An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a U.S. citizen last week in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Bystander video of the incident was shared online immediately, leading to much debate about the actions of both the ICE agents and the victim, Renee Good. Our analysts rated media coverage from across the political spectrum in our Topic of the Week.

The most fact-based reporting from our content set came from an article and video published on the ABC News website. The article provides a timeline of events during the shooting, based on videos taken during the incident and on comments made by officials immediately after. Analysts found this content to be “thorough fact reporting/fact-dense analysis.” It was assigned a slight “skews left” bias rating because the video expresses mistrust of the Trump administration’s ability to conduct a fair and thorough investigation.

An article from NPR focuses on the investigation into the incident by both federal officials and state/local prosecutors in Minnesota. It also provides details about federal agents shooting two people in Portland and updates about the identity of the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, who killed Good in Minneapolis. It gives both sides of the “competing narratives” about the shooting from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Analysts found the article to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

In a video on the Brian Tyler Cohen YouTube channel, the host interviews attorney and former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who calls the shooting “some level of homicide” because it is not “justified use of deadly force” by ICE agent Ross. Kirschner also called Noem’s statement after the shooting “purely propaganda” not backed up by video of the incident. Cohen shared a statement from President Trump and called it a “slew of outright lies.” Kirchner predicts that Trump’s administration will not prosecute the officer (and if they did and he were convicted, Trump would pardon him anyway), but he says state charges should be filed and prosecution would be successful. For reliability, analysts placed the video on the line between “analysis” and “opinion.” The video received a “strong left” bias rating because of language and criticism of Trump and his administration.

An article and short video from HuffPost were also found to have a “strong left” bias, but they were rated lower in reliability, in the category of “opinion.” The article disputes Noem’s statement that Good committed an “act of domestic terrorism” and her accusation that Good hit Ross with her car. The article contends that video evidence shows Good was trying to drive away from ICE agents and leave the scene when she was shot. Analysts noted that the main claim of the article — that the car did not strike the officer — is disputed. The most disputed aspect of content on this topic is whether and how much the car made contact with the officer, which is difficult to conclusively determine even from multiple videos. Statements within articles that assert certainty or absolutism about this aspect are rated lower for reliability.

In a video on the Megyn Kelly YouTube channel a day after the shooting, the host says that mainstream media “has lost their minds,” Minnesota officials are “gone” and can’t be “reasoned with,” and they’re “not going to be happy until an ICE officer is dead.” Kelly says Good’s death was “her own doing” because she endangered herself by not complying with ICE agents. She says “lunatic” protesters are “demonizing” Ross as a murderer and shows a video of “poor ICE agent” Ross being dragged by a car during a different ICE enforcement incident last year. Analysts noted that Kelly says multiple times that Ross was “run over,” which is unsupported, or at least exaggerated. Because of the “vitriolic language,” insults, and unsupported claims, analysts found the video to be “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias.

Finally, an article from SGT Report that was originally published by Town Hall calls Good an “idiot leftist who was either trying to kill him (Ross) or so stupid that she’d put herself into a position to panic and react stupidly in a way that he absolutely was justified in shooting her.” The article states that Democrats “don’t care” if Ross was about to be run over: “They’d rather have law enforcement officers dead than, well, anything else.” For Democrats, the article states, “Renee Good was disposable. She became more useful to these grave dancing ghouls in death than she ever could be alive.” The article goes on to say that Good and her wife “come off like women who have been insulated from consequences their entire adult life.” Analysts found the article to misrepresent the video evidence of the incident, giving it a reliability rating of “containing misleading info.” The vitriol toward Good and Democrats in general led to a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

Want to see if you agree with our analysis? New Topics of the Week are posted on the website each Monday. Read the articles and watch the videos yourself, then come back on Wednesday to compare your scores with those of our analysts. Learn more here.