A number of questions remain unanswered more than a day after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, potentially undermining official accounts of what led up to the gunfire and fueling tension in the Twin Cities.
Federal officials, including President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, were quick Wednesday to accuse the victim, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, of trying to use her vehicle to kill or harm the ICE agents.
But footage from the scene is nuanced. And with Minnesota officials alleging they have been effectively barred from investigating, it’s unclear whether a robust, public accounting will ever take place.
Here are a few of the unresolved questions, and why their answers are significant.
What happened immediately prior to the shooting?
One of the critical gaps in our understanding of what happened is what, if any, prior contact occurred between Good and the ICE agents.
“We don’t see the beginning, we don’t see sort of how we got to this moment,” CNN Senior National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem said Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security has said agents were performing a “targeted operation” Wednesday when one of their vehicles got stuck in the snow.
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