Videos showed two masked officers approaching Good’s car, which was stopped at a perpendicular angle on a Minneapolis street. As one officer ordered Good out of the car and grabbed at her door handle, the car briefly reversed and then began driving forward, turning to the right in an apparent attempt to leave the scene.
A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver’s window after the car’s bumper appeared to have cleared his body.
The video did not appear to show contact and the officer stayed on his feet, though Noem said he was taken to a hospital and released. Trump, a Republican, claimed on social media the woman “ran over the ICE Officer.”
The competing narratives highlighted the political polarisation in the US, where Trump’s supporters enthusiastically endorse his version of events and opponents contend his assertions are often provably false.
Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who urged the federal government to withdraw its officers, said he had put the state’s National Guard on alert. Minneapolis public schools were closed on Thursday and Friday as a precautionary measure.
With classes cancelled, 17-year-old Addie Flewelling attended the Minneapolis protest on Thursday to condemn the shooting and show her opposition to the immigration crackdown, including a raid at her high school earlier this week.
“Students were chased off of their place of education,” she said. “This is not ok. I’m scared to go to school.”
Source: CNA
