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On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good in south Minneapolis during a large Department of Homeland Security enforcement operation, touching off outrage and a fierce national debate about federal immigration raids in American cities. The facts on the ground are still being sorted by investigators, but the gut reaction of many Americans was immediate: this should not have happened on our streets where families and children are present.
Federal officials say the agent fired in self-defense after the vehicle allegedly threatened officers, while multiple videos circulating online and eyewitness accounts have undercut parts of that narrative and raised real questions about how the encounter played out. Local leaders — including Minneapolis’ mayor — called the federal storyline “garbage” and demanded accountability instead of spin, a division that tells you everything you need to know about how politicized policing has become.
The agent has been publicly identified by outlets as Jonathan Ross, a veteran with years in law enforcement and prior injuries in a separate vehicle-related confrontation, a background the federal government highlighted as context for his actions. Whether that history explains or excuses what happened is not for pundits to decide; it’s for investigators to establish, but citizens have every right to demand full transparency from our own government.
The killing sparked protests across the Twin Cities, led to school closures and calls from activists to expel ICE entirely from Minneapolis, while state and federal investigators — including the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension — opened inquiries. This is the chaos that follows when a heavy-handed federal deployment descends into residential neighborhoods without clear safeguards to protect civilians who are simply trying to live their lives.
Conservative voices on the ground are right to call this episode “super avoidable on multiple levels,” as Carl Higbie and guests noted on Newsmax, and to push back against the hypocrisies of elites who cheer law enforcement when it suits them and condemn it when it does not. We should stand with lawful, disciplined officers who keep our neighborhoods safe, but standing with law and order also means demanding that federal operations be planned so they do not put innocents in the line of fire or provide theater for partisan activists.
Let there be no confusion: Americans want secure borders and enforcement of the law, but we also want rule-following, proportional tactics that protect bystanders and preserve public trust. If DHS is going to mount sweeping operations — reportedly involving thousands of officers in the region — it must be held to the highest standards of training, restraint, and interagency coordination so that tragic deaths don’t become the predictable outcome of political grandstanding.
We deserve a full, impartial accounting and we deserve leadership that puts safety ahead of slogans on both sides of the aisle; patriots demand truth and justice, not a narrative shaped to score political points. Let investigators do their work, let responsible conservatives defend the need for enforcement, and let America insist on reforms that prevent another needless death on our streets.
