Renee Good's Honda. Fox News/Getty.
The ICE agent hit by Renee Good with her SUV suffered internal bleeding as a result of the attack. Fox News. The extent of the officers injuries had not been revealed until now, but the injuries were confirmed by multiple sources. The officer was treated in the hospital and may still be recovering from the injury sustained in the incident. Democrats, including Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have downplayed the officers injuries with some saying he wasn't injured at all. The injuries support the argument that the officer was acting in self defense when he shot and killed Renee Good. Good had attempted to block ICE operations in Minneapolis and accelerated into the agent with her vehicle.
My Comment:
In a sane world this would be the end of this story. Internal bleeding is no joke, it's fairly easy to die from and it's a sign that someone has been seriously injured. It's also not something you get if you were grazed or clipped by a car, it means you were absolutely hit on it full on. It makes the case for self defense to the point that any jury would acquit unless there was some kind of reverse jury nullification situation where they refuse to follow the law.
This hasn't mattered for the Democrats though. They are making all kinds of claims, and it's hard to even know if they are serious. I saw one tweet from one of the Krasserstien brothers (well known trolls on X) which claimed that the officer had hemorrhoids or was injured by the recoil of his gun.
That's the quality of arguments against this case being self defense. Under federal use of force laws, it was always clear that this was a good shooting, and that would have been true even if Good hadn't hit the agent. She was driving a Honda Pilot, a large three row SUV and had she hit the officer square, he almost certainly would have either been crippled or died. It wouldn't have mattered if she was driving a Nissan Versa or other subcompact car, getting hit by a vehicle is extremely dangerous.
May of the other rumors going around about this case are just false as well. ICE is a federal law enforcement agency and has arrest powers over US civilians if they commit crimes in their view. ICE agents don't need a warrant if you are doing things like blocking traffic. And it's actually a federal felony to use force, like ramming someone with a car, to interfere with an ICE operation. And, somehow, that it's bad police work to walk in front of a car, even though that's totally necessary in many police situations like this one. But you wouldn't know that if you were in a progressive bundle.
I actually saw a tweet the other day on X that explained part of the problem. It said if you have watched police bodycam footage you think this is a good shoot, and if you don't you think it's a bad one. And I think that is much of the problem. People just don't really understand use of force and self defense at all in this country.
It's why things like Renee Good's intent don't matter at all. I personally think she was intentionally trying to run down the ICE officer. I don't think she wanted to kill him, just knock him over, and she probably didn't understand this is the legal equivalent of shooting someone and the physical equivalent of a large man hitting someone with a sledgehammer. But it absolutely doesn't matter because intent doesn't matter, it's how the officer perceives the situation. Given that the officer had been run down and injured in a similar incident last year, it's no surprise he understood that he was going to be injured by the car. Any reasonable person would understand that whatever the intent, getting hit by a car is a good way to get injured or killed and you can use force to try and stop that from happening.
People are also making a big deal about what the officer said after he was hit. He called Renee Good a "fucking bitch" after the incident. Given that it happened right after she rammed him with his car and he had to open fire, I don't even know what they are complaining about here. Again, it's pretty normal to shoot your mouth after a combat situation. It doesn't change a thing about the facts of the case.
Though I have little sympathy for Renee Good, I do think that her death was preventable. These ICE operations are necessary largely because sanctuary cities don't actually cooperate with ICE. How it's supposed to work is the police are to hold illegal aliens that are picked up under minor crimes, such as OWI, domestic abuse or other crimes. When that happens, the handoff is peaceful and there is no chance for activists to cause problems. But sanctuary cities don't do any of this and it leads to a lot of problems.
It does sound like this story will be pushed out of the news. I just saw that another ICE related shooting happened in Minneapolis and this one two already appears to be classic self defense. An illegal from Venezuela was running from ICE after crashing his car, and then started to fight with an ICE officer. Two other people came out of an apartment and attacked the ICE officer as well, leading to him defending himself with his firearm. Everyone lived in this case and all three attackers were arrested, but I am sure the left in this country will somehow try gaslight and mislead people again about how self defense works.
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