'That raises questions': Expert flags 'reckless' ICE move after officer-involved killing
Attorney Raul Reyes was stunned by the emerging footage of the lethal Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and told CNN's Kate Bolduan that certain critical moments of the footage are raising questions.
"The other video is where a physician actually is," said Bolduan. "We hear him, approaches the agents — this is after the shooting — and asks to help, to step in, to take Good's pulse, take the person's pulse, who is — obviously they know is injured. At the very least, the agents deny the physician access, saying that their own — they have their own medics coming to you."
"Why are these moments critical and important to any investigation that happens now?" she asked him.
"These moments, for me, are so critical in the first instance because it in my view, it is completely reasonable for this young woman when an agent is approaching her car, a weapons drawn, shouting at her, reaching into the car, I think it is a completely reasonable response to attempt to flee the scene, to get out of harm's way," said Reyes. "So that moment there to me shows that she had a reasonable reason to to feel jeopardized for her own life or safety, hence her driving off. That in itself, fleeing the scene, even if she was potentially disobeying an order to step out of the car, that should not be a death sentence."
"And in the second instance, where we have additional video of a doctor approaching and asking to take to take her pulse and being refused, that raises questions about ... where were ICE's own medics, why was she not receiving medical attention immediately?" asked Reyes. "If ICE is using lethal force in residential communities with these military-style enforcement actions, there should be medical personnel on site."
"The fact that Renee Nicole Good died this horrific death alone in that blood-spattered car, without even a doctor present to be with her at the moment that she passed, that to me suggests it's just a breakdown in ICE procedures ... in a broader sense, a very reckless disregard for human life," he added.
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