WARNING: The following article includes graphic footage of the shooting that some people may find disturbing…
New footage taken from the phone of the federal immigration agent who killed Renee Good was released on Friday, and it offers the closest view so far of the deadly shooting that took place on Wednesday in Minneapolis.
In a video first published by Alpha News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross is seen exiting his vehicle and approaching Good’s car.
As Ross circles the car while filming it with his phone, Good can be seen smiling at him and gently taunting him.
“It’s fine, dude,” she says as Ross passes by her on the driver’s side window. “I’m not mad at you.”
As Ross continues circling the car and captures its license plate, Good’s wife, Becca Good, approaches him and tells him that “we don’t change our license plates every morning, just so you know.”
Becca Good also asks Ross if he was “going to come at us,” and then recommends that he “go get yourself some lunch, big boy.”
Shortly after this, other immigration officers begin moving aggressively toward Good’s car, instructing her to exit the vehicle.
After this, Good can be seen turning her steering wheel completely to the right, which was away from the location where Ross was standing, and trying to drive away.
As the car drives past Ross, it is unclear if it makes any contact with him, although he remains on his feet the entire time and is able to take out his weapon and fire multiple shots at the vehicle.
A man can be heard calling Good a “fucking bitch” as her car crashes into a phone pole.
BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0
— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 9, 2026
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, argued on Bluesky that the video is “about as close as you can get to conclusively disproving the Trump [administration’s] claims that she deliberately attempted to run down the officer.”
Reichlin-Melnick cautioned, however, that this does not mean that prosecutors will be able to prove that Ross was guilty of murder when he opened fire on Good.
“The threshold for when police officers are allowed to use force is very low, so I’m not going to offer a definitive opinion,” he explained. “And yes; what the law permits and what is justified are two different things entirely.”
Appearing on MS Now, former FBI agent Michael Feinberg said that Ross’ decision to film Good’s vehicle with his phone while approaching her car was “the height of unprofessionalism.”
“Why on Earth is a law enforcement officer filming an interaction with a civilian on his cellphone?” he asked. “They’re not influencers, they’re not social media posters. If you’re there to do a job as an agent of the federal government, do the job. You don’t need to be making content in the midst of it.”
MSNBC’s ex-FBI guest just dismissed a vehicular assault on ICE agents as “minor annoyance” and “sass” from a “lightly combative” activist.
In reaction to new video of the Minnesota shooting of anti-ICE activist Renee Good, Michael Feinberg calls it "law enforcement officers… pic.twitter.com/Gv5XL9B5CZ
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) January 9, 2026
Independent journalist Radley Balko noted that Alpha News, which first obtained the video, “is a far-right site run by the wife of the former head of the Minneapolis police union.”
“Whoever leaked this to them thinks it makes Ross look good,” Balko wrote. “Which is just astonishing.”
Vice President JD Vance nonetheless declared in a post on X that the video showed “the reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense,” even though the video makes it clear that Good was turning the car away from where Ross was standing.
Vance has also falsely claimed that ICE agents have “absolute immunity,” which has been rebuked by legal experts including Reichlin-Melnick.
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That footage doesnt really show anything except the fact that this dumbass felt the need to walk around a car with a clearly running engine.
This view provides an interesting detail. He walks around the car with the phone, documenting the plates and the bumper stickers, and then before he walks in front of it a second time (for what reason?) he switches the hand with which he is holding the phone to free up his right hand. In a video from another angle, you can see he starts reaching for his gun when she’s still in reverse, or at least before she accelerates. So to me, it seems like he’s performing the behavior that was mentioned in a 2013 paper on CBP use of force. In that report, they mentioned agents were standing in front of cars about to flee, and then shooting the drivers in frustration and then claiming self-defense. Here, Ross positions himself in front of a fleeing person (but just barely, so he can still step out of the way) and uses them hitting the gas as an excuse to use deadly force. The fact he says “fucking bitch” afterward and also flees the scene suggests he killed her with malice and knew it was unjustified.
Here is an article about the use of force paper from 2014 https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/us-border-agents-intentionally-stepped-front-moving-vehicles-justify-shooting-them/
Yup. Coax her into moving slightly towards him at 2 miles and hour and you have the documentation to say “See? Cars in big cities are scary!!!” while standing in the fucking road like a moron.
