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There’s One Tiny Problem With MAGA’s Claims About Minnesota ICE Shooting: The DHS Policy

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13.02.2026

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, an unarmed 37-year-old, on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, which is the ninth ICE-involved shooting since September, according to The New York Times.

In the aftermath of the shooting, as videos from multiple angles circulated on the internet, the party line among MAGA-verse began to materialize: The mother was actually to blame. Not only that, but she was a “domestic terrorist,” according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The agent’s use of force was meant to “protect himself and the people around him.”

Contrary to the videos you can see with your own eyes, Noem claimed that Good “attempted to run [ICE agents] over and rammed them with her vehicle,” a claim later repeated by President Donald Trump.

What the video did show, as HuffPost previously reported, was that Good — a U.S. citizen who was reportedley acting as a legal observer, as city leaders told CBS — was in her car perpendicular to a line of ICE vehicles and was repeatedly ordered by agents to “get out of the fucking car” and to “move, move, move” as other agents were approaching and pulling on the handle of her door and reaching into her open window.

From there, Good attempted to drive away, reversing and turning the front wheels to the right, away from the agents. That’s when one agent fired a shot from the left of the vehicle before firing two more as it pulled away.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness on the scene, previously told HuffPost that Good appeared “obviously scared” and was seemingly attempting to leave the scene, casting doubt on the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that the shooting was a matter of self-defense, stating that the agent “put himself in front of her.”

Yet, there are still voices arguing that the shooting was justified — and even going as far as to argue that the victim’s failure to “obey” is enough to warrant this behavior from law enforcement.

Let’s Just Say It Now: They Don’t Get To Kill You

Many MAGA members echoed language we’ve seen in previous shootings of unarmed individuals involving law enforcement: If only the untrained, unarmed civilian at gunpoint did XYZ quicker or more perfectly followed the numerous, often-contradicting orders they were given (again: at gunpoint), they wouldn’t be dead.

Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) was one of those who pushed this reasoning on Newsmax’s “Carl........

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