American Thinker

by J.R. Dunn

    The Minneapolis ICE shooting story has been evolving the way these stories always do – but not in the direction that the Left would prefer.

    It’s clear that the Left wanted another George Floyd martyrdom, one that would cripple Trump administration efforts to maintain the law and possibly even lead to nationwide disturbances like those that marred the summer of 2020. A kindly lesbian “mother of three,” fresh-faced and smiling, cut down for no reason beside her horrified “wife” by a masked, black-clad ICE agent looking as if he’d lurched his way out of a Road Warrior sequel.

    But now is not then, and unfortunately for the Left, this narrative has steadily fallen apart as the week has progressed.

•     The original videos were ambiguous at best, many of them taken from so far away they may as well have been shot from the surface of Mars. But now we have a complete video taken by ICE agent Jonathan Ross himself, who -- smart man -- was holding his cell phone during the entire encounter. This shows Renee Nicole Good, dressed much as you might expect, shouting something at Ross (the audio here is not very clear) as he circles her car. Rebecca Good then appears, demanding that Ross remove his mask, along with other disparaging remarks. (“Why don’t you go get lunch, big boy ”) She opens the car door as Ross orders the two of them to “get out” no less than three times. (At no point does he order them to drive off, as legacy media has reported.)

    Rebecca Good shouts, “Drive, baby, drive,” just as Ross passes the front of the car. Renee Good immediately accelerates (it appears that she turns the wheel to steer toward Ross as well, though that’s not completely clear) and audibly strikes Ross. He then fires a shot before stumbling out of the way.

    Clearly, this was a deliberate attempt to run Ross down, one in which Rebecca Good played a key role. (She admitted as much directly afterward, crying out that it was “her fault.”) She needs to be indicted.

•     It turns out that Ross, again in his role as an ICE officer, was injured by a car driven by an illegal last June. Roberto Carlos Munoz, an illegal with a heavy rap sheet (including sex crimes against an underage victim), attempted to drive off while Ross had one arm inside the car. Ross was dragged over a hundred yards. A wound to his arm required 33 stitches. No wonder he was skittish about cars with dubious hands at the wheel.
•     Both Renee and Rebecca Good had received training from anti-ICE group Minnesota ICE Watch on the most effective methods of resisting ICE officers and “de-arresting” illegals. The group bills itself as “an autonomous collective documenting, archiving, and resisting against ICE, Police, and all Colonial Militarized Regimes.” It runs a hotline where people can call in sightings of ICE operations so that members can show up to obstruct them. It’s evidently part of a national network. Who organized and funded the network is not yet known.
•     At the end of the week, Homeland Security released a memo detailing repeated efforts to attack ICE officers and other officials using automobiles while tying it in to the rhetoric being heard from Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, J.B. Pritzker, and numerous other Democrat politicians.

    According to Homeland Defense:

    From January 21, 2025 – January 7, 2026, ICE law enforcement officers experienced 66 vehicular attacks against them, compared to only 2 during the same time period the previous year. This is a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks.

    These attacks include this incident in Elgin. Ill., in which a Tren de Aragua member slammed an ICE agent’s car into a tree.

    The illegal fled, pursued by ICE agents, and hid out in a nearby apartment. A mob then attacked the ICE agents, while local cops looked on and refused to intervene. After a standoff of a few hours, the gangbanger was captured.

    In the Chicago area, ICE agents were attacked with cars twice late last year.

    In both cases the cars were driven by criminal illegals.

    Last September, an ICE agent in Homestead, Fla. was run down and injured by a criminal illegal. The illegal then drove off and collided with a black van driven by a totally innocent third party before being captured.

    The ICE agent was hospitalized in stable condition.

    These represent only a handful of the vehicle assaults carried out against ICE agents over the past year. But they’re more than enough to show how deadly the vehicle threat can be and how dangerous it has been for ICE operatives in recent months. If you find them unfamiliar, don’t feel bad – the legacy media has made it their mission to bury all such reports lest the poor, simpleminded public get the wrong idea about our new batch of foreign-born Democrat voters.

•     The Minnesota/United States border remains quiet three days after Generalissimo Walz declared war on the U.S. Whether diplomatic overtures are bearing fruit or Walz is preparing his National Guard forces (since renamed the Minnesota Nice People’s Liberation Army) for an advance against Washington remains unknown. Rumors that Governor-for-Life Walz has ordered a double-breasted military jacket with gold epaulets, a pair of cavalry boots with spurs, and a bicorne hat to be worn sideways remain unconfirmed. (Seriously, here we have a loser in a presidential campaign threatening the winner’s government with military force. How Central American is that )
• Jacob Frey: who is that again

    On the other hand, Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and most impressively, J.D. Vance, are all doubling down in their support for ICE and its mission. In a news conference on Thursday, Vance addressed the incident directly:

This was an attack on federal law enforcement, this was an attack on law and order, and this was an attack on the American people…

    The President stands with ICE, I stand with ICE, we stand with all of our law enforcement officers.

    In particular, Vance made it clear that the incident would in no way halt the efforts to bust open wide Somalian-related corruption in Minnesota, which no doubt is what Walz was hoping for. He announced the creation of a new Associate AG position in the Justice Department devoted solely to Minnesota corruption.

    It’s a good thing that this latest attempt to trigger social chaos by waving the bloody shirt has collapsed. But at the same time, it’s an indictment of the current political culture, yet another example of the Left’s willingness to lubricate their programs with the blood of their opponents, of innocents, and of their own. Eventually, they’ll be called to account for it. That day can’t come soon enough.