FRIDAY: Was Renee Good monitoring ICE that day?

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2026

Did the New York Post get it right? What was actually happening in Minneapolis when Renee Good was shot and killed? More specifically, is it possible that Good was monitoring ICE activities in some way when the fatal shooting occurred?

Last evening on Anderson Cooper 360, law enforcement analyst John Miller suggested that the answer was yes, then rearranged one part of the timeline which those of us in Blue America had been receiving through our major news outlets.

According to Miller, CNN had learned that Good had dropped her child off at school at roughly 8 a.m. that morning. The shooting had occurred at 10:37—two and a half hours later.

Miller's report contradicted the earlier suggestion that Good had just finished dropping her child off when she stumbled upon the situation involving ICE. Through a series of slippery reports and claims, that impression had been widely circulated.

Was Good monitoring ICE? There's no reason why she shouldn't have been! That said, Blue orgs produced a lot of slippery content in the past few days—fuzzy content which suggested that Good had come upon the ICE activity in a terrible bit of bad luck.

We Blues were being fed those suggestions. At the same time, denizens of Red America were being exposed to reporting like this from the New York Post:

Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.

“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.

“I know she was doing the right thing. I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.

And so on, at length, from there. As it continues, the report describes the progressive values of the charter school Good's child attends, including the opposition of the school community to current ICE activities.

The report was published on Thursday afternoon. How accurate is the report?

We'll guess the report was basically accurate, but we can't say with certainty. Our possible point might be this:

As we noted this morning, we saw three major figures on CNN and MS NOW last night saying or assuming that Good had been involved in some form of anti-ICE activism on the day she was fatally shot.

At this site, we'd been wondering about that possibility ever since we became aware of this fatal shooting on Wednesday afternoon. That said, we were struck by the way major cable players in Blue America were ignoring this possibility through the bulk of Wednesday and Thursday.

On Thursday morning, Morning Joe devoted its first 24 minutes to a discussion of this fatal shooting. Everyone completely avoided two fairly obvious question:

How did Good happen to be at that particular location? Also, why was her car parked in such an unusual way, seeming perhaps to block traffic?

In our view, those of us in Blue America need to stop playing these games. We played these "see nothing but blue sky" games all through Campaign 2024, and our insistence on playing such games helped send President Trump back to the White House.

There was absolutely no reason why Good shouldn't have been monitoring ICE, if that's what she was doing. If she was intentionally blocking traffic, that could be a different story, at least in terms of the law.

We don't know if the Post report was accurate, (We'll guess that it probably was.) The moral of the story may be this:

Sometimes, Red Americans receive more accurate reporting than we Blue Americans do! 

We Blues! We disappeared an array of significant topics all through the last presidential campaign.

We helped put Trump in the White House that way. History teaches that this sort of self-delusion can be a very hard habit to break.

Final point:

It's perfectly legal to monitor ICE! On a simple legal basis, obstruction of ICE activities might be something else.

(Warning! Your tribal brain will insist that you find something wrong with this content! It happens on the Fox News Channel all day and all night. We Blues are susceptible too.)