Video from the ICE officer’s cell phone shows Renee Good’s last interaction with him. She smiles and says, “I am not mad at you”. Seconds later this same officer fires three bullets from his gun hitting Rene Good in the head at close range.

Does this look like a [quote:] “radicalized domestic terrorist” trying to kill ICE agents to you?

Good luck explaining that in court.

@randahl is this verifiable from shooters bodycam?

@mc Not his bodycam, his cell phone. He has his cell phone in his left hand, recording, and as she tries to drive away, unholsters his weapon with his right hand and shoots her from the side of the car.

There is no way she can harm him at the time he fires the first shot, because he is not in front of the car and she is turning away from him.

@randahl @mc Where did you get this from? Not accusing you directly, just as a general rule nowadays having traceable sources is a good idea in times of image gen-ai.
Nonilex (@[email protected])

This video DOES NOT exonerate the #federal agent as the #Trump admin is saying. You might not like what they are saying to the #ICE agents, but they are legally exercising their right to #FreeSpeech. The fact that the agent dropped his cellphone doesn’t mean he was in danger. Even if the car bumped him, he still was not in danger. The car didn’t accelerate above 5 mph until after #ReneeNicoleGood had been shot in the head. #lies #law #murder #Minneapolis #shooting https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-shooting-immigration-crackdown-01-09-26?post-id=cmk760agg00003b60fu6uiwdg

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@nellie_m @schmittlauch @randahl @mc @Nonilex oh wow, CNN posting it? Okay, that gives more credence

Update: CNN article says DHS confirmed the video

Tensions flare after deadly ICE shooting in Minneapolis

Protests have erupted nationwide and an investigation is underway after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman this week. Follow for live updates.

CNN

@schmittlauch
thx.
well, it is not only AI.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/when-just-showing-the-video-isnt-enough-minneapolis-shooting-puts-news-orgs-visual-forensics-chops-to-the-test/

PS:
In Germany we would have done a crowdsourced forensic investigation [off course together with bellincat] but here it seems bellincat is pretty alone …

@randahl @mc

When just showing the video isn’t enough: Minneapolis shooting puts news organizations to the test

When everyone has seen the same videos, what service do news sites provide?

Nieman Lab
@randahl i'm aware of the setup - but didn't saw he had a phone in his left hand. thx for the additional input! seems he's a pro handling two different devices. hopefully see him in court!
@randahl @mc do we know it’s his phone, I think is the question? The shooter has made no statement or media interview, AFAIK, so I’d be cautious of video purporting to be from his phone at this point.
@mwyman @randahl @mc there is footage from multiple angles showing him holding it.
@noodlemaz @randahl @mc It’s been confirmed by cnn with DHS, but my question was before I knew that. But having video of him holding his phone doesn’t verify *this* video.
@mwyman true. but with the tools povided/used by e.g. bellingcat we can try to verify. @noodlemaz @randahl
ICE officer's video shows moments before Minn. shooting

ICE officer's video shows moments before Minn. shooting

NBC News
@randahl I don't trust the government to deliver justice.
@randahl how fucked up someone needs to be to respond to that with deadly gun fire?
@peteriskrisjanis I think he's got a screw loose. There was an incident about 6 mos ago when he was supposedly dragged by a car and hurt. I feel like he's still mentally messed up from that fairly recent event. He should not have been allowed back in front-line duty so soon after that. And that's assuming there's nothing ELSE fucked up with him, which I would absolutely not bet against.

@randahl

MURDER!

MURDERER!

MURDERER!!!

@randahl I don’t support ICE, but I also don’t accept the reflexive narrative of "justified self-defense." A woman is dead. The video shows a chaotic situation at best, not a clear lethal threat. Being brushed or hit by a car does not automatically make shooting acceptable. This deserves serious scrutiny, not excuses.
@randahl I just rewatchwd the video from the drivers side and can't see an arm with a light coloured jacket at all. I'm not saying this isn't genuine just that I can't see how this was taken.
@randahl I expected the video from his phone to have mysteriously vanished.

@randahl

Even if taxpayers pay the murderer's fines, it won't bring her back, or diminish the terror this incident instilled.

The murderer must be arrested, trialled and then sentence for murder 1.

He went there with the intention to kill someone.

He didn't care who.

And he will do it again.

@randahl 'court' damn you gringos havent go the memo? a pussy grabbing criminal golem as president didn't made it clear? the abortion ban?
@randahl How JD Vance could look at that, post it and somehow think its an exoneration for ICE shows just how broken his moral compass is.

@squared99 because JD Vance just lies constantly.

@randahl

@stellarsarah @squared99 @randahl

Trump's supporters are in a cult. Vance, along with Noeme and others in the administration, serve to keep the base from believing their own eyes so they do not escape the cult.

@randahl

I am surmising, this is guesswork.

The bullet hole in Goods windshield is an "exit the car" bullet hole, this image is from the shooters phone. Good WAS NOT shot from the front AT ALL.

All shots were from the side and behind Good, this image PROVES.

The shooter's last shot, it appears now, missed Good, and went through the windshield.

The famous photo of a hole in Good's windshield is the LAST bullet fired, not the First.

#minneapolis #ice #good #rosa #shooter #coup #occupation

@randahl Whats that video from the opposite angle? You see her car hitting an officer. Can't be this one

@randahl If this ICE officer, Mr Ross, is prosecuted it will open up the flood gates for other ones to go through the criminal justice system. That is the officers that have killed or abused others.

Prosecuting him will impede what ICE is currently doing but will likely slow down their recruitment too.

Just saying.

@randahl killed for being kind and forgiving.
@lordkhan @randahl In #MAGA world, kindness is a capital offense.
@randahl I´ve been literally sitting here for 10 minutes staring at this picture and trying to make sense of something that doesn´t. I don´t think I can watch the video right now...
@sanpan did to see my video on fascism? Because in that sense this does make sense.
@randahl Not yet. I will watch it. I do understand violence as a concept or tool used by fascists or strongmen well enough. And I have seen my share of it It‘s just that my brain couldn‘t square that face and these last words with some ICE goon shooting her.
@randahl Watched it and shared it with a bunch of non-mastodon folx. Thank you for doing what you do! This is really great and so important.
@sanpan thank you for sharing.
@randahl please can you put a content warning on things like this?
Videos or stills from videos where you know the person is about to become deceased are incredibly troubling to me and I'm sure plenty of others. I do not wish to bury my head in the sand but I also do not wish to casually be shown part of a snuff movie.
Thank you.
@randahl Sadly, history has proven the court system to be as corrupt as law enforcement. They will likely end up complicit in the cover-up.
@schwim maybe if this was a local police officer, whose union would pressure the courts into getting a favorable decision.
ICE has no local institutional support, so unless the trump admin is able to do some really quick corruption and compromise the judge in a way they’ve thus far been unsuccessful at, I don’t think this is going to end well for Mr. Nazi man.

@schwim The feds don't (yet) control the federal court system. They know it's a gamble for them, and one that backfires them for them a LOT.

What will happen is that DHS will try as hard as possible to control any investigation or evidence, to give themselves the best chance. That's evidenced by their refusal to share evidence with the State, which is very unusual. They're hiding what they can.

@randahl

To Republican conservatives, lippy women who don't obey are targets.

The inner rage that Jonathan Ross must hold towards women who forgive him for his sadism...

@randahl don’t worry, Noem said that ‘he was doing exactly what he was trained to do’, so rest assured, this will happen again.

This is the worst timeline.

@Crovanian Others are saying he violated written ROE, and providing good evidence.

The sad thing is, both of those can be true at the same time. I do believe they are training these guys to be thugs, no matter what they've written down.

@randahl at least share the whole damn video, not a cherry picked frame. The video clearly shows Good’s wife antagonizing the officers as they are trying to talk her out of blocking the road in a civilized manner. And the officer was clearly in the path of the SUV when she started moving.

Either way, when your car is being surrounded by federal agents who are ordering you out, you comply, you don’t try to drive off, this is just basic common sense, not an ideological debate.

@crocodilu There's a car in front of her that's blocking the lane. Who does that being to? ICE? If so, they boxed her in. Good's wife isn't "antagonizing" the officer, she's engaged in good old-fashioned American banter. The agents are giving Renee Good conflicting orders. One appears to be pointing toward the street, as if to suggest she move her car, then the other reaches her car and pulls on the door handle. More videos are needed to complete this story.

@crocodilu There's a very good reason a lot of people are going to permanently block you today.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

@randahl

Murder, an execution in fact… this cannot go unpunished. The reactions from the Trump administration are fully unacceptable…

@randahl
Thank you for showing
@randahl the maga terrorists will do everything in their power to prevent the murderer from being prosecuted and held accountable, they are currently hiding the fugitive and his family in an attempt to disappear him and protect him from prosecution, and even if this does make it a court and the guy does get prosecuted they will just pardon him and he will go free, and just like the last far right murderer Kyle Rittenhouse, they will make him a hero of the cause...

@randahl Ross starting to record *from his cell phone* an encounter that ends with him shooting Good *4 times at close range* with her heading away while *still recording*.

For me, it pretty much indicates premediated intent to record something to happen and be able to show it. The cruelty and its display is the point.

@randahl @randahl Anyway - they will be successful at court. ICE is a gang of untouchables... they can murder whenever and whomever they want. That's what they are paid for.
Why does anyone think this will lead to consequences?
You brought the devil into your country, and I don't see how you can rid yourself of him.
@randahl
I hope there are still independent courts!
The US government does not keep to any laws, do they?

@randahl

Also odd is that anyone similar to a police officer on duty nowadays should have a body cam available, so why is he using his cell phone?
(official equipment or personal?)
And implies he is holding a phone in one hand, and a gun with the other, which seems complicated and sub-optimal.