Did Renee Good attempt to run over an ICE agent

1. The competing narratives: administration claims vs. local and press scrutiny

Federal officials and Homeland Security spokespeople publicly characterized the incident as one in which Good "weaponized her vehicle" and tried to run down an ICE agent—language adopted at the highest levels of the administration and repeated by spokespeople ^{[4] [2]}—while local leaders, Minneapolis officials and multiple news outlets said the available video footage did not show evidence that Good intentionally struck the officer or posed an imminent deadly threat, with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey explicitly disputing the administration's characterization after viewing footage ^{[5] [2]}.

2. What the videos and forensic reviews have shown so far

Video released from multiple vantage points, including a body-camera-style clip from the ICE agent, captured Good behind the wheel and officers at the vehicle moments before shots were fired; independent forensic analysis cited by outlets such as The New York Times and Bellingcat concluded that the footage does not support the claim that Good ran over the officer or intentionally used her SUV as a weapon, undermining the administration’s framing of the event as an attempted vehicular attack ^{[2] [1]}.

3. The DHS and law-enforcement account about the agent’s injuries

DHS and allied outlets have reported that the ICE agent, identified in reporting as Jonathan Ross, was struck by Good’s vehicle and later treated for internal bleeding—claims repeated by Fox News and confirmed to reporters by DHS officials and followed in other mainstream outlets—which the department has used to justify the agent’s use of deadly force even as other on-scene documents show no contemporaneous record of emergency treatment, and the medical details and their timing remain contested in reporting ^{[6] [3] [7]}.

4. Investigations, prosecutorial choices and the evidentiary picture

Federal investigators prepared inquiries and evidence-gathering steps, but reporting indicates the Justice Department declined to pursue a civil‑rights investigation of the shooter and instead pivoted toward examining Good’s actions; that decision provoked internal dissent, including an FBI agent’s resignation according to The New York Times and other outlets, and has prompted criticism that politics shaped the investigatory path while independent forensic reviews cast doubt on the “attempt to run over” claim ^{[8] [9] [1]}.

5. Bottom line and limits of the record

Based on the reporting assembled, there is no corroborated evidence that Renee Good intentionally attempted to run over an ICE agent—video and forensic reviewers cited by major outlets say the footage does not show an intentional vehicular attack—while DHS and administration officials maintain the agent was struck and injured, a factual claim that some outlets report but whose forensic and medical details remain disputed in public records; reporting does not definitively resolve whether the agent’s injuries were caused as the administration describes, and no prosecutorial finding establishing criminal intent by Good has been produced in the sources reviewed ^{[1] [2] [3] [8] [7]}.