A SHOCKING clip from a deadly ICE shooting has drawn an immediate reaction from President Trump, who called it a “horrible thing to watch.”
The president said he watched footage of the incident and claimed the officer fired in “self-defense.”
The deadly confrontation took place on Wednesday in Minneapolis, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” he continued.
Trump said the officer, who was struck by the vehicle, is recovering in the hospital.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”
He went on to link the shooting to what he described as growing hostility toward law enforcement by the left.
“The reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” Trump wrote.
“They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE.”
He ended his post with a call to support ICE agent and police nationwide.
“We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!” the president said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem echoed Trump’s words, and said the victim had been “stalking” immigration agents before the shooting.
She also revealed that the ICE official who opened fire was involved in another recent ordeal in which he was hit and dragged by a “rioter” in June.
Dubbing Good’s actions as an “act of domestic terrorism”, Noem said: “People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons.
“To use your vehicle to try to kill law enforcement officers has got to stop.”
What Happened
Video from the morning shows a woman using her car to block federal agents during an immigration crackdown.
Agents walked up to the vehicle and appeared to test the door before the car suddenly surged forward, prompting an ICE officer to fire three shots at the driver.
Footage obtained by ABC affiliate KSTP then shows the maroon Honda speeding off and slamming into a car parked along the street.
The driver was identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, a Twin Cities resident who lived with her partner, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.
Good’s mother, Donna Granger, said she was devastated and furious as she tried to process what happened.
Photos from the scene showed crowds rushing to the spot where the Good was shot, with many protesters joining from a nearby anti-ICE protest already underway.
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