By JESSE BEDAYN
A brand new video exhibits extra of what occurred earlier than a federal immigration officer shot and killed a girl throughout an enforcement operation in Minneapolis, including context to a taking pictures that has sparked nationwide debate on whether or not the officer acted in self-defense or recklessly.
The video, which is 3 1/2 minutes lengthy and was filmed by a bystander, was posted Sunday by the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety on X. It exhibits federal officers and autos on a snowy avenue as a automobile horn blares on and off, with the sounds of whistles including to the cacophony.
The digital camera swings to the left, displaying a pink SUV sitting perpendicular and blocking a part of the highway, the girl inside, Renee Good, urgent the horn repeatedly. After over a minute, Good pulled the SUV again barely, unblocking a part of the highway and seems to wave at automobiles to move. Two autos drive previous her down the road.
Good’s spouse is seen outdoors the pink SUV, however the video doesn’t clearly present the place she was within the continuing minutes. Then, after a blare from sirens, a darkish truck with a small flashing gentle pulls to a cease a number of ft from Good’s SUV. Two officers exit the truck and stroll towards Good’s automobile simply earlier than the video goes darkish.
Bystander movies launched final week, shot from a number of angles, present what occurred subsequent.
A video filmed by the officer who fired at Good exhibits one officer ask Good to get out of the automobile and one other tries to open her door. The officer who’s filming circles round to the entrance of the car.
Good reverses briefly, which locations the officer who’s filming in entrance of the motive force’s aspect of the car. Good then turns the steering wheel towards the passenger aspect because the officer on the motive force’s aspect says once more, “get out of the automobile.” Virtually concurrently, her spouse, standing on the passenger aspect and making an attempt to open the door, shouts, “drive, child, drive!”
The video veers up towards the sky and gunshots are heard.
Different footage of the taking pictures exhibits the officer who fired holstering his gun, then a number of seconds of silence earlier than Good’s SUV crashes right into a parked automobile.
A girl who seems to be Good’s spouse runs towards the crash, because the officer who fired walks in the identical course. Bystanders start screaming.
