The misinformation and gaslighting about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis is off the charts. So let’s set the record straight.

I began my article last Thursday with this paragraph:

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday when she accelerated her car and struck an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. She had already obstructed ICE agents’ work and traffic on a public street and then refused to comply with another officer’s orders to get out of the vehicle.

Those facts remain correct, as further corroborated by two additional videos that emerged in the days that followed. Nevertheless, Democrats and their Leftmedia allies are still deliberately lying about it to foment anger and rebellion against Donald Trump and his administration. Let’s look at this in three parts.

Evidence

BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 9, 2026

The above video is cellphone footage recorded by Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot Good. The video makes several things clear: Good purposefully obstructed traffic and disobeyed direct orders from ICE officers, she struck Ross with her vehicle, and her “wife,” Rebecca, cockily antagonized Ross and the others before yelling “Drive, baby, drive!” a second before Renee accelerated into Ross.

By the way, the first shot went through the windshield, not the side window.

“Put it all together,” says Byron York, “and in the view of a number of experts, it added up to a legally sufficient reason for Ross to fire his weapon.” Ross did not have a duty to wait until Good successfully veered away before deciding whether his life was in danger or not.

This second video shows the three and a half minutes immediately preceding the shots fired. The Goods were obstructing traffic, and Renee was likely the one blaring the car horn for at least that long. Witnesses say they were at it all morning.

Let’s check the tape.

For more than 3 minutes the anti-ICE agitator impeded a law enforcement operation with her vehicle. https://t.co/o2Lb0SQIvS pic.twitter.com/CQ2nxP6UHE

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 11, 2026

What will Rebecca Good’s video show from her perspective? She was later seen sobbing and admitting, “I made her come down here; it’s my fault.”

It is a tragedy that Good is dead, and I’m certainly not saying she intended to kill, harm, or even actually hit Ross with her car. At best, however, Good was reckless, and she deliberately put herself into conflict with federal agents, which can yield harm or death.

It’s also worth noting that Ross is no trigger-happy new recruit. He’s an 11-year veteran who was seriously injured by another car last year.

In a perfect world, that confrontation wouldn’t have happened. Maybe ICE officers could have de-escalated better. Maybe it would be less antagonistic to not wear masks or draw a firearm in that situation. But those are all armchair quarterback questions that I can ask from the comfort of my office, not the cold line of duty that morning.

Unfortunately, they’re also the kinds of questions that might lead Democrat officials in Minnesota to pursue criminal charges against Ross. As Minneapolis Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey falsely asserted, “You had a person that was definitively trying to just get out of there. They were trying to leave the scene. That is not a person who is trying to run an ICE agent over.”

Uh, watch the videos again, Mr. Mayor. In my opinion, the three videos utterly demolish the Left’s narrative.

Radical activism

The Goods were part of a left-wing group called ICE Watch, which trains radical activists to do far more than the name says — they learn how to harass, resist, and obstruct ICE agents in the course of their lawful duties to enforce federal immigration law. “Good was a trained ‘ICE Watch’ activist,” writes David Strom, “and she has spent the morning trailing ICE officers and impeding their efforts. She appears to have recently moved to Minnesota, specifically for this reason, and was leading a caravan of vehicles that morning.”

The group aims to do one or both of two things: Make illegal alien roundups harder and provoke headline-grabbing confrontations that “discredit” law enforcement. And it’s pushing for more recruits after Good’s death. Two sympathizers are U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Angie Craig.

Strom also says, “ICE Watch is funded by major nonprofits such as the Tides Foundation, which got government grants through USAID.”

The line between protest and crime is fairly clear. Holding signs and chanting or even yelling is protected speech. Obstructing traffic and officers is not.

“It’s not okay to impede and interfere with an officer,” argued Border Czar Tom Homan. “These are targeted enforcement operations. They’re arresting bad people. And [interfering is] illegal. Let’s remember what she did was a crime.” Furthermore, “If you look up this definition of terrorism, it could fall within that definition.”

Good was not “unarmed.” She was armed with a 4,000-pound vehicle, weapons that anti-ICE belligerents are using with increasing frequency.

“Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It’s just ridiculous,” added Homan. “It’s going to infuriate people more, which means there’s gonna be more incidents like this.”

Gaslighting

That brings me to the last point — all the gaslighting by Democrats and the Left.

The Goods were not average women “trying to just get out of there,” as Frey claimed. They were not, as California Democrat Senator Adam Schiff argued, merely “at the wrong place at the wrong time.” It flies in the face of the evidence to say, as Democrat Governor Tim Walz did, that Good was shot and killed “for no reason whatsoever.”

For the record, I think Donald Trump is guilty of hyperbole in the other direction, saying that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer.”

Still, the Goods trained for their “operation,” deliberately put themselves in harm’s way, antagonized and disobeyed officers, and behaved recklessly, which resulted in Renee’s death.

The gaslighting also includes outlandish alternate-reality scenarios. One meme depicts ICE vehicles as the tanks in Tiananmen Square, as if Good was the standing protester. Reality was exactly the opposite — the commie lesbian was driving the “tank,” and the ICE agent was standing in front of her.

As someone who covered Tiananmen in 1989, it pains me to feel the need to retweet this about the US. https://t.co/MIaoLdN7Jd

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 11, 2026

Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett, who seems intent on outdoing herself with mindless statements each day, compared the reaction to Good’s death with her own side’s decorum after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “I remember when Charlie Kirk got killed,” she said. “Our response wasn’t to sit there and pretend like it was okay.” Wrong — the Left’s overall response was to argue that Kirk had it coming.

No, he was sitting down having a conversation when an assassin shot him in the neck. Good was confronting federal law enforcement. Those things are very different.

Conclusion

Most Democrats are demanding that ICE cease its operations in places like Minneapolis. If they were fully honest, they’d insist that we just stop enforcing immigration law at all. That, they claim, is the way to de-escalate and prevent future deadly confrontations.

By contrast, Vice President JD Vance got it exactly right: “Stop assaulting and stop inciting violence against our law enforcement officers. That’s the best way to take down the temperature.”

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