Image claiming to show Renee Nicole Good’s car aimed at ICE officer isn’t what it seems

After a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026, social media users shared an image appearing to show Good’s car aimed toward and about to hit the officer.

The image spread on social media platforms such as Reddit and X. “Any questions?” one Facebook user posted, apparently assuming the image was authentic. 

However, the image was fake. Using reverse image search tools, we traced it to a post from X user @ScummyMummy511, who acknowledged using artificial intelligence to create it. The AI-generated depiction also did not match the scene shown in multiple credible videos and photos of the shooting, further proving it wasn’t authentic.  

Multiple credible analyses of videos from the shooting contradicted claims that Good was attempting to run over the officer and found that the wheels of her vehicle were turned away from him right before the shooting. (After a Minnesota news outlet released the agent’s own cellphone video on Jan. 9, Vice President JD Vance was among officials who said the footage showed he had fired has gun in self-defense.)

Tracking down origin of image 

In many versions of the image circulating online, text on the left-hand side says “mmy511.” A reverse image search via Google Images returned multiple results for the full picture, which included the watermark “@ScummyMummy511.” 

That led us to @ScummyMummy511’s X post, which included the image alongside a defense of the officer who shot Good. In a reply to the original post, @ScummyMummy511 wrote: 

Omg how’d you get that picture of the shooting? How did you know to fly a drone at this moment over this situation? I didn’t, this is a AI generated image of the scene just so r*****s can see why the Agent fired his weapon.

How to tell image is AI-generated 

Even without the creator’s acknowledgment, the image showed clear signs of being created with artificial intelligence.

For example, videos of the shooting posted by credible journalists and news outlets showed that the passenger side door was not open, like it is in the fake image. One of the officers in the picture also appears to have a distorted leg. 

The left image shows issues with the AI image, such as the open passenger door — which was not reflected in the right image, a screenshot taken from a credible video of the shooting. (X user @ScummyMummy511/Max Nesterak/Snopes Illustration )

Finally, the shooting happened near the intersection of 34th Street East and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. According to Google Street View — and the reputable videos of the shooting — that intersection has a one-way street with white dotted lines and a neighborhood street with no lines, as opposed to the double yellow lines indicating a two-way street in the AI-generated image. 

Snopes previously debunked another AI-generated image claiming to show the full face of the officer who killed Good. Multiple credible news outlets have identified that agent as Jonathan Ross, though Snopes has not independently verified that.

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