The 37-year-old woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Wednesday had been “stalking and impeding” federal law enforcement all day, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent who she allegedly tried to ram with her car during a chaotic protest in a Minneapolis neighborhood – just one mile away from where George Floyd was choked to death by a police officer in 2020.
Noem, during a Wednesday evening press conference, said that Good had been “stalking and impeding” on the agency’s “lawful operations” in the hours leading up to her death.
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The DHS chief said a car rolled up on an ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow alongside “a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day” and attempted to block the agents.
ICE officers approached the woman in the rogue vehicle, later identified as Good, and ordered her to move.
Noem alleged that Good opted to “weaponize her vehicle” in an “attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents.”
She slammed Good’s alleged attack as “an act of domestic terrorism” – just one of three she said took place in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
It’s unclear where or when the other “vehicle rammings” happened.
Noem and President Trump said that the agent who shot Good was injured during the attack.
He was treated for unspecified injuries at a hospital and later discharged, said Noem.
“The fact of the matter is, he’s an experienced officer. He’s been in situations like this before. And he certainly has been out there and followed his training today,” Noem said at the press conference.
The DHS honcho also said the same officer was previously “dragged by an anti-ICE rioter” in a similar ramming attack in June.
More than “100 of these vehicle rammings” against federal officers have been reported over the last few weeks, Noem claimed.
