(NewsNation) — Two Minnesota residents who witnessed the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good are recalling the incident.
Lynette Reini-Grandell told NewsNation’s Laura Ingle that she was out with her partner, Venus De Mars, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, to monitor ICE agents in Minneapolis who were near a school and make sure that students and parents were alright during morning drop-off when they got word of another area where federal agents would be.
Reini-Grandell said once she got to the other area, she saw several ICE vehicles scattered in weird positions in the street and also saw what she realized was Good’s vehicle surrounded just moments before she was shot and killed.
“I thought they were just trying to target a house, so I was just taking video and just searching both sides of the street and crossed over, and that’s when I heard three shots and the boom of her car hitting the light pole and the parked car across the street, and I just knew that she’d gotten shot and lost control of the vehicle,” Reini-Grandell said. “They would not let us go to the scene to assist her and kept pushing us and threatening us with their guns; it was very upsetting.”
De Mars took a video of emergency personnel on the scene later giving Renee CPR. She said she was on the other side of the crash site at the time after Lynette told her about what happened.
“I didn’t know how she’d gotten from the car, which I had seen down there to the corner, but it became apparent that it was because the ambulance couldn’t get through the ICE blockade; they had to walk in and physically carry her out of the car and to the corner,” De Mars said.
“I understood that if they were doing CPR to a person who’d been shot, this is not good,” De Mars continued. “Instead of treating a gunshot wound, they were trying to keep her heart going, and then when they drove off without a siren, I knew she was gone at that point. It’s just horrendous.”
With protests erupting over Good’s shooting, De Mars said her concern lies with the militarization of ICE agents, and not with protesters.
“They’re acting as if they’re some private army of the [Trump] administration and above the law,” she said. “That’s what I’m worried about.”