Minneapolis is bracing for mayhem tonight. The National Guard has been deployed. It’s in response to the deranged leftist who tried to ram ICE agents today. She was shot and killed during the incident. It’s all on video—and Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz did their best to further inflame the situation. Press conferences are meant to clarify the incident and answer questions. It’s not meant to devolve into political theater or something from the old Occupy Wall Street Days. That was Frey.
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but this is why lies spread like COVID. The Left is already spewing lies that ICE agents committed murder today. It’s absurd. The driver has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good (via Star Tribune):
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. This was her bio:
— Jacqueline Sweet (@JSweetLI) January 8, 2026
"Renée Macklin is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is studying Creative Writing at ODU. Her poetry has been… pic.twitter.com/93VTHB4eIV
The woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 7, was identifed by her mother as Renee Nicole Good, 37.
Donna Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter lived in the Twin Cities with her partner. Ganger declined to say whether she lived in Minneapolis.
Ganger said the family was notified of the death late Wednesday morning.
“That’s so stupid” that she was killed, Ganger said, after learning some of the circumstances from a reporter. “She was probably terrified.”
Ganger said her daughter is “not part of anything like that at all,” referring to protesters challenging ICE agents.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” she said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
Again, the media is doing the Tsarnaev protocol: the act of trying to garner empathy or understanding when none should be curried. When someone tries to kill federal agents and gets shot and killed, they got what they deserved. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed an act of terrorism during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. He killed people—sorry, I don’t care if he came off as a good guy in high school or whatever.
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Woman drivers amiright?
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) January 7, 2026
Terrorists deserve death and their spot in hell—that’s it.
🚨 BREAKING: New angle from the ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis shows the woman CLEARLY hitting the agent with her car before he fires at her
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 7, 2026
A vehicle is a deadly weapon. And she used that deadly weapon against an agent.
Self-defense. pic.twitter.com/kw3SbBzSrP
Is this the video Mayor Frey is talking about?pic.twitter.com/YlVpQZoDRM https://t.co/QI8ai7R2kJ
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