New video of Renee Good's fatal encounter with ICE agent in Minneapolis

The ICE officer involved in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother in Minneapolis fired the first of three shots as the car moved past him, a Reuters analysis of the available visuals shows.

New video, taken from the cellphone of Jonathan Ross, the officer who fatally shot Renee Good, was obtained by the website Alpha News and shared by the White House and other administration officials on Friday.

The clip opens with Good speaking to Ross through the rolled-down window of her maroon SUV, during an immigration enforcement action in a residential area of Minneapolis on Wednesday morning.

“I’m not mad at you,” she says.

The footage then shows Ross walking around the front of the vehicle as she reverses.

As Good pulls away from Ross, the video captures what appears to be the ICE officer and the car making contact. Reuters could not determine exactly how contact was made.

Ross exclaims “whoa” before he fires three shots.        

The final moments of Good’s life have been relentlessly dissected since she was shot dead in her car on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday that Good “ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in a press conference Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s assertion and said that having watched the video of the shooting, he believed claims of self-defense are “bullshit.”

Reuters could not immediately reach Ross for comment.

The Reuters analysis includes videos from onlookers as well as Ross that were independently verified by the news agency. The new video was the first to emerge showing the moving vehicle from the ICE agent’s perspective.

The videos reviewed by Reuters show Ross - identified in the scenes below as ICE agent 1 - standing in front of the moving vehicle when he initially draws his firearm.

He opens fire one second later, firing three shots. The first pierces the windshield of Good’s car as the vehicle moves past him. The second and third shots were fired into the driver’s side of the vehicle as it continues moving past him.

The recording captures one of the ICE agents on the scene saying “fucking bitch” before Good’s SUV crashes.

The Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the new footage provided corroboration that “this individual was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement.”

She added that ICE officers are trained to use minimal force to resolve dangerous situations.

Two experts consulted by Reuters on Thursday said the actions of the officer would need further review.

Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, questioned why the ICE agent would place himself in front of a moving car.

Alpert said the officer’s positioning could be an example of officer-created jeopardy. “The crux of officer-created jeopardy is putting yourself in a position to use force in response to whatever the suspect’s doing, as opposed to just reacting to protect his own life or someone else’s,” said Alpert.

Ashley Heiberger, a police use-of-force expert with more than two decades of law enforcement experience in Pennsylvania, said that he could not draw a firm conclusion on the incident without a detailed analysis.

He said that the use of force for a non-violent crime needed to be proportionate.

But he cautioned that the fact that the officer fired the second and third shots through the driver’s side window did not automatically mean it was an inappropriate use of force. The officer’s mind has to perceive the threat is over and then tell the body to stop shooting, Heiberger said. “It doesn’t happen simultaneously.”