The Good Shooting Death by an ICE Officer in Minneapolis
January 8, 2026 5:20pm
Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year-old woman, was shot and killed by ICE Officer Jonathan Ross yesterday in Minneapolis. The Left predictably responded with violent rioting - not just in Minnesota but in cities across the country. Both sides have since jumped to conclusions and are shamefully abusing this situation for partisan gain.
The Republicans have referred to Renee Nicole Good as a domestic terrorist, which is a patently absurd description. And they have amplified the injuries sustained by the ICE officer, assuming he was injured at all; Good's vehicle barely hit him.
The Democrats, however, have blood on their hands because they have been encouraging violent resistance against law enforcement since at least 2014. Good died yesterday while committing at least two simultaneous crimes. Perhaps she forgot she was dealing with federal agents instead of with Minnesota cops who had been instructed by Democrat politicians to allow violence to go unpunished.
Whether one agrees with ICE enforcement raids or not is irrelevant. Those raids are legal. So impeding the raids is illegal, especially when impeded with violence. Despite Governor Walz's complaints to the contrary, a law enforcement officer is well within his rights to use deadly force against someone aggressively driving a vehicle towards him. Not that it's relevant to federal law enforcement operations, but even Minnesota Statute 609.066 authorizes the police to use deadly force in the situation that occurred. But don't take my word for it. It can be read at https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.066
Some activists on the Left have tried to silence conservative critics by pointing to the death of Ashli Babbitt. She was the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by Capitol Police Officer Michael Byrd as she climbed through an internal window near the Speaker's Lobby on January 6, 2021. But that is a complete non sequitur to Good's death because 1) Babbitt did not pose an imminent threat to Byrd's life, and 2) Byrd was exonerated in the subsequent investigation with the shooting being deemed "lawful and within Department policy." So the two deaths have almost nothing in common. The riots of January 6th were stupid, illegal, and unAmerican. But that riot doesn't justify the ongoing violence being committed against police officers across this nation at the behest of elected Democrats who have instructed their followers to engage in violent "resistance."
The ICE agents in Minneapolis are after people with names like Muhammad, Farouk, Hakeem, Barack, Khalid, Ilhan, and Rashida. The Minnesota raids are in response to the billions of taxpayer dollars stolen by Somali immigrant families through fraudulent welfare schemes that helped fund foreign terrorist organizations.
Critics of yesterday's ICE shooting cite the direction of the tires on Good's vehicle. Yeah, from watching it several times in the comfort of my office, Good appeared to be turning her wheels to the right to drive away not to strike the ICE officer. But 1) the officer had no way of knowing that in the fraction of a second he had to respond, and 2) whatever Good's intentions were, she DID strike the ICE officer! She made several bad decisions yesterday. And it cost her her life.
NBC News reported that Officer Ross had been dragged by a car during an immigration enforcement traffic stop seven months ago. He suffered multiple wounds which required 33 stitches to close. So he may have had heightened sensitivity to an oncoming vehicle being driven in an aggressive manner. But heightened sensitivity or not, the shooting looked like appropriate self-defense to me.
We have the right in this country to PEACEABLY assemble. We do not have the right to violently attack the police. Yet these ne'er-do-well protesters have been emboldened by their Democrat overlords to think they can commit acts of violence without suffering any consequences. Well, under Trump - or any decent elected official - they cannot. But if they insist on trying, some will pay with their lives.
This afternoon, two people in a car in Portland were shot after the driver allegedly tried to run over a Customs and Border Patrol Agent during a targeted traffic stop. As of this writing, they're both alive. But if they die, it's their own damn fault - although it would also be the fault of those Democrats who encouraged them to engage in the lawless behavior.
Some people have asked "What good does it do to engage in violence against ICE officers?" What good does it do? It does a lot of good if the goal is to destroy the United States as a free, constitutional republic. And that is the goal of these Leftists protesters. Aided and encouraged by Democrats and their allies in the propaganda press, these malcontents are attempting to destroy the very foundation of our nation, so they can rebuild it into a socialist utopia, with them in charge, of course. They view a few deaths of their useful idiots to be a small price to pay. That's why Democrats are dangerous enemies of our Republic.
Good's death, while unfortunate, was her own damn fault. She and her wife (yes, those gender descriptions are correct) were both part of an organized attempt to obstruct ICE operations in Minneapolis. Good described herself on social media as a "poet and writer and wife and mom." So to honor her love of poetry, I have written the following advice for other ICE protesters:
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Don't drive into the cops,
Or you'll end up dead too.