Christopher Cann
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Yeah, thanks for having me.
Yeah, so on the morning of January 7th, Renee Nicole Gidd 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 had mentioned that had gone viral, start to show that 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 has...
sharply divided the country.
DHS officials have said that Jonathan Ross acted properly and that Goode was engaging in domestic terrorism, while top Democrats have called for Ross's arrest and have accused him of illegally shooting a U.S.
citizen.
And I'll also note that there's new polls that find that most Americans have found the shooting to be unjustified.
Yeah, so on this past Wednesday night, federal officials say immigration agents were operating in Minneapolis.
When they say a man fled from agents first in his car and then on foot.
And when an agent caught up with him, a scuffle ensued.
And federal officials say that it's at that time when two men from a nearby apartment building had arrived and assaulted the agent.
And the agent, allegedly being attacked by three people, shot one of the men alive.
Today, the Department of Homeland Security identified all of them as undocumented immigrants from Venezuela and defended the agent's actions, saying that those shots were fired defensively.