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This Is a cellphone video filmed by the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. The White House press secretary said this footage reaffirmed President Trump\u2019s previous claim, based on other videos, that Ms. Good, quote, \u201cdidn\u2019t try to run him over. She ran him over.\u201d \u201cGet out of the car.\u201d \u201cWhoa.\u201d Watched in isolation, the cellphone video might look like that\u2019s the case, but when analyzed alongside other angles of the shooting synchronized by The Times, a much more complicated picture is revealed. More footage will likely emerge, but the currently available visual evidence still shows no indication agent Jonathan Ross got run over. The footage does provide some visibility into the positioning between the agent and Ms. Good\u2019s S.U.V. and the key moments of escalation. And it establishes, millisecond by millisecond, how agent Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place. About three minutes before the shooting, footage shows Ms. Good and her wife parked their maroon S.U.V. in the middle of the street and begin honking and heckling. Administration officials say they were impeding and blocking immigration agents. Footage shows 11 vehicles maneuver around the S.U.V., including this Chevy Tahoe driven by agent Ross. When he exits, he\u2019s already filming Ms. Good\u2019s S.U.V., not with a body camera typical of most law enforcement, but using a cellphone in his hand. It\u2019s not clear why. The agent\u2018s footage shows his interactions with Ms. Good \u2014 \u201cThat\u2019s fine, dude. I\u2019m not mad at you.\u201d \u2014 and her wife. \u201cI\u2019m not mad.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s OK. We don\u2019t change our plates every morning.\u201d There\u2019s verbal jabbing. \u201cIt\u2019ll be the same plate when you come. Talk to us later. That\u2019s fine. U.S. citizen, former disabled veteran.\u201d We see the agent switching the phone from his right hand to his left as he heads toward the front seat of his Tahoe. \u201cI say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.\u201d During this time, on the other side of the S.U.V., two new agents arrive in a pickup. We see Ms. Good motions them to go around her. \u201cOut of the car. Get out of the fucking car.\u201d Over the next six seconds, we see one agent reaching into the S.U.V., Ms. Good starting to drive, then agent Ross firing three shots. \u201cHey!\u201d Now let\u2019s go back and analyze some of the key contested moments of the agent\u2019s cellphone video, alongside other footage, to break down what happens during these critical six seconds. Here, the agent\u2018s cellphone footage shows he\u2019s moving directly in front of the S.U.V. as it\u2019s reversing and rotating towards him, initiating a three-point turn, apparently to leave. Law enforcement officers are trained to avoid doing this because it puts them in danger, and often leads to the use of force against drivers. His cellphone is focused squarely on Ms. Good. She looks down, shifts into drive, and begins turning to the right, away from the agent. Cut to this high angle and zoom in. We can make out the agent\u2019s body and his arm filming. We can also see, at the same time, he\u2019s beginning to lift his other arm. On these cameras, we can see what\u2019s happening around agent Ross. The other agent is yelling orders and reaching into Ms. Good\u2019s S.U.V. Her front tire spins as she continues turning right. Agent Ross is at least a few feet away from Ms. Good\u2019s S.U.V. He does not appear to move out of the way. As the S.U.V. rolls forward, the agent unholsters his firearm. We see in his cellphone video, at this moment, the camera drifting off to the left. The agent is no longer focused on filming. It\u2019s at this point in the cellphone video where it first looks and sounds like the agent\u2018s getting knocked violently. On the other camera, we can see what\u2019s happening. Here is agent Ross aiming his gun at Ms. Good. And here is his outstretched arm, leaning toward her vehicle, which is barely visible behind the Tahoe. His phone, which is gripped in his left hand, flips over when the agent\u2019s hand lands on the front of the vehicle. There\u2019s an audible thud when it hits. The camera rotates up towards the sky. Again, while it appears the agent\u2019s getting knocked over, we can see that\u2019s not the case from the other angle, which shows he\u2019s standing with his hand near the headlight, his torso and legs away from the vehicle. In the cellphone footage, the agent\u2019s face flashes on screen, then it goes black. The other angle shows us why. We can see the agent\u2019s foot sliding, his hand bracing against the S.U.V. and his arm getting pressed into his chest. It is impossible to determine if this is happening because of the S.U.V.\u2019S movement or the icy asphalt or, more likely, both. And what\u2019s very unclear, because of the limited quality and availability of footage, is whether the agent\u2018s upper body gets swiped by the vehicle as his left foot slides back. This moment is when agent Ross fires. We see the other agent pulled back from the S.U.V. Both of them stumble, apparently slipping on the ice. This is also the moment many have said looks like agent Ross getting run over. And it does when watched at full speed. But looking more closely, we can see in multiple angles that there is a visible gap between the vehicle and his legs, indicating his feet are positioned outside the S.U.V.\u2019S path. The agent\u2019s left hand is still against the vehicle and gripping his phone. We see, as he fires, it\u2019s recording the clouds and the trees overhead. It\u2019s not because the agent is knocked to the ground. The other angle shows he\u2019s still standing, continuing to maintain his grip on his phone and his gun, and we see a clear and growing gap between his body and the S.U.V. as he fires a second shot and a third. None of the bullets have the effect of stopping the S.U.V., but they kill Renee Good. According to our analysis of audio from agent Ross\u2019s cellphone video, this is his reaction: \u201cFucking bitch.\u201d \u201cWhat the fuck? You just fucking \u2014 what the fuck did you do?\u201d According to a White House spokesperson, agent Ross, quote, \u201csuffered internal bleeding after he was struck by the car.\u201d \u201dShame, shame, shame.\u201d Later that evening, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that he had been treated at a local hospital and released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This Is a cellphone video filmed by the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. The White House press secretary said this footage reaffirmed President Trump\u2019s previous claim, based on other videos, that Ms. Good, quote, \u201cdidn\u2019t try to run him over. She ran him over.\u201d \u201cGet out of the car.\u201d \u201cWhoa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3892,18382,2466,2725,10332,22152,4527,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-41841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-contested","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-light","12":"tag-moments","13":"tag-sheds","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}