New CNN Video: Activist Blocked Road, Accelerated Toward ICE Agent Walking Across

Kudos to CNN and Anderson Cooper for running this last night. They could have easily chosen otherwise.

This footage shows the incident in Minneapolis that led to the shooting of Renee Good from another angle, provided by a residential surveillance system. The clip runs four minutes, although CNN edited it down to the relevant portions. Cooper does a good job of presenting it without much commentary, but Megan Basham assesses it rationally:

So in the new CNN footage, it is quite clear that the officer did not walk up to the front of the car. When Good backs up the car, it places him in the front and would give him very good reason to believe she was aiming at him as the car guns forward. pic.twitter.com/8yE5fj5BdT

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) January 9, 2026

Good parks the car normally and a passenger exits. This is almost certainly her wife, who was taking video of the incident and is already known to have been on scene at the shooting, on the sidewalk. Good then repositions the car to partially block the road while the ICE operation is under way. This looks like an attempt to box ICE agents into a zone and prevent them from freely operating, a tactic used by other activists attempting to obstruct immigration enforcement operations. 

We’ll get back to the agent who fired the shot in a moment. First, though, Good set the stage by blocking the street where ICE agents operated. This is itself a crime, as Chicago police chief Larry Snelling angrily warned his city yesterday, but it’s worse than that. It looks like the beginning of an ambush, and federal agents have the authority to clear the road for their own safety, and drivers are required to comply with lawful police actions:

🚔 Chicago Police Department Chief Larry Snelling:

🗣️ “I want to be very clear; ICE and HSI agents are law enforcement officers 👮‍♂️👮‍♀️.
🚗🚧 If you surround and box them in with vehicles,
⚠️ it is reasonable for them to believe they are being ambushed.” pic.twitter.com/9k35jl6t6L

— Anne Wilkinson 🇺🇸 (@annewlk59) January 9, 2026

Good and her wife started this with her decision to obstruct ICE operations and film it for social media. As Chief Snelling explained, it looked like the setup for an ambush, and ICE agents attempted to protect law enforcement operations by dealing with Good. Her attempt to flee was also unlawful, and her decision to accelerate toward another agent represented a lethal threat to law enforcement.

That brings us back to the shooting itself. Did the agent place himself in front of the car as a provocation, or was he walking over to assist his partner when Good accelerated? The earlier witness videos were unclear on this point, but as Basham notes, this view makes it look much more like the latter. Even it were the former, though, law enforcement has the right to block a potentially fleeing suspect. Driving at an LEO in that fashion is assault with a deadly weapon (as Chief Snelling also explains) and justifies the use of deadly force. Given the risk of an ambush as the context that started the whole incident, the risk to the lives and safety of officers on scene is both reasonable and rational. 

Of course, this is just one more video in a terrible incident where dozens of videos will have to be assessed. We do not have to reach firm conclusions yet. However, the idea that ICE is simply going around murdering observers is absurd, and this video makes that claim even more ridiculous. 

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