Renee Nicola Good was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Now it has been claimed a passing doctor was ordered to ‘back up’ when he asked officers if he could check for a pulse
Immigration agents stopped a doctor from treating mum-of-three Renee Nicola Good after she was shot dead by one of their colleagues with three heartless words, it has been claimed.
The unnamed medic reportedly asked officers “can I go check a pulse?” following the shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But it is alleged ICE agents stopped him and ordered him to “back up” before telling him “I don’t care” after he told them: “I’m a physician”.
Another agent then allegedly told the man Emergency Medical Services were on the way and that they had their own medics on scene. The exchange was apparently caught on video, before a woman was heard shouting, “Where are they?”. She was told to relax, to which she replied: “How can I relax when you just killed my f****** neighbor?”.
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Ms Good, a 37-year-old mum of three, was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer while they were carrying out operations on Wednesday morning. The incident has caused uproar in the US amid contrasting views on what happened.
Video of the incident showed a masked federal agent fire multiple shots into Good’s vehicle, which then drove up the street before slamming into the back of another car. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed the agent acted in self-defence, alleging one of the “rioters” was “attempting to run over” federal officers. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism”.
She claimed: “What had happened was our ICE officers were out in enforcement action, they got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle.”
However, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey later told ICE to “get the f**k out” of Minneapolis after claiming the officer acted “recklessly” and pointing to video footage showing ICE agents approaching a car in the middle of the street before one fired three shots through the front windscreen as it attempted to drive off. He said: “They are already trying to spin this as an act of self-defence. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly – that is bulls***.
“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody getting killed. Your only reason for being in our city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing the opposite. We collectively are going to do everything possible to get to the bottom of this, to get justice and to make sure that there is an investigation conducted in full. They are not here to create safety in this city, what they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They are ripping families apart, sowing chaos in our streets, and in this case are literally killing people.”
Tensions were already high in Minneapolis after DHS announced óver 2,000 ICE agents h been deployed to Minnesota to carry out its “largest immigration operation ever” and that it had launched a crackdown related to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. Writing on social media, Mayor Frey said: “The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.”
The shooting occurred just a few blocks from some of the area’s oldest immigrant markets and about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Crowds of protesters gathered at the scene of the shooting, expressing outrage at local and federal officers present, including senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, known for leading crackdowns in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities. Standing behind a police cordon, protesters chanted: “Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “ICE out of Minnesota!”
Paying tribute to Ms Good, her mother Donna Ganger told The Minnesota Star Tribune: “Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
