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It’s a story with serious legs as the protests only continue to grow: an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, struck by an SUV after the driver was asked repeatedly to get out of the vehicle, only to accelerate partially into the officer. This prompted a self-defense-trained reaction to fire at said vehicle, killing the driver, and it has sparked fiery outrage on the Left.
And the last part of that sentence is key: Why would only one side of the ideological spectrum be outraged here? Is it because that side is getting its news from profoundly dishonest outlets that peddle in fear and loathing of the second Trump administration?
Again, to review before sharing some of the most egregious examples of yellow journalism in the 21st century: An ICE officer, who was dragged in June 2025 in Minneapolis by another vehicle and sustained injuries that required 33 stitches, had history repeat itself last week when Nicole Good, 37, ignored commands from law enforcement to exit her vehicle and hit the officer. She was shot and killed as a result, because vehicles can be deemed deadly weapons, and intent was not known at that point.
Overall, according to the Department of Homeland Security, incidents of either dragging or attempting to ram ICE officers are up 3,200% when compared to 2024, before Trump took office. So it’s completely understandable why the ICE officer, and any officer, would react in such a manner after being involved in such a horrifying incident, given the recent precedent.
No matter: The embattled Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) has a narrative to push, and he’s banking on the media to help in this effort.
“I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine,” Walz declared last week. “The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice. What we’re seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It’s governing by reality TV, and today that recklessness cost someone their life.”
Ah, yes, let’s allow Minnesota officials to run this investigation. These are the same Keystone Cops who allowed, and may have benefitted from, rampant fraud, carried out primarily by their staunchest supporters in the growing Somali community in Minneapolis, which might as well be called Mogadeshu at this point, to steal from the state at least $9 billion dollars under the guise of COVID-19 for child care centers that don’t actually have children in them or autism centers that don’t exist.
In a related story, Walz, who claims to be leading this war against the federal government, is so committed to the cause that he decided not to seek reelection for a third term as Minnesota governor, likely because of the legal woes he’s about to be hit with due to said Somali fraud during his “leadership.”
So much for fighting the good fight until the final bell rings.
But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, amazingly and not in a good way, may somehow be even worse here.
“The ICE agent walked away with a hip injury that he might as well have gotten from closing a refrigerator door with his hips,” an angry Frey told reporters this week. “He was not injured. Give me a break. No, he was not run over. He walked out of there with a hop in his step.”
Do these people even hear themselves? Frey’s argument is no different than the argument of pointing a gun at someone, but only grazing them in the hip after pulling the trigger, and then saying that while you shot them, it was only a flesh wound. The point here is that the agent didn’t know after he was hit what Renee Good’s intent was, only that his life was in danger.
Frey knows this but doubles down anyway, because the reporters he made these claims to are too afraid to push back.
If we had objective media, these kinds of narratives from Walz and Frey would have been dismissed like the Jussie Smollett tale. But instead, here are the top five worst takes of this sordid situation as it continues to escalate.
5. MS Now
“The gun thing. The fact that [Good] was shot like this. For what? For almost hitting this agent?” asked the truly clueless Rina Shaw on the network. “I mean, the fact that guns were used and she was shot and killed in this way is the most horrifying part. Why does an ICE agent have a gun?”
Of course, the other four panelists in this echo chamber of a segment only nodded along with Shaw’s “analysis.” But to answer her question: Why does an ICE agent have a gun? Maybe, perhaps, they are attempting to apprehend murderers or rapists or child or sex traffickers who are in the country illegally? Maybe those kinds of criminals are likely armed as well?
The network can change its name all it likes, but the brand is still the same: a craptastic combination of misinformed and stupid.
4. Ilhan Omar
Speaking of misinformed and stupid, here was Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) arguing that Nicole Good was actually just a peaceful bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. “She’s sitting in her car, peacefully waving cars to get by,” Omar claimed on CBS’s Face the Nation. “You see the other officer, who can clearly see the car is moving, move towards the front of the car. If they are saying that he has 10 years of service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn’t be trying to get in front of a moving car.”
The anchor, Margaret Brennan, who is patently hostile to any Republican who appears on her program, just allowed these lies to be told to a national television audience without any pushback whatsoever.
Was Good just sitting peacefully in her car when ICE officers approached? No. She honked her horn for more than three minutes beforehand while parked perpendicularly, which is illegal, across a street in an attempt to block traffic in an ICE staging area.
As for the agent being trained not to be “in front of a moving car,” this is also profoundly dishonest. As the video shows, the agent is in front of Good’s SUV while it was parked, yet Brennan couldn’t be bothered to point this simple fact out.
3. CBS News
“DHS this weekend released a video showing the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good,” reported Nicole Sganga on the former home of Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News. “She and others are heard honking car horns. Trump administration officials have claimed she intended to ram ICE agents before she was shot.”
New CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss certainly has her work cut out for her in making the news division an objective arbiter again, because clearly the culture inside CBS is still more about subtle activism than journalism.
2. CNN
Anchor Jake Tapper argues that there are varying degrees of hitting people with an SUV that should be considered.
In an interview with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Tapper attempted to gaslight his audience, but Mullin wasn’t having it. (Emphasis mine.)
Tapper: “You said that she clearly hit him. I don’t know that’s true. It may be true. It may not be true. It does seem that he stepped to the side and was able to avoid getting hit in a horrible way, and he was seen walking fine afterwards. Again, I’m not defending what she did, I’m just saying she didn’t run —”
MULLIN: “What’s the difference in a horrible way or not? It’s like saying, ‘Well, I didn’t really shoot you completely. I just shot you in the arm. But I shot at you.’ It doesn’t matter. The vehicle was being used in a lethal manner, and he has a right to use lethal force at that time.”
Precisely.
1. The New York Times and Washington Post
The New York Times: “On Thursday … a Times analysis of footage from three camera angles showed a motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.”
The Washington Post: “The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him.”
Oh good grief. So the New York Times has Good driving away from the agent, while the Washington Post says the SUV did move toward him as he stood in front of it, yet was able to “move out of the way.” But at least two video angles showed the officer was hit. So which is it?
If you’re a reader of the New York Times or Washington Post, either way, Good’s ill-advised actions are tacitly justified.
Agreeing on a basic set of facts is no longer a simple thing. In fact, it’s a foreign concept.
Good’s death was tragic. But the officer’s right to self-defense was justified.
THERE’S NOTHING AMERICAN ABOUT ASSISTED SUICIDE
Sober, objective people can clearly see that.
But that’s not the world we live in. We believe what we want to believe, all while legacy media exploit those emotions for every ounce they can get.
