'She was trying to flee': Minneapolis on edge as ICE's techniques provoke anger

The snowy street where Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer has now become a memorial to her.

The telegraph pole that her car crashed into is surrounded by flowers, candles, teddy bears, and placards bearing her name. The smell of burning sage, said to banish negative energy, is thick in the air.

Throughout the day, people of all ages and ethnicities have come to pay their respects - some crying, some hugging, and many chanting her name. Tensions had already been brewing in Minneapolis over Donald Trump's migrant crackdown.

At the start of the week, the Department of Homeland Security launched a massive immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, sending 2,000 ICE officers onto the streets, against the wishes of the majority here. The techniques ICE is using to implement the administration's policy has provoked anger.

But the death of Renee Nicole Good has focused that fury. A protest took place in the morning outside a federal government building where ICE officers are stationed, with small skirmishes erupting between protesters and officers.

There has not been widespread unrest so far, but this remains a city on edge. Analysis of various videos, which show the moment Renee Nicole Good was killed, suggest she may have been trying to drive away from the officers, rather than ram them, as the Trump administration is claiming.

Read more:What we know about Renee Nicole Good What does footage of Minneapolis shooting show?Analysis: This could be a moment of reckoning for US Aidan Perzana lives in a house opposite where the shooting happened. He was on the street in front of his house and just yards away from Renee Nicole Good's car when she was killed.

He says he is convinced that she was trying to get away from police. "There was a gap between the two men who had originally been at the car," he said.

"It was pretty obvious to me she was aiming for that gap. You know, she was trying to flee, no doubt in my mind." "I heard the gunshots and saw the shooter," he added.

"After the gunshots, I looked at him briefly, and then watched the car, which drove straight for maybe 30ft. And I thought, 'oh, maybe, maybe they missed' and then pretty quickly, it drifted into the other car and the telephone pole.

"In the grand scale of things, it is more okay for a civilian to panic and try to escape than it is for a law enforcement agent to panic and kill someone." Other video appears to show Renee Nicole Good waving for vehicles to go by her. But the White House continues to claim she is a domestic terrorist and was somehow responsible for her own death.

Vice President JD Vance offered qualified sympathy to the victim and falsely claimed there was no debate about the facts of what happened. "In this case, you have a woman who is trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation," he said.

"Nobody debates that. You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator.

Nobody debates that. I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognising that it's a tragedy of her own making." One of those who came to the scene to pay respects is 29-year-old teacher Muna Jama, who is of Somalian heritage.

Senior Trump officials have fixated on Minnesota and its Somali community after accusations of alleged fraud by members of the community. "We're all just pretty torn up," Muna said, "As a Somali person, I feel like she died, unfortunately, because of us.

So I feel a little bit guilty. I just want to know that she didn't go out in vain and we're all thinking and praying for her.

"Everything that's been going on with ICE and everything that they're doing, is cruelty and inhumanity. We just don't stand for that whatsoever as Minnesotans." That feeling is echoed across the state by many people, with protests planned in various cities over the weekend..