By Douglas V. Gibbs
The fatal shooting of 37-year-old left-wing activist Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota is exactly what the hard-left violent protesters were hoping for. They want their own version of Kent State. They want chaos and lawlessness. They have been waiting for a catalyzing event that would ignite mass mobilization, and serve as their George-Floyd moment to erupt into greater violence and ultimately their revolution against any government leadership that disagrees with their narrative.
Around the country the leftwing collective was already gathering and preparing for mass protest and riot momentum, so when news of the shooting reached them, they were already ready to roll. Even more protest events have been planned since it happened. Meanwhile, the Democratic politicians and dishonest mainstream media launched into their own narrative and spin about the shooting, claiming that there was no evidence the shooting was justified, and promising to punish those involved. New Yorkers were screaming they wanted to hang Secretary Noem, and Philadelphia’s mayor called for the arrest of ICE agents. Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey, in between his F-Bomb tirades, said that the ICE agent hit by Renee Good not only was not injured, he “walked away with a hop in his step.” New video, specifically POV (point of view) footage, reveals that the agent was struck and that Renee Good seemed to intend to strike the federal officer. Even a CNN analyst has admitted that the response by the ICE agent was “legally justified.” One can recognize a part of the influence of the response of the ICE agent when you consider he was hospitalized last year when rammed and dragged by a vehicle weaponized by a hysterical anti-ICE protester.
I’ve watched a number of arm-chair political hacks on MSNow and CNN argue that she was turning her vechicle away to flee, that he had no business in front of the vehicle, and that he simply wanted to shoot her and was not in danger. If someone is in danger, or believes they are in danger, like this ICE agent was, whether or not the tires are turned one way or another and if he has the inches necessary to escape is not what is rolling through your mind. You don’t have time to reason like that. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. We don’t even know if for sure in the mind of Renee Good that she wanted to harm him, kill him, or simply flee. What we do know is that the vehicle went into motion, the agent believed he was in danger, the vehicle struck him, and he fired. He believed his life was in danger, and he had experienced a similar situation before and was aware that these protesters have no problem using their vehicles as weapons, and when the vehicle struck him it confirmed in his mind that he was correct about his life being in danger, so he fired.
As for Renee Good, don’t fall for the progressive leftwing media’s claims about her being some innocent peaceful protestor or that she was just some poor mom trying to get her kids to school. She was not a gentle soul shot by ICE. She was a radical activist willing to resort to violence who deliberately put herself in the path of federal agents and tried to harm or kill one of those agents with her vehicle. According to Revolver News, “She was a trained, committed anti-ICE activist who belonged to a group dedicated to tracking, disrupting, and interfering with ICE operations. She hated ICE. She followed them. And on that day, she used her car as a weapon.”
I am sad that someone died, but the deceptive twisting of the facts to fit a political narrative disgusts me. I’ve seen the videos. I’ve analyzed them in my own mind. Each one of them reveals the same truth: Renee Good used her car as a weapon against a federal ICE agent during a moment of protest that violated the First Amendment principle of “peaceable assembly.” The only thing that saved the ICE agent’s life was the ice on the road, which made sure the vehicle didn’t lurch forward more quickly so that she could run him over.
Despite media claims about Renee Good somehow being an innocent victim who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, her history reveals that she placed herself in the area specifically so that she could be a part of confrontations against ICE. Good moved to the area only a year before, and immediately connected to the local anti-ICE activist groups. Her neighborhood of choice is a heavy-leftist area with homes decked out in LGBTQ+ and BLM signage. She enrolled her child who she was raising with her politically radical lesbian partner in the Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy known for its dedication to leftist causes and “social justice education.” Through her school community she became involved in “ICE Watch,” a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE operations.
Knowing her background, and the fact that she was a proud anti-ICE “warrior,” recruited and gladly a participant of progressive anti-American activist networks known for their violent manner of protesting; is it a surprise that she was using her vehicle as a weapon in what has become a domestic warzone with what looked like the intent to harm or kill a federal employee trying to carry out his duties?
Counterterrorism expert Ryan Mauro of the Mauro Institute on “The Glenn Beck Program,” commented about the group that Renee Good was a member of, “You go to their social media page, and it doesn’t take much work, actually, to find instructions on how to assault police in order to free people, open up cop car doors, and pull people out…They do not recognize the United States as a legitimate country…” He described the group’s rhetoric as focused on “eliminating America” and “setting cop cars on fire.” He pointed to a social media post that included “a depiction of a cop car on fire… That’s how you build an insurgency,” Mauro said, citing what he described as the “violent intention” behind the imagery. Then, regarding Renee Good, Mauro said, “She was not just somebody who is there to observe. Again, you don’t park your car across the road to block it if you’re just an observer. That’s insanity, and we all know it. Will anyone actually admit to that in the press?”
The reality is, the members and leadership of the Minneapolis power structure are accomplices to the violence. If Renee Good’s blood is on anyone’s hands, it’s theirs. As Mayor Jacob Frey danced behind a microphone screaming expletives and along with Governor Tim Walz declared war on ICE and the Trump administration, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara abandoned large swaths of the city to progressive Marxist rioters following the death of Renee Good. They let the city burn and collapse much like Walz did years before. Minneapolis police officers pulled back from the scene of the shooting when the mobs got bigger and more dangerous, driving away with their tails between their legs as rioters pelted the fleeing police vehicles with ice chunks and other projectiles. By nightfall, downtown had been overtaken by protesters who chanted, “no-one is illegal on stolen land.” While Minnesota Governor Tim Walz stated there would be a law enforcement response, none materialized. Left unimpeded, rioters searched local hotels for ICE agents, storming one hotel in downtown Minneapolis they believed was housing federal immigration agents. Agitators in all black were smashing windows and the invaders into the hotel smashed up the lobby. Eventually, some arrests were made inside Minneapolis, but not until federal personnel arrived with fencing to protect federal buildings.
Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon, after federal ICE agents shot two people during a targeted traffic stop, the Portland Police Chief cried on camera while reporting that the two people were connected to Venezuela’s violent gang, Tren de Aragua. The Border Patrol agents fired off defensive rounds when the Venezuelan gang members “weaponized” their car during the stop, attempting to mow down the federal agents. The driver has been identified as an alleged member of the notorious Tren de Aragua criminal organization, while the passenger is an illegal migrant allegedly affiliated with the gang’s prostitution ring and shootings in Portland. The couple suffered gunshot wounds and are currently in a hospital receiving treatment. Their condition hasn’t been confirmed. But, the Portland Police Chief proclaimed he felt bad for the Hispanic community, that a pair of their own had been harmed, as he wiped away his tears.
Renee Good’s lesbian wife, thanks to a leftist fundraising effort on GoFundMe, will be a millionaire as a result of the whole situation, with the raised funds reaching $1,503,483 from 38,000 donations. The wife of Renee Good at one point said she blamed herself for convincing Good to come to the protest. I suppose the new windfall is her punishment.
Governor Tim Walz says he’s calling up the National Guard to support law enforcement… or is it to stand off against the federal government? Is he trying to start a civil war?
President Trump’s use of federal officers inside U.S. cities to execute federal law, as constitutionally supported in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, is not some new situation, or only a Republican way of doing things. Precedent reveals Presidents of the United States from both sides of the aisle using federal agents in cities. In 1943, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt deployed 6,000 federal troops to Detroit to restore peace as a two-day race riot erupted amid housing and job tensions. President Roosevelt invoked the Insurrection Act, as President Trump is considering doing as tensions continue to rise with the scenes we are seeing in the streets of America’s cities. In 1957, President Eisenhower used National Guardsmen and 1,000 Army soldiers during the Little Rock Integration Crisis. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy, Democrat, eventually sent over 30,000 federal agents and Army troops, invoking the Insurrection Act, to quell a violent segregationist uprising where white mobs attacked federal marshals on the University of Mississippi campus. In 1963, Kennedy used federal personnel again under the Insurrection Act, this time in Alabama when Alabama’s Governor George Wallace worked against federal law which required the University of Alabama to enroll two Black students. In 1965, Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson activated the National Guard and Army soldiers to protect a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery from violence after state police violence was launched against the group on “Bloody Sunday.” The federal troops escorted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of marchers along the 50-mile route, forming protective cordons and ensuring the marchers were not attacked as they had been before. Johnson, in this case, like many of his predecessors, invoked the Insurrection Act, stating the attacks were an insurrection against federal authority. In 1967, Johnson again deployed National Guard personnel, this time to one of the most destructive urban riots in U.S. History in Detroit, Michigan. In 1968, nationwide King Assassination riots erupted in over 100 cities around the country, so President Johnson activated the Insurrection Act again, dispatching thousands of federal troops in Washington D.C. alone. He also sent troops to Baltimore, Chicago, and other locations. The deployments were the broadest use of federal troops in modern American History. A May Day celebration became violent protests in 1971, prompting President Richard Nixon to deploy federal personnel, including National Guardsmen, U.S. Marines, and Army paratroopers to Washington D.C. in an attempt to regain control of the city. The Atlanta Prison Riot in 1987 led President Ronald Reagan to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy federal troops to assist in ending the stand-offs. George W. Bush sent the National Guard to Los Angeles during the Rodney King riots. In 2020, President Trump deployed National Guard and federal law enforcement personnel to Washington D.C. and eleven states during the George Floyd protests and riots.
These anti-ICE protests, however, are a few notches up from the other situations. This is purposeful defiance against the federal government executing constitutionally authorized federal law across the entire country. This is violence that has been planned, coordinated, and launched by groups who have been planning the demise of America for most of the previous century. This is Cultural Marxism coupled with a political ideology that has taken command of the Democratic Party specifically seeking to upend and usurp U.S. Law. A large portion of the American population has become out-of-their-mind radical with deep operatives pushing them along with a protective cover-fire of propaganda and hive-mind operations. The truth has been pushed aside. Reason no longer matters. The law no longer matters. The lust for power and collapse by those seeking a Marxist revolution in America is what fuels this, and they have gotten to the point that they will attack anyone who dares to oppose them.
We are experiencing the next stage of Cultural Marxism – the time when revolutions bubble to the surface, Marxist disruptions flow through the streets and the halls of government, and a direct attack against America’s founding heritage and system of liberty and a free market. These are the purveyors of chaos who purposely want to create confusion and lawlessness so that when the system finally collapses under their pressure, they then offer shelter from the madness with their totalitarian authoritarianism disguised as a promise of structured order.
Communists have been seeking subversion since the dawn of the previous century. They’ve been injecting their socialism a little bit at a time, like the slow boil of a frog in a pot. They ultimately seek economic instability, because when people can’t feed themselves or their family, afford their housing, or afford other basic products and services they begin seeking change. That’s why the Democrats are screaming about an affordability crisis when the numbers are actually saying something to the contrary. They don’t want prices going lower. They don’t want inflation to get better, and they don’t want energy prices dropping which in turn would lower other prices. They need economic instability. They need suffering. They need people crying because they are hungry and cold and without shelter. That’s how revolutions topple governments.
But if the people are going to topple the government, the chaos has to ensue. The people need to become comfortable with violence. They need to be desensitized to physical conflict and the roar of revolution. From the Cultural Marxist’s point of view, they need to be willing to put their lives on the line for the new utopia they have been promised. They need to be more than willing to use their vehicles as weapons and die behind the wheel while trying to kill anyone who serves as an image or agent of the current power structure.
In short, Renee Good’s death was a part of the program. A part of the plan. A sign of the civil war or socialist revolution they need to explode on American soil. Her death is exactly what the schemers have been pushing for during the last hundred years. The younger generation has been programmed to hate America, and take action against anyone who disagrees with their revolutionary voice. It is their duty, in their minds, to fight against “the man.” President Trump is the face of evil, they’ve been told, and all of his minions and supporters are determined to kill them and destroy their dreams of a utopia where they can have an easier life of socialist sameness, so they need to do something about it. And they’ve been taught that the socialist utopia is even worth dying for. Hate Trump. Hate his supporters. Hate his federal officers. Attack when possible, and die if necessary.
Yes, the Democrats, progressive left, communists, democratic socialists, and all of those other anti-American forces are not only determined to convince you that we are under tyranny, and that the tyranny must be fought at all levels, but those who stand against it must be willing to die to make it happen.
The civil war and Marxist revolution is indeed upon us. Renee Good was just a fallen comrade to the purveyors of anti-Americanism.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
