The clip has been filmed from different angles. Some are zoomed in, making them vaguely grainy, and others are slowed down. Some are 20 seconds while others are longer, influenced by comments from users on social media platforms like X, Bluesky, Reddit, and TikTok. Each video – depicting the moment an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shoots and kills a woman in Minneapolis – is slightly different, but the sound of gunshots and crying spectators are the same.
The firing came just days after federal officials said they were sending thousands of immigration agents to Minnesota following a viral YouTube video alleging social services fraud. (The video provided little evidence of its claims.) Before it became clear what happened in the shooting, federal officials had developed their own version of events. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the shooting was an “act of domestic terrorism” on the part of the woman. Noem claimed that ICE agents were trying to get their vehicle out of the snow when the woman “attacked them” and “attempted to run them over” with her car. On Truth Social, Donald Trump claimedwithout evidence, that the woman screaming in the clip was a “professional agitator” and that the deceased driver, later identified as 37-year-old Renee Good, “violently, intentionally and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who shot her in self-defense.”
The video attached to Truth’s social post is a grainy clip, 13 seconds long, in slow motion. It appears to be taken from above ground – possibly from a balcony or upstairs window – and a large tree blocks most of the frame. The footage is filmed on the passenger side of Good’s car, and an ICE agent is near the driver’s side headlight. As Good’s car drives away and shots are fired, the ICE agent moves forward with the car, but it is unclear whether he is hit by the vehicle or whether he is reacting to it moving.
There is no shortage of footage and photos from the scene of the murder, but the specific video shared by Trump has become the smoking gun for the far right. Megyn Kelly shared versions of the same clip at least a dozen times on Twitter, and the Libs of TikTok account called it “the video the Democrats don’t want you to see!” Even the President’s own social media posts contain the clip watermark Of a local TV station. The clip is initially of low quality compared to other videos of the incident, but starts to deteriorate as it is re-shared, screen recorded, edited, slowed down, cropped and zoomed in. a deep fried quality – But never mind. In the age of hyper-partisan media that bleeds publicity, where X users work honestly tag Asking non-consensual deepfake porn generators whether a claim is true requires some evidence to point to MAGA as irrefutable proof. They found it in a short video with an interrupted scene of the murder.
Several clips of the moments before Goode’s murder contradict the Trump administration’s claims. A video from a witness filmed from a different angle Shows two other agents approach Good’s car, one of them pulling his driver’s side door handle and barking at him to get out of the vehicle. ,A neighbor who recorded the incident said The agents asked Good to leave. Good reversed the car and began to walk away from the ICE agent at the front of the vehicle; A new York Times Analysis The footage shows that the agent was not in the path of the car when he fired three shots at Good’s vehicle. (In a slow-motion clip, Agent Looks like he’s filming Good He spoke on the phone before taking out his weapon.) As shots were fired, his car accelerated down the road and collided with parked cars. The agent who shot Good slowly walks toward his crashed car and flees the scene shortly afterward.
We’re worried about what an AI-in-everything world might do to our sense of shared reality — that the widespread availability of generic tools will create a post-truth era once deception takes hold. Certainly, AI has played a role in the aftermath of Good’s murder, particularly on X, where some users attempted to use Grok to “expose” the ICE agent who shot and killed him. (In the video, the agent is wearing a neck gaiter over his nose, hiding half his face.) These fake AI re-creations of the shooter — with an unconfirmed name that somehow caught on — have popped up on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and other platforms. But by so confidently claiming that a blurry clip shows evidence of domestic terrorism, the Trump administration is asking the public to distrust its own eyes, despite mounting contradictory evidence. Who needs AI manipulation when your favorite angle will work well enough?
Five years ago, a mile away from where Good was shot, the public watched another video clip that circulated around the world: police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on the neck of George Floyd. There was footage of Floyd’s murder Captured by 17 year old Darnella FrazierAnd the video sparked the largest protest movement in American history. Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd in 2021, but there were still doubts about the crime — whether Floyd was an innocent victim, whether the resulting racial reckoning in American society was warranted, whether the response to his death was respectful enough.
in an unreal image captured by Times During an hour-long conversation with Trump this week, an aide holds up a laptop with MAGA-approved grainy video of Goode’s shooting. When pressed about the administration’s claims, Trump shrugged off the issue. Their base will see what they want.
