When lifelong Minnesota resident Betsy went exterior for a stroll on Wednesday morning, she stated she by no means anticipated to witness a federal agent capturing a girl in her personal neighborhood.
“I might inform that my physique was in a state of shock,” Betsy, who requested to not have her final identify revealed, informed ABC Information. “I felt actually scared by what was taking place and was in a form of a state of terror and concern.”
A girl who was later recognized as Minneapolis resident 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed on Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent throughout an operation within the metropolis.
Legislation enforcement try to enter a car previous to an ICE officer fatally capturing the motive force throughout an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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In accordance with Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, Good was allegedly “making an attempt to run over our regulation enforcement officers” along with her automotive when an ICE officer fatally shot her.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have disputed the federal authorities’s claims surrounding what led as much as the capturing, claiming video of the incident reveals the agent’s actions weren’t self-defense.
Betsy stated that earlier than the incident, she heard whistles and horns in her Minneapolis neighborhood of Powderhorn and adopted the sounds to see what was occurring.
After heading west on East thirty fourth Road and making a proper on Portland Avenue, she stated she noticed “a cluster of automobiles in the course of the road, together with a maroon SUV.”
Various neighbors whistled in protest at a bunch of federal brokers on the road, she defined, including that one agent yelled on the feminine driver within the SUV by means of the window of her automotive.
“It appeared to me that she was endeavoring to form of regulate her automotive in order that it was dealing with extra south,” Betsy stated. “After which it was clear at one level that she began to speed up, making an attempt to maneuver her car out of the cluster of vehicles south on Portland Avenue.”
“On the time that she simply began to speed up, one of many brokers was yelling by means of her automotive window,” she continued, saying she noticed the agent hearth a number of photographs.
Legislation enforcement officers are seen after an ICE officer fatally shot the motive force of a car throughout an incident in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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Instantly following the capturing, the SUV shifted ahead roughly 10 toes, in accordance with Betsy, at which level it grew to become clear that the motive force “misplaced management of the automotive.”
“I might see that her head was lulled again on the motive force’s aspect headrest, and that there was numerous blood,” Betsy stated. “Her automotive form of slowly collided with a parked automotive on the east aspect of Portland Avenue, only a few toes in entrance of me.”
Minneapolis police stated preliminary data signifies that Good was in her automotive and blocking the street earlier than the capturing.
“Sooner or later, a federal regulation enforcement officer approached her on foot, and the car started to drive off,” police stated. “Not less than two photographs had been fired … the car then crashed on the aspect of the roadway.”
“There’s nothing to point that this lady was the goal of any regulation enforcement investigation or exercise,” police added.
Betsy claimed that the brokers had been standing subsequent to and behind the SUV close to the motive force’s aspect window earlier than and for the time being photographs had been fired, however no brokers had been in entrance of the car on the time.
The Division of Homeland Safety has stated there was an agent in entrance of the car.
Besty stated that within the moments that adopted the capturing, a neighbor ran throughout the road to the motive force’s aspect of the SUV and opened the door to examine on the motive force’s situation.
After the neighbor informed bystanders to name 911, Betsy stated she tried doing so however could not get by means of.
Minneapolis Cops safe the world as membes of the neighborhood collect close to the scene the place a driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, in accordance with native and federal officers, in Minneapolis, Jan. 7, 2026.
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At one level, one other neighbor approached the SUV and recognized himself as a doctor, Betsy stated, noting that the person urged federal brokers to assist cease the bleeding.
Witnessing the capturing firsthand had an acute impact on Betsy, she stated, who described how her numerous neighborhood had been on edge just lately following a reported enhance in immigration enforcement exercise in Minneapolis.
“I can inform my nervous system remains to be in a little bit of shock,” she stated. “I really feel numerous grief, and I really feel numerous anger and I really feel fiercely happy with the place I am from and the neighborhood that I am part of, and I wish to do something I can to assist it being wholesome and protected.”
Following the capturing, a big crowd gathered within the space, which is lower than a mile from the place George Floyd was killed in Might 2020.
Gov. Walz stated he has issued a “warning order” to organize the Minnesota Nationwide Guard, saying there are troopers in coaching and ready to be deployed “if crucial,” whereas urging “peaceable resistance.”
