Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday she's already confident an investigation will clear the ICE agent of any wrongdoing

Within hours of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shooting 37-year-old mom Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Americans she already had all the answers.

“It was an act of domestic terrorism,” Noem announced during an unrelated press conference at the Texas border on Wednesday.

Good, who had not yet been identified, “attacked [ICE agents] and those surrounding them” and “attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle,” Noem continued.

It was the first indication that President Donald Trump’s administration would be playing offense, not defence, over the shooting, by demonising Good and pushing Minnesota authorities out of the FBI’s probe into the shooting.

As Noem spoke, footage of the incident was already circulating, and it didn’t back up her authoritative rhetoric about what unfolded. Multiple camera angles showed masked ICE agents approaching Good’s car as it partially blocked a road, grabbing at the door handle, reaching through the open window of her vehicle and then an officer (identified by The Star Tribune as Jonathan Ross) shooting her dead at close range as she tried to drive away from the agents, who, for the most part, lack legal authority to arrest US citizens.

A witness to the incident told HuffPost Good was “obviously scared” and trying to get away from the agents. No video of the incident shows Good attempting to run over officers; it shows her turning her wheels away from them in the final moments of her life. It’s not clear if Good’s car made contact with the agent, who was seen in video footage walking away from the scene.

But even as additional footage of the incident........

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