Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the shooting of Renee Good by ICE officers in Minneapolis

Hundreds are protesting in Minneapolis after and Immigrations and Customs or ICE officer shot and killed a woman.  

The 37-year-old was protesting against the Trump administration's crack down on immigration in the Minnesota city.  

The city’s mayor is calling it reckless, unnecessary, and demanding ICE leave Minneapolis.  

But federal officials are backing the agent, claiming the woman attempted to run over the officer. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Andrew Dickens the video footage contradicts much of what the federal officials claim.  

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Sir Richard Arnold Joysey for the United States, come on
to you, Richard. Good morning, Andrew, and the world's eyes
are Minnesota and opinions are divided.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Protests have erupted in Minneapolis and other cities after this
killing of a thirty seven year old woman, Renee Good,
a shooting that has been documented in a series of videos.
More of that in the moment. In some of these protests,
ice officials and other law enforcement have responded with tear
gas and rubber bullets, and in this instance a man
was hit in the face with a smoke bomb thrown
at him from only a couple of meters away, So

(00:54):
that's something of the scene. The killing of this woman
has drawn heated responses, as you indicate, from political figures
as well. Typically, in the case of any questionable police shooting,
there would be an investigation, they could take months, man
officials would wag on that. Not this time. Trump's Homeland
Security chief Christi Nome came out almost immediately blaming Renee Good,
and Trump endorsed that said noam.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause
bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic domestic terrorism.
The ice officer, fearing for his life and the other
officers around him and the safety of the public, fired
defensive shops.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well Nome has just doubled down on that, saying.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
These individuals had followed our officers all day, had harassed them,
had blocked them in, they were impeding our law enforcement operations,
which is against the law. And when they demanded and
commanded her to get out of her vehicle several times,
she did not.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
The videos contradict much of that. We don't see what
immediately led up to the shooting and the confrontation, but
Good's mother says her daughter there was some mumba Iie
had just dropped her six year old off at school
and was not part of any anti ice protests. One
of the agents pulled at a door handle and reached

(02:09):
inside her vehicle while another agent walked around the front
of the car. She turns the wheel to try to leave,
and the agent in front, who was not in the
part of the car at the instant, opened fire three
times at close range, hitting the young driver in the head,
and her car then crashed into a parked vehicle, leaving
her airbag covered in blood. Here is one of the videos.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
No, no, God, you just what did you do? You are.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye, who responded with raw language.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell
everybody directly that is two ice.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Get out of Minneapolis.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
He labels the federal reaction aquo garbage narrative. At the
scene right after the shooting, a medical doctor who happened
to be on hand tried to assist and was forced
to stay clear cover medics. During an interview he was
doing with The New York Times, Trump said Renee Good
was at fault because she had tried to quote run
over the office of The videos do not show that

(03:27):
it is a parent that she was trying to leave
the scene and disregarding an officer's order would be a crime,
not a death penalty offense. Renee Good was an American citizen.
She was not an illegal immigrant or a criminal. That's
what Isa is supposed to be pursuing. Her mother says
she has quote taken care of people all her life.
She was loving, forgiving, and affectionate. Adding she was an
amazing human being.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
No matter your opinion on what happened in Minnesota, you
have to say, execution is still a hell of a
price to pay for anyone. Now, tell us about Venezuela.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
The latest has Trump saying that American control of the
country could last four years. That is what he's just
told The New York Times. He says the US also
will control Venezuelan oil indefinitely. At first, it was said,
of course, that targeting Venezuela was brought on by concern
over drugs, even though Venezuela was mostly a channel for
the drug supply, mostly to Europe, and Venezuela is not

(04:20):
key in supplying deadly fentanyl, which is so often spoken about. Now,
Trump says the US will take much of Venezuela's oil
thirty to fifty million barrels initially. Marco Rubio, the US
Secretary of State, says they're not just winging it his term.
When it comes to what is next, there will be
a three step plan, he says, starting with stabilization, then recovery,
then transition. All of this got to say is pretty vague.

(04:43):
Stabilization could take years, A recovery of the oil business
also could take many years, so this was not a
one day raid to get Maduro. This was the start
of a year's long foreign involvement, the very sort of
thing Trump once railed against.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
And there's some poor dude who's stuck in the International
Space Station who's sick.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So it seems never before has NASA had to end
a space mission early due to a medical issue. But
that is what appears to be happening right now. Because
of privacy issues, they're not revealing which astronaut is concerned,
nor what the medical concern is, but NASA does say
the crew member is stable. There are two Americans, a Russian,
and a Japanese astronaut on this space station mission they

(05:25):
launched last month. The crew asked for a medical consultation
a day ago. Spacewalk to make some repairs to the
space station has been canceled right now. A decision on
what is next should be made within the next twenty
four hours.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Wow, what a story. And I thank you so very
very much that. As Richard Arnold, who's reporting out of
the United States of America

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