Cogito Ergo Non Serviam
ICE Kills US Citizen
Renee Nicole Good was shot dead yesterday on a Minneapolis street. The triggerman was an ICE agent whose apparent lack of training, emotional imbalances and/or stupidity had him firing at least two shots, and possibly four, into the car Ms. Good was driving. The fact that there was no danger to anyone in the area is clear on the video a passerby recorded. She is dead, and the officer should be under arrest pending the outcome of the investigation. The officer, instead, seems to have been whisked out of Minnesota on the orders of his superiors. This is something this journal has long anticipated, an unrighteous killing of an American citizen at the hands of ICE.
Naturally, the Trump administration is trying to spin this. Before the name of the victim was even known, Heimatschutzminister Kristi Noem announced that it was a case of domestic terrorism. She claimed, from Texas, that the ICE officers had got stuck in the snow, a crowd had surrounded them, and that Ms. Good tried to run over the officers.
The video shows the blacktop of the street so the ICE agents could not have been stuck. The ICE officers were not surrounded, in fact, they did the surrounding of Ms. Good. Finally, the car was not moving when the incident began and the killer had stepped in front of her car before moving off to the side and firing into the car. Stepping in front of the car violates the most basic police training, and shooting into a car from the side shows the shooter was not in danger. In short, Ms. Noem is a liar. If she would like to sue for liable, this journal welcomes the suit; discovery will be fun.
Surprisingly, a more appropriate response came from Border Tsar Tom Homan, the taker of a $50,000 bribe (this journal would welcome a suit from him as well). He said, "I'm not going to make a judgment call on one video when there's 100 videos out there."
"I wasn't on the scene. I'm not an officer that may have body cam video," he continued. "It would be unprofessional to comment on what I think happened in that situation. Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation."
There is another video making the rounds, recording events right after the homicide. A man announces, "I am a doctor, can I check her pulse?" An ICE agent replies, "Move back." The man says, "I am a doctor." The reply is, "I don't care." It is clear from this second video that ICE rendered no medical assistance as Mr. Good bled out in her car.
The local officials are not happy. Mayor Jacob Frey said ICE was not wanted nor needed in the city and that ICE should "get the fuck out of our city." In the opinion of this journal, the word he meant was country, not city.
As for Governor Tim Walz, he stated, "We have repeatedly warned that this federal mobilization was putting residents at risk. I encourage Minnesotans to remain calm. This mobilization was about putting on a show from the beginning -- let's not give it to them." The fact that January in Minnesota is cold helps, but eventually, this is going to get worse.
The trouble is the low standards ICE has adopted in its recruitment drive. For instance, their 5 months of training was never sufficient, but that was cut to just 47 days (because Mr. Trump is the 47th president. No kidding, that is really the official reason). American police in general are undertrained, but even the most pro-police commentators must admit that 47 days is insufficient.
So, the decay of the American Republic has reached the point where an encounter with ICE has left an America citizen dead. While this journal is certain that this was the logical result of federal policy, it is doubtful if Trump- voters really wanted this. Otherwise, they are even less American than one thought.
The decline under the Trump administration continues to accelerate.
© Copyright 2026 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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