WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is calling for a full investigation into the shooting that left a U.S. citizen dead in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
A 37-year-old mother named Renee Good was gunned down by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross on Wednesday morning as Good was trying to leave an immigration raid in her car. Trump administration officials quickly labeled the act as “domestic terrorism,” claiming Good incited officers and weaponized her car to take their lives.
Videos taken during the event, as well as interviews with witnesses and Good’s ex-husband, all contradict the Trump administration’s version of the story.
The shooting outraged some lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) said it was the latest example that the agency has become ungovernable.
“I want to be very clear about this: ICE is out of control!” Rosen told Raw Story.
She added that the ICE agent who shot Good put the public in danger by not disabling the vehicle first. Videos show Good’s car careening toward a nearby parked vehicle after the fatal shooting.
Law enforcement experts have also pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security policy prohibits officers from shooting at moving vehicles. Good was driving away from the scene when the fatal shots were fired.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Raw Story that the FBI needs to conduct a full investigation of the scene. He also pushed back on assertions that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem had “made a judgment” in the case, even though she said at a press conference on Wednesday that the shooting was an “attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism.”
“She said we’re going to wait until the FBI gets an investigation,” Grassley said. “She’s going to say the FBI is going to investigate.”
Other top Democratic Senators like Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Dick Durbin of Illinois expressed outrage over the shooting.
Durbin noted that holding ICE accountable will be difficult because Noem, the Cabinet secretary who oversees the agency, “thinks she’s above the law.”
“She doesn’t care,” Durbin told Raw Story.
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