Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., attends the House Energy and Commerce markup of the FY 2025 budget resolution in the Rayburn building in Washington, May 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have split largely along party lines on whether the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday in a suburb outside of Minneapolis had reacted reasonably. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the agent fired at Good when she had first attempted to disrupt an ICE arrest, refused orders to exit her car, began driving away and placing an ICE agent in the path of her moving vehicle.
"If you look at the tape, you'll see that that person was using a car as a weapon against this ICE agent, actually hitting him with the car," Carter said.
Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., echoed Carter’s reasoning.
"I mean, law enforcement says, ‘Hey, stop, open up your door, let me see your ID.’ And then not only do you take off, but you go right at somebody as they jump out of the way of the car — basically you're trying to run them over," Meuser said.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks in Quito, Ecuador, in July 2025. (Getty Images/Alex Brandon)
Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., believes the shooting could have been avoided altogether if state leaders had helped de-escalate rhetoric surrounding ICE’s operations.
"What happened is two people got involved in a situation that could have been avoided, had she not been obstructing the law," he said. "And then when they went to go arrest her, she tried to drive away with a person in front of her car. He made a quick decision. That scenario escalated very rapidly, and somebody died."
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"That's not good for anybody," McCormick added.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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