🚨 They Murdered Renee Good — Now Instead of Investigating Her Death, They’re Investigating Her, Her Family, Her Friends, and More. It's Disgusting!

In essence, they are now trying to prove she was a domestic terrorist.

As you likely already know by now, last week a 37-year-old woman named Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent. The video has been analyzed, debated, slowed down, and watched by hundreds of millions of people across the world. And now, instead of treating this like what it is — an unethical lethal use of force by a federal officer — the Trump administration is doing something even darker.

The New York Times reports the FBI’s inquiry is now examining Renee Good’s possible ties to activist groups — while the federal government blocks local investigators from accessing evidence. That is not a neutral investigation. That is a political strategy. Kill the witness, then criminalize the community.

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Now let’s talk about what the Times is reporting — because it should alarm every American who still believes in basic rights.

They shot her. Now they’re building a case around her.

The New York Times reports that federal investigators assigned to the fatal shooting are looking into Renee Good’s possible connections to activist groups protesting the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement. The same report says it seems increasingly unlikely the agent who fired three times at close range at the unarmed woman will face criminal charges, though it could change as evidence is collected.

Let that sink in.

A woman is killed on camera.
Her shooter is Jonathan Ross, a federal immigration agent.
And the federal government’s energy is being directed toward who she knew, what groups she might have been associated with, and whether her community can be framed as a violent cabal.

This is not about justice. It’s about narrative control.

Because the administration understands something: if the public accepts that Renee Good was a “domestic terrorist,” then the killing becomes easier to justify, easier to forget, and easier to repeat.

“Professional agitators” and “who’s paying for it”

The Times reports that President Trump described Renee Good and her wife as “professional agitators” and said authorities would “find out who’s paying for it,” offering no evidence.

That is a familiar move. It’s the same move used against civil rights organizers, labor organizers, anti-war organizers, and anyone who embarrasses power: you’re not real, you’re funded; you’re not grieving, you’re acting; you’re not resisting, you’re paid.

It is dehumanization. It is delegitimization. It’s how governments try to make public outrage feel illegitimate before it spreads.

And the Times is blunt about what’s happening: it says the decision to scrutinize her activities and activist ties aligns with the White House strategy of deflecting blame away from federal law enforcement and toward opponents they describe as domestic terrorists — often without evidence.

Exactly.

The most dangerous part: this drags the First Amendment into the blast radius

Former Justice Department officials quoted in the Times warn that casting such a broad net raises the specter that forms of political protest traditionally protected by the First Amendment could be criminalized.

That’s the heart of it.

Because if “protesting,” “obstructing,” “impeding,” “monitoring,” “neighborhood watch activities,” or “showing up with whistles” can be reframed as “domestic terrorism,” then the First Amendment becomes conditional — and the condition is simple: don’t challenge federal power.

This is the line that matters for every American:

If you can redefine protected protest into terrorism, you can treat dissent as a crime.

And once dissent is a crime, violence becomes policy.

Federal control of evidence is not a detail — it’s the scheme

The Times reports that federal officials have blocked local investigators from reviewing evidence being collected. And while it says federal officials describe their inquiry as thorough, it also notes the inquiry includes physical evidence like the handgun used to kill Renee.

Here’s what that means in plain language: the federal government is investigating itself, and it’s controlling the evidence.

In any functioning democracy, a killing like this would trigger maximum transparency. It would trigger a clear civil rights review. It would trigger independent oversight.

Instead, the Times reports that the Justice Department’s civil rights division has not opened an investigation into whether the agent violated Renee’s rights under federal law — and that it is not expected to initiate a case, according to a federal law enforcement official who spoke anonymously to discuss internal deliberations.

So:

No civil rights investigation expected.
Local authorities blocked.
Federal government controlling evidence.
Meanwhile: broad activist inquiry into the dead woman’s “ties.”

This is exactly how impunity is built.

The administration labeled her a terrorist before they had facts

The Times reports that senior administration officials labeled Renee Good a “domestic terrorist” almost immediately — even though investigators barely had time to collect and assess the facts.

Vice President JD Vance, according to the Times, called it “classic terrorism.” Kristi Noem said Renee “weaponized” her vehicle and claimed the definition of domestic terrorism “completely fits.”

But the Times notes something else that matters: its own video analysis suggested it was likely she was trying to drive away from officers, not intentionally harm them.

That’s the collision point: propaganda versus evidence.

And when propaganda loses, the government does what governments have always done: investigate the people who embarrass it.

Bondi’s memo is the blueprint for criminalizing protest

The Times reports that former DOJ counsel for domestic terrorism Thomas E. Brzozowski raised concerns because the inquiry is happening soon after Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo expanding the definition of domestic terrorism.

According to the Times, the memo classifies not only recognizably violent crimes like rioting and looting, but also things like impeding law enforcement officers or even simply doxxing them.

The Times also reports the memo asserts domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance certain agendas — and lists causes traditionally associated with left-wing activism, including opposition to immigration enforcement, anticapitalism, and “hostility towards traditional views on family, religion and morality.”

Family, this is not a policy memo. This is a political weapon being handed to investigators.

Brzozowski warned that when the traditional deliberate process for applying the domestic terrorism label is not followed, the term becomes “little more than a political cudgel to bash one’s enemies.”

That is exactly what is happening here.

And it should scare you, because it means the government is building a legal pathway to treat protest as a threat — and to treat threats as justification for violence.

“We had whistles. They had guns.”

The Times reports Becca Good, the widow of Renee Nicole Good, issued a statement saying:

“On Wednesday, Jan. 7, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns.”

That line captures the entire moment.

Not because whistles are always wise. Not because protests are always perfect. But because it tells you the basic imbalance of power in the street: the federal government shows up with tactical units, rifles, chemical agents, and guns, and then acts shocked that community members resist with presence, words, and noise. Whistles. Noise pollution.

And when a person ends up dead, the government’s instinct is not accountability. It’s branding: domestic terrorism.

This is the same moral decay we’ve watched for over two years

Gaza has been the clearest example of how power behaves when it believes rules don’t apply. For more than two years, the world has watched genocide unfold while institutions issue statements and the powerful keep moving.

That same contempt for accountability is now being deployed domestically: rename the victims, criminalize the witnesses, control the evidence, and move on.

And if you think that stops with “activists,” it won’t.

Once the government learns it can redefine protest into terrorism, it will use that tool wherever dissent threatens it — labor, climate, anti-war, immigrant rights, Black freedom movements, faith communities.

Power does not build weapons to use them once.

This is the moment to draw a line

Renee Good is dead.

And instead of a serious independent civil rights investigation, federal investigators are examining her “ties,” scanning her community, and building the case that the real threat isn’t a federal agent’s bullets — it’s political dissent.

That’s not justice.

That’s the architecture of a police state.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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