NEW: Minnesota Threatens To Carry Legal Expenses Towards ICE Agent
Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan confirmed that the Minnesota attorney general’s office will consider bringing state charges against a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who shot and killed a woman who was attempting to run him over in South Minneapolis.
Footage from the scene shows officers approaching a woman driving who had been using her SUV to impede operations in the city. Upon approaching her and telling her to exit the vehicle, the woman turned and accelerated forward, directly towards an agent who was standing in front.
The agent then fired multiple shots, at least one of which penetrated the vehicle through the driver’s side windshield. Officials confirmed that Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed in the incident.
You can see the officer she was driving into right here pic.twitter.com/3ROdXdMf0V
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) January 7, 2026
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump have definitively backed the agent, with both stating that multiple videos clearly show he acted in self-defense. Trump stated that the woman driving the vehicle was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
He added that the incident is being “studied” and noted that federal immigration officers have been targeted by a massive increase in violent attacks. Secretary Noem echoed this sentiment, noting that there were 28 vehicular attacks on federal agents in 2025, up from just two in the prior year.
This angle from the Minnesota ICE shooting pretty clearly shows that she drove forward and accelerated towards the officer standing in front of her car.
If you accelerate towards an officer standing in front of your car, you create an extremely dangerous situation. They can… pic.twitter.com/YXQ44COKlv
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) January 7, 2026
Despite clear video evidence, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey immediately rushed to a press conference where he labeled self-defense claims as “bull****” and told ICE to “get the f*** out of Minneapolis.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, former Vice President Kamala Harris and countless other Democratic Party leaders have chimed in to claim they “saw the video” before accusing ICE of murder. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan echoed this sentiment while speaking with CNN, adding that Minnesota could seek to bring state charges against the officer.
“I think that, you know, that’s certainly something that, you know, will need to be taken very seriously. I think the people of Minnesota, the folks in Minneapolis, the loved ones of, you know, Renee Nicole Good deserve justice. They deserve transparency,” she said. “And I know that that’s something that, you know, I will be calling for justice and transparency. And so that, you know, as they’re talking about, you know, domestic terrorism or somehow, you know, trying to disrespect and insult the memory of Renee Nicole Goode.”
She went on to brazenly claim that the video — which shows the driver clearly accelerating towards an agent — does not show what it clearly does. “We need to do everything we can to make sure that the truth is getting out there and that, you know, what people have seen with their own eyes, both in eyewitness accounts, but also on, you know, the video footage that’s been taken tells a very, very different story than, frankly, I think the lies that are coming out of Donald Trump and Kristi Noem,” she said.