A video CBS didn’t air is now going mega viral across the internet.
That sentence should terrify every American who still believes we live in a country where truth rises on its own.
Because the video at the center of this story is about the killing of Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old poet and mother — shot by a federal immigration agent on a residential street in Minneapolis. And in the newly circulating footage, after she’s shot and her car rolls away and crashes, the shooter can be heard calling her a “fucking bitch” then walking away, uninjured.
CBS didn’t air the segment. But CBS posted it online. And now the public is watching it anyway — by the hundreds of thousands, then the millions — because people can feel, in their bones, that something is very wrong here.
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Now let’s tell the truth about what’s happening — because there are two scandals here.
One is the killing.
The other is the information control that follows these killings like a shadow.
CBS didn’t air it. The internet did.
The CBS clip people are sharing is a breakdown by a former federal agent with decades of experience in shootings involving federal officers — laying out what anyone with eyes can see: this encounter escalated into lethal force in seconds, and it did not have to end in death.
But CBS didn’t air it.
CBS posted it online — and then, in effect, stepped back while the public did the work the network refused to do on television: watch it, share it, argue about it, and force it into the daylight anyway.
And here’s what makes that so explosive: this isn’t the first time CBS has been accused of flinching.
Why CBS keeps flinching
Not long ago, a major 60 Minutes segment about alleged abuses at a detention center in El Salvador — where the Trump administration sent Venezuelan migrants — was pulled right before broadcast. The reasoning described inside CBS was that the piece couldn’t run without an on-the-record comment from an administration official — specifically someone like Stephen Miller.
One 60 Minutes correspondent described that decision plainly: not editorial, but political.
And she wrote a line every journalist should tattoo on their soul:
“Government silence is a statement, not a veto.”
Because if refusing to comment becomes a valid reason to spike a story, you have handed the government a kill switch. They can silence any inconvenient reporting by simply refusing to show up.
That’s not journalism. That’s permission-based news.
And in the months since, CBS has lived under a cloud of pressure — legal pressure, ownership pressure, regulatory pressure, political pressure. That matters because it explains why a network might post something online and still hesitate to air it: airing it is a statement. Posting it is plausible deniability.
“We posted it.”
But also: “We didn’t lead with it.”
That gap — between what gets aired and what gets quietly dumped online — is where modern censorship often lives.
And it’s not always a black marker and a government stamp. Sometimes it’s executives and lawyers and deals and fear.
Renee Good is dead. The shooter’s name is Jonathan Ross.
The Associated Press has reported the shooter is Jonathan Ross, an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in Border Patrol and ICE, and has worked as an ICE deportation officer since 2015.
That detail matters because it destroys a comforting myth: that these killings happen because someone is inexperienced or confused.
This was not a rookie.
This was a seasoned federal officer making a lethal decision on a residential street.
What the new footage adds
The new video circulating is closer — clearer — and in some ways more damning than the earlier clips.
Because it doesn’t just show movement. It shows mindset.
After Renee is shot and her vehicle rolls away and crashes, the shooter can be heard saying: “Fucking Bitch.”
That is not the language of someone who just survived an attempted murder.
That is not the language of someone urgently trying to save life.
That is contempt, spoken out loud, in the immediate aftermath of a killing.
And that one moment should force every decent person to ask a question the propaganda machine does not want asked:
Was this truly fear… or was it rage?
The lie they tried to tell about her
Within hours, federal officials labeled Renee a “domestic terrorist” and claimed she “weaponized” her vehicle. The White House amplified that narrative.
Local leadership said the opposite.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the federal narrative “bullshit” and described it as a garbage story being pushed to sanitize a reckless use of power. Minnesota’s governor warned people not to believe the propaganda machine.
That is what it looks like when the public record and the official narrative collide.
And when that collision happens, the next move is almost always the same:
Control the evidence, control the investigation, control the timeline.
The cover-up phase
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has said it was initially set to conduct a joint investigation with the FBI — and then the plan changed, making the FBI the sole lead and cutting Minnesota off from case materials, scene evidence, and investigative interviews needed for a thorough independent investigation.
That’s not a minor bureaucratic dispute.
That is the federal government telling the state: you don’t get to independently investigate a federal killing on your soil.
And that should terrify everyone — left, right, center, and apolitical — because it says plainly what kind of country we are becoming:
A country where federal agencies can kill someone, label them a terrorist, and then restrict independent access to the evidence.
If the shooting was clean, sunlight should help.
If the shooting was justified, transparency should strengthen the case.
So why the rush to centralize control?
Because the video is already doing what they can’t afford:
it’s making people feel the moral truth of this.
I’ve studied over 750 police shootings. This was avoidable.
This is not a guess. This is not a vibe.
In many avoidable shootings, you see the same ingredients:
the encounter is compressed into seconds, officers crowd a vehicle, position themselves in harm’s way, escalate physically, and then claim they were forced to shoot because the danger they helped create unfolded.
The way to avoid a lethal outcome is time and distance. You create space. You disengage. You reposition. You don’t turn a traffic-style standoff into a life-or-death moment by inserting bodies and hands into the most volatile angles.
And after the shots, you don’t curse a dying woman.
That line — “Fucking Bitch” — is the kind of detail that cuts through PR language. It tells the public, instantly, that something inside this was personal. Contemptuous. Ugly.
Why this video matters beyond Minneapolis
Because if a video like this can be effectively “soft-suppressed” — not aired, not led, not treated as the scandal it is — then the public is being trained to accept something that should never be normal:
state violence without accountability.
And the reason the clip is going mega viral is because people are tired of being gaslit.
They are tired of being told a killing is “domestic terrorism” when their eyes tell them it’s reckless escalation.
They are tired of watching agencies close ranks.
They are tired of watching media companies flinch.
And for anyone still wondering why the world is in such a dangerous place right now, here is one clear answer:
when truth becomes negotiable, power becomes absolute.
That’s what Gaza has taught the world for more than two years. That’s what Venezuela is teaching the world right now. And that’s what Minneapolis is teaching America: you don’t have to be undocumented to be treated as disposable by an out-of-control federal operation.
What should happen next
Full release of every relevant video angle and audio.
Full identification of every officer involved and their roles.
Full disclosure of the chain of command, the rules of engagement applied, and the justification for deadly force.
Full access for Minnesota to conduct an independent investigation under Minnesota standards.
And if the facts meet the legal standard for charges under state law, then charges must be filed.
If anyone is serious about “rule of law,” it cannot mean “rule of federal agencies over everyone else.”
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