Exact second Donald Trump’s lies on Renee Good unravel in ICE shooter’s video
New video evidence of Renee Good’s final moments, analysed by the Mirror, have made clear that Donald Trump’s allegations about the mum-of-three’s character are unfounded
Minnesota shooting: Video shows perspective of ICE agent
This is the exact moment that Donald Trump’s falsehoods about Renee Good were exposed, as crucial new evidence on her killing came to light.
The mum-of-three had dropped her son off at school in the city of Minnesota, just hours before she was shot three times in her car by a masked ICE agent. Renee encountered a swarm of law enforcement officials as an immigration raid was being carried out and was trying to move her car away from the scene when shots were fired.
A new video, which shows the incident from the law enforcement officer’s perspective, debunks claims made by Trump and Vice President JD Vance that he was acting in self defence, with one pin-point moment leaving their smear of Renee’s character in tatters.
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The new video sees the 37-year-old mum speaking with the ICE agent before the shooting unfolded. Renee had partially blocked the road with her car, the agent got out of his own vehicle, and walked around the Honda Pilot, capturing her registration number and her face in his footage.
Renee had rolled down her window and she spoke to the officer. “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you,” she was heard saying. As this goes on, someone who is believed to be Renee’s partner walked toward the officer, filming him in turn on her own phone.
“We don’t change our plates every morning,” Renee then said to the officer. “They’ll still be the same plates when you come talk to us later. That’s fine. US citizen and former f***ing veteran. Former Navy veteran, you want to come at us?”
At one stage, she reversed her vehicle, allowing other cars to get past. The person who was standing outside the car was then heard saying, “I say you go get yourselves some lunch, big boy.” On the far side of Renee’s vehicle, more officers approached, who began to demand she exit her Honda. “Get out of the car,” they are heard saying. “Get out of the f***ing car.”
At this stage, the video crucially shows that Renee began to turn her steering wheel to the right, to drive around the officer who was standing in front of it. The camera was then pointed away, but the officer can be heard saying “whoa”. The White House have claimed that Renee was trying to run over the officer, and so they acted in self defence, and JD Vance has argued the new video confirms his claims that she was trying to injure the officer. However, the footage shows her clearly trying to steer around him, and therefore not trying to run him over.
As analysed by the Mirror, the new footage, from the shooter’s perspective, also shows he changed hands on the phone he was using to film the incident, leaving his right hand free to draw his weapon ten seconds later. Then, three shots rang out. Renee’s car moved quickly towards parked cars nearby, as the officer said: “F***ing b**ch”. The mum-of-three had lost her life.
The video seems to confirm that Renee had parked her car across the way to try and block the ICE agents from conducting their work – but she, nor the other person outside the car, became aggressive towards them.
Becca Good, Renee’s partner, said in a heartbreaking tribute to Renee, that she “was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole”.
Becca also said that “kindness radiated out” of Renee and that she “literally sparkled”. “On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbours. We had whistles. They had guns,” the statement said.
Renee’s ex-husband has also insisted that she was not an activist and that he had never known her to participate in any protests. He described her as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger. She loved to sing, participating in a high school chorus and studying vocal performance in college.
The mum studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and won a prize in 2020 for one of her works, according to a post on the school’s English department Facebook page, reports the Associated Press. She also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.
She has a 15-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old son from her first marriage. Her 6-year-old son was from her second marriage, the Mirror US reports. Renee’s ex-husband said she had primarily been a stay-at-home mum in recent years, but had previously worked as a dental assistant and at a credit union.
Donna Ganger, Renee’s mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune: “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Protests have broken out in cities in towns across the US after Renee’s killing, while other immigration enforcement officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. Despite public uproar, Trump’s administration has defended the shootings, claiming they were both acts of self-defence against drivers who were “weaponising” their vehicles.
The Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal officers to Minnesota as part of an expanded enforcement drive, with more than 2,000 personnel involved. Some of those officers were reassigned after being abruptly withdrawn from Louisiana, where they had been involved in a separate operation launched last month that was due to run until February.
