A woman is dead in Minneapolis because a federal immigration agent chose bullets over restraint.
Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was 37 years old—a poet, a mother, and an American citizen. She posed no deadly threat that required three shots to the face, and the footage makes that painfully clear. Then, as her car rolled away and crashed because she was dying, the shooter can be heard saying: “Fucking bitch.”
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Now let’s tell the truth.
What the video shows
The footage circulating now is the clearest view yet of what happened in those seconds on Portland Avenue. Agents are in close—shouting, crowding the driver-side door, reaching toward the vehicle, positioning themselves in ways that compress everything into chaos. Then, in a moment that passes faster than most people can process, shots are fired. Renee’s car continues moving—exactly what happens when a driver is severely wounded or dying—and then the vehicle crashes.
And then you hear it.
As the car rolls away, the shooter’s voice: “Fucking bitch.”
That single line strips the propaganda mask off this whole killing. Not because it’s “impolite,” but because it reveals mindset.
That is not the language of someone who just barely survived a genuine attempted murder. That is not the language of someone screaming for a medic, trying to render aid, or panicking because he’s injured. In the footage, he is not injured at all in the moments immediately after he shoots her.
It is the language of contempt.
It is rage and dehumanization spoken out loud after lethal force.
The shooter’s name matters
We can now name the shooter: Jonathan Ross.
The Associated Press reported that the federal officer who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good is Jonathan Ross, an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and ICE, and that he has worked as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015.
That matters because it destroys the convenient excuse people love to reach for: “rookie mistake,” “confusion,” “split-second error.”
This was a long-tenured federal officer. Trained. Seasoned. Experienced. And what came out of his mouth after killing a woman was not fear—it was contempt.
The lie they tried to tell about her
DHS leadership and the Trump administration immediately tried to erase Renee and replace her with a label: “domestic terrorism.” They claimed she “weaponized her vehicle” and tried to kill officers. They wanted that headline to harden before the public watched the video slowly.
But local and state leaders who say they watched the same footage rejected that story.
Minnesota’s governor said, publicly, that he had seen the video and told people not to believe the propaganda machine. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the DHS account “bullshit” and said plainly that the narrative being pushed was garbage.
That’s an extraordinary moment: a major American city’s mayor looking at federal law enforcement and saying, in public, “Get the f— out,” because he believes their presence is creating danger, not safety.
Renee’s mother described her as compassionate and kind. And the human reality that keeps getting swallowed by the propaganda is the simplest one: a mother is dead. A family is shattered. A community watched a killing in real time.
And the people in power tried to turn the victim into a terrorist within hours.
Why this was avoidable
I’ve studied over 750 police shootings in detail. I know the patterns. I know the excuses. I know how “self-defense” is sometimes real and sometimes manufactured.
Here is what the public needs to understand in plain language:
A car can be dangerous. That’s true. But the way to stay safe around a potentially moving vehicle is distance and positioning. If you fear a car, you don’t stand in front of it. If you fear escalation, you don’t crowd the driver’s door and reach into the space where panic and movement become inevitable. If you want safety, you create time and distance—not compressed chaos.
When professionals insert themselves into the most volatile positions and then fire because the volatility they helped create unfolds, that is not “unavoidable.” That is reckless escalation.
And when the person who fired those shots says “Fucking bitch” as the car rolls away, it becomes even harder to pretend this was purely fear-driven. It looks like anger. It sounds like anger. It feels like punishment.
The predictable next phase is already here: control the evidence
This is what makes everything feel so suffocating: we have the video, we have the quotes, we have the public outrage, and the federal government is still moving exactly how it always moves after a killing like this.
Minnesota investigators have said they are being shut out.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension’s superintendent, Drew Evans, said the plan was initially a joint investigation with the FBI—and then the FBI informed the BCA that the U.S. Attorney’s office changed course. The result: the FBI would lead solely, and Minnesota would no longer have access to case materials, scene evidence, or investigative interviews needed to conduct a thorough independent investigation.
That’s what “impunity” looks like.
Federal agency kills a civilian.
Federal officials label the civilian a terrorist.
Federal prosecutors restrict the state’s access to evidence.
Federal investigators investigate federal agents.
If the shooting is so clearly justified, why fear independent review?
If the video supports the federal narrative, why tighten control of evidence instead of opening it?
This is exactly why Americans have stopped trusting “internal investigations.” People are not irrational. They have eyes. They have watched this movie for decades.
This is what happens when governance becomes performance
Governor Walz called it “governing by reality TV,” and that phrase sticks because it’s true. These raids are designed for fear, conflict, and headlines. When you run operations like theater, civilians become props. Neighborhoods become stages. And the moment something goes wrong, the response isn’t humility—it’s spin.
They didn’t say, “We will investigate.”
They said, “Domestic terrorism.”
They didn’t say, “We will release evidence.”
They said, “Professional agitator.”
They didn’t say, “We will let the state do its job.”
They said, “Federal lead only.”
And now we have a dead woman and an officer whose first clear words after firing are pure contempt.
What accountability looks like
If anyone is serious about justice, this cannot be allowed to disappear into a sealed-file black box.
Accountability looks like this:
Release the full unedited footage from every available angle.
Release the full audio.
Identify all agents present, their roles, and their chain of command.
Disclose whether any immediate medical aid was rendered and when.
Allow Minnesota full access to evidence and interviews so an independent state-level review can occur.
And if the facts support charges under Minnesota law, file them.
Anything less is a system protecting itself.
Renee did not have to die. And if the federal government is confident this killing was justified, it should have no fear of sunlight.
But when you watch the video and then hear “Fucking bitch,” the reason for the federal panic becomes obvious: the more people see, the harder it becomes to lie.
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