DHS releases traffic-blocking video of Renee Nicole Good to refute Mayor Jacob Frey’s claim

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: The Department of Homeland Security on Sunday, January 11, released a new three-minute video showing Renee Good blocking traffic during an ICE operation.

Washington officials say the footage challenges Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s assertion that Good was clearly trying to leave the scene before she was fatally shot earlier this month.

The DHS clip, posted on X in direct response to Frey’s call for the public to “watch the video” for themselves, comes amid fierce national debate over the January 7 shooting and sharply conflicting accounts from local and federal leaders.

New footage shows Renee Good’s Honda Pilot stopped across the road

The new DHS video shows Renee Good’s Honda Pilot parked sideways on a quiet Minneapolis street while a car horn blares.

At one point, another SUV, believed to be an ICE vehicle, has to squeeze past the Pilot along the curb, and a few other cars also go around it. ICE agents walk around the scene as the phone video moves back and forth.

The footage ends just before agents reach Good’s vehicle, the moment before she tried to drive forward and was shot and killed by an ICE agent. Federal officials posted the video on social media and wrote, “for more than 3 minutes the anti-ICE agitator impeded a law enforcement operation with her vehicle.”

The shooting has sparked protests and criticism from Democratic leaders, including Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, who has strongly condemned the killing.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she will send “hundreds more” ICE agents to Minnesota so currently deployed agents can work “safely,” and warned that protesters who hurt law enforcement or block operations will face legal consequences.

"If [protesters] conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that’s a crime, and we will hold them accountable to those consequences.”

Jacob Frey says, 'The ICE agent was not run over'

This video was released just hours after Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared on NBC’s 'Meet the Press' to challenge the federal account of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

On January 7, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during a federal operation in the city. Federal leaders, including President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, said Good tried to ram ICE officers with her vehicle.

Frey strongly disagreed. He said Good was trying to leave the area and did not pose an immediate threat to the agents. “The ICE agent was not run over, as Trump stated,” Frey said. “You had a person that was definitively trying to just get out of there. They were trying to leave the scene.”

Frey pointed to several public videos, including cellphone footage from the scene, and urged people to “watch the video” themselves instead of taking anyone’s word for it. He also called for the investigation to include unbiased state officials, not just the FBI and the federal Department of Justice.

"Let’s not have it exclusively run through the FBI at the federal government or the Department of Justice. Let’s have it with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at the state level."

The mayor addressed rising tensions between federal agents and community members following large protests against ICE in Minneapolis last week.