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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