Vance reposts new footage from perspective of ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good
Vice-president JD Vance has reposted video footage that is purported to be from the phone camera of the federal agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
The clip was obtained and initially published by a conservative outlet based in Minnesota, Alpha News. The Guardian has not yet been able to independently verify this footage.
In a post on X today, Vance reposted the video – which appears to be from the immigration agent’s perspective. “Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman,” the vice-president claims. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense.”
However, the video appears to show Good being filmed by the agent – who the Guardian has identified as Jonathan E Ross – went on to shoot her.
Much like the other angles of the shooting, you can hear another officer telling Good to “get out of the fucking car” as he approaches her vehicle. She then appears to reverse her car before moving forward and turning her car to drive away when she is shot.
In footage shared by Vance, the camera lowers when Good is attempting to drive away, and shots are fired. The camera is lifted again showing Good crashing into a parked car. In the background you can hear a voice calling out “fucking bitch”.
In 2024, Alpha News and one of its reporters were sued for defamation by the Minneapolis police assistant chief, Liz Blackwell, over a documentary and book that criticized local authorities’ response to George Floyd’s murder. This included claims that Blackwell lied on the witness stand during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer ultimately convicted of killing Floyd. Last year, however, a judge dismissed the lawsuit.
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Vance reposts new footage from perspective of ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good
Vice-president JD Vance has reposted video footage that is purported to be from the phone camera of the federal agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good.
The clip was obtained and initially published by a conservative outlet based in Minnesota, Alpha News. The Guardian has not yet been able to independently verify this footage.
In a post on X today, Vance reposted the video – which appears to be from the immigration agent’s perspective. “Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a car, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman,” the vice-president claims. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense.”
However, the video appears to show Good being filmed by the agent – who the Guardian has identified as Jonathan E Ross – went on to shoot her.
Much like the other angles of the shooting, you can hear another officer telling Good to “get out of the fucking car” as he approaches her vehicle. She then appears to reverse her car before moving forward and turning her car to drive away when she is shot.
In footage shared by Vance, the camera lowers when Good is attempting to drive away, and shots are fired. The camera is lifted again showing Good crashing into a parked car. In the background you can hear a voice calling out “fucking bitch”.
In 2024, Alpha News and one of its reporters were sued for defamation by the Minneapolis police assistant chief, Liz Blackwell, over a documentary and book that criticized local authorities’ response to George Floyd’s murder. This included claims that Blackwell lied on the witness stand during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer ultimately convicted of killing Floyd. Last year, however, a judge dismissed the lawsuit.
Joanna Walters
Prosecutor Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin county attorney, said that she and Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison were appealing to members of the public to send them any more evidence they may have from the ICE shooting because it was vital to preserve material before it might be lost, or videos erased, for example.
The two top law officials kept their language mild and considered at a press conference a little earlier in which they spoke of how state investigators had originally been included in the investigation unfolding into the killing of Renee Good and then were abruptly excluded.
“It was going to be a joint investigation based on the conversations we had had with the federal government as well as the FBI. And then that changed. I can’t speak to why,” Moriarty said.
The original understanding was the the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension would be involved, a unit created after George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police in 2020, to lead the biggest investigations in the state.
Minnesota attorney general implores public to send in evidence from fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good
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The attorney general of Minnesota and the county prosecutor covering Minneapolis have just called on the public to send in their own evidence from the fatal shooting of a resident by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
The request came amid continued fury that local and state officials have been shut out of the official investigation into the tragedy by the federal government.
Keith Ellison, the state AG and a Democrat, held a press conference late on Friday morning, not long after the Minneapolis mayor’s, and asked people to send in potential evidence they may have gathered at the scene, such as video footage.
“We still know there is evidence out there and we want to make sure it’s gathered,” he said.
Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty said that federal investigators had taken possession of the car in which Renee Good was shot dead by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. Minnesota officials hope they will get access to the FBI’s findings from the car, but they don’t know at the moment.
Renee Nicole Good’s wife says she was supporting neighbors
Becca Good, the wife of Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot on Wednesday by an ICE officer, has described the mother of three as “pure love … pure joy … pure sunshine”.
On the day Renee died, Becca said, “We stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.” The people who did this, she said, “had fear and anger in their hearts … we need to show them a better way.”
Her is the statement she shared with MPR:
First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family.
This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind. In fact, kindness radiated out of her.
Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine.
Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow. 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.
Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles.
What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy. And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever.
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. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine.
On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.
Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way.
We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee’s legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis – AP
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make 5,000 arrests, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
The shift appeared to signal a wind-down of the Louisiana deployment that was dubbed “Catahoula Crunch” and began in December with the arrival of more than 200 officers. The operation had been expected to last into February and swiftly raised fears in immigrant communities. As of 18 December, the operation had led to about 370 arrests.
The Trump administration has been surging thousands of federal officers to Minnesota under a sweeping new crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. More than 2,000 officers are taking part in what the Department of Homeland Security has called the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever.
Yesterday the New York Times reported that the Trump administration would deploy more than 100 US Customs and Border Protection agents and officers to Minnesota following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer, and that the agents would be redirected from operations in Chicago and New Orleans.
Documents obtained by the AP indicated that federal officers stationed in Louisiana were continuing to depart for Minneapolis late this week.
“For the safety of our law enforcement, we do not disclose operational details while they are under way,” the DHS said on Friday in response to questions about whether the Louisiana deployment was ending in order to send officers to Minnesota.
Senators urge Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes – NBC News
NBC News is reporting that three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk’s apps X and Grok from their app stores yesterday evening following use of xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool to flood X with sexualized nonconsensual images of real people.
Hours later, X restricted Grok’s image generation to paying premium subscribers, and seemingly restricting what types of images Grok can create on X, according to NBC News’s report.
The Grok reply bot on X has generated thousands of sexualized images an hour this week, mostly of women but at times of children, NBC News previously reported. But while X appears to have pivoted to limiting that feature on the social media app, on the standalone Grok app and website, Grok will still create sexualized deepfakes.
In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico asked the companies to “enforce” terms of service that appear to ban the activity that was surging on X and is still possible on Grok.
The terms of service of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store both appear to forbid apps that allow sexualized images of people without their consent, the senators wrote.
Apple and Google must remove these apps from the application stores until X’s policy violations are addressed.
They continued:
X users have used the app’s Grok AI tool to generate nonconsensual sexual imagery of real, private citizens at scale. This trend has included Grok modifying images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed.
Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices. Indeed, not taking action would undermine your claims in public and in court that your app stores offer a safer user experience than letting users download apps directly to their phones.
The supreme court is set to issue its next set of opinions on Wednesday 14 January. This is the next chance for the justices to issue a ruling on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
Top banking committee Democrat warns against ‘handouts’ or ‘special favors’ ahead of Trump’s meeting with oil executives
Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate banking committee, warned against “billions in handouts” to oil companies who are due to meet with Donald Trump at the White House today, and leaving “American taxpayers with the bill”.
The president is set to meet with CEOs of Exxon, Shell and ConocoPhillips, as well as a representative from Chevron later today to discuss control of Venezuela’s oil production.
“The American people voted for lower costs, not for the US military to attack Venezuela or to have their hard-earned money used to line the pockets of Big Oil,” she said in a statement. “These oil executives should commit that they will not seek or accept taxpayer subsidies or special favors from the White House.”
Earlier, we reported the news that the supreme court did not issue a highly anticipated ruling on the legality of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
The court did issue a decision in a case that allows federal prisoners to make repeat challenges to their convictions.
In response to questions from reporters today, Jacob Frey dismissed any suggestion from the administration that his language has been “inflammatory” since Wednesday’s shooting and the subsequent protests in Minneapolis.
“I dropped an F-bomb. They killed somebody. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I’m going with the killing somebody,” Frey said.
The mayor also pushed back on the Trump administration’s claims that Good ran over the ICE agent who killed her.
“Watch the video from every single angle. I mean, the ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips,” Frey said. “No, he was not ran over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.”
