Minneapolis ICE shooting officer followed training as potentially 'deadly threat' drove at him: former agent

MINNEAPOLIS – A erstwhile Secret Service cause and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cause elaborate the thought process and decision-making that an migration serviceman who changeable a pistillate successful Minneapolis would person had to marque arsenic the fatal shooting transpired connected Wednesday.

Timothy Miller, who is besides a erstwhile constabulary officer, told Fox News Digital that agents are trained to "respond to a deadly unit concern based connected the facts" and with "appropriate deadly force."

"Think astir an cause lasting virtually wrong a ft of the beforehand bumper of a car, halfway of the beforehand bumper, and present the car accelerates," Miller explained. "That conveyance is adjacent much deadly than a gun. You tin past a gunshot. If a car runs implicit you, it's not going to spell well."

"Everyone other has months to measure what an serviceman indispensable determine successful divided seconds," Miller added.

A erstwhile Secret Service and ICE cause explains wherefore the serviceman had lone seconds to enactment arsenic a conveyance accelerated toward him successful Minneapolis. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the pistillate who was killed, aboriginal identified arsenic Renee Nicole Good, arsenic a "domestic terrorist" and alleged that Good "proceeded to weaponize her vehicle" aft blocking ICE agents successful the road. 

A video of the incidental shows an cause approaching her car doorway and ordering her to exit the vehicle. Noem said that Good past attempted to tally implicit an serviceman earlier the cause fired aggregate shots into the vehicle, yet sidesplitting the 37-year-old.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to "get the f--- retired of Minneapolis." (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The video ignited contention among elected officials, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who told ICE to "get the f--- retired of Minneapolis."

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"We bash not privation you here," Frey said astatine a quality league pursuing the shooting. "Your stated crushed for being successful this metropolis is to make immoderate benignant of safety, and you are doing precisely the opposite. People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart."

Tim Walz was besides captious of the situation, posting to X that "I’ve seen the video" and saying "don’t judge this propaganda machine" successful notation to a station from DHS describing the situation. 

Protesters rally connected Portland Street successful Minneapolis, Minn., pursuing national agents fatally shooting a pistillate connected Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

Miller told Fox News Digital that the "agent had divided seconds to determine whether possibly he's going to unrecorded oregon die, and helium reverted to his grooming and that's what agents and officers are trained to bash with a conveyance that's driving towards you and perchance a deadly threat."

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The erstwhile Secret Service cause went connected to stress the precedent acceptable by the Supreme Court ruling successful Graham v. Connor, which ties the explanation of the usage of excessive unit by instrumentality enforcement to that of the Fourth Amendment and a modular of "objective reasonableness."

The highest tribunal ruled successful the 1989 lawsuit that officers should beryllium judged by their decision-making successful the little moments oregon seconds of an incident, not by however an officer’s absorption whitethorn look successful hindsight.

A idiosyncratic is detained arsenic national agents and constabulary clash with protesters extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building successful Minneapolis, Minn., connected Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.  (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)

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The fatal shooting of Good has spurred agitators to instrumentality to the streets successful Minneapolis, arsenic good arsenic different large cities crossed the country. 

"The rhetoric against constabulary officers, it's not conscionable ICE, it's each constabulary officers crossed the country, is escalating, the public's being told lies, arsenic you saw travel retired of the property conference, that, oh, I saw the video, determination was perfectly nary threat," Miller explained. "That's insane."

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston