Cellphone video taken by Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good, was published on X by a right-wing media outlet from Minnesota on Friday. The footage shows Ross exiting a vehicle and Good trying to talk with the ICE agent as he circles her Honda Pilot.
The first words spoken by Good in the newly released video are hard to decipher, with sirens blaring nearby. It sounds like Good might be saying something like “come and talk to me,” before she more clearly can be heard saying “that’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.” Speaking through an open window, she appears to say some version of “I’m not mad at you” again as he gets further away from the window.
Ross doesn’t seem to say anything as he circles the car beyond a grunt of some kind. Someone off-camera can be heard saying, “show your face” to Ross, who has his face concealed. Ross then points his camera at Renee Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, who also appears to be filming the exchange and is outside the family vehicle. It’s not clear if Rebecca Good is the one who said “show your face.”
“That’s okay, we don’t change our plates every morning, just so you know. It’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later,” Rebecca Good can be heard saying. ICE has been swapping out plates on various vehicles as federal agents storm the country at the direction of President Donald Trump.
“That’s fine. U.S. citizen, former fucking veteran. Disabled veteran. You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead,” Rebecca Good says.
Another agent enters the scene and says, “Get out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car. Get out of the car,” in quick succession.
Rebecca Good is seen reaching for the passenger side door, and her wife doesn’t appear to notice she wants to get inside. Renee Good can be seen reversing the car before moving the car forward. Ross yells something indecipherable, and the camera’s view jolts upward as gunshots are heard. Ross doesn’t appear to have dropped his phone despite drawing his gun and firing multiple shots.
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Someone off camera can be heard saying “fucking bitch” after the shots, though it’s not clear if that’s Ross. The video cuts off at that point, though it’s unknown whether that’s really the end of the footage that was recorded or if it’s been edited to end abruptly. Video from bystanders shows Ross walking away from the crashed car while glancing at his phone.
The video clearly shows Good turning the wheel to her right before she moves forward, away from the ICE agent. That contradicts statements from the Department of Homeland Security and Vice President JD Vance, who have tried to say that Good was intending to hit Ross with her car.
Rebecca Good released a statement to media outlets on Friday talking about her late wife. She had previously blamed herself, saying, “I made her come down here. It’s my fault,” in a video originally shared by a bystander who lived nearby.
“You might think it was just my love talking, but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine,” Rebecca Good said in a statement to the Washington Post. “Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole.”
Right-wingers latched onto the newly published video as “proof” that the ICE agent was justified in killing Good, though nothing about the footage suggests she was trying to hit the federal officer. The video was quoted-tweeted by Vice President Vance, DHS, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shortly after its publication on X. DHS didn’t immediately respond to questions emailed Friday about whether this was all of the footage recorded by the ICE agent or if it had been edited for length.
Update: 3:23 p.m. ET: DHS didn’t respond to any of Gizmodo’s questions, only sending a link via email to the quote-tweet it published of the video from Alpha News that reads “WATCH:”
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