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Minneapolis Chief Says ICE Shooting Of Renee Good Was 'Entirely Predictable'

ICE agents confronting Renee Good moments before she was shot dead. (Credit: Youtube)

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the fatal ICE shooting on Wednesday was "entirely predictable" given rising tension in the city regarding ICE's tactics.

"We recognize quite obviously that this has been building over the course of several weeks," O'Hara said in an interview with "CBS Mornings" on Thursday. The Trump administration has sent 2,000 federal agents into Minneapolis this week as part of a stepped-up immigration enforcement operation.

On Wednesday, ICE officers shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good, whose vehicle was perpendicular in the road.

In the full video of the incident, a car drives around Good's vehicle just moments before the ICE vehicle arrives with its lights flashing. Good's driver's side window is down, and she is seen waving her arm, appearing to yield to the ICE vehicle and indicating that they could go around her as the previous vehicle had just done.

Instead, the ICE vehicle stops, and officers approach Good's vehicle, swearing at her before pulling on the door handle.

Good then backs up slightly before pulling forward. An ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle then fired three shots, killing her and sending the vehicle careening down the road.

"I don't understand the tactical or law enforcement advantage of someone on foot in front of a moving, running, or occupied vehicle. You're almost inducing a shooting if that person decides to flee," retired ICE agent Eric Balliet told CBS News.

Balliet conducted a frame-by-frame assessment of the incident for CBS News.

"If someone is fleeing, that is not a justification for the use of deadly force. The threshold becomes: is your life in imminent danger or is someone else's in imminent danger?" Balliet said.

According to Balliet it appears Good was attempting to avoid the officers given the direction of the tires. "She's trying to get around that vehicle, is what it appears to me. She has the steering wheel turned to the right, and she's trying to get away," Balliet told the network.

In discussing the shooting with CBS, police chief O'Hara said that law enforcement agencies usually attempt to deescalate situations.

"I think the overwhelming majority of city police departments in this country have been training to try and avoid putting officers in situations where deadly force may be necessary, particularly when there is no underlying serious criminal threat," he told CBS News.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended ICE's actions and called the incident an "act of domestic terrorism," Fox News reported. She alleged that Good was obstructing ICE operations and tried to hit an ICE agent with the car.

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