ICE Shooting Witness Emily Heller Says Agent Shot Victim ‘Right Into’ Her Face | EUROtoday

The lady who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Wednesday in Minneapolis appeared “obviously scared” and was attempting to depart, an eyewitness to the killing instructed HuffPost, disputing authorities claims that the ICE agent acted in self-defense.

Emily Heller, 39, stepped outdoors her residence round 9:30 a.m. after listening to whistles and honking by neighborhood members who have been alerting their neighbors about ICE brokers’ presence. Heller stated she noticed a girl, since recognized as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in a car blocking a convoy of six or seven ICE autos on a one-way avenue.

“The ICE agents got out of their vehicles and were screaming at her to ‘move, move, move,’” Heller stated. “She wasn’t moving at first, and then they came over to her side of the car and tried to open the door, I assume to drag her out.”

“She was obviously scared — she was going to leave,” Heller stated. “She reversed a little bit and then started to move forward. And as she was starting to move forward, one of the ICE agents stood in front of her car, leaned across her hood and then fired three or four shots right into, it seemed like, her face.”

Good, was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mom, Donna Ganger, instructed the Minnesota Star Tribune. “She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”

Good had a younger son, whose father died in 2023, in accordance with the Star Tribune. “There’s nobody else in his life,” Timmy Ray Macklin Sr., the boy’s grandfather, instructed the paper. “I’ll drive. I’ll fly. To come get my grandchild.”

Other eyewitness movies corroborate Heller’s account of the capturing. One, which reveals a transparent view of the motive force’s facet of the car, reveals a number of armed brokers approaching Good and trying to open the motive force’s door. The car begins to depart when one of many officers fires a number of photographs.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had dedicated an “act of domestic terrorism” in opposition to ICE officers and “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle.” Noem claimed the officer “acted quickly and defensively” to “protect himself and the people around him.”

“No way,” Heller stated of DHS’ declare that the ICE agent acted in self-defense. The masked agent who shot Good “put himself in front of her,” Heller stated.

Multiple incidents in President Donald Trump’s second time period have proven federal brokers mendacity about their actions in the middle of immigration enforcement. In Chicago, for example, prosecutors in the end dropped expenses in opposition to one driver, shot by federal brokers, who DHS claimed “rammed” these brokers together with her car. A federal decide had raised considerations concerning the potential destruction of proof by an agent.

After Good was shot Wednesday in Minneapolis, the car accelerated earlier than hitting a phone pole and a few vehicles, Heller stated. It took about quarter-hour for emergency responders to reach, Heller stated. “She was just in her car, slumped. There was no life-saving measures. There was nothing.”

In a video Heller took and shared with HuffPost, one other bystander requests permission to test Good’s pulse.

“No! Back up! Now!” an unidentified voice responds.

“I’m a physician,” the person says.

“I don’t care,” the voice responds.

An armed masked agent states that their very own medics are on the way in which and asks the group to “just relax.”

“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller might be heard on video. “How do you show up to work every day? How the fuck do you do this every day? You’re killing my neighbors; you’re stealing my neighbors.”

Emergency responders couldn’t get their car to Good, Heller stated. “They didn’t even have a stretcher. They just carried her out by her limbs. It’s like watching a sack of potatoes being carried down the block.”

The ICE brokers are “untrained, they are unprofessional, and they’re now murderers,” Heller stated. “It feels like my neighborhood is being terrorized.”