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Newsmax host says Alex Pretti and Renee Good were “basically terrorists”
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Published 10/23/26
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From the October 22, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT (HOST): Another restaurant run by a leftist is also closing. Post Modern Times in Minneapolis made headlines for giving away free meals to all customers except ICE agents earlier this year after anti-ICE agitators and basically terrorists Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot. The freeloaders then poured in, including homeless vagrants and drug addicts, all coming for the free food. They scared away anybody that was willing to pay for any food, and they ended up $70,000 in debt, and they're also closing that restaurant in Minneapolis. Who could have seen this coming?
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After 37-year-old Alex Pretti — an intensive care nurse for the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) — was fatally shot by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Minneapolis on January 24, protests were held not only in that city, but in many other U.S. cities as well. One of them was Augusta, Georgia, where VA recreational therapist Becky Halioua was among the demonstrators.
Now, CNN's Brian Todd is reporting that Halioua was the subject of a VA internal investigation because of her involvement in those protests.
"Her supervisor informed her that an internal probe had been launched into whether she violated agency rules regarding employee interviews with the news media — a probe that could result in disciplinary action," Todd explains in an article published on May 5. "Halioua is not alone, several sources familiar with the matter told CNN. At least three other VA employees have been investigated for their interactions with the press, including at least one other related to Alex Pretti, according to one of the sources."
Todd adds, "As part of her investigation, Halioua says investigators e-mailed her photos of herself at the vigil from news coverage, which also included a brief interaction with a local newspaper. Someone had drawn a line around her image in some photographs, labeled with her name."
Halioua told CNN, "It really gave me an uneasy feeling," adding that seeing her face circled in photos of protests seemed "very stalker-like."
Pretti's death followed the fatal shooting of another Minneapolis resident, Renée Good, by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (ICE) agents on January 7.
"In the case of the VA workers," Todd notes, "the interviews touched on an issue that sparked a national discussion. Pretti's killing, along with that of another protester, Renee Good, became political flashpoints in debates over immigration enforcement and free speech following a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Minneapolis in January. Within hours of their deaths, officials from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, claimed, without evidence, that Pretti and Good were domestic terrorists, sparking outrage. Protests and vigils, like the one Halioua attended, popped up across the country."
The union National Nurses United, which helped organize the vigil for Pretti that Halioua attended, told CNN, "It is despicable and immoral to come after any federal employee who participates in a vigil for a fellow worker."
Halioua described the probe of her as a "scare tactic," telling CNN, "I think that it is a method really to silence the employees with the loudest voices."
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- Evan Gorelick @ The New York Times: Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms
A young aide behind social posts that echoed white supremacist messaging will help run social media for the much larger Homeland Security Department.
- Noah Lanard @ Mother Jones: DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different
“It’s time to get aggressive,” a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.
The Trump administration is using secretive orders to crackdown on dissent
SARAH MCL
Imagine finding out that the government is issuing secretive orders to unearth your personal information and then sending federal agents to question you — all because you sent an email criticizing the life-or-death decisions the government makes.
That sounds like something out of China, Russia or the increasingly dystopian United Kingdom, right? Well this time, it’s happening here.
The Trump administration is reportedly abusing oversight-free administrative subpoenas to chill protected speech. Recent targets include a man who sent an email criticizing efforts to deport an Afghan man on humanitarian parole seeking asylum.
Our right to express ourselves, particularly in ways that displease the government, is under attack — sometimes echoing authoritarian censorship efforts abroad.
While subpoenas have been used to chill speech across numerous presidencies, the way this administration is using them, and the broader repressive pattern they are part of, should disturb all Americans. As The Washington Post reported this week, a Philadelphia-area retiree wrote an email to a federal prosecutor last year asking him to “[a]pply principles of common sense and decency” to the deportation case of an Afghan man, who feared death at the hands of the Taliban. Only the retiree’s first name, Jon, is given, as he fears for his safety.
Only hours later, to Jon’s shock, he received a notice from Google that the company had received a subpoena compelling the release of identifying information, including older account activity and his physical address. The Department of Homeland Security issued an administrative subpoena, which doesn’t require the oversight of a judge or grand jury, to get Jon’s information. DHS attempted a similar stunt to target internet commenters who posted about Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
That was not Jon’s only brush with DHS. Agents would also soon show up at his door with a copy of the email he’d sent and ask him to explain himself.
There is no better guarantee of the right to speak and criticize our government than the First Amendment, which stands as guard between us and the power of the state. But our right to express ourselves, particularly in ways that displease the government, is under attack — sometimes echoing authoritarian censorship efforts abroad. Americans must understand that with enough time and pressure, even the strongest of foundations can weather down to dust.
These administrative subpoenas intended to unmask critics of government action are just the tip of the speech-chilling iceberg.
Between these disturbing allegations, recent alarming on-camera encounters between civilians and law enforcement and the ceaseless incursions from the Trump administration against our First Amendment rights, Americans must recognize that the United States is failing as a bulwark for liberty in a world increasingly bereft of it.
Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis last month was deeply alarming. Rather than immediately commit to an intensive investigation of what took place, officials such as Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem spread the unfounded claim that Pretti tried to “kill” law enforcement. Senior adviser Stephen Miller called Pretti an “assassin” who “tried to murder federal agents.” The administration has since started to shy away from these fantastical claims after Americans could watch the video for themselves.
Their narrative might still stand, however, had protesters nearby not caught the shooting on camera from multiple angles. But that First Amendment right to film law enforcement is increasingly under attack. DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said filming and posting videos of ICE is “doxing our agents” and the government “will prosecute those who illegally harass ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law.” Pretti himself had been recording agents with his cell phone moments before he was killed.
U.S. federal agents also appear to be creating a database to track protesters and observers who are legally and peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights. In an encounter a woman filmed in Maine, an ICE agent told her he’s recording her information for a “nice little database” for “domestic terrorists” like her. A CNN report confirms a DHS memo informing agents to “capture all images, license plates, identifications, and general information on hotels, agitators, protestors, etc., so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.” News of this database follows in the footsteps of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s plan to crack down on “domestic terror organizations,” using a framework that targets broad ideologies such as “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” as markers of political violence rather than constitutionally protected beliefs.
You may be familiar with lists of alleged anti-government activists from their other iterations in Belarus, Russia and China. The lists are frightening. What governments do with them is usually even worse.
The distance between freedom and tyranny is shrinking fast — and so is our window to combat it.
And many Americans were rightfully shocked by a “60 Minutes” exposé of German censorship last year, which included raids on the homes of social media users who had insulted politicians, and by regular reports from other nations such as the U.K., where a late-night knock at the door from police has become disturbingly commonplace. In Germany, the government treats insults to politicians more, not less, harshly than other forms of insult, essentially exempting the powerful from upsetting speech.
That’s the opposite of how we view political speech in the U.S. — with great power must come a thick skin.
But the Trump administration doesn’t see it that way. In fact, ICE and DHS leadership have undertaken a concerted effort in recent months to pervert the concept of “doxing,” the sharing of identifying information about an individual, into one so broad it includes simply saying the name of the men and women who serve as armed agents of the state. Administration officials have repeatedly — and wrongly — suggested this “doxing” is illegal.
Imagine a United States in which federal agents have the authority to fire their weapons as representatives of the government, and yet everyday Americans aren’t even free to state clearly who or where those agents are. Even worse, those same Americans may find themselves on a clandestine government database for engaging in protected speech. Or, like Jon, they could even face a secretive administrative subpoena followed by a knock at the door from DHS agents.
“Secret police” cannot be a necessary term in the American vernacular, but if we do not stem the tide of these First Amendment violations and transgressions, it may become one. The distance between freedom and tyranny is shrinking fast — and so is our window to combat it.
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An Illinois judge has ordered that all text messages and videos about the shooting of Marimar Martinez be turned over.
Martinez, from Chicago, was shot five times by federal agents during the so-called "Operation Midway Blitz" in which the federal government deployed thousands of agents to find and arrest immigrants.
The Martinez story is unique in that, even after the videos were released, the Department of Homeland Security continued to deny what was happening in them.
Federal courts reporter Jon Seidel from the Chicago Sun Times was in court on Friday to hear the case about Martinez presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Georgia Alexakis.
Martinez and her attorney have argued that they need access to the text messages and videos from the federal agents in the case and the government is refusing to turn those over.
Alexakis asked about the text messages by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum: "Is the universe of text messages limited to the text messages that I reviewed in camera?"
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron DeWald confirmed that they were.
As her lawyer told CNN, Homeland Security official Tricia McLaughlin continues to insist that the federal agents were "boxed in" by cars and couldn't get away. In fact, there was no one in front of them and Martinez's car went around them on the left to get past their vehicle. That's when the agent fired on her.
That "is in direct contrast to this DHS statement that she at the agent," said lawyer Christopher Parente. "And you know, DHS, even though you said the agent testified in court that there was no ramming. Tricia McLaughlin and DHS are still putting out press statements saying that she rammed them. They don't even seem to know what their own agents are saying in court."
One of the agents later took a "trophy" photo of Martinez after she was released from the hospital.
The judge specifically cited McLaughlin's comments as the basis for releasing the agent's text messages.
Judge Alexakis stated, "The Department of Homeland Security continues to allege that Ms. Martinez ambushed federal officers, rammed them with her vehicle, and while doing so was armed with a semiautomatic weapon."
"Agent Exum's text messages provide insight into his perspective of the shooting," she continued. "They bear on his credibility. They provide insight into how others within DHS leadership and within other government entities responded to the shooting."
She ultimately ruled that the Martinez team had shown "good cause" for releasing the text messages from the agent.
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Study: Fox News smeared Alex Pretti dozens of times following his killing by federal agents
In the week following Pretti’s killing by DHS, figures on Fox News made at least 75 claims blaming Pretti for his own death or contradicting video evidence
Written by Harrison Ray & Isabella Sherk
Research contributions from Tyler Monroe & Rob Savillo
Published 02/06/26 9:58 AM EST
On January 24, Customs and Border Protection agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minnesota intensive care nurse, during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In the week that followed, Fox News personalities and guests made at least 75 claims about Pretti that either wrongly alleged that he had been violent toward federal agents or directly blamed him for his own killing.
- Video verified by ABC News showed Pretti holding his phone to record CBP agents as a masked agent knocked a woman to the ground, then pepper-sprayed Pretti when he stepped between them. Shortly after, multiple agents pulled him to the ground before two agents fired approximately 10 shots at Pretti, killing him.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and figures from the Department of Homeland Security quickly made public statements claiming Pretti had intended to “massacre law enforcement,” commit “an act of domestic terrorism,” and “inflict maximum damage” — despite video evidence directly contradicting their claims.
In the hours following the shooting, Fox News began running with the Trump administration's narrative and parroting its talking points. Network figures and guests quoted or aired the administration's misleading and false statements at least 22 times in 24 hours after the news broke.
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- Media Matters reviewed Fox News programming from January 24-30 and found that network guests and personalities made at least 75 claims attacking Pretti — either falsely claiming Pretti was violent toward federal agents or blaming him for his own killing.
Fox’s weekend shows airing just after the shooting made the most claims attacking Pretti. On January 24 alone, network figures and guests made at least 32 such claims. As video evidence became harder and harder to refute into the week, shows hosted by Will Cain, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham aired the most claims attacking Pretti among all of Fox’s weekday programming.
The number of daily claims against Pretti declined over the following days until footage of a January 13 incident involving Pretti and DHS agents resurfaced on January 28. Fox personalities seized on the footage to once again cast Pretti as an aggressor against federal agents, with the network airing at least 10 additional attacks even as his family stressed that “nothing that happened a full week before could possibly have justified Alex's killing at the hands of ICE.”
Despite their pleas, Fox host Jesse Watters told viewers that in the new video, Pretti “looks like a dangerous, hostile, unhinged male nurse with a loaded weapon who went back for more a week later.”
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- Figures on Fox News repeatedly argued that Pretti’s decision to carry a gun justified his killing, with anchor Jon Scott asking why anyone would go to a protest with “a semiautomatic handgun and a couple of magazines,” and former acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey even claiming the agents “very well could have prevented a major mass shooting of multiple officers.”
Fox News contributors and guests also repeatedly contradicted video evidence by insisting Pretti had behaved aggressively or brandished a weapon. Fox contributor Paul Mauro claimed agents were only “trying to subdue him without using deadly force” when Pretti “pulls out that 9 mm,” former DHS official Charles Marino asserted that Pretti “showed up to this protest, intended to obstruct and confront law enforcement agents, and it turned out badly for him,” and right-wing activist Chris Rufo described him as “a violent leftist agitator … seeking armed conflict with the police.”
Former prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky described the shooting as “essentially a suicide-by-cop type of scenario,” claiming, “It's long been known if you're going to fight with cops and resist in situations that are escalating like this, it is a death wish.”
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- Not all Fox personalities embraced the Trump administration’s narrative. Late on January 24, contributor Ted Williams broke with the prevailing Fox coverage, saying that the administration put out a “misrepresentation” of what took place in the video. He continued, “This man is dead, he has a family, and to go out and call him a domestic terrorist without giving any more information is just unacceptable.”
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- Fox contributor Trey Gowdy even compared Pretti to Kyle Rittenhouse, adding, “Alex Pretti's firearm was lawfully being carried. It's lawful to carry a gun in Minnesota. He never brandished it. He didn't point it at the cops. … We certainly should not be labelling him as a domestic terrorist who's going to execute cops. There's no evidence to support that.”
But many others on the network continued to churn out false statements and justifications for Pretti’s killing.
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MAGA media demand Trump put down the Minnesota “revolution”
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 01/30/26
A week after Border Patrol officers gunned down nurse Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis, MAGA media’s biggest stars are portraying locals who oppose immigration enforcement officers’ brutal tactics as China-backed “revolutionaries” seeking “the complete overthrow of Western civilization” which they are urging President Donald Trump to put down at all costs.
Horrific videos of Pretti’s killing by masked agents of the state whose activities he had been filming spurred a backlash against the Trump administration’s immigration policy, with polls showing eroding support and some Republican officeholders and right-leaning streamers expressing dismay.
Even some commentators on Fox News, which initially plowed ahead in depraved service of the administration’s absurd argument that Pretti was a terrorist threatening the officers’ lives, backed down a bit. After Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade urged the president to send former Fox contributor and White House “border czar” Tom Homan to take control of the situation on Monday, Trump took Kilmeade’s advice, spurring premature media claims of a “pivot.”
But in this tug-of-war over the president’s brainbox, MAGA stars quickly regrouped and urged Trump not to back down, reverting to the language of war that has characterized right-wing media discussions of Minneapolis for weeks. And the tenor of their coverage has only become more disturbing over the course of the week.
Fox host Laura Ingraham, in her opening monologue Thursday night, claimed that the “mobs you've witnessed in Minnesota and in other far-left-wing pockets of America” are composed of “revolutionaries” who “smear and dehumanize as a prelude to the executions.”
Ingraham went on to argue that “behind all this” is “a national network of socialists, communists, and Marxist-Leninists” whose “goal is to destabilize the West and undermine trust in our institutions and eventually dismantle capitalism and replace it with a Marxist communist framework that eliminates private property in favor of state-owned enterprises.”
“So how do you defeat these well-funded, well-organized revolutionaries?” Ingraham asked. She replied to her own question, claiming, “We defeat the revolution by staying the course, by prosecuting criminal conspiracies to impede ICE and also their funding networks, and by reminding Americans that their safety and U.S. sovereignty will not be negotiated away, not now, not ever.”
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Ingraham further argued that the anti-ICE movement has “Chinese fingerprints all over it.”
The following hour, Fox’s Jesse Watters described Minneapolis as “antifa’s new favorite city” and local protesters as an “ICE watch mafia” with its “own socialist supply lines, logistics, and financial benefactors.”
“They're calling Minnesota a testing ground for a domestic revolution,” he added. “This is more than just about immigration. It's about the complete overthrow of Western civilization.”
Democrats want “more Renee Goods and Alex Prettis,” he added. “They think if they can stack enough bodies, Trump's going to back off.”
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Watters later hosted MAGA streamer Tim Pool, who argued that “the terrifying thing about Minnesota” is not that federal officers keep killing civilians, but that “we're looking at a leftist base in this country that are being radicalized.”
“My concern is that there's, there's a bloodlust” among the protesters “that's not going to be satisfied,” he added.
Watters went on to say that “there's a certain faction of the left that wants the violence” and suggested that the media “has a little bit more responsibility in situations like this to calm things down.”
Then on Sean Hannity’s program, the host likewise denounced what he termed “the well-coordinated, well-funded, quote, resistance to ICE investigations in Minnesota,” which he claimed is engaged in “an attack on our very system.”
He went on to describe Democrats’ “current anti-ICE outrage” as “pure political theater,” adding that “ultimately, they want to dissolve our borders and fundamentally transform a country and the people that they despise.”
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The vitriol on Fox’s evening shows is somehow less ominous than that coming from right-wing figures off its airways, though.
Tucker Carlson, who hosts one of the nation’s most popular podcasts, argued on Wednesday’s installment that in
, “we are watching the destruction of the social fabric of the government and potentially of the nation.” He explained that the video of Pretti’s killing “represents chaos” and added: “Chaos is worse than illegal immigration. Chaos is worse than police brutality. Chaos is worse than anything. Chaos equals death. The death of people, the death of the weak, the death of countries.”
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that Minnesota activists “want the chaos,” adding: “This is proof that what you're watching is not a series of protests about immigration. What you're watching are the beginnings of a color revolution, of a kind of insurrection against federal authority.” He further claimed that if that revolution is not stopped, the result will be “civil war” and “killing at scale.”
“We have to hold the line,” Steve Bannon likewise argued on Wednesday. “There can be no de-escalation at all. You don't need to bring down the temperature. Raise the temperature. Put them under pressure. They're the ones that are cracking.”
“This is an inflection point,” he added. “You blink now and you're going to blink forever. You bend the knee now, you'll bend the knee forever. If we stand in the breach and say, screw you, we're fighting for the country, right?”
And Nick Fuentes, the increasingly prominent white nationalist streamer, argued that if the “radical intervention” Trump is overseeing does not succeed, “all of white civilization just collapses.”
“You have to put yourself in the position of your grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the year 2100 and look around at your majority-minority country that looks like South Africa, where it's just trash and graffiti and filth and homeless people and vagabonds and criminals,” Fuentes explained. “And then you have to go back in time to now when we can prevent it. And then think about what you're willing to do to stop this. And then killing a stupid fat lesbian and a male nurse doesn't seem so bad, does it?”
“Do you know what 'Sieg Heil’ even means?” he concluded. “It means ‘hail victory.’ And not to go like full Nazi or something, but there is no substitute for victory. We have to win; they have to lose.”
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- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Trump’s Agents Arrested Don Lemon. Then the Story Got Even Darker.
Trump has been raging about the former CNN journalist. Attorney General Pam Bondi just had him arrested, a move one legal expert slammed as “highly irregular.”
- Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti @ The New York Times: How Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Have Been Debunked Again and Again
The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.
- Christian Paz @ Vox: The man Trump is hoping can fix ICE optics in Minneapolis
Tom Homan, explained.
- Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: MAGA media demand Trump put down the Minnesota “revolution”
A week after Border Patrol officers gunned down nurse Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis, MAGA media’s biggest stars are portraying locals who oppose immigration enforcement officers’ brutal tactics as China-backed “revolutionaries” seeking “the complete overthrow of Western civilization” which they are urging President Donald Trump to put down at all costs.
- Jessica Morris @ The Roys Report: Pastor Dale Partridge says women lack the emotional capacity to vote
Reformed pastor Dale Partridge says he doesn’t hate women, but he doesn’t think they have the emotional capacity to vote. After months of tirades against emancipated females, he published a video on Jan. 24 calling white liberal women “the epitome of stupid.”
- Patrick Darrington @ AL.com: Tuberville says he will watch this instead of ‘Bad Rabbit’ at the ‘Woke Bowl’ halftime show
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala, decried the Super Bowl as continuing to get “more and more woke” and he will not be watching Latin superstar Bad Bunny perform during the NFL’s Super Bowl LX halftime show.
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OMAHA — A student was struck by a vehicle during an anti-ICE rally Thursday in front of Fremont High School. The SUV, which displayed a Trump flag, fled the scene, video of the incident shows.
The episode was captured and shared first by News Channel Nebraska, which also reported that the girl was alert as she was taken by rescue personnel to the hospital.
Fremont police did not immediately respond to a reporter’s calls. School officials released a brief statement, which in part described the 2 p.m. rally as a non-school sponsored, student-led demonstration.
U.S. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., who owns News Channel Nebraska and represents Fremont, released remarks on social media, and shared the video. He called the incident disturbing.
“This is not what we do in Nebraska — this is not ok,” said Flood. “It is critical that our country preserve the ability of people to safely protest.”
The incident set off a flurry of statements from public officials.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen described “the freedom to peacefully assemble” a cornerstone of American government that must be protected.
He added, in a statement, “Here’s a fundamental truth we should all agree upon: Political violence — no matter what — is never okay.”
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb, released a statement saying he was “praying” for the student.
“We must all remember that we can disagree politically and not resort to violence as a response,” said Ricketts.
The former governor said he expected all high school administrations to ensure students have a “safe and productive learning environment and take appropriate disciplinary actions when necessary.”
U.S. Sen Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said that, “In Nebraska, we respect the right of people to peacefully protest” and offered prayers for the young woman in this “horrible incident.”
“Disrupting such a peaceful protest with violence is never OK,” she said. “I hope the person involved is identified.”
Retiring U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., also called for the driver to be held accountable “for using their vehicle to assault a legal protestor.”
“Let us be decent towards each other and respect differences of opinions,” he said. “Decency, patience, kindness and empathy.”
According to NCN, the driver of the red SUV with a Trump flag flying from its rear end stopped near a group of students in front of the high school and got out of the vehicle, exchanging words with protesters. He returned to the car, revved the engine and drove forward.
The girl was in front of the vehicle, facing it, when she was struck and was flung to the side. A school administrator reportedly approached and the driver drove off.
The Fremont Public Schools statement said school administrators were supervising to ensure students were safe and peaceful.
“At one point, a few students entered the street. One student was hit by a car that stopped in front of the crowd and then began moving,” the statement said. It did not identify the student or provide an update on her condition.
“We value our relationship with our first responders and their help today,” the statement said, quoting Superintendent Brad Dahl. “We will continue to work together to keep our students and community safe.”
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- Doug Bock Clark and Jen Fifield @ ProPublica: FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
- Richard L. Hasen @ Slate: Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not.
It’s about the raid being a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026, when control of both houses of Congress could be at stake. Now is the time for state and local governments, the courts, and the people to work against such potential election subversion.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Why did Tulsi Gabbard join an FBI raid tied to Trump’s election conspiracy theory?
The director of national intelligence was looking for ways to return to the president’s good graces. She apparently found one in an unexpected place.
- Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Right-Wing Influencers Want Women to Love ICE
“We need more stories and images showing the professionalism and compassion of ICE.”
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Did Ilhan Omar Stage Her Attack? Of Course Not. But Trump Thinks So.
A real false flag story for your favorite False Flag newsletter.
- Ed Mazza @ HuffPost: Trump Makes Wild Accusation Against Obama In Unhinged Evening Posting Spree
The president pushed conspiracy theories in a series of Truth Social posts.
- Noah Dowe, Isabella Sherk, and Alex Kaplan @ Media Matters: The right-wing media figures who have justified Alex Pretti's killing by Trump’s DHS
MAGA media and far-right figures smeared Pretti, calling him a “race traitor” who aimed to “commit a mass murder.”
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After pledging to deescalate tensions in Minnesota, President Donald Trump kicked off Wednesday by taking aim at the mayor of Minneapolis, asserting — incorrectly — that declining to enforce federal immigration laws is unlawful.
Legal analysts and administration critics have warned that the moves the president made this week in the wake of the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents were simply a change in tone — not in strategy or tactics, and not an actual pivot. Trump has recalled Greg Bovino, the head of Operation Metro Surge, from Minneapolis, and sent in border czar Tom Homan.
“Surprisingly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.’ This is after having had a very good conversation with him.”
“Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!” the president declared.
The president declared Frey’s stance is unlawful but legal experts note that cities and states generally cannot be forced to carry out federal immigration enforcement.
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted that “the feds can’t ‘commandeer’ state law enforcement resources to execute their policies.”
She also called the president’s statement, “More evidence Trump isn’t changing course on mass deportations.”
Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney offered some additional insight.
“Trump could not have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes,” Cheney wrote.
He noted that courts have “ruled repeatedly” that the federal government “cannot coerce states to enforce federal law.”
“Nor is it illegal for states to decline to do so,” Cheney added.
“And the menacing ‘playing with fire’ is exactly the kind of statement (‘retribution is coming’) that worked against the administration in court earlier this week,” he added.
Indeed, ABC News interviewed the president on Tuesday and reported that Trump was suggesting federal agents would take a “more relaxed” approach in Minnesota after the two deadly shootings.
Trump said, “we can start doing maybe a little bit more relaxed,” and, “we’d like to finish the job and finish it well, and I think we can do it in a de-escalated form.”
ABC called it “a shift in tone.”
The New Republic’s Greg Sargent wrote on Wednesday, “The media narrative that Trump is ‘pivoting’ and ‘deescalating’ on his ICE raids … is wildly overstated. As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there’s no pivot. It’s that simple.”
“Trump wants to appear eager to minimize clashes between his govt militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want them to stop doing the things that are causing the clashes in the first place,” he continued. “There’s no Trump ‘pivot’ until we see real investigations into the government’s killings and real accountability for them.”
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- Kyle Langford reacted to the killing of Alex Pretti by calling for law and order as exemplified by fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
- Eric Metaxas declares that Pretti "was a soldier of the Marxist left."
- Jason Rapert is outraged by former President Bill Clinton's response to Pretti's killing: "You are one of the most corrupt and profane men to ever be elected to public office. This is nothing but an effort for you to once again deflect and dodge being held accountable for your own lifetime of misdeeds. SHAME ON YOU BILL CLINTON."
- Jon Miller thinks that ICE "should be allowed to shoot whomever they please as long as they continue to do God’s work."
- Joshua Haymes says that "Darwinian evolution is fake and gay."
- Finally, Nick Fuentes reveals that he had discussions with fellow white nationalist Eric Orwoll about creating a training program for budding white nationalists with the intention of getting them positions in Washington, DC, but the plan was scrapped because they could not agree on its scope.
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- David Gilbert @ Wired: The Instant Smear Campaign Against Border Patrol Shooting Victim Alex PrettI
Within minutes of the shooting, the Trump administration and right-wing influencers began disparaging the man shot by a federal immigration officer on Saturday in Minneapolis.
- Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: So what if Alex Pretti had a gun?
The unbearable hypocrisy of pro-gun conservatives defending the Minneapolis killing.
- Peter Baker @ The New York Times: For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is
The Trump team has advanced one-sided narratives to justify each of the killings, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Steve Bannon and Co. Declare War on Minnesota After Pretti Shooting
President Trump’s onetime adviser is urging him to crack down harder in Minneapolis following a federal agent’s killing of Alex Pretti.
- Abby Vesoulis and Ari Berman @ Mother Jones: DOJ’s “Ransom” Letter to Minnesota Reveals How Trump Plans to Rig the Midterms
After a Border Patrol agent killed Alex Pretti, Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Minnesota to hand over its voter roll to “bring an end to the chaos.”
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January 24, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, posted to YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): You need to pray for Border Patrol, federal law enforcement, and ICE right now as Minneapolis is about to pop off. Another deadly shooting.
This time, a left-wing protester attempted to pull this Sig Sauer handgun on federal officers and commit a mass murder, potentially killing many of them because there were quite a few around during an arrest situation where a left-wing agitator, probably a professional paid agitator, 51 years-old, was reaching for this firearm.
Federal law enforcement put him down, but a Border Patrol member shot and killed an individual in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the intersection of 26th Street, Nicollet Avenue. This is the same avenue that the Quality Learning center is on. Goodness gracious. What started it all, and now we're learning so much more about what the left is willing to do.
This would be the second time that a leftist paid protester, agitator, terrorist has been killed in self-defense by federal law enforcement for attempting to commit murder. Renee Good tried to run over federal officers, and this individual tried to shoot federal officers. You can see here in this video -- what you'll see is federal officers tussling, attempting to apprehend the agitator and then the individual showed his firearm. And you can hear the discharge of a weapon. And the reactions from inside of whatever establishment was filming this -- again, well, stop resisting arrest. Stop fighting federal law enforcement.
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After 36 hours justifying the killing of Alex Pretti, Fox News suddenly changes its narrative
Written by Matt Gertz
Published 01/26/26
On Sunday evening, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin published a lengthy report detailing internal dissent among his federal immigration enforcement sources regarding the narrative pushed by Department of Homeland Security leaders after Border Patrol officers gunned down Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who had been videotaping their activities, in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
Amid the several hundred words describing an internal schism over how DHS is messaging masked agents of the state opening fire on a man who had already been restrained, Melugin slipped in the following statement: “There is no indication Pretti was there to murder law enforcement, as videos appear to show he never drew his holstered firearm.”
Melugin’s stark acknowledgement was whiplash-inducing for anyone who had been following Fox’s on-air coverage of Pretti’s killing up to that point, and it marked the start of a dramatic shift in the network’s treatment of the case.
Fox spent Saturday and much of Sunday blaming the victim and local Democrats for his death while excusing and even valorizing his executioners. In doing so the network was following in the footsteps of the high-ranking administration officials who baselessly argued that Pretti was a “would-be assassin” engaged in “domestic terrorism.” Melugin himself was the vehicle DHS used to launder its excuse that Pretti “was armed.”
And notably, some Fox contributors repeatedly justified Pretti’s killing by going beyond the official comment to allege that he had drawn the gun he was reportedly legally carrying and that he even pointed it at the Border Patrol officers — the very claim Melugin said Sunday night had been disproved by videos.
The fallacy of the DHS smear of Pretti had long been clear to anyone who had reviewed videos of the shooting, triggering widespread outrage over his killing. But Melugin’s admission — and his reporting on a schism within immigration enforcement over the case — apparently provided his colleagues the permission structure they needed to abandon their narrative.
“Tomi, speak plainly with the audience right now,” Fox host Johnny Joey Jones told his co-host Tomi Lahren on Sunday night. “What we're getting from Bill — and as he cited, many of his sources are pro-what's happening as far as enforcing immigration and mass deportation — but what they're concerned with is every video we've seen so far doesn’t show him brandishing a gun, it doesn’t show him — it doesn’t substantiate the idea that he was there to commit a massacre or that he was a domestic terrorist.”
“Usually, when those words are used you usually have more than the fact that he had a gun on him as evidence, and that is what at least some officials are taking issue with,” he added.
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Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade on Monday morning followed the editorial boards of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post and Wall Street Journal in urging President Donald Trump to change course.
“I would love to see Tom Homan just be asked to go in there and settle things down,” Kilmeade said, referencing his former Fox colleague turned White House border czar, who has stressed the need for “collateral arrests” of immigrants without criminal backgrounds.
“He understands the president’s objective. He could come in with a fresh set of eyes,” Kilmeade added. “For some reason he’s been sidelined of late, and I think we could use someone to come in there and settle everything down from the Trump perspective.”
And Dana Perino, who served as press secretary to President George W. Bush and now anchors Fox’s morning “straight news” hours, stressed the need for the White House to get its facts in order and find a way to make adjustments.
She said that current White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt needed to be “very clear to the officials that we have a gigantic problem and, yes, we can say that the media is biased, and we can say that the Democrats are crazy and that they're radical and that they're ginning everything up, but we have a problem and I need better answers for you before we go to the briefing room at 1 o’clock.”
Perino added that Trump should take credit for having “arrested a lot of illegal immigrants” in Minneapolis and then send presidential envoy Steve Witkoff to the city “because I believe they need somebody that can be trusted on both sides to say, I hear you, I hear you, and here's where we're going.”
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Co-host Griff Jenkins noted in response that Trump, who regularly watches Fox & Friends and often implements ideas he sees on it, had just announced that he was sending Homan to Minneapolis that night.
Perino praised Trump’s “good decision,” adding that the president understood “it’s unsustainable.” Apparently, he wasn’t the only one who came to that conclusion.
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After the latest shooting of a Minneapolis protester, President Donald Trump's campaign to deport immigrants is quickly losing support from Republican lawmakers, loyalists and conservative publications.
On Sunday, the conservative Wall Street Journal posted an analysis calling the Trump administration out on its lies that VA ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti walked up to ICE officers with a gun, intending to “massacre law enforcement.”
"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday," the subheading of the Journal reads.
It notes at the close of the story that reporters continue to ask the administration at what point, exactly, Pretti's gun came out.
“This situation is evolving,” Customs and Border Protection official Gregory Bovino said at a press conference on Saturday. “This is under investigation. Those facts will come to light.”
He refused to answer the same questions on CNN when host Dana Bash asked them.
They've also lost far-right disgraced former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. In his Sunday column, O'Reilly, who now occasionally appears on NewsNation, tells Trump it's time he make "adjustments."
While O'Reilly spends most of the column trashing Democrats in Minnesota, he also says, "some restraint is necessary." While he pointed the criticism to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), he adds, "That point of view would help him and everybody else."
While many Democrats posted condemnations of ICE and Homeland Security as a whole, Republican lawmakers are also starting to call for accountability.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) posted on X Sunday morning, "There must be a thorough and impartial investigation into yesterday’s Minneapolis shooting, which is the basic standard that law enforcement and the American people expect following any officer-involved shooting. For this specific incident, that requires cooperation and transparency between federal, state, and local law enforcement. Any administration official who rushes to judgment and tries to shut down an investigation before it begins are doing an incredible disservice to the nation and to President Trump’s legacy."
Republican Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.)commented late Saturday, "I’m disturbed by what I’ve seen from today’s video from Minnesota. It’s critically important that the American people and Congress be given a better understanding of how immigration enforcement is being handled, including the methods federal law enforcement officers are using to prioritize, identify and arrest suspected targets, the training they are receiving, the implementation of body cameras, the threats they face in conducting operations and the challenges posed by sanctuary cities and states."
Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R‑N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has already called for a full hearing in which ICE and DHS answer questions.
Even former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is angry over ICE's attack on a man who was lawfully carrying a gun.
"Legally carrying a firearm is not the same as brandishing a firearm," she wrote on X Sunday morning.
She closed her lengthy post by adding, "You are all being incited into civil war, yet none of it solves any of the real problems that we all face, and tragically people are dying."
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Roughly two and one-half weeks after the fatal January 7 shooting of motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) agent, yet another Minneapolis resident was fatally shot during a protest in the city: 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, who worked in an internal care unit in a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House adviser Stephen Miller are claiming that Pretti was shot by U.S. Border Patrol agents in self-defense, noting that he was carrying a concealed weapon. But critics of President Donald Trump's ICE raids in Minneapolis are countering Pretti never pointed the gun at Border Patrol agents and that he was shot after being forced onto the ground and disarmed.
In an article published on Monday, January 26 — two days after Pretti's death — Salon's Amanda Marcotte offers a blistering critique of the response that far-right white evangelicals have had to the unrest in Minneapolis.
"The Christian Right will never turn down an opportunity to make false accusations of religious persecution," Marcotte argues. "These days, they're especially eager to play the victim. Doing so allows them to distract from the ugly reality that they, in voting for Donald Trump, have helped to unleash in Minnesota: A woman killed in front of her wife, children ripped from their parents, a baby nearly killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents firing tear gas at a family driving home from a basketball game. On Saturday, there was another unjustifiable shooting. Video appears to show 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care unit nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, helping a woman to her feet when Border Patrol agents swarm and pepper-spray him — and then shoot him in the head."
Marcotte adds, "All this, though, apparently pales in comparison to a more serious form of oppression: right-wing Christians being told it's immoral to support a brutal, racist assault on their neighbors."
The Salon journalist is referring to a Sunday, January 18 protest in which activists disrupted a service at the evangelical Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota because one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is an ICE field director in the area. MAGA Republicans, from Noem to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, described that disruption as an attack on religious freedom — an argument Marcotte considers disingenuous.
Tim Whitaker, a former Christian nationalist, told Salon, "Cities Church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, which was founded in 1845 over the right to own slaves. This church should be disrupted. As far as I'm concerned, Jesus would've been right with those protesters…. (Cities Church) is home to a pastor that works for a federal agency kidnapping brown-skinned immigrants and killing unarmed citizens."
Marcotte notes that one of the protesters arrested during the January 18 protest at Cities Church is herself an ordained Christian minister.
"Unfortunately, the right's histrionic language about 'religious freedom' has cowed many centrists and even liberals into thinking the protesters who interrupted a single church service are in the wrong," Marcotte writes. "Instead, they should be applauded as following the tradition of Jesus himself confronting the moneychangers in the temple."
Religious freedom means the right to worship as you see fit. By the same token, it also allows everyone else the right to question what churches are teaching — especially when they impact people and communities outside the church doors."
Marcotte adds, "In an era when Christian churches are condoning outright evil actions such as ICE’s deadly rampage through Minnesota, it’s more important than ever to not allow this dishonest definition of 'religious freedom' browbeat the rest of us into silence over spiritual oppression."
Amanda Marcotte's full article for Salon is available at this link.
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A federal appeals court has now lifted restrictions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in how they're meant to deal with local protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney reported Wednesday that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals — whose jurisdiction encompasses Minnesota along with six other states — has now granted a motion by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to impose a stay on a temporary restraining order (TRO) put in place by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez (an appointee of former President Joe Biden). This means that the restrictions will no longer be in place while the DHS appeals them to the circuit court.
After Judge Menendez's TRO was stayed, this means that ICE agents will now once again be allowed to use less-than-lethal munitions on protesters, like flash-bang grenades and tear gas, and make arrests. Politico reported that the TRO was initially put in place following a lawsuit filed over DHS' heavy-handed response to protests that unfolded in the wake of the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Good.
DHS and ICE had previously been prohibited from "using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity." Judge Menendez's order also forbade federal agents from pulling over citizens for following them, as long as they were keeping an "appropriate" distance.
The overturning of Menendez's TRO comes on the heels of the Trump administration telling military personnel to prepare for a "possible mobilization to Minneapolis." The Department of Justice (DOJ) has also announced federal investigations into Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz – who have encouraged citizens to film and document ICE actions — for allegedly impeding law enforcement operations.
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance recently compared the Trump administration's handling of Minneapolis protesters to former Birmingham, Alabama Sheriff Bull Connor's treatment of protesters during the Civil Rights Movement. She also condemned the DOJ for objecting to Judge Menendez's order, writing on her Substack: "DOJ has stopped being the independent gem in the crown of the American rule of law."
"Now, it’s just Trump’s law firm," she wrote. "He’s finally found his Roy Cohn, a number of them."
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NOTE PAWN // PAID PROTESTOR: VICTIM NOT OF STATE THUGS BUT DERSERVE HARM BECAUSE DUMB ENOUGH TO BE MANIPULATED BY EXTREME LEFT LUNATICS?
January 15, 2026, edition of Newsmax's Carl Higbie Frontline
CARL HIGBIE (HOST): And to counter that, though, the liberal media is trying to go out and tell, like the most insane thing — like, here, about this six-month-old who unfortunately got tear gassed by ICE. Well, like, that sucks. But why was the six-month-old, even exposed or near tear gas in the first place? Huh?
I mean, this has become such a problem that people are using their children as political pawns that DHS had to tweet this out. We told you about this other day. Do not bring your baby to a violent riot. The fact that you have to tell someone that — you should be — your kids should be taken away from you. But that baby was exposed to tear gas because the mob — baby was in the mob in a car — the mob was attacking the ICE agents. They didn't aim the tear gas. They weren't like, hey, check out that six month-old. Let me shoot him in the face. Not at all. That's not at all what happened. They were aiming at the crowd where, for some reason, the car with this six month-old was. Now, if the crowd — I don't know. And I'm just spitballing ideas here — If they listened to law enforcement, no one would have gotten shot with tear gas.
Also showing stuff like this. Kids skipping school to protest ICE turns into violent mosh pits and all this stuff. Here the kids are just piling out of classes like, hey, no, no, they should probably not be in class at all. It's just unbelievable. The only reason that kids would protest ICE because they were taught to protest ICE by liberal teachers in Tim Walz's school districts.
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Liz Oyer, a former Justice Department pardon attorney, told Jim Acosta that the DOJ is participating in a massive cover-up over the shooting of a Minneapolis woman in Minnesota.
Among the revelations reported this week, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent, still had a pulse when first responders arrived on scene. ICE denied a doctor access to Good who wanted to render her aid.
Oyer said that it may mean that there are other ICE officers who could be culpable in Good's death.
Both she and Acosta agreed that an investigation into the entire situation was warranted. However, the deputy attorney general already decided that there would not be an investigation into the shooting.
"I don't think I'm exaggerating, Jim, when I say that DOJ is effectively participating in a cover-up of any potential crime that may have occurred," said Oyer. "Now, it wouldn't be proper for the deputy attorney general to jump to the conclusion that this officer should be prosecuted. But it would be absolutely expected that the deputy attorney general would be calling for a thorough investigation, so that the Justice Department could determine whether a prosecution is warranted."
She added that the fact that that isn't happening in this case is alarming.
"The fact that prosecutors in the civil rights division have been told that they cannot go to the scene and participate in an investigation — it is really — I cannot overstate how absolutely how shocking and wrong that is to the degree that DOJ is really complicit," she said. "The leadership of DOJ is complicit in covering up what happened during this incident."
Acosta added he wouldn't be surprised if this matter went all the way up to Attorney General Pam Bondi if not Donald Trump himself.
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New York Times video analysis says there’s “no indication” Renee Good ran over an ICE agent. Right-wing media have been claiming she nearly “slaughtered” him.
The Times’ analysis reveals “no indication Agent Jonathan Ross got run over” by Good just prior to her killing – contrasting over a week of right-wing media claims
Written by Noah Dowe, Reed McMaster, Ben Van Bloem & Tyler Monroe
Published 01/16/26
After the January 7 killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, right-wing media figures rallied behind the agency, saying they are “100% on ICE’s side,” repeatedly accusing Good of ramming the agent with her car, and even calling her a “murderer.”
But new video analysis from The New York Times reveals “no indication Agent Jonathan Ross got run over” by Good – rather, that “Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place.”
New York Times’ analysis says there’s “no indication Agent Jonathan Ross got run over”
- The New York Times released a new video analysis on the ICE shooting of Renee Good which found “currently available visual evidence still shows no indication Agent Jonathan Ross got run over.” The analysis “establishes, frame by frame, how agent Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place.” It also notes that Good’s car “begins turning to the right, away from the agent” shortly before she was shot. The New York Times, [1/15/26]
- The report found that Ross seemed to slip on the ice or otherwise lose his footing as the car moved while he was leaning against it. The analysis highlights a moment that “looks and sounds like the agent’s getting knocked violently” but notes that in fact the noise came from his hand, which was holding his phone: “His phone, which is gripped in his left hand, flips over when the agent’s hand lands on the front of the vehicle. There’s an audible thud when it hits.” The New York Times, [1/15/26]
- The New York Times said it was “very unclear” if the “agent’s upper body gets swiped by the vehicle” but noted that there was “a visible gap between the vehicle and his legs.” According to the analysis, “We see, as he fires, it’s recording the clouds and the trees overhead. It’s not because the agent is knocked to the ground. The other angle shows he’s still standing, continuing to maintain his grip on his phone and his gun, and we see a clear and growing gap between his body and the S.U.V. as he fires a second shot and a third.” The New York Times, [1/15/26]
- ## After Good was killed, right-wing media falsely claimed she “rammed” the agent and “tried to run over an ICE agent”
- Right-wing host Benny Johnson suggested Good nearly “slaughtered” the agent with her car. YouTube, *The Benny Show*, [1/12/26]
- On Fox, Johnson claimed the video showed Good “demonstrably trying to ram and run over” the ICE agent and called her a “murderer.” Johnson said, “They are right now saying that the murderer, the woman who tried to run over an ICE agent in her car, her name is Renee Good, she has — and video demonstrably trying to ram and run over this agent, you can see it in the body cam footage — they are calling her the victim and the ICE agent the murderer. It's flipping the narrative, and it's totally dishonest. It's impossible to keep up with.” Fox News,*Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/12/25]
- Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked why Democrats are “defending this girl who rams, what is it, a 4,000-pound car into an ICE agent?” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/16/26]
- Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed Good “chased down” the ICE officer “with a 3,000-pound vehicle.” Jones claimed, “She hit him, he bounces off. It's the equivalent of if he got stabbed in the shoulder.” Infowars, *The Alex Jones Show*, [1/9/26]
- Daily Wire host Michael Knowles accused Good of “driving into a cop” and claimed, “She doesn’t turn her wheel and then drive away. She hits the gas.” “She hit the cop,” Knowles continued, “None of this is really in dispute.” Daily Wire, *The Michael Knowles Show*, [1/12/26]
- :{:{Fox host Sean Hannity claimed cell phone footage from the officer showed an “anti-ICE agitator, a woman by the name of Renee Good, plowing into an ICE officer with her SUV.” Hannity said, “When I grew up, my parents taught me to actually listen to police officers, that they are your friends, not to taunt them, not to aggravate them, and not to drive vehicles into them.” }:[Fox News, Hannity, 1/9/26
- Right-wing host Megyn Kelly said that she was “100% on ICE’s side” because Good had tried “to run one down.” Kelly said, “I'm 100% on ICE's side. I don't see the nuance on this one. I feel like you don't want to get shot in the face by ICE, don't try to run one down.” YouTube, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/16/26]
- On The Megyn Kelly Show, right-wing radio host Jesse Kelly said Good tried “to run over an ICE agent” and called her a “37-year-old street animal.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/9/26]
- Fox host Jesse Watters played video from the agent's cell phone and said that he was “rammed” above a chyron that read “NEW VIDEO OF ICE RAMMING.” Watters said, “New video from the ICE agent that was rammed was just released, proving he was hit, the woman was there to block the op, and she wasn't a lawyer.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/9/26]
- Newsmax host Chris Plante claimed that Good “raced her car at a federal law enforcement agent and hit him with her car and could very well have killed him.” Newsmax, *The Right Squad*, [1/12/26]
- MK Media’s Link Lauren claimed that Good “rammed” the ICE officer who killed her. Lauren said, “When you're using your car as a weapon, things are going to happen. Right? You stalked this guy, you rammed him, and it went down.” YouTube, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/9/26]
- Fox host Tomi Lahren: “You do not impede a law enforcement action and then turn around and call it murder when you try to ram your car into an ICE agent out there doing their job.” She added: “Why are you there? Why does the left want these people there? Why do they want their people to be martyred in the streets is my question.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [1/9/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Dave Rubin argued of Ross and Good: “He did not pull out the gun until she started using the car as a weapon.” Rubin added, “He didn’t step in front of the car as if, like, step in front of the car as it was moving forward.” YouTube, *The Rubin Report*, [1/8/26]
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- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump received a Nobel Peace Prize the same way he received a Purple Heart
The president seems to prefer a model where others do the heavily lifting and then generously turn over their honors.
- Alexander Willis @ Raw Story: Trump issues ominous warning amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act.
President Donald Trump issued an ominous warning Friday to Minnesota leaders over the ongoing protests against federal immigration officials, hinting that he may be “forced” to quash the protests himself amid recent threats of invoking the Insurrection Act.
- Gideon Taaffe & Torri Lonergan @ Media Matters: “Arrest them all”: Right-wing media back Trump as he threatens to use the Insurrection Act
Posting to his Truth Social platform on January 15, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act supposedly because “the corrupt politicians of Minnesota” aren’t stopping “the professional agitators and insurrectionists” from attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Several right-wing media personalities backed him up, saying that it’s “time to do it” and claiming that “Trump’s core base, the hardest core of MAGA” are “the biggest advocate of invoking the Insurrection Act.”
- Zachary Leeman @ Mediaite: Trump Threatens Tariffs Against Countries That Don’t Support Greenland Takeover
President Donald Trump threatened to use tariffs to force support for the annexation of Greenland, which he maintains is critical for the United States’ “national security.”
- Edith Olmstread @ The New Republic: ICE Attacks Car Full of Kids, Leaving 6-Month-Old Baby Unconscious
ICE’s brutal crackdown on Minnesota is growing more terrifying each day.
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CNN host Kaitlan Collins forced U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) that the fatal shooting of an American citizen at the hands of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent was not worthy of a follow-up investigation.
“If they're investigating anything, they need to be investigating the paid protesters, and who's paying them to obstruct federal officers from doing their job,” Mullin said of slain 37 year-old Minneapolis, Minnesota mother Renee Good, without evidence that Good was a paid protestor.
“We've seen the videos and how quickly it happened. Do you have no unanswered questions?” Collins prodded.
“No. Absolutely not. It is very clear," Mullin responded.
“It’s clear which bullet killed her or how fast she accelerated?” Collins asked. “You don't have any of those questions?”
“What does it matter which bullet killed her? What does it matter how fast she accelerated?” Mullin said.
“That's typical of how an investigation would work when a federal officer kills an American citizen, is it not? I mean, they would look into those things,” Collins insisted.
“Are we doubting the fact that she accelerated and hit an officer?” Mullins demanded. “Is that debatable? No, it's not debatable.”
“You say that is so clear, but there are officials that we've had on this show from Minnesota and local officials who believe that this was murder,” said Collins. “They've watched the same videos you have, and they've come to a totally different conclusion. So why not have an investigation?”
“But it's clear what took place,” Mullins said.
“To you. But other people say it's the opposite,” Collins said.
There have been a lot of conflicting comments about the various videos showing the ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis mom killed last week. One behavioral expert walked through how people can see the exact same video and have completely different takes on the matter.
Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, social psychologist Emily Balcetis said that she's been studying for 20 years how people look at the same evidence in a case and come to different conclusions.
Balcetis, who penned the book Social Psychology of Visual Perception, told Pamela Brown that people consider a video as a neutral witness, when that isn't necessarily the case.
"Of course, video provides important and valuable information that we need to understand the events of this case," she noted. "But it's not a complete understanding of what what has happened, because video evidence and the footage that it creates is constrained by where the camera is located and what that camera is pointed at, it can't any one video cannot take in the full complexities of a social situation like this one that we saw. The video is missing important information."
Her second point is that observers have limited visual and cognitive abilities and are trying to analyze altercations that are "complex."
"They're fast-moving. There are many moving social dynamics, and that overwhelms our ability to take in with precision and clarity all of what we're seeing at the same time, or at any one moment," said the New York University associate professor. "That means when you couple those two facts together, there are gaps in our understanding of what's happening in this video."
Viewing the video several times doesn't mean that any additional information is gathered because people tend to only see the same things over and over. It does nothing more than solidify the viewer's perspective.
"They're not seeing what they didn't see the first time. That maintains those misunderstandings," Balcetis said. "But then how do we fill in those gaps of understandings?"
She described the human brain as a "computational machine" automatically producing data based on what is viewed.
"Generations and generations have led our brains to evolve to fill in those gaps of understanding. And it does so by leveraging social identities," Balcetis continued. "The more we feel aligned with police officers or with authority will shape not just our opinions about whether that officer was culpable for the violence that we saw, but how we view that video evidence in the first place."
In studies she has performed in the lab, they discovered "the more that somebody paid attention to one target in that video, be it the police officer or anybody, that they held a negative attitude towards, the more that they were confident that that person was the aggressor, that they were the ones responsible for the violence that they observed because the more you pay attention to any one target, the what we found in the science was that the more inaccurate they were about the full scope of the case facts."
The goal is to shift understandings in an era governed by polarization.
One thing a viewer can do to account for this "is to try hard to look for the things that we didn't see the first time. If we try to pay attention to what didn't capture our attention to the thing that didn't move fast, to the thing that we didn't think was threatening in the first place, we might understand the case facts in a different way."
In her case, she didn't see Good turn her wheel sharply to the right to go around the officer. After she noticed that, she said it changed her perspective on the matter entirely.
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As Minneapolis prosecutors resign over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, right-wing media call for her arrest
Megyn Kelly on the ICE killing: “That wife got Renee Good killed — that's the truth. It was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”
Written by Gideon Taaffe & Reed McMaster
Published 01/13/26
As federal prosecutors in Minnesota are resigning over pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow, who was present when an ICE agent killed Good last week, some in right-wing media have been calling for Good’s wife to be arrested, saying she committed a “felony” and that Good’s death “was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.”
- ## Senior Justice Department officials are pushing for an investigation into Good’s widow, who was present at the shooting, and six prosecutors have resigned in response
- Renee Good’s wife, Becca Good, was present when she was shot, and both engaged with some of the ICE agents before the shooting. The Associated Press described a “series of exchanges” shown in one video of the shooting: “‘That’s fine, I’m not mad at you,’ Good says as the officer passes by her door. She has one hand on the steering wheel and the other outside the open driver side window. ‘U.S. citizen, former f---ing veteran,’ says her wife, standing outside the passenger side of the SUV holding up her phone. ‘You wanna come at us, you wanna come at us, I say go get yourself some lunch big boy.’” Right before the shots are fired, Becca Good appears to say, “Drive, baby, drive. Drive.” The Associated Press, [1/9/26]
- Becca Good wrote in a later statement that they had “stopped to support our neighbors” when they got into a confrontation with ICE agents.“Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole,” Good wrote, and Minnesota Public Radio reported that “those were the values that brought the Goods to stop during an ICE operation in south Minneapolis.” MPRNews, [1/9/26]
- Six Minnesota federal prosecutors have resigned over a push by the Justice Department to investigate Becca Good. The New York Times reported that the Justice Department is looking to “examine ties between Ms. Good and her wife, Becca, and several groups that have been monitoring and protesting the conduct of immigration agents in recent weeks.” Per the Times, one Minnesota prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, “objected to that approach, as well as to the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful, the people familiar with his decision said.” Five other prosecutors also resigned. The New York Times, [1/13/26]
- ## Right-wing media figures are calling for Becca Good’s arrest, accusing her of a “felony,” and blaming her for her wife’s death
- Newsmax host Greg Kelly claimed Becca Good was “instigating the whole damn thing” and “should be charged.”He added, “It's really important to understand how nasty this Becca person is, the wife who may have instigated the whole thing,” and suggested she has “LGBT queer immunity.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [1/12/26]
- Greg Kelly later said Renee Good's “mouthy wife” is “a terrible, terrible individual” who “should be in a lot of trouble.” Kelly claimed, “She seems to understand that she bears some responsibility here,” later adding that “it seems like she was the one calling the shots.” Newsmax, *Greg Kelly Reports*, [1/12/26]
- Podcaster Megyn Kelly claimed Good’s wife committed a “felony” and should be arrested for “aiding and abetting the resisting of arrest and the fleeing from a crime scene.” Kelly stated, “That wife should be under arrest. She should. She was aiding and abetting the resisting of arrest and the fleeing from a crime scene. She's committing a felony. You could make a good case for felony murder here. She should be in custody right now, that woman.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/12/26]
- Megyn Kelly said, “That wife got Renee Good killed — that's the truth. It was more the fault of the wife than the fault of the cop.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/12/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson: “You’ve got to charge the wife or the partner here” with attempted murder.He added, “Because she goes go, baby, go, baby, go as soon as she sees the ICE agent in front of her vehicle. Sorry, ma’am, not going to work out for you.” YouTube, *The Benny Show*, [1/12/26]
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Six prosecutors with the Justice Department have resigned after being told they must investigate the partner of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed last week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross.
According to the New York Times, career prosecutor Joseph H. Thompson, who was previously serving as the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota through 2025, resigned on Tuesday along with five others. He was the second-in-command after another Trump pick was nominated to the post.
Thompson "objected" to the approach of going after Good's partner. He also wanted nothing to do with "the Justice Department’s refusal to include state officials in investigating whether the shooting itself was lawful," the Times reported, citing people familiar with Thompson's decision.
The other officials who resigned included Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams and Thomas Calhoun-Lopez.
Jacobs was Thompson’s deputy, overseeing a fraud investigation into Minnesota daycare centers that Trump's administration has taken credit for busting. Jacobs began the probe in 2022.
Calhoun-Lopez served as the chief of the violent and major crimes unit.
Good was shot and killed during an encounter with Ross as she tried to move her car. The Trump administration claimed first that she ran over the agent. That statement has evolved into complaints that she allegedly rammed him with her car.
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During the first few weeks of 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump has generated plenty of headlines — from capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to sending even more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to Minneapolis, Minnesota following the fatal shooting of unarmed 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good in that city.
Trump's actions have plenty of defenders in MAGA media outlets. But MS NOW's Vaughn Hillyard, in an article published on January 13, stresses that Trump's "increasingly brazen assertions of executive power" are "running into an unexpected problem: They risk undermining the very goals they were meant to achieve."
"His threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark are accelerating European discussions about looking for alliances beyond the United States," Hillyard observes. "His public verdict in a fatal shooting by an immigration agent — delivered before a Justice Department investigation — risks further politicizing law enforcement. His administration's attempts to pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to reduce interest rates — culminating in the DOJ's investigating Powell for criminal charges — threatens to make it harder for Trump to appoint Powell's successor. And a week after the mission to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, the chief executive of ExxonMobil called the country 'uninvestable,' undercutting the economic rationale for the military intervention."
According to historian/author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a New York University professor known for her expertise on the history of authoritarianism — authoritarians can become increasingly volatile when they are feeling desperate.
Ben-Ghiat told MS NOW: "Trump was recently on a downward path in terms of popularity with his base, and that is when autocrats do unpredictable things to assert their power."
A Pentagon official, interviewed on condition of anonymity, warned that Trump's belligerent foreign policy risks destroying alliances that have served the U.S. well for many years.
The official told MS NOW: "If Greenland goes, so goes the allies in Europe. The one refrain I've been hearing is we don't realize how many equities the U.S. has in Europe and how valuable Australia is, too, and they'll all pull the bridge out from over the moat."
After Good's death, Trump and his allies — including Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — defended the ICE agent who killed her. And according to MS NOW legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, attacking Good can only hurt law enforcement in Minneapolis.
"If people don't have confidence in DOJ excessive force investigations, communities will spiral down without closure after events like the shooting of Renee Good," Joyce Vance said. "If the president fully breaks it, the consequences will be dire — we could become a country of endless protests with escalating violence from law enforcement on American streets."
*Read Vaughn Hillyard 's full article for MS NOW at this link.
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The fatal shooting of 37-year-old motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 7 is drawing scathing condemnation on both the left and the right. Some prominent conservatives and libertarians — including The Bulwark's Bill Kristol, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough, former Judge Andrew Napolitano (a legal analyst for Newsmax), The New York Times' David French and The Lincoln Project's
— are joining liberals and progressives in condemning the shooting as excessive force.
Yet allies of President Donald Trump, from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to Vice President JD Vance, are vigorously defending the ICE agent and claiming that he acted in self-defense. Noem, without evidence, even attacked Good as a "domestic terrorist." And according to reporting from the Washington Post, several U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials were so appalled by Trump allies' response to Good's death that they resigned from the agency.
In an article published late Monday night, January 12, Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian explain, "At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the (Trump) Administration's handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, according to three people briefed on the departures. Top leaders of the criminal section of the Civil Rights Division have left their jobs to register their frustration with the department after the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon decided not to investigate the ICE officer's fatal shooting of Renee Good last week."
Leonnig and Dilanian note that ordinarily, the criminal section of the DOJ Civil Rights Division would investigate a fatal shooting by a federal law enforcement officer.
Kristen Clarke, who led the Civil Rights Division under former President Joe Biden, told the Post, "Investigating officials to determine if they broke the law, defied policy, failed to deescalate, and resorted to deadly force without basis is one of the Civil Rights Division’s most solemn duties. Prosecutors of the Civil Rights Division have, for decades, been the nation's leading experts in this work."
These resignations, according to Leonnig and Dilanian "represent the most significant mass resignation" at DOJ since February 2025.
"Good's shooting on January 7 has galvanized Democrats and civil libertarians but also frustrated Minnesota politicians and state police investigators," the Post reporters observe. "On January 10, the FBI announced it would be handling the investigation of Good's shooting on its own and blocked Minnesota authorities from their typical role in reviewing evidence and investigating the shooting themselves."
Read Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian's full article for the Washington Post at this link (subscription required).
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In Minneapolis, federal Judge Kate Menendez is ruling on an emergency motion by protesters who oppose the tactics being used in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in that city. The motion comes at a time when Minneapolis is reeling from the fatal shooting of unarmed 37-year-old motorist Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent.
Politico's Kyle Cheney reported on the motion and a Tuesday, January 13 hearing in a thread on X, formerly Twitter — describing the frustrations Menendez expressed to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers.
Cheney tweeted, "Menendez again frustrated that she doesn't have firsthand accounts from police officers who claim protesters suing them were acting in unruly ways. 'Why don't I have that officer's declaration before me?' she asks when DOJ lawyers alleges a protester 'pushed past' an officer. Menendez: I don't have any ability to assess that because I don't have anything but an unknown level of high summary."
The Politico reporter noted that Menendez, during the hearing, made it "clear she intends to rule on the emergency motion by protesters — seeking to halt key police tactics by ICE in Minnesota — by Thursday afternoon," January 15.
According to Cheney, "Under questioning from Menendez, DOJ struggling again to articulate why ICE officers can draw guns on drivers who are following them, so long as those drivers are not breaking traffic laws or posing any other articulable threat."
After the hearing concluded, Cheney described the skepticism that Menendez expressed over the ICE-related claims by Trump administration officials.
"Update: Hearing in Minneapolis is over," Cheney tweeted. "Judge Menendez appeared skeptical of Trump administration on a few key points: That ICE can pull over cars that are following them, even if those cars obey all traffic laws; that officers can draw guns on stopped motorists without evidence of a crime. But she also seemed skeptical of effort by protesters to apply an injunction statewide, or that in a post-CASA world, she could (or needed to) provisionally certify a class at this stage of the case."
CASA refers to Trump V. CASA, where, as ScotusBlog reports, "the Supreme Court curtailed the use of universal injunctions."
Cheney continued, "She's eyeing a ruling that would cover specifically 'Operation Metro Surge' or the 7 counties in the Twin Cities metro area. Next step: Protesters/DOJ must decide whether the judge can demand video of specific arrests prior to ruling on the preliminary injunction. Ruling on the PI to come Thursday PM or Friday AM."
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Amidst national outrage this week over the killing by Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent, members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation on Saturday were blocked from full access to a federal immigration detention center in the city—but at least one lawmaker among them warns something much more sinister is now taking place in the state.
“I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who represents the state’s 5th District. “Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.”
Omar shared a video of herself, along with Reps. Angie Craig and Kelly Morrison, outside the facility as large numbers of masked federal agents in protective gear blocked the driveway entrance.
In a telephone interview with MSNOW, Omar later explained that she and her colleagues arrived at the facility Saturday morning in order to conduct oversight activities. While Omar said they were initially allowed to enter the building, they were shortly after told they “had to wait until higher-ups were able to come speak with us.”
It seemed to Omar, she said, that the order to halt their visit “maybe came from Washington to deny us the proper access that we needed to complete those oversight duties that we are obligated as members of Congress.”
Calling it a clear violation of their oversight authority, Omar and Craig explained to reporters what happened after they were denied further access to the facility:
Congresswoman Craig also spoke to MSNOW’s Ali Velshi:
Noting the size and scale of the presence of armed federal agents now deployed in her state, Omar suggested in her interview with MSNOW that the recent Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) operations being conducted serve no purpose other than to harass and terrorize local communities. That militarized presence has only grown since Trump ordered more agents to the city following Wednesday’s killing of Good and the protests that have erupted as a result.
“ Protest is as American as apple pie,” said Omar. “People come out to register their opposition to what they do not like or want to accept. It is important for people to be able to do that in a democracy.”
“What we are seeing right now, not only from the surge of 2,000 federal agents—now we have another 1,000 apparently coming in—it is essentially trying to create this kind of environment where people feel intimidated, threatened, and terrorized. And I think the ultimate goal of [Homeland Security Security Secretary] Kristi Noem and President Trump is to agitate people enough where they are able to invoke the Insurrection Act to declare martial law.”
“There is,” she continued, “no other justifiable way to describe what is taking place in Minneapolis at this moment. There is no justifiable reason why this number of agents is here in our state.”
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All over the United States — from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to Chicago — large protests are being held following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. The shooting is being condemned as excessive force by everyone from liberal economist Paul Krugman to conservatives and libertarians such as
, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough, The Bulwark's Bill Kristol and former Judge Andrew Napolitano (a legal analyst for Newsmax), while members of the Trump Administration are passionately defending the agent — including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance.
Another right-wing voice condemning ICE and the Trump Administration following Good's death is New York Times columnist David French.
In his January 11 column, French argues that President Donald Trump and his allies have a way of making a crisis worse — and he points to the Good shooting as a prime example. Trump, French warns, "is putting on a clinic about how to break the United States."
"The terrible divisiveness of police violence is why responsible leaders respond to every incident with extreme care," French writes. "You lament the lives lost, you promise a fair and thorough investigation, and you call for calm. You do not prejudge the case…. Even if you follow that playbook perfectly — you say the right words, you do the right things — violence can still erupt. That's how fraught the issue is. But Trump isn't a responsible leader, and he's at his absolute worst in a crisis."
French continues, "He lies. He inflames his base. And — most dangerous of all — he pits the federal government against states and cities, treating them not as partners in constitutional governance but as hostile inferiors that must be brought to heel. That's exactly what has happened in the hours and days since an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good on the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday."
The Trump Administration, the conservative columnist laments, is doing nothing to calm tensions following Good's death — but instead, is making a crisis even more dangerous.
"Instantly, the (Trump) Administration's narrative locked in," French observes. "In a Truth Social post published mere hours after Good’s death, Trump said that Good 'violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.' He said that it was 'hard to believe' that the ICE agent, who was recorded walking around after the incident, apparently unharmed, was alive. Statements from senior administration officials were even worse."
French adds, "Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, said that Good committed an act of 'domestic terrorism.' Not to be outdone, Vice President JD Vance called the incident 'classic terrorism.' But if you watch videos of the shooting, one thing is clear: No fair-minded person could watch that incident and conclude that Good was a 'domestic terrorist' on a mission to run down ICE agents. The administration's claims of terrorism are false — absurdly so…. To the worst parts of MAGA — including people who exert immense power over American life — your worth is defined by your obedience. And those who don't obey? Well, they deserve to die, and no one should mourn their death."
*David French's full New York Times column is available at this link (subscription required).
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NBA coach calls Renee Good shooting 'straight-up murder'
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Right-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting
Written by Gideon Taaffe, Isabella Sherk & Jack Winstanley
Published 01/09/26
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on January 7 during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, right-wing media reacted by blaming Good for her death, saying it "was her own doing” and attacking her character by labeling her “a perpetrator” and “trained agitator.”
- ## Right-wing media immediately pushed DHS’ spin to defend the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good
- Good was killed in Minneapolis by an ICE agent while she appeared to be trying to drive away during an ICE raid.The Washington Post reported “Good, 37, was a poet, a mother of three and a movie lover, according to online records and family members. She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk and won an Academy of American Poets Prize for undergraduate students in 2020.” Good’s mother told The Minnesota Star Tribune, “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.” The Washington Post, [1/8/26; The Minnesota Star Tribune, 1/8/26]
- In the aftermath of the shooting, Fox News rushed to parrot DHS talking points that claimed Good was trying to harm ICE agents. While some Fox News personalities moderated their statements after footage of the incident was released, many still claimed Good tried to “ram” her car into an ICE officer and cited DHS talking points that it was an act of “domestic terrorism.” Media Matters, [1/8/26]
- ## Right-wing media attacked Good’s character, calling her the “worst mother of the year,” a “lesbian agitator,” and a “rug munching leftist”
- Fox News host Jesse Watters said Good was “a woman in crisis, living a chaotic life on the fringes.” He blamed the left for “radicalizing vulnerable Americans into risking their lives to protect illegal alien criminals.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/8/26]
- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty said that Good “gave her life on behalf of criminal illegal aliens, meaning she literally gave her life defending rapists and murderers and drug dealers.”Newsmax, *Finnerty*, [1/8/26]
- Newsmax host Carl Higbie said Good is the “worst mother of the year” and she “should be at home with” her kids rather than “obstructing ICE agents.”Newsmax, *Carl Higbie Frontline*, [1/8/26]
- Fox News host Brian Kilmeade attacked Good as a “trained activist” who was “harassing ICE officials every single day.”Kilmeade: “They said she was a poet who just panicked. Really? She was a trained activist who is a warrior leader of anti-ICE operations and was harassing ICE officials every single day.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [1/9/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson claimed Good was a “paid agitator.”Johnson asserted, “There is a lie about Renee Good, that she is somehow just like a working class mom that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That is a factually, totally and completely inaccurate. That is a lie. She is a trained and paid agitator.” YouTube, *The Benny Show*, [1/9/26]
- Right-wing influencer Ian Miles Cheong attacked Good as a “rug munching leftist” and dismissed her as a “privileged white woman.” Cheong wrote, “All the pathos designed to make you feel sympathetic to the rug munching leftist having stuffed toys in her glove compartment to make you hate ICE fall flat when you recognize who and what this woman truly was.” Twitter/X, [1/9/26, 1/9/26]
- The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh wrote that Good was a “lesbian agitator” who “gave her life to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers.” Walsh: “This lesbian agitator gave her life to protect 68 IQ Somali scammers who couldn’t give less of a shit about her. The most disgraceful and humiliating end a person could possibly meet.” Twitter/X, [1/8/26]
- Right-wing podcaster The Quartering cast doubt on Good's parenting: “Reneé Good the super mom who tried running down an ICE agent did not have custody of her two older children, aged 15 and 12. We all know what it takes for a mom to lose custody.” Twitter/X, [1/8/26]
- Daily Wire writer Megan Basham wrote that “Good was not just an ordinary mom dropping her child off. She was a trained agitator and she was there for the express purpose of obstructing ICE agents.” Twitter/X, [1/8/26]
- ## Right-wing media blamed Good for her own death, claiming she was “100 percent” at fault and that she should have complied with ICE agents
- The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh said Good is “100 percent to blame and her death is her own fault.” He posted: “It’s totally irrelevant whether she was trying to hit the ICE agent or not. Either she wanted to hit him or she wanted to evade arrest and escape and didn’t care if she hit him in the process. There is zero moral or legal difference between these two scenarios. In either case she is 100 percent to blame and her death is her own fault.” Twitter/X, [1/9/26]
- Fox host Greg Gutfeld compared the killing of Renee Good to the Tide Pod challenge, saying, “If you are going to eat Tide Pods, there's not much else we can do except tell you not to do it.”He continued, “If you want to block a street, if you want to hinder and harass law enforcement, that’s your responsibility. If you had listened to me, some kid would still have his mother.” Fox News,*The Five*, [1/8/26]
- Fox host Lawrence Jones said “I grieve for the young girl and I grieve for her family. But there are consequences to your actions.” He said that we should be reminding protesters to “be careful what you do” because “we don't live in Venezuela where we have anarchy in our society,” adding, “We do have law and order. We do have police officers.” Fox News, *The Five*, [1/7/26]
- Speaking about Good's killing, right-wing podcaster Megyn Kelly said “I’m sorry but that was her own doing.” Kelly added, “Who among us would not understand that if we did not respond to law enforcement surrounding us, we were endangering ourselves? Who among us would expect to live if we pressed the accelerator with a cop in front of our SUV? That’s what she did. Everyone would know you’re putting your own life in danger.” SiriusXM, *The Megyn Kelly Show*, [1/8/26]
- Right-wing influencer Zack Hoyt, also known as “Asmongold,” wrote, “Comply with police and don't try to run them over.”He also commented, “Rip bozo” in reaction to the shooting. Twitter/X, [1/7/26]
- While discussing the shooting, podcaster Tim Pool said “I wouldn’t call the person [Good] a victim. This is a perpetrator.”He added, “And you can make the argument all day and night about whether the cop needed to, but this is a person in a vehicle evading arrest.” Rumble, *TimCast IRL*, [1/8/26]
- Right-wing podcaster Dave Rubin argued that the officer “did not pull out the gun until she started using the car as a weapon.” YouTube, *The Rubin Report*, [1/8/26]
- Daily Wire host Michael Knowles declared, “When you park your car in the middle of the street, that's an act of violence.”Knowles also attempted to characterize Good as being armed with a deadly weapon, adding, “Pretty sure she was armed. Do you know how I know that? She was driving an SUV.” The Daily Wire, *The Michael Knowles Show*, [1/8/26]
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A Fox News opinion columnist is telling the women in America he calls “organized gangs of wine moms” that they are “impeding” federal immigration agents and should “knock it off.”
Referring to Minneapolis’ Renee Good, who was shot and killed at point-blank range last week by an ICE agent, Fox News’ David Marcus says that harassing federal agents “doing their jobs” is “criminal behavior,” and warns that it “got a woman killed.”
“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is not civil disobedience,” Marcus writes. “It isn’t even protest. It’s just crime.”
Marcus also calls these women “cosplaying would-be revolutionaries,” and he asks whether groups of people “training and then executing missions that put law enforcement and the public in harm’s way may, in fact, be criminal conspiracies.”
He accuses Good and her wife of “heckling” and “goading” ICE officers “with an obnoxious smugness that makes most people’s skin crawl.”
Critics took issue with Marcus’ claims.
“Women-led movements are more likely to succeed and lead to egalitarian democracies,” noted Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. “Autocrats know they have to do everything possible to dampen women’s political participation because it’s women who most often emerge as the most powerful forces in the fight against fascism.”
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance quipped: “Remember to apply for membership in your local gang of wine moms soonest.”
Political scientist Daniel W. Drezner mockingly added: “THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES, RANKED: 1) Organized gangs of wine moms 2) League of Women Voters 3) Daughters of the American Revolution 4) Packs of wild dogs that have taken over major cities 5) China.”
Author and attorney Jill Filipovic noted, “Misogyny is bad for all the obvious reasons, but it is also almost universally a tool wielded by those who support government repression.”
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A look at how Fox used its coverage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting to push the administration's propaganda
Analysis from The New York Times and The Washington Post counters administration claims parroted by Fox
Written by Bushra Sultana, Ben Van Bloem, Gideon Taaffe, Helena Hind & Reed McMaster
Research contributions from Harrison Ray, Tyler Monroe & Casey Wexler
Published 01/08/26
On January 7, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an immigration crackdown on the city. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers and said the victim “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
State and local officials disputed the accounts, and The New York Times and The Washington Post later reported that videos of the shooting countered Noem’s claims.
But Fox was quick to push dubious claims from the administration, saying that “we have more facts now” while suggesting that what happened was a “ramming incident” and that the woman was using the car as a “deadly weapon.” According to a Media Matters review, Fox News aired clips or read quotes from statements made by Noem in press conferences at least 17 times during its January 7 coverage of the incident.
As videos of the events started to emerge, some Fox figures briefly tempered their language, saying people should “let the facts come in” and noting that “we don’t know everything that has happened.” In some instances, they noted that there is a “shifting narrative” and that some Trump administration claims might have been “bad information.”
The moderation didn't last long. Fox's evening programming went back to toeing the administration’s line, framing the incident as the woman “blocking” the ICE agents, refusing to comply, and trying “to ram them with her car.”
State and local officials have called the administration's claims that were parroted by Fox a “garbage narrative” by a “propaganda machine.” CNN reported that multiple Department of Homeland Security officials have “privately expressed shock” over the agency’s “immediate response” to the shooting. A New York Times analysis of the incident stated that “the vehicle appears to be turning away” from the officer involved and that he was “standing to the left of the SUV” at the time he opened fire, while the SUV’s wheels are “pointing to the right, away from the agent.” And as The Washington Post notes, “As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.”
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that “no American citizens have been arrested or detained” by ICE, but according to a ProPublica investigation published the same month, more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained at raids and protests. In October, The Daily Beast reported that DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin was “caught posting inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl.” In November, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported, a federal judge found that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino -- who led raids in Chicago and its suburbs -- had “lied in a court deposition … about his own use of tear gas in a confrontation with protesters in Little Village.”}:
Here's a timeline of Fox’s coverage of the January 7 Minneapolis shooting, which shows that the network largely pushed the administration's propaganda:
- ### Fox News initially parroted administration talking points
- 12:27 p.m. ET: Shortly after news of the shooting broke, correspondent Mike Tobin said there “is some discussion that it was triggered by a ramming incident that we see so often when ICE and Border Patrol agents are conducting their operations.”Tobin additionally noted that “no agents have been harmed.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [1/7/26]
- 12:40 p.m. ET: Fox News read on air a statement from DHS that alleged “an act of domestic terrorism.”Declaring “we have more facts now,” Fox’s Sandra Smith read a statement from DHS that she first attributed to correspondent Tobin, claiming that “one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them. An act of domestic terrorism.” Smith later corrected herself and attributed the statement to ICE. Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [1/7/26]
- 1:14 p.m. ET: Fox News aired live a press conference in which DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that “it was an act of domestic terrorism.” Noem said: “ICE officers were out in enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle, and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him and my understanding is that she was hit and is deceased.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
- 1:18 p.m. ET: Parroting Noem’s claims, Fox News anchor John Roberts stated that ICE agents “were trying to push their car out of a snowbank when this person allegedly came at them.”He said: “Kristi Noem said politicians of all stripes should be able to come out very easily and condemn something like that, yet these protesters get it in their mind it’s fine for them, in their own way of thinking, to use a vehicle as a weapon. And, as we heard the DHS secretary say, it looked like they weren't, at that particular time, engaged in active ICE operations. They were trying to push their car out of a snowbank when this person allegedly came at them.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
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- 1:23 p.m. ET: Roberts suggested the victim used her “car as a deadly weapon” in an “act of rage” on officers trying to get their car out of a snowbank.In a question to a guest, Roberts asked, “Is there any other way to describe this than an act of rage? To see ICE agents, federal officials, federal law enforcement trying to get their car out of a snowbank and then using your car as a deadly weapon, just because you are upset about what the ICE officers are doing in your city, can that be characterized — I mean, obviously domestic terrorism is one way, but also an act of rage, unbridled rage?” [Fox News,America Reports, 1/7/26]
- ### As footage emerged, some Fox figures moderated their language and noted discrepancies in the administration’s story
- 2:02 p.m. ET: Fox News anchor John Roberts called for “expert eyes” to evaluate the footage from the scene and called for “dashcam video” to be considered.Roberts said, “We don't want to cast any judgment on the video until expert eyes have taken a look at it and we see other angles as well. Apparently it is probably dashcam video from the DHS vehicle that would get a different angle of this as well.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
- 2:16 p.m. ET: Fox News contributor Nicole Parker reminded viewers that “we don’t know everything that has happened” and called for a “full investigation” to be left to “the law enforcement.” Parker cautioned, “When we were initially coming on air and gathering information, there is always that disclaimer and that caveat, you know, it's an ongoing investigation, this has just occurred, this is just what we know right now, but the key is to let the FBI do the full investigation. Because you might be seeing one angle from this side, and the mayor may have seen one video. Let's just leave it to the law enforcement at this point, let them do their jobs.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
- 2:27 p.m. ET: Fox News guest Julian Epstein said that “we have to let the facts come in here but this situation has really spun out of control,” and anchor Sandra Smith added, “That is why we will let the facts speak for themselves.”Fox News, America Reports, [1/7/26]
- 2:45 p.m. ET: Roberts warned about a “shifting narrative” from DHS after video of the incident was circulated and said a statement from Noem about officers trying to move a stuck car was “clearly … not the case.” Roberts said, “There is a bit of a shifting narrative here now that we have seen the video. Secretary of DHS Kristi Noem had said that the officers were trying to push a stuck vehicle out of the snow when this, what she called an act of terrorism, happened. Clearly that is not the case. The vehicle was not — there was no vehicle stuck in the snow, or at least not here.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
- 2:50 p.m. ET: Roberts argued that the videos of the scene “can be interpreted many different ways depending on your perspective.” Roberts added, “The facts of this aren't in yet.” Fox News, *America Reports*, [1/7/26]
- 5:13 p.m. ET: Fox News contributor Harold Ford Jr. called Noem’s statement about officers being stuck in the snow “inconsistent” and said she may have gotten “bad information.”Ford commented on Noem’s statements, saying, “I couldn't understand when she said it was an act of domestic terrorism and she said the car was stuck in snow and the officers — I think her characterization, maybe she got bad information, because her characterization seemed inconsistent with what we are seeing here.” Fox News, *The Five*, [1/7/26]
- ### Evening programming on Fox News reverted back to parroting administration talking points
- From 4 p.m. ET through midnight, Fox News aired at least 9 clips of Noem's press conferences from earlier in the day and read at least 4 quotes of her statements.Every hour of programming except Gutfeld!, which is pre-recorded and ran at 10 p.m. ET, aired or quoted Noem's statements.
- 4:02 p.m. ET: Host Will Cain read President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post that claimed the victim “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”The statement continued, “It is hard to believe he is alive, but [he] is now recovering in the hospital.” Fox News, *The Will Cain Show*, [1/7/26]
- 5:09 p.m. ET: Fox News host Emily Compagno accused the victim of “using the motor vehicle to ram out of the way” ICE agents who had put her under “temporary investigative detention.”She claimed, “We saw that individual behind the wheel of the car using a motor vehicle to ram out of the way, to surge in gas out of the way.” Fox News,*The Five*, [1/7/26]
- 6:34 p.m. ET: Anchor Bret Baier summed up the press conference in which Noem accused the victim of committing “an act of domestic terrorism” and threatening an ICE agent without pushback. He stated, “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Minneapolis talking about the ICE-involved shooting. She said it was an act of domestic terrorism by the driver, who she said threatened the ICE agent who ended up firing his pistol into the car and killing that woman.” Fox News,*Special Report*, [1/7/26]
- 7:00 p.m. ET: Host Laura Ingraham opened her show by repeating DHS talking points, claiming, “Video appears to show the woman blocking ICE with her vehicle and then driving it into at least one other officer.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [1/7/26]
- 8:01 p.m. ET: Host Jesse Watters claimed that the victim was preventing officers from leaving and drove her car “straight at an ICE agent.” He stated, “A woman parked her car, preventing the ICE agents from leaving, and was ordered to exit the vehicle multiple times. Officers attempted to open her door after she wouldn’t comply. That is when she backed up her car and gunned it straight at an ICE agent. The agent opened fire on the driver to defend himself.” He later played a grainy video of the shooting, insisting it showed the victim “floors it so hard the tires spin out and the vehicle heads directly toward the agent.” Fox News,*Jesse Watters Primetime*, [1/7/26]
- 9:03 p.m. ET: Host Sean Hannity claimed there is clear video of the car moving toward an agent, raised lack of compliance as an aggravating factor in the shooting, and repeated the DHS accusation of domestic terrorism.Hannity: “Just to be clear, there are multiple videos from different angles showing — watch this, the car will back up, then it will accelerate with an agent right in front of that SUV, and the wheel of the large SUV — obviously they’re refusing to comply with federal officials — runs into the agent, accelerates toward the ICE agent a few feet away. And the DHS, they are now calling it tonight an act of domestic terrorism.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [1/7/26]
- 9:22 p.m. ET: Fox contributor Jonathan Turley said the victim “did not comply with the orders” and “sped up toward the agent.”He stated, “You have an individual who did not comply with the orders to get out of the car and, in fact, sped up toward the agent.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [1/7/26]
- 11:00 p.m. ET: Anchor Trace Gallagher led with the DHS narrative, alleging the victim “tried to ram them with her car.” Later in the program, Gallagher claimed “you can clearly see the car … going directly at the ICE agent who fired,” then played a video of Noem saying the officer fired “defensive shots.” Fox News,*Fox News @ Night*, [1/7/26, 1/7/26]
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