"The shooting occurred on Wednesday morning, and social media footage of the scene shows two masked federal agents approaching an SUV parked in the middle of the road in a suburb south of downtown Minneapolis. One of the officers appears to ask the driver to get out of the vehicle before grabbing the door handle. At this point, the driver appears to reverse, before driving forward and turning."
"A third masked federal officer, standing near the front of the vehicle, pulls out a gun and fires at the vehicle, killing Good. The videos of the incident shared on social media in the moments after the shooting did not include any footage of any of the masked ICE agents with their masks off. However, multiple images showing an unmasked agent began circulating on the internet within hours of the shooting."
"The images appear to be screenshots taken from the actual video footage, but altered with artificial intelligence tools to create the officer's face. WIRED reviewed multiple AI-altered images of the unmasked agent shared on every mainstream social media platform, including X, Facebook, Threads, Instagram, BlueSky, and TikTok. "We need his name," Claude Taylor, the founder of anti-Trump Mad Dog PAC, wrote in a post on X featuring an AI-altered image of the agent."
A masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin identified the agent as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. Video footage shows two masked agents approaching an SUV, one attempting to open the door while the driver appears to reverse then drive forward and turn, and a third agent firing at the vehicle. No unmasked footage of the agents appeared in initial videos. Within hours, multiple AI-altered images purporting to show the officer unmasked circulated online, created from apparent screenshots and shared across major social platforms.
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