What does available video footage show about whether any officer was struck by Renee Good’s vehicle?
Executive summary
Available public videos — including the ICE officer’s own 47‑second cellphone clip and multiple bystander and distant-angle feeds — show the agent walking around Renee Good’s SUV, Good putting the vehicle in reverse then steering away from the officer and accelerating forward as the officer shouts and fires; frame‑by‑frame and synchronized analyses by The New York Times and other newsrooms conclude the officer was not run over in the moments captured on video [1] [2] [3]. Federal officials, including DHS, have said the agent was struck and treated for injuries, and some outlets report a DHS claim of internal bleeding; that medical claim is not evident in the released footage and is a competing factual claim grounded in official statements rather than the videos themselves [4] [5].
1. What the officer’s own cellphone video shows
The 47‑second clip purportedly filmed by the ICE agent shows him getting out of his vehicle, walking around the front and passenger side of Good’s Honda Pilot while filming the plate, hearing and exchanging words with people at the car, and then reacting as Good drives forward — the camera shakes, the officer yells “Woah,” and gunshots are audible — but the clip cuts off without showing a clear frame in which the officer is struck or run over by the vehicle [1] [6] [7].
2. How multi‑angle, frame‑by‑frame analysis interprets those clips
Newsroom visual investigations that synchronized multiple angles — notably The New York Times’ visual‑investigations team and reporting summarized by New York Magazine and PBS — conclude that when the different videos are aligned, the agent who fired is not run over by Good’s SUV in the footage; instead, one synced view shows Good turning her wheel away from the officer as she pulls forward and the officer firing as the vehicle moves away from him [2] [3] [8].
3. What other released angles add and what they do not show
Distant, grainy video obtained by CNN and other outlets provides more of the minutes leading up to the shooting and shows a passenger exiting the vehicle and the SUV positioned across the road for several minutes, but those angles remain too distant or obstructed to show a definitive physical contact between car and officer at the moment of the shooting; none of the publicly released camera views conclusively capture an officer being struck by the vehicle in real time [9] [8].
4. Federal claims about injury versus what the camera captures
DHS and senior department officials have publicly stated the agent was struck and needed hospital treatment — including reporting in some outlets that the agent suffered internal bleeding — but those claims come from official statements and medical descriptions, not from the visible content of the released videos; several news reports and outlets note the divergence between DHS’ injury claims and the lack of visible injury in the footage [4] [5] [7].
5. Competing narratives, source incentives and what that means for evidence
Conservative outlets that first published the officer’s clip (Alpha News) and administration figures have used the cellphone footage to argue self‑defense, while local officials and protest leaders have said the videos do not support a claim the officer was struck — the visual evidence thus has been interpreted through distinct political lenses, meaning the videos are being wielded to support opposing narratives even as the raw footage itself is limited to angles that do not show a clear impact [1] [9] [5].
6. Bottom line: what the available footage does — and does not — show
The publicly released videos, when analyzed frame by frame and synchronized across angles, do not show the officer being struck or run over by Renee Good’s vehicle in the moments before the shots; simultaneous official assertions that the agent was hit and suffered internal injuries remain statements from DHS and are not directly corroborated by the visible video frames released to the public [2] [3] [4] [5]. The FBI and state investigators are pursuing independent inquiries, and any final legal or medical determinations about injuries or sequence of events will depend on evidence beyond the public clips — including unreleased body‑worn camera footage, forensic analysis, and medical records — none of which is available in the public reporting used here [5].