A doctor tried to help a woman shot by ICE, but agents prevented him from treating her
A video recorded by a witness after the January 7 shooting shows a man trying to help the victim, but was prevented by agents
Moments after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, a man who identified himself as a doctor was prevented by agents from examining the victim.
Regarding this incident, the Huffington Post obtained a video recorded by a witness after the shooting on Wednesday, January 7.
The clip begins after the woman's SUV crashes into a parked car after being shot by an ICE agent.
“Can I go check her pulse?” a man asks, to which an agent replies “No” and tells him to back up.
“I'm a doctor,” the man adds. “I don't care,” an agent is heard saying, while another says that emergency medical services are on the way and that they had their own doctors on scene.
A woman then yells “Where are they?” apparently referring to the medical response, and is told to calm down.
“How can I relax if you just killed my neighbor?” the woman added. In the 32-second video published by the Huffington Post, no one is seen attending the woman who was shot. The driver who was fatally shot was later identified as Renee Nicole Good, 37, and a mother of three, according to the Associated Press. “Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune. "She was extremely compassionate. She had cared for people her entire life. She was loving, understanding, and caring. She was an incredible human being." A previous video of the incident showed a masked federal agent firing multiple shots at Good's vehicle, which then continued down the street before crashing into the back of another car. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that she attempted to use her vehicle as a weapon and that the agent acted in self-defense. However, local leaders, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have questioned the DHS's account of the incident.
“They're already trying to portray this as an act of self-defense. Having seen the video with my own eyes, I want to tell everyone directly that that's nonsense,” Frey said at a press conference. “An officer used his power recklessly and it resulted in someone's death.”