Jimmy Kimmel has lashed out at Donald Trump over his defence of an ICE agent who shot a mother-of-three dead in Minneapolis. 

The woman, named as 37-year-old poet Renee Nicole Good, was shot dead by an as-yet-unidentified ICE agent on Wednesday.  

ICE claimed she deliberately drove her burgundy SUV at agents, while the Department of Homeland Security claimed the middle-aged white woman 'weaponized her vehicle' and called her actions an 'act of domestic terrorism', but witnesses dispute this characterisation. 

Trump said the shooting appeared to be an act of 'self-defence,' adding that after watching a clip of the incident, it was 'hard to believe' the agent was still alive. However, other clips purportedly showed the ICE officer was unharmed.

He added: 'The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, wilfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defence.' 

In a monologue for his show on Wednesday, Kimmel spoke of the shooting and Trump's response, calling him a 'maniac'. 

He lambasted Trump's characterisation of Renee's behaviour during her final moments: 'Now, I saw this video. It didn't look like anybody got run over to me. It looked to me like a woman got scared, tried to drive away, and they shot her'.

He was quick to add, however, that a ruling on blame was for 'the court to decide'. 

In a monologue for his show on Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel (pictured) spoke of the shooting and Trump's response, calling him a 'maniac'

Good was shot three times in the face at a protest in Minneapolis on Wednesday and died at the scene after trying to drive off

Meanwhile, Trump took to Truth Social calling the deceased driver 'very disorderly' and someone who 'viciously ran over the ICE Officer'

Footage of the shooting showed the victim blocking the road with her car until ICE agents told her to move away.

She reversed to head back down the road as an agent tried to open its driver-side door handle before she drove off. Three shots then rang out. 

Good lost control of the SUV and slammed it into parked cars and a light pole at high speed, prompting screams of shock from horrified onlookers. Her SUV was seen with a bullet hole through the driver's side windshield.

Following the fatal ICE shooting, Minneapolis' mayor Jacob Frey demanded ICE ''get the f**k out' of the city.  

He said: 'We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is safety and you are doing exactly the opposite.'