When 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ice agent in Minneapolis on January 7th, Americans across the country took notice.

The video of her shooting went viral and almost instantaneously two different versions of what really happened took hold.

In one version, the ice agent was righteously defending his own life with the shooting.

And the other, a federal officer had criminally shot and killed an innocent woman.

Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excert. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Friday, January 16th, 2026.

Since that fateful day, protests have erupted across the nation and what some are saying is parallel to the outrage felt across the nation when George Floyd was killed.

In fact, the shooting happened not so far from where Floyd was killed six years ago.

Has a tied turn for how Americans feel about immigration enforcement. Here to help us dig into all of it is USA Today, breaking news reporter Christopher Kahn.

Chris, thanks so much for being here.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Let's first take a step

back and recap what happened on January 7th, the day Renee Nicole Good was killed. Yeah, so on the morning

of January 7th, Renee Nicole Gid was with her wife and dog. They say driving on their way home from dropping off their child at school.

When they say they came across federal agents in their neighborhood south of downtown

Minneapolis, engaging in operations there, that's when they began observing what was going on

and filming. And at some point there, that's when videos, the ones that you'd mentioned

that had gone viral, start to show that, you know, federal agents had approached Renee in her

SUV. One can be seen walking up to her, saying expletives, telling her to get out of the car.

And that's when she began backing up

before pulling her car forward while turning her wheel seemingly away from agents.

And one ice agent, Jonathan Ross, who is standing in videos near the front of the SUV

when it's moving, shot and killed Renee. So the widely seen footage of that deadly encounter

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