So they got the video they wanted, right? And it only cost the life of a mother. I wasn’t going to comment on the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent as I don’t like to comment on something that will take 6 months to investigate. But I have at least waited longer than 30 seconds to give my opinion.
This is my opinion: what happened was a tragedy. I don’t think Ms. Good was a domestic terrorist but I don’t think she was just your perfect soccer mum trying to get home from the school run, either.
A lot of people in that neighbourhood had their smartphones out to record the incident that ended up with Ms. Good being shot at point blank range. She was shot dead by Jonathan Ross, a 10-year Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer and Iraq War veteran. Previously about 6 months ago he was dragged about 100 yards by a driver during an immigration operation in a Minneapolis suburb. This is all according to CNN.
Officer Ross recorded the fatal incident, I watched that video. Ms. Good’s wife was also videoing the events that ended up with her wife being killed, and I saw that one. And I watched some of the other videos from everyone else in the neighbourhood who was also videoing these ICE officers carrying out their immigration raids.
CNN, “Good, 37, had dropped off her 6-year-old son at school before she was mortally wounded, according to witnesses and city officials. A US citizen, Good was described as a poet and loving mom.
Ross joined ICE in 2015. He works in fugitive operations in the Minneapolis area and as part of a special response team. Before joining ICE, he served in Iraq with the Indiana National Guard, then became a US Border Patrol agent in 2007.”
So we know Ross is not a new recruit, many of whom are subpar. He served in Iraq though. Goodness knows what he saw there.
What was the state of mind of Ross? “Car crashes – many captured on dramatic video – have been a hallmark of the Trump administration’s crackdown, including collisions between federal officers and suspects trying to get away and alleged “ramming” assaults involving pro-immigration activists. Some crashes have led to shootings, injuries and death.
The incident in which Ross was dragged by an undocumented immigrant on June 17, 2025, occurred when the suspect fled during a traffic stop, pulling the officer along by his right arm. The suspect was convicted in December of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon and resulting in bodily injury.
The ICE veteran, who repeatedly fired his Taser at the driver in the June assault, sustained a cut to his right arm that required 20 stitches, according to court records. A cut to his left hand took 13 stitches.”
Renee Nicole Good was not just on her way home from the school run to make some mac and cheese. She was part of a group that uses disruption tactics that ICE often face on a raid. Some call that civil disobedience, and some others call it domestic terrorism. That’s the problem. Your own perception of yourself may not align with that of others.
“On Wednesday … we stopped to support our neighbours,” Good’s wife said in a statement to Minnesota Public Radio. “We had whistles. They had guns.” Yes you just had whistles and they (ICE) have guns. But you do also have SUV cars which are used to block ICE agents and in some cases attack them.
CNN: “In US cities targeted by ICE, parents, teachers, clergy and community organizers have started informal networks to intervene as immigration raids unfold, including blowing whistles and honking car horns to warn others. Activists say they’re creating accountability for the actions of agents; critics call it obstruction.
CNN has been unable to determine whether Good was involved in such a network. What little is known about her comes largely from her wife’s statement – and what was captured within the frames of several cameras during her final moments.”
I don’t think Good was there by accident. She was there with her wife to disrupt the ICE officers. I’m taking an educated guess on that. The rest is from the officer’s video phone.
“It opens with Ross walking in front of the maroon SUV driven by Good, who had stopped the vehicle perpendicular to the street, obstructing traffic. He doesn’t say anything as he walks across the front of the Honda toward the driver’s side.
As he rounds the vehicle, Good is seen with her window down. She looks directly at the officer. “That’s fine dude. I’m not mad at you,” Good can be heard saying in the video. The victim’s wife, standing outside the SUV, says to Ross: “show your face.”
He does not respond. His reflection can be seen in the car window. He holds his phone and keeps moving.
The ICE officer walks around to the back of the SUV, according to the video. Becca Good, who was a passenger in the vehicle and stepped outside before the shooting, tells the officer, “We don’t change our plates every morning, just so you know. This will be the same plate when you come talk to us later,” in a possible reference to reports immigration officers have swapped license plates during enforcement actions.
She (this is the wife) holds the cell phone up to Ross’s face.
“You wanna come at us? You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” Becca Good tells Ross.
A pair of ICE officers are seen in a separate video approaching Good’s SUV. One officer attempts to open the driver’s side door, pulling on the handle. “Get out of the car,” the officers say repeatedly. “Get out of the f**king car.”
Becca Good tries to get back in the SUV, but the door is locked.
She (Becca Good) is then heard telling Renee Good (her wife), “Drive, baby. Drive!”
Renee Good backs up her SUV slightly, according to the videos. She then starts to pull away. In Ross’ video, she turns the steering sharply toward the right, away from the officers.
“She backed up and turned her wheels away from them to drive down the road,” Perzana recalled.
The car moves forward, and Ross, in his recording, cries out, “Whoa!” The video does not show if the SUV made contact with Ross. The camera angle jerks up to the sky.
Good accelerates and appears to clip the officer with her vehicle before he opens fire, according to one video. A separate video with a different angle doesn’t capture that possible contact. Instead, the officer is seen moving away from the front of the vehicle and toward the driver’s side.
Three gunshots explode in rapid succession, according to multiple videos reviewed by CNN. In Ross’ video, the shooting is not visible, but the shots are heard as the phone camera in his hand jostles further and then faces the house behind Ross. Bystanders can be seen outside the house.
The officer first shoots into her windshield and then at close range through the open driver’s side window, other videos show.
Ross’ camera captures the SUV as it barrels forward. Someone can be heard saying, “fucking bitch.” The impact of the SUV crashing into a parked car and wooden pole can be heard as the camera pans down to the street.”
Are you still with me? Has the attention span lasted that long?
We can wait for the forensic report and the road examiner and debate did the wheels go towards the officer or away from the officer, did she accelerate and hit him or just reverse and then accelerate and ‘clip’ him. And what about the ice – the actual ice not the ICE ICE etc. etc.
You can speculate if you want. You can judge a man on a 10 second video. Here is one thing I do know.
If I dropped the children off at school and said to the hubby, listen here hubby I’m not going to Dunnes or cooking dinner or doing the laundry or writing a blog this morning. No, Sir.
I’ve decided to head into Drogheda as I hear the Garda Síochána are out and about and I’d like to film and disrupt their movements. I’m just going to park my car, honk my horn a bit and get into an altercation with them as I don’t agree with what they are doing. I don’t like them arresting burglars or rapists and all that law enforcement fandango. I am now part of a group that uses civil disobedience to disrupt the activities of the Garda Síochána.
If I said that, I’d have questions to answer. And the Garda Síochána are not even armed.
So spare me the ‘young mother and poet’ nonsense.
If I did that tomorrow I don’t think that would make me a good mother, poet and care bear or whatever the left wing media are trying to make out that poor woman to be. Would I deserve to be shot in the face? No. But what good is that fact to my family when they visit me in the morgue.
The democrat politicians who have been encouraging leftists to disrupt ICE, calling them the Gestapo and Trump a fascist have what they want: a dead woman all recorded on the ubiquitous smartphone to be loaded up to social media and viewed by millions. Job done.
Who knows what went through Officer Ross’s mind at the time. He hears someone say Drive baby Drive (Good’s wife of all people) and she drives at him. He was attacked before. Another day on the job having to deal with this bullshit.
Sure they are just whistles and car horns and the rest. But who knows what this constant noise, day after day does to the mind of an Iraq veteran? That man has probably been armed for his entire adult life. He shoots first and everyone else can ask questions and give their opinion on Twitter later.
Who knows? You don’t and neither, dear reader, do you. That’s my point.
This is America, where life is cheap, weapons are everywhere, people disrupt law enforcement and many don’t think twice about pulling the trigger.
Oh they got the video they wanted all right. And all it cost was a human life.