‘Can I check a pulse?’: Video shows agents preventing doctor from tending to Minneapolis shooting victim
Jan 08, 2026
(NEXSTAR) – Witnesses to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis pleaded with federal agents for aid to be rendered to the woman shot by an ICE agent as she sat slumped in her vehicle, new video shows.
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, 37, was shot by an ICE officer blocks away from downtown Minneapolis on Wedn
esday.
Videos from bystanders show an officer approaching an SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver – since identified as Macklin Good – open the door and grabbing the handle. The Honda Pilot begins to pull forward and a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range, jumping back as the vehicle moves toward him.
Woman killed by ICE agent was a mother of 3, poet and new to Minneapolis
The SUV then sped into two cars parked on a curb nearby before crashing to a stop. Witnesses screamed obscenities, expressing shock at what they’d seen.
In one video, seen below, a bystander can be seen pleading with an armed officer to check Macklin Good's pulse. The woman can be seen slumped in the front seat of her SUV, which had crashed on the side of the road. The officer can then be heard telling the man, who says he is a physician, "no," and advising him to back up.
The video may be graphic for some; viewer discretion is advised.
"We got EMS coming, man, I get it. Just give us a second," another armed officer, wearing a mask, tells the man. "We have medics on scene."
Another bystander then screams, "Where are they?" When instructed by the federal agent to "relax," the woman responds, "How can I relax? You just killed my f------ neighbor!"
The video, which is only about 35 seconds long, does not show anyone tending to Macklin Good. Photos from the scene later showed emergency crews surrounding her with an armed police officer nearby.
A Minneapolis police officer stands guard while emergency medical technicians administer aid to a person who was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Ellen Schmidt/MinnPost via AP)
The video concludes with the bystander criticizing the officers blocking the scene, yelling, "How do you show up to work every day? How the f--- do this every day? You're killing my neighbors, you're stealing my neighbors, what the f---, man?"
Emily Heller, who recorded the above video, told CNN on Wednesday that it "was at least 15 minutes before the ambulance arrived" to tend to Macklin Good. The ambulance wasn't able to get through, however, because vehicles "abandoned" by the ICE agents on scene were blocking the road, she added.
'She was probably terrified,' mom says
Macklin Good, who was born in Colorado and had only recently moved to Minneapolis from the Kansas City area, had just dropped off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving home with her current partner, her ex-husband told The Associated Press.
“[Macklin Good] was driving away and they killed her,” resident Lynette Reini-Grandell, who was outdoors recording video on her phone, told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
People protest in the Mission District in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
"She was probably terrified," Donna Ganger, Macklin Good's mother, told the Minnesota Star Tribune. She went on to describe her daughter as "one of the kindest people I've ever known," who was “not part of anything like [protests challenging ICE agents] at all."
In another video taken after the shooting, a distraught woman is seen sitting near the vehicle, wailing, “That’s my wife, I don’t know what to do!”
Trump admin officials call Macklin Good a domestic terrorist, family refutes it
Trump administration officials painted Macklin Good as a domestic terrorist who had attempted to ram federal agents with her car.
President Trump called the clip of the shooting "a horrible thing to watch."
"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The Department of Homeland Security called Macklin Good a domestic terrorist, Nexstar's The Hill reports, as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accused Macklin Good of using the vehicle as a weapon.
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“An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him and my understanding is that she was hit and is deceased,” Noem said Wednesday during a press conference.
Trump and other federal officials said Macklin Good ran over the ICE officer, though critics have largely refuted that claim.
Macklin Good's ex-husband said she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind. Instead, he described her as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips when she was young and studied vocal performance in college.
She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and won a prize in 2020 for one of her works, according to a post on the school’s English department Facebook page. She also hosted a podcast with her second husband, who died in 2023.
Macklin Good had a daughter and a son from her first marriage, who are now ages 15 and 12. Her 6-year-old son was from her second marriage.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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