A video reportedly filmed by the federal agent who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis earlier this week was released on Friday by a conservative Minnesota outlet whose most prominent reporter is married to the city’s former police union head.
Alpha News—notable in part for its sympathetic coverage of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd—has since Wednesday published a flurry of articles including “ICE shooting in Minneapolis: Minnesota attorney explains how presumed innocence has been ignored again” and “REPORT: Woman killed by ICE agent was member of ‘ICE Watch’ group working to disrupt immigration arrests.”
Vice President JD Vance has shared the Alpha News video multiple times as of early Friday evening, writing in one post, “What the press has done in lying about this innocent law enforcement officer is disgusting. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.” The Trump administration has maintained that Good was a “violent rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle” in order to carry out “domestic terrorism.”
Yet the fact that the video from the shooter’s perspective was released at all, and with such speed, is remarkable—as is who it was leaked to.
They really do. I’ve already had this argument on Lemmy. The main sticking point is a vehicle being a deadly weapon. And yes, it can be. But making a non-violent person fear for their life doesn’t, or at least shouldn’t, automatically give you the right to shoot them if they are in a car and you intentionally step in front of it.
That’s always been my sticking point. The agent that shot her is the one who put himself in danger of being stuck by the vehicle. She didn’t go out of her way to try to run him over. That’s seems plain as day from the video to me. But not to them.