I watched the video of a mother being gunned down in her car by federal agents on a residential Minneapolis street and was told by my government to believe she was a domestic terrorist.
Her name was Renee Nicole Good, and she was not, in any way, a domestic terrorist. According to The Associated Press, Good had three children, was a devout Christian and her ex-husband “had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.”
She was a 37-year-old mom born in Colorado – a poet, a daughter, a citizen keeping watch over our government’s actions – with a glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals. She was, as her mother told The Minnesota Star Tribune, “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
I watched a video of the Jan. 7 incident unfold, saw Good’s obvious attempt to leave a chaotic scene involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, heard the sound of an agent’s gun firing and saw no reason for it. None.
There was no reason for Renee Nicole Good to die
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, 37, in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026.
I read an evaluation of the video by an expert on police use of force quoted in The New York Times. Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina said: “The way you evaluate this is you look to see what’s the imminent threat to life, and there is none. She’s leaving.”
If that agent kept his gun holstered, nothing bad was going to happen. Three children would still have their mother, a mother would still have her daughter, a family wouldn’t be mourning and the world would have continued as a better place with Good in it.
But I was told by the Trump administration that she was going to kill people. That her vehicle was a weapon. That she was likely trained by some nefarious others.
And I knew it was bull----. Because I have eyes. Because I watched different videos of the shooting and saw what actually happened and felt my stomach clench and anger well up in my throat, knowing the government – my government, our government – was lying shamelessly.
Trump and Republicans blame the victim in Minneapolis killing
A federal agent shot and killed a woman on a street in America, then the president and his head of homeland security and assorted members of his increasingly soulless political party didn’t have the basic human decency to muster a gram of empathy.
They went straight to lying, defaming and attacking. President Donald Trump swiftly posted about the video on social media: “The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”
There’s video footage of the incident, and nothing Trump said is true. The officer who shot Good is on video walking away, showing no sign of injury.
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