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New Jersey officials are reacting to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis resident by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Wednesday.
Videos taken on the scene show ICE officers approaching an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. The SUV starts to drive away, when an officer standing in front of the car can be seen pulling out a gun and firing at the driver.
Officials identified the woman as 37-year-old Minnesota resident Renee Nicole Macklin Good.
Gov. Phil Murphy called the incident “horrifying, deplorable, despicable.”
“If the video is consistent with the facts - the video is horrific. It was appalling - …I don't care what the circumstances, nothing, none of what I've seen remotely merited this woman losing her life, you know, without knowing anymore facts. Just awful,” Murphy said.
Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill released a statement on X, saying in part, "I know as a former prosecutor and military veteran that sending armed, masked agents into communities to drive a political agenda does not make us safer, but it instead creates a culture of fear, distrust and resentment."
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver and Republican state Sen. Declan O'Scanlon also weighed in on the shooting, calling it a tragedy. Both did not necessarily agree with the initial reaction from the Trump administration referring to the incident as an act of domestic terrorism.
“They automatically calling this woman a domestic terrorist. It's awful and it’s so un-American. It's so juvenile and just irresponsible of the Trump administration to be operating like this,” McIver said.
"Calling a tragedy and a split-second mistaken decision like this, decisions on both sides, an act of domestic terrorism will weaken the accusation when it's true,” said O’Scanlon.
The senator added. "If you look at it, and I've looked at it extensively, there was a period of time where this woman…was turning her wheels, that vehicle was aimed at him. So, it's absolutely conceivable that he felt that his life was in danger.
News 12 also spoke with McIver about her assault charges involving ICVE outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark last year. She says many in New Jersey reached out to her after seeing the incident in Minneapolis.
A federal judge on Monday threw out the congresswoman’s request to dismiss her charges.