On Friday morning, cellphone footage originating from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross showing the murder of Minneapolis mother and wife Renee Nicole Good was leaked to right-wing media. The new footage conclusively demonstrates that Ross deliberately positioned himself in front of Good’s vehicle to justify murdering her.
The 47-second video, recorded on Ross’s cellphone, begins by showing him exiting his vehicle and approaching Good’s maroon Honda sport utility vehicle. A dog is clearly visible in the back seat as Ross walks in front of Good’s car. As Ross walks in front of the vehicle, filming the driver and license plate, Good is seen behind the wheel with her window down, both hands clearly visible, smiling at the agent. As Ross continues to circle the vehicle, he records Good warmly greeting him, saying, “That’s fine, dude. I am not mad at you.”
As Ross reaches the back of the vehicle, he records Good’s license plate and another woman standing behind the car filming him. The woman, Becca Good, Renee’s wife, tells Ross it is fine that he is recording their license plate: “It will be the same plate when you come talk to us later. It’s fine.”
At this point Ross has completed a full circle of the vehicle and appears to be leaving. Becca Good is heard telling Ross that she is a “U.S. citizen former f*cking veteran… You want to come at us, I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.” Roughly 32 seconds into the video, Ross switches his cellphone to his left hand, allowing him to more easily access his pistol holstered on his right hip.
Becca Good then turns to enter the passenger side of the vehicle. As she reaches for the handle, a different ICE agent wearing a mask approaches the driver’s side and yells at Renee Good to “get out of the f*cking car!”
Agent Ross proceeds to walk directly in front of Good’s vehicle and remains there as she begins backing up.
Ross, cellphone in hand, continues recording as Good begins turning the wheel away from him and puts the car in drive. As the car accelerates forward, Ross leans onto the hood, his phone in his left hand and his pistol in his right, and fires three rounds at Good in less than one second.
After shooting Good, a voice believed to be Ross’s says, “fucking bitch” as the Honda SUV accelerates wildly forward and smashes into a parked car. The video ends. Other footage from the scene shows that neither Ross nor any other agent on site provided first aid to Good. Instead, agents blocked a man who identified himself as a physician from providing aid and created a barrier that forced emergency medical technicians to park their ambulance away from the immediate scene.
The last words Good, slandered as a “domestic terrorist” and a “deranged leftist” by Vice President JD Vance and other top Trump administration officials, said to her eventual killer were, “That’s fine, dude. I am not mad at you.” The last words Ross uttered to Good after shooting the unarmed woman multiple times were, “fucking bitch.”
Following the release of the video on social media, Vance immediately retweeted it and claimed it proved “the press” was “lying about this innocent law enforcement officer… disgusting. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.” He followed this with multiple posts asserting that shooting an unarmed woman attempting to flee was “self-defense.”
On Friday, President Donald Trump was asked by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy whether he had any further information supporting Vance’s claims that Good was part of a “left-wing network.”
Trump said he had not seen Vance’s statement but claimed Vance is “generally very accurate.” He did not identify any such network but alleged that a woman heard yelling “shame” after the shooting was a “paid” and “professional agitator.” Trump said it was “not normal” for someone to “keep screaming” after witnessing the execution of an innocent person by the state. He concluded, “We will always be protecting ICE and we are always going to be protecting our Border Patrol and law enforcement.”
The lies advanced by Vance, Trump and top officials at the Department of Homeland Security do not find purchase among wide sections of the population, who are outraged over the murder of Good, the killing of Los Angeles father Kevin Porter Jr. and the more than 30 people who died in ICE custody last year.
Protests against ICE continued Friday in Minnesota and across the country. In Boston, Massachusetts, anti-ICE protesters reenacted the Boston Tea Party, dumping 342 pounds of ice into the harbor.
The Democratic Party-aligned 50501 group announced that more than 1,000 protests are planned across the United States this weekend.
On Friday night, thousands protested in downtown Minneapolis outside hotels where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Speaking to WSWS reporters earlier in the week, a local resident said she lives “two blocks away from where all of this happened and as a person in this community, they are just terrorizing my neighbors. I am a first-generation American. My mom did not come to this country to watch this happen.”
She added, “This needs to stop. This is not the answer to anything.”
As of this writing, more than 2,200 federal agents are occupying Minnesota’s largest metropolitan area, home to approximately 3.7 million people. More agents are on the way. The Associated Press reported Friday that roughly 200 CBP agents in New Orleans are being reassigned to Minnesota.
Minneapolis residents report federal agents setting up checkpoints around the city to harass workers and families. Immigration agents are not carrying out “targeted operations” against violent criminals, but are instead harassing workers on the job and at local businesses.
In one exchange recorded the same day Good was killed, Gregory Bovino, the agent leading Customs and Border Protection operations in Minneapolis, is shown harassing an Uber driver at the airport. The worker confronts Bovino, telling him, “You are not going after criminals, man. You are going after people working. This is an Uber waiting line. We are literally waiting and working.”
A CBP agent replies, “Criminals do Uber.” The worker responds, “That’s not how it works, brother. Maybe criminals are doing ICE? How about that? You know what I am saying. You guys are shooting people. Somebody just got shot and for what? Why did you guys shoot that lady?”
At least five Native American men living in the Minneapolis area have been kidnapped by immigration agents, Indian Country Today reported. One of those assaulted and detained was Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen.
Ramirez and his aunt were stalked by agents on January 8 while running errands. After realizing they were being followed, they pulled into a Hy-Vee grocery store parking lot. Masked agents in SUVs surrounded their vehicle, presented no warrant and demanded identification while attempting to scan their faces.
Shawntia Sosa-Clara, who recorded part of the encounter, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that as agents scanned Ramirez’s face, they began punching him.
In the video, Sosa-Clara is seen appealing to Minneapolis police on site for help as agents assault and detain her nephew. She is also struck by an agent. She asks an officer, “Why did he hit me like that?” The officer replies, “Don’t move.”
In an interview with Indian Country Today following his release, Ramirez said, “I was complying with them and they just started acting crazy. They were trying to make it seem like I’m some kind of murderer, like I did something wrong. I felt like it was a kidnapping.”
Ramirez was held at the B.H. Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis for several hours despite being a US citizen who had committed no crime. His mother, Raelyn Duffy, told the Tribune she was turned away when she arrived with documents proving her son’s citizenship. Although ICE initially claimed Ramirez would be charged with “assault,” no charges have been filed as of this writing.