Vance criticizes Renee Nicole Good for Minneapolis shooting

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed Renee Nicole Good for her fatal shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, even as the killing remains under investigation by federal and state authorities.

“A tragedy? Absolutely. But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with,” Vance wrote in a tweet.

The vice president was responding to a civil liberties attorney who had said video showed that immigration officers instigated the confrontation with Good.

“The gaslighting is off the charts and I’m having none of it. This guy was doing his job,” Vance wrote. “She tried to stop him from doing his job. When he approached her car, she tried to hit him.”

Good, 37, was shot on Wednesday as she began driving away from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on a residential street after agents told her to get out of her SUV, which had been blocking the road they were driving down.

An agent who positioned himself in front of her car just before she moved shot at her several times as the SUV moved toward him.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Good, who has a young son, was engaged in “domestic terrorism,” and that she was intentionally trying to mow down ICE agents.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have scoffed at that claim, saying it was contradicted by video evidence.

Frey called DHS’ claims “bulls—” and “a garbage narrative.”

Jenin Younes, the national legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, in a tweet on X, said, “Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car.

“That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her,” Younes wrote. “Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away.”

Vance, in his tweet replying to Younes, said, “This is preposterous.”

“This defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a ‘real police officer,'” Vance wrote.

“Again, you’re not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing.

“The officer didn’t discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing,” Vance wrote. “When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating.”

The Democratic National Committee’s X account, in a reply to Vance, said, “We all know what we saw.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, at a press conference on Thursday morning, reportedly said, “The killing of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that in watching the video of Good being shot, “You felt like your stomach was being punched.”

“Looking at the video, there seemed no justification for what these agents did,” Schumer said at a press conference with Jeffries, according to NBC News.

“There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI of doing a fair investigation or DHS, but at the local level as well.”

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe set up to support Good’s wife and son had reached nearly $540,000 in donations by 11 a.m. ET Thursday.