In an incendiary Truth Social post, President Donald Trump claimed the woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was being “disorderly” in the moments leading up to the shooting, describing an incident that’s very different compared to what footage of the shooting actually shows.
“[T]he woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense,” Trump said.
Footage of the shooting shows two masked officers approaching the woman’s car as it blocks part of the road in front of the ICE agents’ truck, while one of them says, “Get out of the fucking car.” One agent grabs at the driver’s door handle and reaches inside the vehicle, apparently prompting the woman to back up and start driving, turning the vehicle’s wheels to the right. An officer then fires into the open window of the car, killing her.
Another video taken from further away appears to show the driver grazing an officer while driving off.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital,” Trump said of the shooter.
