It took just seven seconds for an encounter between Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and a driver in Minneapolis to turn deadly.
Videos of those moments, captured by witnesses' cellphones and posted to social media, show how the confrontation escalated into gunshots that left a mother dead behind the wheel. The clips also contradict an account provided by President Donald Trump.
Trump,in a social media posthours after the Wednesday morning shooting, said the driver — later identified asRenee Nicole Good— "violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE Officer." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the driver of trying to run the officer over, saying "she hit him" in "an act of domestic terrorism." The agencycalled hera violent rioter. All said the officer fired in self-defense.
"It is hard to believe he is alive," Trump said.
A close look at the videos shows that Good's car did not knock down the officer, whose legs were to the side of the SUV as it moved by him while he fired. The officer walked away from the scene unassisted. Noem said he was treated at a hospital and released.
In the videos, the confrontation, which is under investigation by the FBI, begins with Good's Honda Pilot SUV partially blocking traffic on a residential street in south Minneapolis with several federal vehicles in her path. Bystanders are shouting and blowing whistles. Next to the SUV, a woman, who later identified herself as Good's wife, and an ICE officer,later identified as Jonathan Ross, are recording each other with their phones.
Good, in the driver's seat, waves cars past her. Ross begins walking around her SUV. Two more federal officers pull up, get out of their car and approach Good, telling her to get out. One grabs the driver's door handle and reaches inside the open driver's side window.
As he does that, Good reverses, then moves forward, turning her wheels to the right, away from the officers. By then, Ross has come around to the driver's side of the SUV, and he draws his gun. At the moment he fires his first shot, the car's wheels are directed away from him. His legs appear to be clear of the car. He fires the second and third shots into the open driver's side window as the car is moving.
Good, struck in the head, loses control of the SUV, which accelerates and crashes into a parked car about 140 feet away.
After the shooting, the woman who identified herself as Good's wife runs to the crashed car. Ross walks over, as well, then asks for someone to call 911. Less than 30 seconds later, he gets into a car and is driven away.
