MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance shared a video that seems to indicate the attitude of an ICE officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis lady throughout a car‑associated encounter.
In posts on X, Vance stated the video exhibits the officer’s life was in peril and that the capturing was an act of self-defense.
“Watch this, as onerous as it’s,” Vance wrote. “A lot of you will have been informed this regulation enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a automotive, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an harmless lady. The fact is that his life was endangered and he fired in self protection.”
Watch this, as onerous as it’s. A lot of you will have been informed this regulation enforcement officer wasn’t hit by a automotive, wasn’t being harassed, and murdered an harmless lady.
The fact is that his life was endangered and he fired in self protection. https://t.co/IfXAAxi9Ql
— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 9, 2026
The video, which was first posted by Alpha Information on Jan. 9, exhibits an officer exiting his car and approaching Renee Nicole Good’s automotive from the passenger facet on Jan. 7. Because the officer strikes towards the motive force’s facet, Good’s window is down, and she or he could be heard saying, “That’s alright dude, I’m not mad at you. I’m not mad at you.”
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Because the officer continues across the car, a second lady enters the body and is heard saying, “You need to come at us? You need to come at us? I say go get your self some lunch massive boy.”
The officer then strikes towards the entrance of the car whereas the second lady is seen pulling on the locked passenger-side door. Officers are heard yelling, “Get out of the automotive. Get out of the f***ing automotive.”
Good then places the car in reverse, and somebody within the background could be heard saying “Drive!”
Then, as Good drives ahead from reverse, she hits the ICE officer and the digital camera shifts abruptly. Gunshots could be heard, and the digital camera then lifts to indicate the car touring down the roadway. A voice is overheard saying an expletive earlier than the digital camera captures the sound of Good’s car putting a parked automotive.
The video doesn’t present the second photographs had been fired.
Good was shot and later pronounced useless.
Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem had beforehand stated the officer was struck by Good’s car in the course of the incident.
