Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.
The 47-second recording, published by the Minnesota website Alpha News, shows for the first time that Renée Good spoke to the ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, before he shot her. It reveals that, a split second before the gunfire, Good’s wife urged her to drive away from the scene.
It does not show whether Good’s SUV came into contact with Ross, as the Trump administration contends. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that the video exonerated Ross. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense,” Vance wrote on X.
The Washington Post previously reported that Good’s SUV did move toward Ross as he stood in front of it, according to a frame-by-frame analysis of different video footage. But Ross was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to The Post’s analysis.
Neither Ross nor a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security returned messages seeking comment. Good’s wife also declined to comment.
1. Good speaks to Ross
On Wednesday morning, less than a minute before the gunfire, Ross walks around Good’s vehicle.
As he passes the driver’s side door, she speaks to him through her open window. “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you,” Good, 37, says.
It’s not clear what elicited her comment. In the footage, Ross does not speak before the shooting.
2. Good’s wife confronts Ross
Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, confronts Ross as he walks behind the SUV.
“We don’t change our plates every morning,” she said, an apparent reference to criticism that ICE agents have swapped license plates on agency vehicles amid immigration sweeps. “Want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” she says.
3. Good’s wife tells her to drive
As additional agents arrive and instruct Renée Good to get out of her vehicle, Rebecca Good attempts to open the front passenger side door, the video shows. The door does not open. A dog is visible in the back seat.
One of the additional agents attempts to open Renée Good’s door. She puts the vehicle in reverse and her wife appears to encourage her to flee.
“Drive, baby, drive,” says Rebecca Good.
4. Good looks toward Ross
Ross crosses in front of the vehicle as it moves in reverse.
The camera briefly captures Renée Good, who had been talking with the agents at her side window, turning her gaze to look ahead through the windshield.
She then looks down as she shifts the vehicle into drive. She looks up again as she turns the steering wheel to the right, away from Ross.
5. An insult after the shooting
As the vehicle moves forward, Ross is standing near the front driver’s side corner of the vehicle. Someone yells, “Whoa.”
Ross’s camera pans skyward but does not fall to the ground.
One shot can be heard, then two more can be heard in rapid succession. Ross appears to refocus his camera on the SUV almost immediately, before it crashes nearby.
A male voice — it is not clear whose — can be heard uttering two expletives: “Fucking bitch.”
The full video, uninterrupted, can be seen here:
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