well, admittedly, I don't know the intent of stepping in front of a car...whether that's part of the normal approach or whether the officer was just dumb. But, I've seen videos of multiple protests where protesters stand in front of ICE or LE cars as a means to stop movement. Also dumb, IMO, but apparently some people feel as if that's effective.
There have been plenty of news reports where folks with a law enforcement background weigh in with comments on this incident. A lot of it is just political, but if you listen to enough of them and you can glean a few useful bits of information. I tend to agree what Ms. Good bears some portion of the blame for her tragic fate, but it is a decidedly small portion. Consider the following:
1. A couple of law enforcement commentators noted that typical police protocol for a situation like this is for officers to position themselves on the side of a motor vehicle rather than in front or in back of the motor vehicle. Vehicles move forward and backward, not sideways.
2. Standard protocol is for a single member of the law enforcement team to be in command, and give directions to the person in the vehicle. That helps avoid confusion and mistakes. In this case, one ICE officer ran up to Ms. Good's vehicle shouting "Get out of the car." while the shooter had already drawn his weapon and moved in front of the front driver's side corner of the car. If Ms. Good had simply been parked in the middle of the street, I fail to see why that should have prompted either of these ICE officers to ramp things up so dramatically. It would be quite understandable if Ms. Good's reaction was panic.
3. The shooter may have a self defense argument with respect to his first shot, as he may have subjectively believed that Ms. Good's vehicle was coming at him even though she had the wheels turned to her right. But one LE commentator said that the self defense argument must be assessed with respect to each and every shot fired. He fired at least three shots, with the last two coming from the driver's side of the vehicle. Those shots were clearly not taken in self defense., as there is no way Ms. Good's car could strike him at that point.
4. The actions of ICE personnel immediately following the shooting were also pretty sketchy. The shooter and an ICE colleague promptly got in an ICE vehicle and departed, which clearly altered the crime scene. Moreover, the ICE officers who surrounded Ms. Good's car would not allow a doctor who was a bystander to render medical assistance to Ms. Good,. The bystander identified himself as a doctor and requested permission to render assistance,. to which an ICE officer responded. "No.." When said doctor noted how urgent Ms. Good's need for medical care was, the ICE agent responded "I don't care."
5. This incident already put a black eye on ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, but the Trump Administration,has compounded things by announcing that the FBI (and perhaps DHS) would be taking exclusive control of the investigation of this incident. Asking the feds to investigate themselves (particularly under folks like Trump, Noem and Cash Patel, who commented on the incident before knowing any of the details about it) is hardly likely to inspire any kind of confidence in the outcome of the investigation.
I think a lot of this is attributable to the fact that these ICE agents have not received training in dealing with members of the community, and are ill equipped to do so. Which is problematic given that they have been deployed all over the country in considerable numbers. There are reportedly more than 2,000 of them in the Minneapolis area alone.