ICE agent was 'calm while being 'antagonised' before shooting

A forensics expert says a video of a 'fraught confrontation' between an immigration officer and a female driver and her wife which led to the driver's death shows us for the first time 'how antagonistic' they were to him.

Jonathan Baran, a visual forensics reporter, also says the newly emerged video filmed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officer, now named as Jon Ross, which he confirmed as authentic, reveals where the officer was standing immediately before the shooting for the first time.

Mr Baran, who works for the Washington Post in San Francisco, says Mr Ross was standing in front of Renee Good's car filming her at the wheel of the Honda Pilot SUV while her wife Rebecca was outside the car filming the incident urging her to 'drive, baby, drive'.

He confirmed that the video also shows the officer being 'taunted' and 'trolled' by the women as he asked Renee Good, who had blocked the road with her car in apparent protest at a nearby immigration raid, while he 'remarkably' remains silent.

And Mr Baran said that the footage shows Mr Ross could see Ms Good turning the wheel and starting to drive seconds before shots were fired but the camera 'swings up' into the air when the gun is fired missing 'crucial moments'.

Mr Ross controversially shot and killed Ms Good during the incident last Wednesday in Minneapolis after she refused officers' requests to get out of her car, leading to further clashes with protesters there and elsewhere.

Tensions have escalated around the country since the shooting but Mr Ross's supporters including Donald Trump and JD Vance say that he acted in self-defence as she drove towards him.

But despite the confrontation where Mr Ross is heckled by the pair, Mr Baran says the video makes it impossible to 'exonerate or vindicate anyone completely in their actions'.

'The new video shows us a video taken from the agent's perspective and it shows us an interaction with Renee Good and Rebecca Good as Renee is in the driver's seat,' he told the BBC today.

'The officer is filming as he walks around the vehicle. It also gives us a position of the officer which we didn't have before in the other perspectives and videos and it shows some action that Renee Good is taking: she is turning the driver's wheel and she is visible to Ross, the ICE agent, while he is standing and filming in front of the vehicle.'

Mr Baran, who analysed the video frame by frame, said: 'The camera swings up and away so the video does not show us some crucial things – it does not show us what he is looking at exactly when he fires and whether he is hit or not.

'While we can't say for sure whether or not he was hit in this incident by the vehicle, we can see Renee Good turning the steering wheel to the right which matches up with the other videos that we analysed previously.'

And Mr Baran said that the women 'troll' the ICE agent, with Rebecca Good saying 'we don't change our plates every morning just so you know', referring to allegations that ICE agents change their number plates regularly to avoid detection.

'The couple are taunting and are sarcastically and sardonically nice to the agent. He doesn't engage with them which I think is remarkable,' he explained to Radio 4's Today programme.

'We don't hear him say anything but Renee Good is sort of pretending to be nice and saying 'hey, I'm not mad at you' and then he comes round to the back and is filming and Rebecca Good makes some sarcastic remarks – a sort of criticism of ICE switching plates – which they have been criticised for – switching plates on their vehicles so it makes it harder for protesters and observers to track the vehicles.

'This is something in previous videos that we weren't previously able to see – just how antagonistic they are.'

However, Mr Baran says that he does not think the video proves any definite intent to injure Mr Ross by driving at him.

He explained: 'The video provides an interesting clue at the moment where Renee Good drives off, her partner says 'drive baby drive' and there is not like a domestic terrorist intent – at least it doesn't seem that way.

'She is telling her partner to drive away not to drive at the officer. It is not like a violent 'I am going to get you way' kind of moment. It is just 'drive baby drive'.

And he warned that investigators had 'some information gaps' that they were 'going to have to fill', adding:

'I don't think this video can exonerate or vindicate anyone completely in its actions. It is clearly a very fraught moment and it happens very quickly.'

In previous videos of the incident, it was unclear who shouted at Ms Good to 'drive, baby, drive'.

Following the incident, her car careered off the road and crashed.

Her family have since accused the officer of 'murdering' her.

On Friday, Rebecca Good, who shared a six year old son with her wife, who also had two other children, said they had 'stopped to support neighbours' who had been protesting.

Separate footage released on Friday showed Renee Good moving the car to the middle of the road after a passenger, believed to her wife, got out and started filming.

ICE agents were seen around the car with one trying to open the door, at which point the car moved forwards.

At the same time, Mr Ross, who appears to step out of the way, appears to shoot three shots through the driver's window.

The White House have accused Ms Good of being a domestic terrorist who attempted to run over Mr Ross.

Vice President JD Vance said the new footage showed that the 'reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defence'.

'Watch this, as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed and murdered an innocent woman,' he said.

Protesters have clashed with immigration officers near the scene of the incident with tear gas and pepper balls deployed to disperse the crowds.

In Portland, Oregon, two people were shot and wounded by ICE agents last Thursday as they attempted to flee.

The two Democrat cities of Minneapolis and Portland, which the President sees as centres of left wing radicalism, have been targeted by the Trump administration in a major clampdown on illegal immigrants and spiralling crime.