The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week experienced internal bleeding in the torso after he was hit by her vehicle during the incident, a Department of Homeland Security Official confirmed to National Review.
The severity of agent Jonathan Ross’s injuries remains unclear, though video of the incident shows Ross walking away from the scene and he was released from the hospital several hours after the shooting.
“The officer was hit by the vehicle. She hit him. He went to the hospital. A doctor did treat him. He has been released,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters the day of the shooting, January 7.
Ross’s injuries were first reported by CBS News.
Video footage of the shooting shows Good behind the wheel of an SUV parked perpendicularly to the road to block off a street where ICE operations were taking place. Good drives the vehicle forward as an ICE agent approaches from the front. The agent opens fire as the vehicle approaches, firing once through the windshield and twice more through the driver’s side window.
The Trump administration has said the shooting was an act of self-defense, and has said Good was a “violent rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle” by driving towards federal agents.
“Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism. An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,” said assistant DHS secretary Tricia McLaughlin last week.
Within hours of the incident, several prominent Minnesota Democrats, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Governor Tim Walz, disputed that Ross was under threat and acted in self-defense.
As NR previously reported, Good belonged to a Minneapolis-based “ICE Watch” group that actively tracked immigration enforcement operations and trained activists to interfere with agents, including by blocking law enforcement vehicles.
ICE Watch chapters train activists to monitor ICE activity using purpose-built apps and alert allies who have been trained to flood an operation area and interfere with arrests being made.
Good reportedly followed ICE agents to two separate locations before she was shot. Noem said she was “stalking and impeding” agents all day prior to the shooting.
In the wake of the shooting, DHS revealed Ross was seriously injured last year during an attempted arrest in the Minneapolis area when he was dragged by a car driven by an illegal immigrant. That incident left him hospitalized and he sustained injuries requiring 33 stitches.
Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a Mexican national who entered the U.S. on an unknown date, dragged the officer 50 yards with his car while trying to evade arrest during a traffic stop in June. Munoz-Guatemala was arrested and placed in federal custody, authorities said.
Reprinted with permission from National Review by Brittany Bernstein.
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It doesn’t matter what the truth reveals, the Leftist will continue to spew negative rhetoric of all similar situations through the midterm elections to continue to mislead the populace who believe in their lies.
I would love to see what would happen had the illegal criminal raped or killed the grandchild of the leftist politician had he threatened the whole family, had he burned the family home , would they still be trying to shield him from justice, trying to stop the law from doing it’s job .Make them pay for their own protection, why should taxpayer do it, if he himself is not only not protected but the lawlessness is encouraged by those protected by taxpayer money
It is time that law enforcement and the military have the right and the power to stop the mercenaries being paid to attack them! Stop these mercenaries being led by our enemy the Democratic Party!
Hoping the ICE officer has a speedy and full recover.
You know this will never appear in any liberal news — irrespective of the format.
The agent may have been operating on adrenaline so he may not have realized he was badly injured. The hospital did not do a good job of examining him, though, he may have insisted he was okay, so the doctors just did a “whiff over” and missed his more serious injury. When someone has been hit by a car, a full exam must be done right away no matter what the patient says.
The plain and simple truth behind ALL of this coast-to-coast mayhem is caused 100% by the AMERICA-HATING, ILLEGALS-LOVING Democrats, It is simply the continuation of the eternal battle between GOOD and EVIL.
GOOD – God-fearing, Patriotic, America-LOVING Conservatives
EVIL – God-DENYING, America-HATING, Illegals-LOVING, MORAL-LESS Democrat/Socialist/Commies).
I’m a geezer … boomer … what have you … But while I was growing up … obstructing the police, while doing their job, was breaking the law. In my opinion … it sounds as if Renee Good, while likely having misplaced sympathetic democrat empathy for southern invaders .. her mere presence, blocking law officers path, was in fact, breaking the law. I doubt if any of the ‘ICE’ agents suggested that she put her vehicle in gear and dash off.
So her attempt if not to run down an officer of the law .. was still escape. Breaking the law makes you a criminal … escaping from the law as a criminal, (especially in the direction of an officer of the law .. who was on foot) suggests intent to harm / kill.
In my layman’s understanding of the law as merely an individual who tries to obey the law … the law officer / ‘ICE’ agent, had every right to defend himself. It is too bad three children lost their mother … but that happens when a mother chooses to ignore the law.
That he was or was not injured, is technically not important. Renee Good … was a criminal merely in trying to impede law officers from doing their job, and speeding off, attempting to evade the law … whether attempting to hurt / kill an officer of the law while doing so results in another criminal act. Shooting her was merely defending his own life, against a criminal act.
What the ILLEGAL-LOVING, CRIMINAL SUPPORTING COMMUNIST mayor french Frey, and PERVERTED, FRAUDER and COVERUP KING, GIRLIE MAN TAMPON TIMMIE SHOULD BE DOING is holding multiple news conferences, and telling ALL MN citizens the following:
“STAY AT HOME AND OFF THE STREETS. DO NOT TRACK, IMPEDE, BLOCK, HARASS, OR THREATEN ICE. SHOW RESPECT TO ALL ICE, DHS, BORDER PATROL AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL.
ALLOW THEM TO APPREHEND ILLEGAL MURDERERS, RAPISTS, CHILD MOLERTERS, HUMAN TRAFFICKERS, DRUG RUNNERS, DEADLY GANG AND ALL OTHER LOWLIFE PARASITES.
FURTHER, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, WE ORDER ALL MN POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS AND PERSONNEL TO HELP AND ASSIST THE AFOREMENTIONED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.
IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PERSONALLY SEE THAT ALL THESE ILLEGALS ARE REMOVED PERMANENTLY FROM OUR STREETS, NEIGHBORHOODS, CITIES, AND STATE”.
TRAGICALLY AND UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF DUMBA$$ MN VOTERS, HELL ITSELF WILL FREEZE OVER BEFORE THIS HAPPENS.
AND BEFORE ANY INTELLIGENT COMMON SENSE POLITICIANS (that could ONLY be Conservatives) ARE ELECTED TO MN OFFICES.
In the meantime, may ALL of you supporters and defenders of the ILLEGAL MURDERERS, RAPISTS, CHILD MOLERTERS, HUMAN TRAFFICKERS, DRUG RUNNERS, DEADLY GANGS AND ALL OTHER LOWLIFE PARASITES, BECOME PATHETIC VICTIMS OF SUCH SCUM. (That MIGHT wake some of you up. But I seriously doubt it. TDS, SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM ARE SUCH POWERFUL DISEASES.
Praying God will dry up the funds for the “ICE Watch chapters”, destroy their camps and confound their words, making them of little effect. Also praying for supernatural protection from God for all federal agents and law enforcement officers and for all leaders trying to do God’s will to protect the American people. And for God to reveal truth and expose lies, remove activist judges and all leaders involved in criminal or deceitful activities. In Jesus Name
Kind of getting tired of the liberal left and all their anti-American ways. Been through some of this persecution, it is not fun. The enemy of our soul is trying to destroy the national conservative (Christian) lifestyle, because all he knows is how to kill, steal and destroy.
You’d think the Lunatic Fringe if they believed the hype against Federal Police would not do something so stupid that they get themselves ICEd!
She had just dropped her child off at school!!! How was she following ICE?? The videos explain themselves! She was murdered and Alex was also murdered. He was shot in the back more than 5 times!!
Why are you so angry? Your comments are cruel and insulting!
I have to wonder why you disrespect a person who is going to work everyday to the job that they took an oath to uphold the laws of the USA. He had his orders and the person that interfered to keep the ICE agent from doing the job is a PAID protestor.
Her interference was not out of her patriotism for her country, but to be a paid gangster! (definition of gangster is a member of a gang of violent criminals).
Ms. Good used her vehicle (instead of a gun) as a deadly weapon to stop the agent from doing his job.