It didn’t take long at all for videos to emerge from the scene of the fatal shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday. And, just as quickly, the videos became a kind of Zapruder film, weaponized by people desperate to misinterpret events everyone can see with their own eyes to justify an innocent woman’s death.

It’s more critical than ever to trust what you’re seeing with your own eyes. The Trump administration’s spin of these events — of a brutal terrorist attack by a 37-year-old mom against a federal agent just out there doing his job to make us safer — is quite plainly not backed up by these videos. Who are you going to believe, they seem to be asking us: Our official version, or your own lying eyes?

The Trump administration’s spin of these events is quite plainly not backed up by these videos.

Here’s what the videos show to anyone able to think critically and with a conscience: Renee Nicole Good, a mother of three, was in the driver’s seat of a red car. Good appears to be waving vehicles to pass her, as if she’s directing traffic to proceed past her in an orderly way.

As immigration agents approach the driver’s side door, one can be heard telling her, “Get out of the fucking car.” It’s hard to tell which agent is speaking, given their propensity for masking their faces to avoid public scrutiny or the consequences of their actions. One of the agents then starts pulling at the door handle of Good’s car, and she starts to pull away.

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