U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a House Homeland Security hearing entitled “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. Dec. 11, 2025.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday reiterated her claims that Renee Nicole Good, the U.S. citizen shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday, was a domestic terrorist.
“If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation on the ground,” Noem said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“This officer was hit by her vehicle, she weaponized it, and he defended his life and those colleagues around him and the public,” Noem said.
Good, 37, was shot by an ICE agent positioned in front of her car on Wednesday while driving her SUV forward after agents attempted to remove her from her vehicle. The ICE agent has been identified as Jonathan Ross, two sources familiar with the investigation told MS Now.
Videos of the incident surfaced on Wednesday, prompting protests and nationwide scrutiny of the Trump administration’s tactics as it carries out its mass deportation agenda.
The administration and Noem have defended Ross, arguing that Good attempted to run him over with her vehicle, and have pledged to surge more officers into Minneapolis. The administration had already moved more federal officers to the region amid reports of widespread social services fraud.
Pressed by CNN host Jake Tapper over why she was comfortable labeling Good a domestic terrorist before an investigation into the shooting can play out, Noem said without providing evidence, “Everything that I’ve said has been proven to be factual and the truth.”
Democrats have threatened to impeach Noem over the killing, while noting that an investigation into the incident is underway. On Thursday, state officials with Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension claimed that the FBI is impeding the state-level investigation.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, in a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” demanded an objective investigation of the incident.
“Let’s have the investigation in the hands of someone that isn’t biased,” he said. “Let’s not have it exclusively run through the FBI at the federal government or the Department of Justice.”
“When you’ve got a federal administration that is so quick to jump on a narrative as opposed to the truth, I think we all need to be speaking out,” Frey added.
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