A video filmed by the US immigration agent who fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday has emerged, showing the moments before gunfire rang out.
The 47-second footage, obtained by Minnesota-based outlet Alpha News, shows Renee Nicole Good sitting behind the wheel of her car and speaking to the officer.
US Vice-President JD Vance shared the clip on social media, commenting that the agent had acted in self-defence. Local officials have insisted the woman posed no danger.
Good’s wife has paid tribute to the 37-year-old, saying the pair were trying to support their neighbours when she was shot. Her death has sparked protests across the US.
President Donald Trump’s administration says Good tried to run over the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in an act of “domestic terrorism” after blocking the road and impeding the agency’s work.
Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has described that account as “garbage” based on the video footage.
The BBC has asked the homeland security department and the White House for comment on the new video that emerged on Friday.
The footage starts with the officer getting out of his car and filming Good’s vehicle and registration plate while he walks around the Honda SUV. A dog is in the backseat.
Good says: “That’s fine dude. I’m not mad at you.”
Her wife, Becca Good, is standing on the street filming the interaction with her mobile phone. She tells the ICE agent: “That’s OK, we don’t change our plates every morning just so you know. It will be the same plate when you come talk to us later.”
She adds: “You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say go and get yourself some lunch, big boy.”
Another agent approaches Good on the driver’s side and uses an expletive as he says: “Get out of the car.”
The agent filming the clip moves in front of Good’s car as she reverses.
In a chaotic couple of seconds, she turns the wheel to the right and pulls forwards.
The camera jerks up to the sky. “Woah, woah!” a voice says, as bangs are heard.
In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears.
Other clips released previously from the scene show the ICE agents around the vehicle remain in their places as the maroon SUV crashes into the side of the road.
The agent who fired appears to stay on his feet, and is later seen in other videos walking towards Good’s crashed car.
Federal officials say the agent was injured and treated in hospital. The FBI is investigating the incident.
The officer who fired on Good is Jonathan Ross, a veteran ICE agent who was previously injured in the line of duty when he was struck by a car.
When asked about the video at the White House on Friday, President Trump said: “You have agitators and we will always be protecting ICE, and we’re always going to be protecting our border patrol and our law enforcement.”
On Friday, Vance reposted the video on X, and defended the agent’s actions, saying: “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defence.”
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt also reposted the video, saying the media had smeared an ICE agent who had “properly defended himself from being run over”.
Good’s wife told local media the pair had gone to the scene of immigration enforcement activity to support neighbours.
“We had whistles,” Becca Good said. “They had guns.”
When speaking about Good – a mother-of-three, including a six-year-old son – she said “kindness radiated out of her”.
“We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness,” she added.
On Friday, Minnesota officials said they would open their own inquiry into the shooting after saying they had been frozen out of the investigation by federal officials.
Hennepin County’s top prosecutor Mary Moriarty and the state’s Democratic attorney general, Keith Ellison, said they were launching a probe.
It came a day after the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said it had been denied access to evidence related to the case.
The BCA said the FBI had initially said there would be a joint investigation, but then changed their stance.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, has accused the Trump administration of blocking state officials, but Vice-President Vance said the investigation was a federal issue.
In Minneapolis and other US cities on Thursday night, demonstrators took part in a second night of protests against the killing of Good.
Governor Walz said he had activated the state’s National Guard to help with security of the protests.
