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Donald Trump administration labels 37-year-old woman shot and killed by federal officer ‘Violent thugs’ committing acts of ‘domestic terrorism’ There have been no investigations into what happened or why after Wednesday’s deadly clashes.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and administrative officer once vigorously defended Her agency’s responseThe Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot Renee Goode three times as she drove was “surrounded and attacked” by protesters, she insists.
Noem appeared in New York City with ICE officers a day after a police officer shot Goode through the driver’s side window, sparking protests. Outrage among elected officials All over the country. The officer was later identified as Jonathan Ross.
“This is an experienced officer, trained, and we will continue to investigate the individual and continue to follow the procedures and policies that occur in these use-of-force cases,” she told reporters when grilled about the shooting.
Video footage and eyewitness accounts from Wednesday’s scene do not appear to show any imminent threat or “attack” that provoked the officers who surrounded Goode’s vehicle.
Video from the scene showed masked ICE officers approaching a Honda Pilot in the middle of a residential street.
The officer who later fired the weapon can be seen using his cell phone to film a person who appears to be filming him as well. At the same time, another vehicle can be seen speeding in front of Good’s Honda and continuing down the street.
The ICE officer then walked up to the car.
A pickup truck pulled up and two police officers got out and approached Goode, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of the Honda. An officer can be heard saying “get out of the damn car,” as an agent puts his hand on the driver’s side window opening and pulls the outside handle.
At the same time, Goode’s car backed up slightly, then pulled forward and began to turn to the right. As her car moves forward, veering slightly to go around another SUV to her right, the agent who has moved to the front of her car can now be seen still holding up her phone.
As her car moved forward, the agent at the front of the car stepped out of the way and fired the first of three shots. The video then shows Ross firing two more shots from the side of the vehicle.
Goode’s car accelerated and hit a parked car on the street.
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“These people are following our officers all day long, harassing them, and preventing them from entering,” Noem told reporters Thursday.
“They obstructed our law enforcement operations, which is illegal, and when they asked and ordered her multiple times to get out of the car, she did not get out of the car,” she said at a news conference in New York City.
According to her ex-husband, Goode had just dropped her 6-year-old son off at school and was driving home with her partner when they reached the street.
Witness Caitlin Callenson, who recorded video of the incident, said she saw ICE officers trying to “get the car out of the snowbank and it got stuck.”
Other ICE vehicles also arrived, leading neighbors to believe an enforcement operation was underway, she said. Tell Minnesota Public Radio. According to Callenson, Goode was driving the car perpendicular to the street’s lanes, even though the ICE vehicle that was stuck in the snow had been extricated.
She said police gave her “conflicting orders” to move the car and get out.
“Some of them were leaving and they just walked around her, but ICE ordered her to leave and at the same time, another ICE agent said, ‘Get out of the car,’ and he reached for her door handle,” she told the outlet. “Then, an ICE agent was standing in front of her car. So it was very difficult for her to leave as ordered.”
However, Noem said Goode was shot because she committed an “act of domestic terrorism.”
“The officer was struck by a vehicle,” Noem said at a news conference Thursday. “She hit him. He went to the hospital. The doctors did treat him. He has been discharged, but he will spend some time with his family.”
Her comments came after Trump claimed on The Truth Society that Goode “viciously ran over ICE officers,” adding that “it’s hard to believe he’s still alive.”
The Department of Homeland Security has stepped up immigration enforcement operations in the Twin Cities, with thousands of federal officers swarming the state in what the agency is calling its “largest operation ever.”
The Trump administration’s blitz in Minnesota is the latest in a series of mass deportations targeting Democratic-led cities across the country, including heavily armed and armored Customs and Border Patrol agents storming into places including Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Charlotte, North Carolina, met with fierce resistance from residents and local officials.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the Department of Homeland Security’s statement defending the officer’s actions “nons****.”
“To ICE, get out of Minneapolis,” Frey said Tuesday.
“What they’re doing is creating confusion and distrust,” Frey said. “They want us to respond and create a military occupation of our cities. We cannot let them do that.”
Minnesota authorities say the FBI is taking over the investigation and preventing them from obtaining evidence.
It’s unclear whether Ross was wearing a body camera or whether the Department of Homeland Security plans to release video evidence and footage from his cell phone.
Noem said Thursday that local officials “do not have any jurisdiction over this investigation.”
Minneapolis is home to approximately 80,000 people of Somali descent, the vast majority of whom are legal residents or U.S. citizens. But President – often used Uses racist and derogatory language to describe Somali immigrants – A series of fraud cases involving government projects were uncovered, with most of the defendants coming from East African countries.
The latest accusations from a 23-year-old influencer dovetail with the president’s anti-immigration agenda and his years-long attempts to undermine the state’s Democratic elected officials, including former vice presidential candidate and current Gov. Tim Walz.
“Now that Minnesota has withdrawn from the investigation, we feel like it’s going to be hard to get a fair outcome,” Walz said Thursday. “I’m just saying that because people in power have made a judgment call. They’re coming out and telling you things that are provably wrong.”