as the vehicle begins to move.
The Trump administration has claimed Good tried to ram or run over an officer, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem describing it as “domestic terrorism”. Trump echoed that narrative, saying she had violently run over an agent and that the officer appeared to have shot her in self-defence, effectively backing the use of lethal force before any independent findings were released.
But video footage circulating online does not show an officer being run over, instead appearing to show the driver reversing and pulling away as shots are fired, fuelling demands for an external investigation and intensifying criticism of the administration’s immigration crackdown.