DHS secretary’s claims have been widely disputed with video of shooting showing vehicle turning away from agent
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Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, has doubled down on her claim that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis was acting in self-defense and responding to an “act of domestic terrorism”.
Noem also said that she was “not opposed” to sending additional federal agents to Minneapolis.
Speaking at a news conference in New York City on Thursday morning, Noem claimed that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, had been following and harassing the ICE agents as they conducted enforcement operations in the area. Noem reiterated the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) assertion that Good used her vehicle “as a weapon” and had tried to run over the officer.
