Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dismissed a newly released video showing the moments before anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot, saying the federal agent “walked away with a hop in his step.”
The 44-year-old Democrat was shown the video — which was filmed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross and first shared by Alpha News — in a report that aired during “ABC World News Tonight” on Friday.
“He walked away with a hop in his step from the incident,” Frey said. “There’s another person that’s dead. He held on his cell phone. I think that speaks for itself.”
The video shows the 37-year-old Good in the driver’s seat of her plum-colored Honda as her wife, Rebecca, stands outside the car on the street antagonizing ICE officers, at one point telling Ross, “You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.”
The video shows the ICE agent and Good, who was shot and killed while behind the wheel of her car. Alpha NewsThe tense situation reached a deadly crescendo when another ICE agent instructed Renee to get out of her SUV, prompting her to reverse and then hit the gas as her wife encouraged her to flee.
“Drive, baby, drive, drive!” Rebecca yelled.
Ross fired off three shots as Renee drove off and clipped the agent, fatally striking the mom of three.
Frey said his perspective on the deadly shooting didn’t change after he watched the video, insisting only an official report would change his view.
“I think an investigation could change or affirm my perspective,” Frey said. “But we’ve (all got) two eyes, and I can see a person that is trying to leave. I can see an ICE agent that was not run over by a car. That didn’t happen.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at a news conference in City Hall on Jan. 9, 2026. Craig Lassig/UPI/Shutterstock
Another agent is heard repeatedly telling Good to get out of the car. As her wife attempts to get into the passenger door, Good backs up her vehicle with her wife telling her, “Drive, baby. Drive.” X/@maxnesterakLater on Friday, hundreds of anti-ICE protesters surrounded a Minneapolis hotel where federal agents were believed to be staying during the operations in the city.
The frenzied crowd flooded the outside of the Hilton Canopy Hotel — and some parts of the interior — blowing whistles and banging on drums while chanting “f–k ICE” and waving various signs calling for the federal agency to “GET THE F–K OUT OF MN,” according to social media videos and the Daily Mail.
“They need to get the hell out of our city,” a pink-haired demonstrator, 27, told the outlet.
“I don’t know for sure they are here but we will do whatever it takes to keep Minneapolis safe.”
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Minneapolis police arrested about 20 people after declaring an “unlawful assembly” in the city’s downtown area, according to the Star Tribune.
After Wednesday’s shooting, Frey called for the Trump administration to remove federal officials in his city in a fiery-curse laden tirade.
“To ICE, get the f–k out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here,” Frey said during a fiery press conference after the deadly shooting.
“Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.”
Protesters hold cardboard signs outside a downtown Minneapolis hotel on Jan. 9, 2026. AFP via Getty Images
Protesters wearing a frog and Pikachu costumes protest outside a Minneapolis hotel on Jan. 9, 2026. AFP via Getty Images
Hotel employees shut the front entrance of a hotel, blocking protesters from entering in downtown Minneapolis. AFP via Getty Images
Protesters flood the streets of Minneapolis near a hotel believed to be housing federal agents on Jan. 9, 2026. AFP via Getty ImagesHomeland Security had sent over 2,000 agents into the North Star State following an unprecedented human services fraud scandal that reportedly bankrolled at least $1 billion in funding.
Over 300 illegal migrant criminals were captured in Minneapolis over two days earlier this week, The Post reported Wednesday.
“Since just after Thanksgiving, ICE has arrested over 1,300 in Minneapolis alone, and there are about 300 Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents on the ground looking into the fraud. We had over 150 arrests today and 174 yesterday,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Post.
