The CNN provided audio clearly shows that Renee Good accelerated her car at the office before she was shot.
IRRESPONSIBLE TO CALL THIS A MURDER, LET ALL THE FACTS COME OUT
Video shown by @CNN @AC360 ***WITH AUDIO*** shows that the car was moving before the officer shot.pic.twitter.com/JfMczCjXTo
(CNN guest's explanation may not be the correct one, and I'm waiting to confirm the… https://t.co/nYIiAADrc7
— Capitalism (@CapitalismMag) January 9, 2026
I understand that people are very emotional right now, especially those Objectivists who are virulently anti-ICE, but let ALL THE FACTS come out before we declare murder.
Also let me remind you what our fellow teacher, Leonard Peikoff, taught us: a picture — and may I add a video — is not an argument.
If one wishes to protest what one believes to be an unjust law, initiating physical force against federal agents is not the way to do it.
In principle, the violent actions against federal ICE agents today are just as wrong as the violence committed against the Capitol police on J6. The only difference is that the scope and extent of the anti-ICE violence is much worse than J6 — and is much more damaging to America, as Democrat state and local authorities are enabling the violence by not providing local police to maintain the peace, as governors and mayor threaten the federal government. It was only a matter of time that these constant scuffles with law enforcement would lead to someone’s death.
Minnesota Leftists now have their 2026 BLM George Floyd moment with the unfortunate tragic shooting of Renee Good.
Updates:
Justin Amash claims:
“Many people believe the legal threshold for self-defense is lower for government officers than for ordinary citizens. It’s not. There’s one simple test for evaluating whether an officer’s use of force was unlawful or justified as self-defense. Ask yourself: If you, an ordinary citizen, did the same thing the officer did, how would your actions be assessed? If someone were obstructing a street in your neighborhood, and you demanded they move, and everyone were in the same physical positions and took the same actions, would you be justified in shooting the driver of the vehicle? I can say, unequivocally, that if you did the same thing the ICE officer in Minneapolis did, you would be found guilty of a crime, and your claim of self-defense would be rejected outright.”
As Tara Smith observes in her book on Objective Law this is incorrect. In order for the government to operate it gains powers that a citizen does not possess – such as to force a witness to crime to appear in court.
Moreso, Amash’s analogy does not hold. The driver of the car was the one obstructing legal law enforcement. She was not merely using the street as a thruway to get to her destination but as an act of political disobedience. Videos of her behavior before the incident confirmed this. Renee Good (her and her partner) were the aggressor. Does this justify her tragic death? No, but neither does it make the officer’s actions cold-blooded murder (given the present evidence which is incomplete).
When she saw a federal officer who told her to stop and saw another officer was in front of her vehicle she should not have engaged it to accelerate in his direction.
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As Colin Wright on X observes:
“These people put themselves in inherently dangerous situations, then cry when bad things happen.” That’s the entire point. Activist leaders deliberately encourage people to place themselves in risky confrontations, knowing that increased interactions with law enforcement raise the odds of producing a viral incident that can be used as a catalyst for a broader uprising. You can’t expect influential figures on the left to discourage this behavior, because it is one of the most effective tactics in their revolutionary playbook. The mass public mourning at vigils is largely performative. It is meant to generate sympathy, which is then leveraged to advance their desired revolution. They rely on the fact that calling all this out makes you look heartless. They count on that. It’s the reputational cost critics must pay, and it functions to shield their strategy designed to manufacture and weaponize victimhood.
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NEW YORK POST ON “ICE WATCH” “WARRIOR”
“It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.” “…ICE Watch and adjacent groups can also turn confrontational — with numerous instances of activists ramming agents with their cars in the past.”