ICE agent’s actions in Minneapolis shooting were ‘absolutely reasonable’: expert
Conflicting views of a fatal encounter in Minnesota are fueling debate over whether an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s actions were legal, but some say the agent's use of deadly...
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Conflicting views of a fatal encounter in Minnesota are fueling debate over whether an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s actions were legal, but some say the agent's use of deadly force was clearly justified. The incident took place Wednesday on a snow-covered road in Minneapolis, where an ICE agent fired three shots at a driver, 37-year-old Renee Good, killing her. Various videos circulating on social media appear to show ICE agents approaching Good's stopped vehicle and ordering her to exit it. The ICE agent was positioned in front of her vehicle when she appeared to accelerate. Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom who specializes in firearm issues, told Fox News Digital the ICE agent’s actions were "absolutely reasonable." PHOTOS RELEASED OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD, THE US CITIZEN KILLED BY ICE IN MINNESOTA "When you take those circumstances as that officer was actually in them, where he is having to discern whether this unknown but non-compliant driver of a two-ton vehicle, who was not just accelerating toward him but was actually in the process of hitting him, and he's got to decide in that moment, ‘Is this person intending to swerve away from me, or is this person about to floor it right over me with this two-ton vehicle?’ I think it is absolutely reasonable for him in that position to fear that this is an imminent threat," Swearer said. Swearer added that the perceived danger was not "some light threat," but rather a potentially deadly one. "It is absolutely reasonable for him to fear death or serious bodily injury and to act in the way that he did to try to neutralize that threat," Swearer said. Prominent voices on the left took a different view. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the agent "murdered" Good. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz called it a "brazen" use of force. Protesters flocked to the scene and demanded ICE leave the state. One lawyer opined on social media that Good turned her steering wheel in such a fash…