As ICE officers flooded Minneapolis in recent days carrying out “targeted operations,” on Wednesday a deadly confrontation played out. Renee Nicole Good, a Far Left Democrat activist, attempted to run down an ICE agent. The agent fired three times, once into the windshield and twice into the front window, killing Good, but thereby saving his life and the lives of his fellow agents.
The Department of Homeland Security calls the shooting an act of self-defense by an officer “fearing for his life.”
The shooting occurred during a confrontation between federal agents and drivers in between ICE vehicles near 34th Street & Portland Avenue. The clash resulted in an agent firing shots into Good’s SUV, video obtained by Axios shows.
A department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, blamed the incident on “rioters” who were blocking ICE officers. “One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” Ms. McLaughlin said in a statement reported by the New York Sun.
“He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers,” Ms. McLaughlin added.
In one video from the scene taken by bystanders, a car is positioned in front of an ICE vehicle. The driver can be heard telling officers to “go around.” One agent approaches and says, “Get out of the f—ing car,” while attempting to open the driver’s door.
At that point, three officers surround the car, with one standing directly in front. The driver reverses briefly, then accelerates forward. As the vehicle turns right and attempts to move forward, the officer who had been in front shifts to the left side and fires three shots in rapid succession as the car pulls away and crashes into other vehicles.
As X user @GrandpaForTrump observed:
President Donald Trump characterized Good on social media as a “professional agitator” who was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting” who then “violently, willfully and viciously” ran over the ICE officer.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive,” Trump wrote. “The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!”
While family members claimed Renee Nicole Good was not political, it is known that she moved her family to Canada after Donald Trump was elected President, later returning to the United States. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., issued a statement describing ICE’s actions as “unconscionable and reprehensible” and Good as a “legal observer.”
Far Left Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul) issued a statement mourning Good as "a queer woman, a loved and celebrated community member, who has now been stripped away from her family."
The fatal shooting of Good was "preventable," Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said, reiterating that ICE agents were carrying out lawful enforcement operations at the time of the incident.
Noem said ICE agents were conducting operations in Minneapolis when one of their vehicles became stuck in the snow due to recent weather conditions. As agents attempted to push the vehicle free, she said they were harassed and blocked by what she described as a group of agitators.
According to Noem, agents approached Good’s vehicle after she repeatedly blocked officers and impeded their work. She said ICE agents ordered Good to exit her vehicle and stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to comply.
"She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle," Noem said, adding that Good attempted to run over an officer.
Noem said the officer involved was struck by the vehicle and transported to a hospital, where he was treated and later released.
Noem described the incident as an act of domestic terrorism and said there has been a rise in vehicle-ramming attacks against federal officers nationwide in recent weeks, FOX News reported.
"This must stop," she said.
Noem added that elected officials should denounce violence against law enforcement, arguing the shooting was the result of escalating rhetoric targeting federal officers.
Secretary Noem is right. Far Left Democrat politicians, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have given Democrat activists the idea that they can do anything they want to impede ICE investigations and arrests. The sad, but justified, killing of Renee Nicole Good was a predicable outcome of their rhetoric.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
The Department of Homeland Security calls the shooting an act of self-defense by an officer “fearing for his life.”
The shooting occurred during a confrontation between federal agents and drivers in between ICE vehicles near 34th Street & Portland Avenue. The clash resulted in an agent firing shots into Good’s SUV, video obtained by Axios shows.
A department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, blamed the incident on “rioters” who were blocking ICE officers. “One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” Ms. McLaughlin said in a statement reported by the New York Sun.
“He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers,” Ms. McLaughlin added.
In one video from the scene taken by bystanders, a car is positioned in front of an ICE vehicle. The driver can be heard telling officers to “go around.” One agent approaches and says, “Get out of the f—ing car,” while attempting to open the driver’s door.
At that point, three officers surround the car, with one standing directly in front. The driver reverses briefly, then accelerates forward. As the vehicle turns right and attempts to move forward, the officer who had been in front shifts to the left side and fires three shots in rapid succession as the car pulls away and crashes into other vehicles.
As X user @GrandpaForTrump observed:
Video and reporting around the Minneapolis ICE shooting show Renee Nicole Good’s wife out of the SUV in a flannel shirt, walking around, filming, and verbally engaging with the scene while the red Honda Pilot is stopped sideways in the street blocking ICE vehicles. She is not some random bystander; after the shooting she rushes back to the vehicle, tells a nearby man “That’s my wife,” and then adds, “We’re new here. I don’t have people… I can’t even breathe right now,” confirming she came into that confrontation with her spouse and a camera ready to capture the moment. In other words, this was not a spontaneous misunderstanding in traffic; they drove into the heart of a massive ICE operation in south Minneapolis, parked across the roadway, and turned the encounter into content.
There is only one reason to stand outside your own vehicle filming while it is being used to block federal agents: attention. In a city conditioned by years of viral protest clips and George Floyd–era activism, Good and her wife knew that turning an ICE enforcement stop into a spectacle was the fastest way to make a name, and they treated a live federal operation like a stage set, right up until “film the confrontation” became “my wife just got shot.”
That is the brutal FAFO logic at work: if you weaponize your vehicle to obstruct armed law enforcement officers in the middle of a high‑risk operation, and your partner is busy getting the perfect angle for social media instead of de‑escalating and driving away, you are not a victim of random state violence, you are chasing drama and discovering, too late, that reality does not care about your feed.
There is only one reason to stand outside your own vehicle filming while it is being used to block federal agents: attention. In a city conditioned by years of viral protest clips and George Floyd–era activism, Good and her wife knew that turning an ICE enforcement stop into a spectacle was the fastest way to make a name, and they treated a live federal operation like a stage set, right up until “film the confrontation” became “my wife just got shot.”
That is the brutal FAFO logic at work: if you weaponize your vehicle to obstruct armed law enforcement officers in the middle of a high‑risk operation, and your partner is busy getting the perfect angle for social media instead of de‑escalating and driving away, you are not a victim of random state violence, you are chasing drama and discovering, too late, that reality does not care about your feed.
President Donald Trump characterized Good on social media as a “professional agitator” who was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting” who then “violently, willfully and viciously” ran over the ICE officer.
“Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive,” Trump wrote. “The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!”
While family members claimed Renee Nicole Good was not political, it is known that she moved her family to Canada after Donald Trump was elected President, later returning to the United States. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., issued a statement describing ICE’s actions as “unconscionable and reprehensible” and Good as a “legal observer.”
Far Left Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke (DFL-St. Paul) issued a statement mourning Good as "a queer woman, a loved and celebrated community member, who has now been stripped away from her family."
The fatal shooting of Good was "preventable," Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said, reiterating that ICE agents were carrying out lawful enforcement operations at the time of the incident.
Noem said ICE agents were conducting operations in Minneapolis when one of their vehicles became stuck in the snow due to recent weather conditions. As agents attempted to push the vehicle free, she said they were harassed and blocked by what she described as a group of agitators.
According to Noem, agents approached Good’s vehicle after she repeatedly blocked officers and impeded their work. She said ICE agents ordered Good to exit her vehicle and stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to comply.
"She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle," Noem said, adding that Good attempted to run over an officer.
Noem said the officer involved was struck by the vehicle and transported to a hospital, where he was treated and later released.
Noem described the incident as an act of domestic terrorism and said there has been a rise in vehicle-ramming attacks against federal officers nationwide in recent weeks, FOX News reported.
"This must stop," she said.
Noem added that elected officials should denounce violence against law enforcement, arguing the shooting was the result of escalating rhetoric targeting federal officers.
Secretary Noem is right. Far Left Democrat politicians, such as Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have given Democrat activists the idea that they can do anything they want to impede ICE investigations and arrests. The sad, but justified, killing of Renee Nicole Good was a predicable outcome of their rhetoric.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for former Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
