During a segment on Friday’s episode of “The Story Is,” CNN law enforcement analyst Steve Moore stated that he now views the fatal shooting involving ICE and Renee Nicole Good as “likely a legally justified shooting,” a shift from his earlier stance.
Moore explained to host Alex Michaelson that his revised opinion came after he reviewed a new video angle captured by the ICE agent who fired his weapon. This footage shows the agent standing directly in front of Good’s vehicle just before she accelerated and struck him.
While multiple angles of the incident are available, Moore emphasized that this particular view is the most conclusive.
“Up until this point, I wasn’t absolutely ready to come out and say that this, in my opinion, was probably a good shoot or not a good shoot. There was so much out there, and you just couldn’t tell. This one leads me to believe that this was likely a legally justified shooting,” Moore remarked.
He elaborated, saying, “Legally justified means that a reasonable law enforcement officer — not a reasonable person on the street — but a trained law enforcement officer, believed that they were in imminent danger of losing their life or suffering grievous bodily injuries. It doesn’t have to be lethal force if it paralyzes you. That’s the type of thing. So, I believe, at that point, the officer was likely — and a reasonable investigation will find that the officer was within the deadly force policy.”
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was part of an organized group known as “ICE Watch,” which aimed to monitor and obstruct federal immigration operations. Prior to the shooting, she used her Honda Pilot to impede ICE vehicles in South Minneapolis.
When agents approached her car and instructed her to exit, Good’s partner shouted, “drive, drive, drive!” Good then looked at the agent and accelerated, leading him to fire multiple shots, one of which struck her in the head through the front windshield.
Moore also commented on the unrest in Minneapolis that night, where leftist rioters attacked hotels, believing ICE agents were staying there, and established an “autonomous zone” nearby the shooting site.
He expressed disbelief at the actions of Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who was chased from the scene by an angry mob, and noted the absence of police presence before the situation escalated into a riot.
Moore pointed out that the group of rioters was smaller than those seen during the 2020 protests, but he was shocked that, “for at least a half an hour and by my count closer to an hour, we didn’t see any Minneapolis Police Department officers there. None.”
He concluded, “And so my feeling on this is that you couldn’t have that crowd at a hotel trying to enter the hotel, disturbing the peace for hundreds of people around there and have the police not know about it. This was the police, in my opinion, ignoring it. There wasn’t a single police car for about a half an hour. And that’s not an accident.”
