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Trump administration officials<\/span> and MAGA world<\/a> are attempting to rewrite the shooting in Minneapolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n The shooting took place on Wednesday morning when several masked agents\u2014later identified by Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin as members of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency\u2014approached a vehicle. Video footage shared on social media<\/a> appears to show a masked agent ask the driver to get out of the vehicle before grabbing the door handle. At this point, the driver appears to reverse, before driving forward and turning. Another masked federal officer, standing near the front of the vehicle, pulls out a gun and fires at the vehicle, killing Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman.<\/p>\n The masked officer who fired at the vehicle was identified by the Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a> as ICE agent Jonathan Ross. McLaughlin did not immediately respond to an email asking if DHS could confirm the Star Tribune\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n Almost immediately, federal government officials portrayed Good as the perpetrator. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem called Good\u2019s actions<\/a> an act of \u201cdomestic terrorism,\u201d adding that the victim had \u201cweaponized her vehicle\u201d and that the agent involved had simply \u201cfollowed his training.\u201d Later on Wednesday in a Truth Social post, president Donald Trump wrote that Good had \u201cviciously\u201d run over the agent while blaming the \u201cradical left.\u201d In a press conference on Thursday morning, Noem doubled down, once again calling Good a \u201cdomestic terrorist,\u201d while falsely claiming the agents involved were \u201csurrounded and assaulted and blocked in by protesters.\u201d On Thursday, vice president JD Vance claimed Good was \u201ca victim of left-wing ideology\u201d and that she had \u201c[thrown] their car in front of ICE officers,\u201d adding, \u201cYou’ve got to be a little brainwashed.”<\/p>\n The administration\u2019s effort to immediately spin the narrative, and deflect the blame from the agents Trump has empowered to target communities across the country<\/a>, is something the current administration has done repeatedly<\/a>. This case, however, is arguably one of the more egregious examples thus far, given how wildly the sanctioned government narrative diverges from the reality shown in video footage of the incident shared online.<\/p>\n MAGA world influencers very quickly fell in line. Trump\u2019s decision to blame the \u201cradical left\u201d was echoed by his loudest supporters online, some of whom predicted mass violence from the left as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was trying to stage an illegal blockade of the road to interfere with ICE agents and then rammed her car into one of them when they attempted to apprehend her,\u201d podcaster Matt Walsh wrote on X, in a post viewed nearly 700,000 times. \u201cThis isn\u2019t even a close call. Entirely justified. She is 100 percent to blame for her own death.\u201d<\/p>\n