Minnesota shooting of Venezuelan man is the latest where video evidence contradicts ICE accounts

Federal authorities announced an probe Friday into 2 migration officers who appeared to person made untruthful statements nether oath astir a shooting successful Minneapolis past month.

It is among astatine slightest 5 shootings successful which archetypal descriptions by the migration officials were aboriginal contradicted by video evidence. Those included the fatal Minneapolis shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, wherever bystander video rapidly raised questions astir however they were initially described.

The probe Friday came hours aft a national justice dismissed felony battle charges against 2 Venezuelan men who were accused of beating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman with a broom grip and a snowfall shovel connected Jan. 14. The officer, who is not named successful tribunal filings, fired a azygous changeable from a handgun that struck 1 of the men, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, successful the thigh.

In an antithetic reversal, prosecutors asked to disregard the cases due to the fact that they said caller video grounds contradicted allegations made against the men successful a transgression ailment and astatine a proceeding past month.

Here is simply a look astatine however the 5 shootings were initially described and what was aboriginal learned:

Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis non-fatal shooting

Date and location: Jan. 14, 2026, successful Minneapolis

What national officials said initially: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the migration serviceman was “ambushed” by Sosa-Celis and others, and fired a “defensive shot” retired of fearfulness for his life. “What we saw past nighttime successful Minneapolis was an attempted execution of national instrumentality enforcement,” she said.

What came retired later: Investigators person not released the caller grounds that led charges to beryllium dropped, but cracks were already evident successful a Jan. 21 tribunal hearing. The migration officer’s grounds recounting the moments earlier the shooting differed importantly from that of the defendants and 3 eyewitnesses. Available video grounds did not enactment the officer’s relationship of being assaulted with a broom and shovel.

Renee Good fatal shooting

Date and location: Jan. 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis

What national officials said initially: Noem described the incidental arsenic an “act of home terrorism” carried retired against ICE officers by a pistillate who “attempted to tally them implicit and rammed them with her vehicle." She said the migration cause changeable “defensively” to support himself and the radical astir him. Good died of gunshot wounds to the head.

What came retired later: Videos filmed from aggregate angles challenged the administration’s narrative. Shortly earlier the shooting Good is seen astatine the instrumentality of her SUV that is parked diagonally connected a street. She tells an migration officer, “I'm not huffy astatine you.”

Seconds later, different migration serviceman grabs astatine the driver’s broadside doorway portion Good’s woman urges her to “drive, baby, drive.” It’s unclear successful the videos if the SUV makes interaction with ICE serviceman Jonathan Ross, who shoots portion lasting successful beforehand of the conveyance and past doubly much portion rapidly moving to the driver's broadside of the SUV arsenic it pulls forward.

Alex Pretti fatal shooting

Date and location: Jan. 24, 2026, successful Minneapolis

What national officials said initially: Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Pretti approached Border Patrol officers with a handgun and helium “violently resisted” erstwhile they tried to disarm him. An cause feared for his beingness and fired antiaircraft shots, she said. Pretti was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. Border Patrol elder authoritative Greg Bovino claimed Pretti intended to “massacre instrumentality enforcement," and Deputy White House main of unit Stephen Miller described him arsenic “a would-be assassin."

What came retired later: None of the half-dozen bystander videos collected by investigators showed Pretti brandishing his gun, which helium had a licence to carry. The videos showed Pretti was holding his mobile telephone arsenic a masked Border Patrol serviceman opened fire.

In a tense proceeding Thursday successful Washington, Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky made leaders tasked with carrying retired Trump’s wide deportation docket ticker a video of the shooting portion helium repeatedly scrutinized the forceful tactics utilized by migration agents. Paul argued that Pretti posed nary menace to the agents and said it was wide from the video that helium was “retreating astatine each moment.”

Silverio Villegas González fatal shooting

Date and location: Sept. 12, 2025, successful suburban Chicago

What national officials said initially: Homeland Security officials said national agents were pursuing a antheral with a past of reckless driving who entered the state illegally. They alleged Silverio Villegas González drove astatine officers and dragged 1 with his car. DHS said the serviceman fired due to the fact that helium feared for his beingness and was hospitalized with “serious injuries."

What came retired later: Body camera videos from section constabulary contradicted the Trump administration’s account. Footage showed the cause who changeable Villegas González walking astir afterward and dismissing his ain injuries arsenic “nothing major.”

An autopsy made nationalist successful November declared Villegas González's decease a homicide. The study showed helium was changeable astatine “close range,” with wounds to his cervix and fingers.

Marimar Martinez non-fatal shooting

Date and location: Oct. 14, 2025, successful Chicago

What national officials said initially: A DHS quality merchandise asserted that Martinez and the operator of different car progressive successful a clang with a Border Patrol serviceman were “domestic terrorists.” An FBI cause said successful tribunal documents that she was chasing the Border Patrol conveyance and drove astatine 1 of the officers aft they got retired of the vehicle. The serviceman was forced to unfastened fire, the FBI cause alleged, striking Martinez 7 times. She was treated astatine a infirmary and arrested connected felony battle charges.

What came retired later: Videos emerged that her attorneys said showed cause Charles Exum steering his SUV into her truck.

In a substance connection presented during a Nov. 5 hearing, Exum appeared to brag astir his marksmanship. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that successful your publication boys," the substance read.

The lawsuit against her was dismissed.

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