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ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST: OUTFRONT next:

Breaking news, protesters taking to the streets after a 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by an ICE officer. She was in her car. The Minneapolis police chief is OUTFRONT.

Plus, he shot her, quote, "point blank". That from a woman who lives on the street where the shooting happened. She witnessed it. She's got new video that she's going to show you and tell you what she saw.

And we're also following other major breaking news this hour, including the United States seizing an oil tanker that Putin claims was under Russian protection.

Let's go OUTFRONT.

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BURNETT: And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett.

And OUTFRONT tonight, we begin with the breaking news this hour on this Wednesday, growing protests tonight in Minneapolis. An ICE agent shot a woman there. Witnesses say, in the face as she was in her car. She is dead. He killed her.

And you are looking at live pictures right now of the streets in Minneapolis. You can see all of those lights. This is a vigil near the site where the shooting took place. Crowds have been growing all night. They are chanting "say her name" and we have just learned the victim's name.

She is a 37-year-old woman, as we said, and her name is Renee Nicole Good. Renee Nicole Good. She was shot and killed today. And ICE claims that the agent opened fire after Good, quote, weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill him, a federal officer.

All right. Well, there's a lot of video out there. So, let's just show you some of it. Here's the video so you can see what actually happened for yourself. We warn you, it is graphic. Renee was killed. But you see agents approaching the SUV, which is stopped in the middle of the street. They instruct her to get out of the car. Now, according to Homeland

Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Then an agent tries to pull the door handle. You can see that part. The driver then puts the car in reverse, which is crucial. Then sort of changing direction is almost to go around. She moves forward again, and that's when the vehicle bumps the ICE agent who draws his weapon and fires it three times.

Now, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls this an act of domestic terrorism. She says there were three others of those today. President Trump says claims online that Good, violently, willfully and viciously -- this is a quote from him -- ran over the ICE officer, adding that it is hard to believe he is alive.

All right. Now, President Trump puts out his own angle of the video to make that point. Let's just show you what he put out there. This is what he's putting out to show the ICE agent's life in danger.

You can see -- we'll go back and show that to you that the that he was bumped by the vehicle. We have video from the moments after the shooting where you do see the agent adjusting his mask as he walks away from the vehicle. So that -- you can see that there. President Trump says that he was injured, is in the hospital. We have learned that he's been released, which is consistent with him walking away there adjusting his mask.

Now, the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, had this to say about Trump and his administration's account of what happened.

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MAYOR JACOB FREY (D), MINNESOTA: They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly, that is bullshit.

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BURNETT: Frey also did not mince words when he delivered a message to ICE.

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FREY: I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.

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BURNETT: Now, what happened today is something that Frey spoke about and warned about last night here on the show, when he talked about the 2,000 federal agents who were deployed to a city and what ICE said was going to be the largest deployment ever.

Here's what Frey said.

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FREY: This is not about preventing fraud. This is about sowing chaos on the streets of Minneapolis. And that's what they are intent on doing right now.

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BURNETT: In a moment, we are going to be joined by a woman who lives on the street where the shooting happened. She was recording as she was pleading with agents to let a doctor check on Renee Good, who was shot.

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ICE AGENT: We have our own medics.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where are they? Where are they? How can I relax? You just killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) neighbor. You caught her in the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) face. You killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) neighbor.

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BURNETT: All right. We're going to speak to the woman you heard her voice there, the eyewitness, in just a moment.

First, I want to go to the ground and Whitney Wild, who is there in Minneapolis tonight.

And, Whitney, the crowd is growing where you are. What are you seeing? What is the tone right now?

WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: The tone right now is resilience. It is a chance to pay their respects to a woman they did not know who lost her life yards from right where I'm standing. It was right on this block where, as you see in the video, she pulls out and the ICE officer discharges his firearm into the driver's side of the vehicle, and then she careens to the left side of the street and crashes her car.

Just yards behind me is exactly where that happened, Erin. When we walked up there earlier and you can't see it right now. But there were -- there was a growing vigil there, flowers laid right at the place where she spent her last moments on earth.

It was so striking, Erin, because it was the first time that the public was getting a chance to actually see it, because this was minutes after the Minneapolis police department cleared out. The scene had been processed, and so they left and the scene was still so fresh that there was blood on the ground.

Flowers were surrounding the blood from people who had come to pay their respects to her. And there were fragments of tail of brake light. It looked like broken among the flowers. It was it -- like I said, it was incredibly striking.

Right now, what you're hearing is chanting. We are hearing over and over this crowd chant her name. We're hearing people speak to the crowd on a bullhorn. This is right now, a moment of reflection and a moment of protest.

This has turned into a candlelight vigil here, Erin, I think it is important to remember that we are four blocks from where George Floyd was killed. This is Portland Avenue. I'm standing right on Portland Avenue and East 34th Street is just behind me.

And this is a city that's worked really hard to rebuild in the aftermath of that. And multiple people I spoke with today brought up that this is in the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, and that Minneapolis police have tried to rebuild after that. And what was striking out here earlier, Erin, was the crowd was so angry, and most of that anger was directed at the Minneapolis Police Department, who had nothing to do with this shooting but quickly became the target of furor from people who live here and work here. And for many people who saw it, Erin.

BURNETT: All right. Whitney, thank you very much, at that -- at that vigil.

And you know as Whitney is talking about, that anger initially that was directed at the Minneapolis police department, which, of course, was not involved with the shooting. Let's go now to the Minneapolis police chief, Brian O'Hara.

And, Chief, I appreciate your time.

In the context of what Whitney said, how worried are you about, about lash back, about this anger, about anything getting out of hand or violence in Minneapolis tonight?

CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA, MINNEAPOLIS POLICE: Well, I've been very concerned for several weeks, and I've been quite vocal about it. I have been worried. Not that law enforcement, federal law enforcement activity was happening, but how that enforcement was taking place in the city. And I have specifically said, I've been worried we would have a tragedy in our community.

And I would hope that everyone, regardless of their viewpoint, can acknowledge that the loss of a woman's life is tragic. And along with that, things in this city have been very tense for several weeks, and it is a very emotional situation, and it's very divisive and politically charged.

So that is why I have been asking all of our elected officials to please ask for peace and ask for calm. And as you mentioned, our police officers responded immediately. I responded immediately to the scene once I heard there was a report of a shooting.

But unfortunately, you know, as our officers were trying to leave today and trying to keep the peace to preserve the crime scene so that there can be an investigation so that there can be some level of, you know, of finding related to what actually happened. Our men and women became the object of hate, vitriol and just the frustration that has been building in this community for weeks.

BURNETT: So, I mean, obviously, it's very concerning. And I know in the context of that what Whitney is talking about, how close this is to actually what happened with George Floyd, right? And what your city, what your city went through.

But when you talk about politicians, there's different video angles out there now. And that's what we have. It did play out on, on video. You know, the angle that President Trump is sharing appears to show the agent bumped by the vehicle and he, of course, is characterizing it as he wrote that the woman driving the car was disorderly, obstructing and resisting, and then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer.

Is that -- is that what happened here? Is that the version you see, or is it different?

O'HARA: I would tell you this much. We owe it to this woman, to her family and to the American public to ensure that an investigation does occur and that that investigation occurs. And it follows all of the available evidence to its logical conclusion.

That being said, I can also tell you law enforcement in the United States has been training for many years to try and avoid incidents like this whenever possible, to try and avoid having -- having law enforcement officers placed into a situation with an unarmed motorist where they may have to use force. That's why there is an emphasis on proportionality, an emphasis on if you are able to identify a license plate, identify who the person is, follow up afterwards if there is some independent crime that did occur prior to the incident.

BURNETT: Right. And of course, in this case, all that was readily available, we can all see the license plate information. That would have been that would have been very easy to do, and that I'm just stating the facts.

Now, President Trump said it's hard to believe he's alive, but he's now recovering in the hospital, referring to the ICE agent. We understand he's been -- he's been discharged. I'm curious chief, though, how you see this? Because we're looking at him now as after the incident, walking away, he was adjusting his face mask. After he was, he was bumped. Obviously, he appears fine there.

Do you know anything about him? Who he is? Whatever happened to him? Obviously, he looks fine there. He was bumped.

O'HARA: Yeah.

BURNETT: He's out of whatever checkup he had.

O'HARA: There were at a minimum, dozens and dozens. If maybe not a few hundred, federal law enforcement officers on the scene. I did not speak to anyone. At least none of them told me that they were there when the shooting actually occurred. But I was very specific about asking if anyone else was injured. And at the time, I was told that it was it was only the woman. So, I don't know anything further.

BURNETT: Right. Well, it's important what you say. Again, all we have is a video and he's fine. We know he's out of the hospital, so it would seem that he's lucky to come out with his life is would be -- would be unfair.

So, the Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was speaking just a few moments ago, chief. And she said today was preventable, which actually is interesting because you're saying it was as well, in part because of what officers are trained to avoid these sorts of situations. But that's a different approach to the word preventable than she is using.

Here's what she said.

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KRISTI NOEM, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRTARY: It's very clear that this individual was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations. Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he's been taught to do in that situation, and took actions to defend himself and defend his coll -- fellow law enforcement officers.

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BURNETT: From what you said before, it sounds like you see it a bit differently.

O'HARA: Well, I cannot speak to the training of federal law enforcement officers. I have never been a federal law enforcement officer, but I -- what or what their policies or trainings are, what I can speak to is my familiarity with what city police officers are trained in the majority of cities around the country. And the way that training has been going for many, many years, and certainly in the last five years, especially in this city, which did burn five years ago, police officers have had been trained with a very, very strong emphasis on de-escalation, on using time and distance and cover to try and prevent police officers from getting injured and civilians from getting injured whenever possible.

BURNETT: Chief O'Hara, you know, a moment ago we heard your mayor, Jacob Frey, telling ICE to get the F out of Minneapolis. And, you know, he obviously used the word. when they said that this is going to be the largest enforcement ever that came from ICE. And then they put 2,000 officers. They said that was the number that were going to be on your streets.

Leading up to that, and where we are at this moment right now, this incredibly fraught, tense moment is ICE coordinating with you as the chief of Minneapolis police at all? Are they -- are they telling you what they're doing in any way, shape or form, or are you two ships in -- in the night on the same streets?

O'HARA: So, there is no coordination regarding immigration enforcement? And I do believe our federal law enforcement partners in general respect the fact that there is a separation between what we are lawfully able to do and what they do. And that being said, there -- just to be clear, there are many, many professional federal law enforcement officials that live in Minnesota that perform their job very, very well, that do work with us to do things other than immigration enforcement.

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They help us to go after people who are actually out on the street committing violent crimes, to go after shooters and murderers, people who are smuggling illegal drugs into the country. And we are very grateful for those partnerships with all of those federal agencies that work with us every day.

BURNETT: All right. Chief O'Hara, I appreciate your time, and thank you very much. As we're keeping those live images up of your city and this -- this fraught moment tonight. Thank you so much.

And everyone is here with me now.

John Miller, you know, you heard and he carries himself very professionally, Chief O'Hara. But he was very clear in a very professional way about a few things. He was told nobody was hurt by ICE officials there, except for the woman in the car. The president's version was that the officers lucky to be alive. And that it was very clear from training that Minneapolis Police Department would have done that this situation wouldn't have happened from a law enforcement perspective. Yet here we are.

JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: So, we know Chief O'Hara. I know him from Newark, New Jersey, where he was police director. We know him as the chief in Minneapolis after the George Floyd incident who was, you know, tasked to rebuild relationships with that community.

You know him from the time you spent together this august after the annunciation church shooting as the guy who led with dignity and compassion and what we're seeing here on your show tonight is, Chief O'Hara trying to thread that needle between not casting aside all of the relationships in that community that they had to rebuild with law enforcement. And at the same time, not becoming the target of the anger of people for something that was done by federal agents from federal agencies under national policy, that the Minneapolis police had nothing to do with, which is why he is keeping that separation from here's what we know, I can't speak for them.

BURNETT: An incredibly fraught moment, Lulu.

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: It's an incredibly fraught moment. And a moment where we are on the precipice, possibly of another wave of violence in this country because we have been hurtling towards this, since we have seen these very aggressive ICE operations going into blue cities, there's been increasing opposition to them, and everyone's been warning that something like this could happen. You heard the police chief there say it himself.

This is one law enforcement officer talking about his concern over how other law enforcement officers are behaving. And so, like, this isn't politics.

BURNETT: Very, very --

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Very clearly. BURNETT: But very clearly. Yes, yes.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: This isn't politics. This isn't, you know, someone a Democrat or an activist talking about the way ICE agents are behaving. This is a law enforcement officer tasked with civilian law enforcement, saying that he has been warning about this for weeks. And so that I think should really tell us that we are in a very, very serious moment.

BURNETT: And yet -- and yet, Joey, we're in a moment where you can have people looking at the same thing, find a different angle, and have completely different views of what appear to be very basic facts. I mean, just look again at the video, right? One officer, you see the officer at one angle, grab the door, right, for the woman, and then she backs up. It doesn't accelerate into the other guy. She backs up, which would seem to imply going to change direction. Get away. Right? That happens.

Then the other angle where the agent appears to be in front of the car. He does get bumped by the car, but he's still on his feet. And he appears to be fine. He shoots. So, I guess when you look at the video that we have, is there any question in your mind as to whether deadly force was justified?

JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: So, there are guardrails and there's a couple of things to talk about with respect to criteria that's going to be applied every day in courtrooms throughout this country. There are different perspectives. There's context, and people could evaluate the same information differently. But here's what's important.

Number one, there is department of justice guidance as it relates to use of force that speaks to not shooting into a vehicle that happens to be leaving or escaping. But there are exceptions to that.

Number two, there's a Supreme Court case, Tennessee versus Garner, 40 years ago, which says you're not to shoot when a suspect is fleeing. But there are exceptions to that.

And then when you look at the law itself, it's going to turn on three very critical things. Number one was the officer in immediate fear of death or serious bodily injury. Number two, were his actions proportionate to any threat posed by that vehicle. And number three, Erin, did he act reasonably?

That's the way this is going to be evaluated. And they're going to be. And it could come down to an investigation which leads to a potential prosecution, where you can have a jury interpreting what they see and whether tactically he was being run over or he had an opportunity to move away from that.

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BURNETT: Now she's a 37-year-old woman. They had all the information about a license plate and everything else that they would have needed right there. I mean, none of that was hidden.

Gil Kerlikowske is part of this conversation as well, former commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

So, Gil, how do you see it? I mean, you've seen the two videos, Trump's version he posts, the woman driving the car was disorderly, obstructing and resisting, then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer and Kristi Noem says that force is perfectly lawful.

What do you see in the videos?

GIL KERLIKOWSKE, FORMER COMMISSIONER OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION: Well, the most important part is that everywhere they've gone, this pack, Los Angeles and Chicago and now Minneapolis, they have used tactics that no legitimate law enforcement agency would use, including the training that Chief O'Hara, who is so well respected, talked about. You don't stand in front of a vehicle. You don't place yourself in danger.

The Supreme Court just recently ruled on this. And this is called something like self-imposed jeopardy. So, you're supposed to get out of the way. You're not supposed to try the door handle. You're not supposed to open this.

These are agents that work in rural areas on the border, often by themselves. And this is clearly the wrong skill set, as former Secretary Tom Ridge has mentioned, former Secretary Michael Chertoff and myself, this is clearly the wrong skill set to be putting them in an urban environment. And that's been shown across the country.

BURNETT: I mean, John, just to state the obvious, right? If the -- putting aside the fact that it appears he was just bumped, right? As to her intent even if you put that aside, if he had stepped aside and she had left, they could have just pulled her aside a little bit further or pulled her in later. I mean, they had all the information from her car.

MILLER: Well, what Commissioner Kerlikowske is talking about is, after a series across the country in major cities of incidents where people were fleeing police, police fired into moving cars, cars went out of control and crashed. They looked at those policies, and they came up with the Police Executive Research Forum report. It was adopted by most major cities.

BURNETT: What you're holding there literally says vehicular pursuits, and its policy.

MILLER: Right. And page -- and this is the -- this is the updated version. They did this years ago.

We did this in New York in 1994, '95. We changed it in LAPD when I was there in 2004. But it's basically simple, which is if you're confronted by a moving vehicle that could be a threat to you, get out of the way of the vehicle and don't shoot at a car.

Now, this is DHS policy. I'm reading to you from DHS policy. DHS law enforcement officers are prohibited from discharging firearms at the operator of a moving vehicle or other conveyance, unless the use of deadly force. Basically, it says, unless it --

BURNETT: This appears to be black and white.

MILLER: Well, it does, and it also says a law enforcement officer must take into consideration the hazards that may be posed to law enforcement and innocent bystanders by an out-of-control vehicle, which we just saw. The result of that.

The point is, unless the person is literally either using the vehicle to ram other people in a terrorist attack or has a car bomb or is chasing you with the vehicle in particular getting out of the way and reducing the tactical exigency where you're not creating a situation where you're forced to fire these shots is what most law enforcement agencies have adopted.

BURNETT: Very clear that that's what was there.

MILLER: And it's missing here.

BURNETT: All right, everyone staying with me here. We have breaking news continuing on this. A witness next, who was there speaking out for the first time. She was there when the ICE officer shot miss good in her car.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How can I relax? You just killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) neighbor. You caught her in the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) face.

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BURNETT: So, what did she see? The incident itself and ahead of it.

And Minnesota's lieutenant governor is OUTFRONT. She says she will not allow Trump and what she calls his thugs to turn communities into war zones.

And breaking news, the United States is now in control of a Russian flagged tanker after pursuing it. Russia tonight calling this 21st century piracy

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BURNETT: Breaking news, an eyewitness of the shooting speaking out tonight. Her name is Emily Heller. She lives on the street where the shooting happened, and she filmed video that we have here just now to share with you OUTFRONT. It shows the chaos immediately after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by that ICE agent in Minneapolis hours ago.

We're going to play it for you. I do want to warn you that it is graphic.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can I go check a pulse?

ICE AGENT: No. Back up now.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm a physician.

ICE AGENT: You -- we got EMS coming, and I get it. Just give us a second. We have medics on scene. We have our own medics.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where are they? Where are they?

How can I relax? You just killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) neighbor. You caught her in the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) face. You killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) neighbor.

How can you show up to work every day? How do you do this every day? You're killing my neighbors. You're stealing my neighbors. What the (EXPLETIVE DELETED), man.

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BURNETT: Emily Heller is OUTFRONT now, who you heard there and filmed that in that horrifically traumatic moment.

So, Emily, I know you live there. This is your street. This is your home, and you're inside your house. You hear all of this -- this commotion, everything happening, starting to happen.

Okay, can you tell me what happened then? You hear everything. You come outside and then what?

HELLER: I hadn't even gotten dressed. I was making breakfast, I came, I went out, I heard the commotion, I heard whistles, which is a common sign of ICE is nearby, and, I went out onto my front porch. I didn't even have shoes on, and, within -- within 60 seconds. Everything had already gone down.

But there was a -- there was an ICE convoy that was -- that seemed to be stuck. And then there was a protester who was blocking traffic so they couldn't progress. And, she was totally peaceful.

And ICE, it seemed completely unorganized. They didn't really know what they were doing. They were screaming at her to move, move, move. And then they approached her vehicle aggressively and grabbed, tried to open her door.

And then that's when she got spooked and she reversed her vehicle, to turn her wheels to try to escape. And that's when an ICE agent stepped in front of her vehicle and said, stop. And then she was already moving. And then, point blank shot her through her windshield in the face.

BURNETT: I can't imagine what it was to see that, Emily, the way that you are laying this out, though, I just want to repeat, make sure that that I'm clear. And please correct me if I say anything wrong. You're saying that what you saw was disorganized ICE. But then when they tried to get her to stop, she got spooked. She reversed her car to turn her wheels to get away. And that was when the officer stepped in front.

HELLER: They were telling her to leave. They were telling her to move. And then all of a sudden, they were -- they were -- seemed like they were trying to get her. So, they were telling her to move. And then in a split second, they were saying -- they were trying to get her out of the car.

So, it was like she was trying to move one. Once they were trying to get in her -- in her car. She was, of course, she wanted to leave. At that point, they were extremely aggressive.

BURNETT: Yeah. She would have been scared, obviously. You know, President Trump, as you know, posted -- he posted a video saying that it's lucky the ICE agent was alive. And I just want to be clear. The ICE agent is walking afterwards. And we know that from any -- anything that he had in the hospital. He's fine. And he's out.

But President Trump posted --

HELLER: Oh, he stood there --

BURNETT: Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me what you're going to say about what he did afterwards.

HELLER: Oh, he just stood there. The ICE agents, other ICE agents surrounded him. He was obviously spooked, too. I mean, they seem like children. They seem like untrained people.

And so, that agent was obviously spooked because he had just killed someone. And it was very obvious to everyone who had witnessed it all that she would not make it. And so, they -- they kind of gathered around him and then they got a -- there was a gold SUV that came and they put him in it and got him out of there because everyone knew he had murdered someone.

BURNETT: So President Trump says the woman was disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense. He shared a video of the incident from a different angle.

What's your response to that version of events?

HELLER: I mean, that -- that's the only reason why I'm here. I don't think I'm the most articulate person. I don't think that -- I don't want to be here. But I knew that this would be twisted and it would be self-defense. And that's absolutely not what happened.

But it's just -- I -- my -- my life is forever changed from having witnessed this, and I'm, I -- I just can't let this narrative that it was self-defense go any further because it's absolutely not what it was. And, yeah, my neighborhood, my neighbors, we're all going to be pretty traumatized for the -- from this for a long time.

BURNETT: When in that video that you shared with us that I just played the 34 seconds, you know, you're obviously incredibly distraught. And there's a doctor next to you or near you, you can hear, hear him saying, I'm a -- I'm a -- I'm a physician. I can help. And they say, no, we have our own medics.

But the doctor is there offering to administer CPR, standing right there. I don't want you to have to relive what you were looking at when the horror of her death. But how did agents respond to him? Was there a speed and a desperation in trying to get any sort of assistance to her? Because it didn't sound like that from what you gave us?

HELLER: Yeah. They wouldn't let him near. And they said they had their own medics that were on their way, which it was. It was I mean, I don't know, it was at least 15 minutes before the ambulance arrived and then the ambulance couldn't even get through because the ICE agents had all abandoned their vehicles in the road.

So, the ambulance couldn't get through. So they parked at the end of the block and about five paramedics came in and, examined her for. I didn't see this, but I just they -- they were -- with her for a few minutes, and then they carried her limp body away by her limbs, not even on a stretcher. Just carried her down to the end of the block where they could get a stretcher. Because there was they couldn't get through with their ambulance.

BURNETT: Emily, I appreciate your talking about this. I -- I know it has to be incredibly difficult, and I think everyone understands why you're choosing to do it, to make sure people understand exactly what it is that you saw and documented. And I appreciate your being willing to do it.

HELLER: Yeah. Thanks.

BURNETT: All right. Joey, you heard what Emily had to say. And, you know, she said, I don't -- I don't want to be here, but I'm here because I want everyone to know what I saw. And she's very clear about what she saw.

JACKSON: Listen, it's got to be a very traumatic experience. What I'm concerned about, though, is the nature of the investigation. Let's be clear that there are going to be, of course, local officials investigating this bureau of criminal apprehension, in addition to the federal government.

In the event that there's anything federal here, of course, then Trump would have the power to pardon. We're not there yet. There's not been a prosecution. There's not been an indictment. There's not been a criminal charge levied.

However, in the event that it goes that way, I think it's very important that the community gets a sense of fairness, a sense of justice. And in the event that it is federal, of course, there would be, according to Trump and what he put out already, he's judged that there's nothing to see here.

And so, if the locals get it, what will they do? Will they move forward? And if they move forward, what will that look like? What would it look like? A, you know, actual prosecution and what would be the prosecution here? Criminal negligence, intent? We'll see.

BURNETT: Gil, I'm curious. Emily was talking about there's that position and I understand that in the moment like this, right, there's -- the most important thing about this country is a country of rules and laws. And if they're not upheld in one horrific part of something, doesn't mean that they should also be dropped in another.

In that context -- even with that said, though, when the physician says I can help and he's right there, and maybe at that point it appears to everybody she's dead. But to take 15 minutes for someone to get there and to not allow someone who might be able to administer CPR, that -- just on a human level, that's really hard to hear.

KERLIKOWSKE: Well, if you do have paramedics that are trained, and I believe ICE and CBP, Customs and Border Protection has people that are trained and they're right there, that that can be a help. I think you're always going to be as a law enforcement officer, maybe a little suspicious of the person that said, wait, I'm a doctor, I'm a physician. I can, I can help, et cetera. I mean, I think they could have been handled, much better, but if they did have the paramedics there immediately, immediately on the scene, they're going to give -- give her treatment.

BURNETT: Right. Of course, they said it was 15 minutes, but the trauma there that you heard, the trauma.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yeah. I mean, that's what struck me. There's two things that struck me. First of all, just how horrific to witness this on your street, right? And then the second thing is her characterization of the behavior of the ICE agents, the lack of training, the different -- the disorganization, the way that they were talking to her, giving her, contradicting you know, advice. So, I think there's a lot to unpack here.

BURNETT: Yeah. All right. Thank you all very much.

And our breaking news continues as people are gathering at the scene of the shooting, President Trump now says professional agitators are involved. The lieutenant governor of Minnesota is next. And breaking a tense situation tonight on the seas. American forces have seized a Russian flagged oil tanker. We've got new details on this story this hour.

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BURNETT: The breaking news from Minneapolis. The police chief, Brian O'Hara moments ago, telling us that the only person injured on the scene of the shooting today was the victim.

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O'HARA: I was very specific about asking if anyone else was injured. And at the time I was told that it was -- it was only the woman. So I don't know anything further.

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BURNETT: He, of course, is the chief of police. That account does contradict the narrative coming from the White House. President Trump says that it is hard to believe that the agent involved is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. We do know the agent is not in the hospital at this time.

Let's go to Laura Coates OUTFRONT in Minneapolis.

Laura, what are you seeing there?

LAURA COATES, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ANALYST: There's a huge crowd of people gathered within blocks of where this woman lost her life at the hands of an ICE agent. And I can tell you, I went through the crowd today, and there is anger. There is frustration, there is extreme sadness. I spoke to a group of three sisters whose father had been deported during the Trump administration in 2018, and they expressed that they wanted to be here because they could not believe that they believed somebody was killed just trying to present their voices.

They didn't want anyone to go through the devastation of having to navigate what it's like to have ICE. They say, terrorize a community in a way that they had experienced. Others in the community who were nearby expressed their frustration and shock at this being just a few blocks away from where George Floyd killed.

They also expressed they had felt this way even before this tragedy happened today. They were afraid that ICE would. One person telling me in actuality do more than what is required under the law just to satisfy the president of the United States.

And there has been mixed reaction in terms of the reaction of the administration stateside in Minnesota, but also Secretary Noem and President Trump's own social media posting. But the real frustration, the murmur you're hearing everyone talk about is recanting exactly what happened. And there is a consistent drumbeat and a through line here, Erin. And that is they do not believe that they were entitled to shoot this woman. They do not believe that there was any imminent threat of bodily harm.

And as you well know, there's a kind of a phrase, kill or be killed that can govern the activity of law enforcement. If they are in imminent bodily harm of imminent lethal harm to themselves or others, they can take action. Many of them are recanting how they could simply have sidestepped the vehicle and still have been safe.

It is eerie tonight to see how this is all transpired in a year. Theres always been so much tragedy here in Minnesota, from the shootings of political lawmaker to, of course, annunciation school recently and everything in between. And of course, George Floyd looms large here, knowing that this is the very jurisdiction in Minneapolis, where it was law enforcement who spoke up against the excessive use of force and got the conviction of one Derek Chauvin.

BURNETT: All right. Laura Coates, thank you very much. On the ground there in Minneapolis, as crowds are gathering for that vigil.

I want to go now to the lieutenant governor of Minnesota and Democratic Senate candidate, Peggy Flanagan.

Lieutenant Governor, I appreciate your time.

So, you know, what is your sense right now of how tense and how much risk there is of something bigger happening on the ground in Minneapolis?

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LT. GOV. PEGGY FLANAGAN (D), MINNESOTA: I mean, listen, I think, you know what you just heard from Laura on the ground is, you know, what we're hearing from people across the state. Folks are angry. They are incredibly upset. They are sad that a mother has been killed by ICE agents.

And what we see tonight is people who are showing up in the way that they should show up in vigil with, you know, nonviolent resistance. That's the most important tool in our toolbox right now. And so, what we're seeing on the ground with people expressing just sadness and anger and lament, but doing so peacefully, that's what I think you can expect from Minnesotans tonight.

But I also just want to be really, really clear that Renee Nicole Good should be alive. She was killed by an ICE agent, and the video footage that we have seen with our own eyes was a very different story from what we're hearing from Kristi Noem and Donald Trump.

She was a mother of a 6-year-old. She had stuffed animals. She had stuffed animals in her vehicle for her child.

This is outrageous. And we all should be incredibly upset by what we witnessed today. And expect so much more from leaders at the national level like Donald Trump and Kristi Noem.

BURNETT: President Trump is saying that professional agitators are involved in this. And I just wanted to get your response to that, Lieutenant Governor, because he says in one of his posts, in part, the situation is being studied in its entirety. But the reason these incidents are happening is because the radical left is threatening, assaulting and targeting our law enforcement officers and ICE agents on a daily basis. What's your response?

FLAGANAN: I think that's outrageous. It's ridiculous. The people that I see in the streets, I literally saw, you know, a 72-year-old grandmother today, right? Those are the folks, legal observers who are people who just care tremendously about their neighbor, who are taking video footage with their cameras of ICE agents who are detaining American citizens. Arresting innocent bystanders, literally, you know, throwing people into the back of vans, right?

This is what is outrageous. You know, the folks that, you know, they're claiming, are needed and necessary to keep people in our community safe. The ICE agents are the very people themselves who are making us unsafe.

BURNETT: So the president said, you know, this is being studied, but it's very clear from his post that post that they believe it was self- defense and that the feds have all but said that the FBI is looking into it. But it appears that they obviously will not be moving forward with charges. That seems pretty clear.

Will Minnesota then try to leapfrog that and push with state charges of this ICE officer?

FLANAGAN: I think that, you know, that's certainly something that, you know, will need to be taken very seriously. I think the people of Minnesota, the folks in Minneapolis, the loved ones of, you know, Renee Nicole Good deserve justice. They deserve transparency.

And I know that that's something that, you know, I will be calling for justice and transparency. And so that, you know, as they're talking about, you know, domestic terrorism or somehow, you know, trying to disrespect and insult the memory of Renee Nicole Good, we need to do everything we can to make sure that the truth is getting out there and that, you know, what people have seen with their own eyes, both in eyewitness accounts, but also on, you know, the video footage that's been taken tells a very, very different story than, frankly, I think the lies that are coming out of Donald Trump and Kristi Noem.

BURNETT: Lieutenant Governor, thank you very much. We appreciate your time tonight.

And so many breaking stories. It is -- it is difficult for anyone to keep track of all of this. But right now, we do have an update on the story of U.S. forces in control of a Russian flag tanker. And we're going to share those new details just coming in with you next.

We are also learning more about Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was killed today by the ICE agent in Minneapolis and will share those details ahead.

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BURNETT: Breaking news. You are looking at this crowd in Minneapolis. It is large and it is growing. This is just moments ago. These images coming in and, of course, is right where the woman was fatally shot by an ICE agent, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good.

An eyewitness to the shooting just telling me that the White House's version of what happened today is incorrect. She said, I know this would be twisted and it would be self-defense, and that's absolutely not what happened. My life is forever changed for witnessing this, and I just can't let this narrative that it was self-defense go any further because it's absolutely not what it was.

And she explained to us in detail, Emily Heller, what she saw.

And we are following now as this is happening, so many other breaking stories tonight in Venezuela, in Iran, around the world, and on the Atlantic, where U.S. Navy SEALs are now part of a force that has seized an oil tanker linked to Venezuela. Now we're learning this, according to two people briefed on the situation.

Russia claims that the tanker was under its protection. They even sent a submarine and other naval assets to defend it from the United States. A stunning situation in and of itself to imagine such a stand down.

But the ship which the United States had been following, apparently for more than two weeks, was actually captured about 190 miles from Iceland.

OUTFRONT now, Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.

Congressman, I appreciate your time. And I do want to ask you about Minneapolis.

First, though, we're talking about this, this ship that were learning more about. I understand that you are learning more about it, that basically it's been followed for two weeks by U.S. military, and they've now seized it. They say it was a Venezuelan oil tanker. Russian flag was flying over it.

What is the latest that you're learning about this?

REP. SDAM SMITH (D-WA): Well, a couple of things. First, it was not a Russian ship. It was an unflagged ship, part of the shadow fleet out there. Russia tried to claim it as a defensive measure. So, it was an unlawful ship in that regard.

But what's going on here is the Trump administration is blockading Venezuela's ability to export their oil, basically trying to use that as a coercive pressure point. And according to Secretary Rubio, this is working. Venezuela is now saying that they will allow the U.S. to take some of their oil to sell it. But basically, it's just a pressure point.

So instead of Venezuela selling the oil on the open market more or less through China will be selling that oil. It's not really clear how that improves anything, either for the people of Venezuela or for the U.S. It gives us a coercive power over Venezuela, but it doesn't do anything with the drug trade or to improve the government in Venezuela. It's just an effort by the Trump administration to use power to force, basically to bend Venezuela to their will, whatever that will may be.

BURNETT: Yeah. And ill also point out Venezuela is currently producing fewer than a million barrels a year. Trump has said that he's going to sell 30 to 50 million barrels. Just to be clear, the math here is, is not consistent.

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I want to ask you, as I promised, about what's going on in Minnesota and the breaking details there, as were talking, congresswoman, of course, crowds are gathering. That vigil is building.

It is a fraught and tense moment. As you've looked at this today, what do you think about the story put out by the administration, the homeland security secretary, as well as by Trump himself, of what happened leading to this fatal shooting, where Trump says that the officer was, you know, lucky that he's alive.

SMITH: It's complete nonsense. I mean, you see the video, the car was basically trying to pull away, if anything, the agents that were there were running after the vehicle. The vehicle made no effort to go after any agent.

BURNETT: Yeah, we see it reversed there, and --

SMITH: It seemed like they were complying with what the agents said, which was basically, get out of here, you're blocking us. And they were getting out of there.

And look, I think this is tied in some degree to what we've seen happen with the boat strikes down in Venezuela. And this is an attitude of the Trump administration that law enforcement, whether its ICE or on a -- on a military side, is getting carte blanche from this administration, basically saying, do what you want to do. There will be no accountability.

And we've seen them use force in a way that is excessive, unnecessary and escalatory and deadly to innocent people. And this is the message that Secretary Hegseth is sending. Secretary Noem is sending, the president is sending.

You know, if you are part of what they deem law enforcement and it's ICE, it's DEA, it's a wide range of organizations, they're giving them just total freedom to use force. And you see this culture spreading amongst the people in ICE and elsewhere. And it is deadly for innocent civilians.

They're supposed to be accountability. It is an awesome responsibility to be able to enforce the law and to have the right to use deadly force when necessary. And the Trump administration is saying, go knock yourself out, do it. No accountability.

And this is the result of that innocent people being killed by government agents.

BURNETT: Congressman Smith, thank you very much.

SMITH: Thanks, Erin.

BURNETT: And next, Renee Nicole Good's mother speaking out about her daughter who was killed by the ICE agent.

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BURNETT: And we have breaking news. We have the new information about Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman, mother of a six-year-old who is dead tonight after being shot by the ICE agent in Minneapolis. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith says she was an American citizen. Renee was American.

Good's mother spoke to "The Minneapolis Star Tribune" and disputes DHS claims that she was challenging ICE agents. As you saw, the eyewitness also do. She says her daughter is not part of anything like that at all.

Adds that "Renee was one of the kindest people I've ever known. She was extremely compassionate. She's taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being."

Donna Ganger has lost her daughter tonight.

Thank you so much for joining us as our breaking news coverage this hour continues with Anderson Cooper and "AC360".