The fatal shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was avoidable in at least two ways, a former FBI supervisor said.
A masked ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old man on Wednesday Renee Nicole Goode. Video of the incident shows agents telling Goode to “get out of the car” as he sat in the driver’s seat of an SUV idling in the middle of the road. An agent lands on the car and can be seen grabbing the door handle. Goode briefly backed up and then appeared to turn away from the agents, who fired multiple shots, killing her. The vehicle eventually struck a nearby utility pole.
Video shows the ICE agent leaving the scene without any apparent injuries. He was later treated and released from a nearby hospital.
The video shows at least three agents approaching Goode’s SUV. The agent attempting to open the driver’s side door, a second agent standing approximately six feet behind the first agent, and a third agent appearing to approach the vehicle from the passenger side and walk to the front of the vehicle:
a few hours later 11th hour On MS NOW, Rob D’AmicoA former FBI supervisor and former Miami police officer explains how this incident could have been avoided in a number of ways.
“Obviously, we don’t know much about what led up to the shooting, Rob, but did you see in the video that we saw that those officers made any attempts to de-escalate the situation?” the host said. Stephanie Rule asked.
In the video we watched, I didn’t. He went from telling her to stop to immediately reaching into the car and she started walking. I think actually stunned She walked over to where the officer was walking from his car to the front of it.
So, I might think she didn’t see him walking ahead because she was focused on the officer at the door.
It reminds me of one time when I was out in Miami and got arrested for the first time and I actually walked up to a car and my supervisor grabbed me and I think he was very strict with me. He said, “Look, people don’t block vehicles. Vehicles block vehicles. If that car is coming toward you, don’t put yourself in a situation where you have to use deadly force because you can’t stop it. You’re going to get hit anyway.”
So, you know, again, going back to training, he probably should have entered her passenger door, which was a safer option if he was trying to help the officer who was trying to get her out of the car. But I saw nothing. They immediately reached into her car and asked her to get out, with no idea how they identified themselves or what they were doing to get there.
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