The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has escalated a contentious public debate by releasing a new video it says shows critical context before a fatal shooting involving its agents in Minneapolis last Wednesday.
What The New Footage Shows
The footage, posted by DHS on social media, depicts 37-year-old Renee Good in her maroon Honda Pilot, parked sideways on Portland Avenue. The video appears to have been filmed from a second-storey window of a nearby home. According to the agency, Good's vehicle was stationed approximately 100 feet away from where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were conducting an enforcement operation.
Throughout the clip, the persistent sound of a car horn can be heard, though it is not definitively clear if Good was the source. The video also shows Good waving at least five civilian-driven vehicles past her parked car. The situation changed when a grey pickup truck containing ICE agents approached, stopped in front of her vehicle, and activated its sirens.
DHS Accusations and Media Critique
In a strongly worded social media post accompanying the video, DHS characterised the footage as new evidence proving Good "was STALKING and IMPEDING a law enforcement operation over the course of the morning." The federal agency used the opportunity to launch a broadside against traditional news outlets.
"The media continues to fail the American people in their reporting on the events in Minneapolis," the statement said. "The evidence speaks for itself. The legacy media has lost the trust of the American people." This release marks the latest effort by the federal government to publicly argue that the shooting was justified, at least in part, because Good was acting as a so-called agitator.
The Final Confrontation
Near the end of the newly released video, agents can be seen beginning to encircle Good's vehicle, a moment corroborated by other ground-level angles of the incident that emerged earlier. The DHS video is presented as a precursor to those more graphic recordings, which culminated in the fatal shooting of Good by a federal agent.
This development ensures the incident remains under intense scrutiny, highlighting deep divisions in public perception of law enforcement actions and the role of media in reporting them.
