"After one agent told Good to get out of the car, she reversed, turned right, and was shot by another agent as she drove forward."

This is inaccurate - after she reverses, her wheels are turning straight forward, facing the officer, when she initially stomps the gas, only turning as he fires.

took @1 31 minutes after this post went up to start quibbling. you're slipping.

@2 Awesome contribution. Folks, a half hour after a story was posted, Nekrasova checked the phone and issued a quick and helpful correction—but Max Solomon was on the case, counting the minutes, and then telling you for some reason. How will I recover?

@1 Even if that's true, I don't see how it justifies the shooting even as a self-defense measure, let alone from a legal standpoint. If a vehicle is coming straight toward you, shooting the driver doesn't make the vehicle stop. It only makes controlling it impossible, further endangering everyone at the scene -- bystanders and participants alike. I'm astounded that ANYONE is defending this atrocity, regardless of their views on Trump or ICE generally.

@4 The vehicle is already being "controlled" at someone, and pulling another, at very close range, and shooting prevents it at least from being "controlled" into anyone else even if it's "only" very close to hitting you. This is why officers generally shoot drivers who drive at them, and why it was lawful.

It's sad this happened, but fundamentally, the reason she was shot is because she drove at an officer. Anything else is "quibbling".

Ignore the troll. He’s suffered serious brain damage from excessive masturbation. I’ve seen the video.

Keep the protest focused on ICE / on this tragedy (not sure what Palestinian flags have to do with an ICE protest) - don’t let the usual malcontents usurp this moment.

“Protesters shouted “I-C-E, SPD, they all look like pigs to me!””

@7: Indeed, this preventable tragedy means we should now move beyond the usual nonsense. The death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE shows ICE is a clear and present danger to every American -- even to the native-born, law-abiding ones. Every American should now call upon state, county and local law enforcement to protect us from ICE, and we need to fight with effective means, such as Congressional action and lawsuits, to remove from us the clear and present danger that is ICE.

As an absolute minimum starting point, Congress should immediately slash, with recissions, ICE's budget. Set it back to the level it was under the Biden Administration. Congress also needs to investigate the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE, and subpoena every person in ICE's chain of command, down to the officer who shot her. ICE's actions leading up to her death, including ICE's focus on Minneapolis, also require thorough investigation. Every causal factor leading to the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE needs to be exposed by a Congressional committee. A thorough report of what went wrong, and how the federal government WILL prevent another such death, must come quickly from this.

@7: "Keep the protest focused on ICE / on this tragedy (not sure what Palestinian flags have to do with an ICE protest) - don’t let the usual malcontents usurp this moment."

Good luck with that. Seattle progressives turned a #BLM event into a place where Black men died violently. They took a city-wide consensus on police reform, and shattered it with "Defund." I give them only a few days to come up with something which will provide public sympathy to ICE -- or, if even that proves beyond them, to create such a counter-productively noisy distraction as to derail completely any "Reform ICE" moment (at least locally).

I agree. We do not owe trump's gang of masked domestic terrorists anything except our derision and continuing growing resistance.

@10

this is my fear as well.

@5 I've now looked at the video (which I should have done before commenting earlier today) and it's clear that the ICE officer opened fire while standing to the side of the vehicle, not in front. He was in no danger whatsoever and had no reason to believe he was. I regret my previous acceptance of your false premise.

he strategically parked
his murderous ass close to
the front, and enough to the
side where he could easily avoid
getting run over -- when Renee Nicole
Good was ordered to 'Move Your Car!' Jonathan
Ross sidestepped outta the way and, Calmly, af, fired
off three shots, killing Renee, who was doing EXACTLY
what she'd been ordered to do, he then holstered his pistol
and acted as though he'd just ordered a cappuccino from Starbucks.

Disband
fucking
ICE.

our piece of shit
'president' deserves
no brownshirt soldiery

to kill or whisk
Americans
off OUR
Streets.

put HIM in Jail
where He Fucking
belongs, and Would BE
if we hadn't had such limp,
feckless Democratic 'leadership.'

@13 She stomped the gas when he was in front of the gar, and he draws and aims just as it is accelerating toward him. There is considerable indication from other video angles that she may have drilled him in the hip with the headlight as well, and regardless the first shot is through the front windshield, which at that range, fleeing erratically on an icy road, proves the difference in being clipped and being under the tires is inches. This is undeniably why she was shot.

@15 Seek help. I urge you. I may not be too late.

The bitch would still be alive if she wasn't there acting a fool.

@15 You keep saying she "stomped the gas" like she peeled out and started going 60 miles an hour. She was going like five miles an hour dude.

@8 "Every American should now call upon state, county and local law enforcement to protect us from ICE"

Lol

@10 "I give them only a few days to ... create such a counter-productively noisy distraction as to derail completely any "Reform ICE" moment"

Lmao

I do Hope I'm not
interrupting
anything:

"I give them only a few days to ... create such a counter-productively noisy distraction as to derail completely any 'Reform ICE' moment"

--our resident
AIPAC Apologist
cum Genocide Denier
AKA: The Wormtongue

Translation:
keep your fucking
Progressive mouths STFU

here's Another take
from My favorite Leftist:

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating
the familiar machinery of terror
of all authoritarian states.

We must resist now.
If we wait, it will
be too late.

I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, women and children were “disappeared” by the military junta. Victims were held in secret prisons, savagely tortured and murdered. To this day, many families do not know the fate of their loved ones.

I saw them in El Salvador, when death squads were killing 800 people a month. I saw them in Guatemala under the dictatorship of José Efraín Ríos Montt. I saw them in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile and in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. I saw them in Iran under the rule of the ayatollahs where I was arrested and jailed twice and once deported in handcuffs. I saw them in Hafez al-Assad’s Syria. I saw them in Bosnia, where Muslims were herded into concentration camps, executed and buried in mass graves.

I know these goons. I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms. I have been beaten by them. I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries. I know what is coming.

Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace.

Terror works.

The iron doors have not yet shut. There are still protests. The media is still able to document state atrocities, including the Jan. 7 murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. But the doors are closing fast. ICE has deported over 300,000 people and detained nearly 69,000 others — as well as been involved in 16 shootings, including four killings — since Trump began his campaign against immigrants.

ICE, our Americanized Gestapo, is being birthed.

--Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026;

former NYT foreign correspondent
and NYT Mid-East Bureau Chief

fucking Oodles
unfiltered (for now)
by our corporate masters:

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

continued:

Resistance must be collective. We must assert not only our individual rights, but economic, social and political rights — without them we are powerless. Resistance means organizing to disrupt the machinery of commerce and government.

It means preventing arrests by patrolling neighborhoods to warn of impending ICE raids. It means protesting outside detention facilities. It means strikes. It means blocking streets and highways and occupying buildings. It means providing photographic evidence.

It means sustained pressure on local politicians and police to refuse to cooperate with ICE. It means providing legal representation, food and financial assistance to families with members detained. It means a willingness to be arrested. It means a nationwide campaign to defy the state’s inhumanity.

If we fail, the dimming flames of our open society will be snuffed out.

Authoritarian states are constructed incrementally. No dictatorship advertises its plan to extinguish civil liberties. It pays lip service to liberty and justice as it dismantles the institutions and laws that make liberty and justice possible.

Opponents of the regime, including those within the establishment, make sporadic attempts to resist. They throw up temporary roadblocks, but they are soon purged.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “The Gulag Archipelago” notes that the consolidation of Soviet tyranny “was stretched out over many years because it was of primary importance that it be stealthy and unnoticed.”

He called the process “a grandiose silent game of solitaire, whose rules were totally incomprehensible to its contemporaries, and whose outlines we can appreciate only now.”

“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?” Solzhenitsyn asks.

“Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

After all, you knew ahead of time those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.

Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”

--by Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

continued:

Czesław Miłosz, in “The Captive Mind,” also documents the creep of tyranny, how it advances stealthily, until intellectuals are not only forced to repeat the regime’s self-adulating slogans but, as our leading universities did when they caved to false allegations of being bastions of antisemitism, embrace its absurdism.

Manufactured fear engenders self-doubt. It makes a population — often unconsciously — conform outwardly and inwardly. It conditions citizens to relate to those around them with suspicion and distrust. It destroys the solidarity vital to organizing, community and dissent.

The historian Robert Gellately, in his book “Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany,” argues that state terror in Nazi Germany was effective not because of omnipresent state surveillance, but because it fostered a “culture of denunciation.”

Rat out your neighbors and coworkers and survive. If you see something, say something.

The worse it gets, the more established institutions, desperate to survive, silence those who warn us.

“Before societies fall, just such a stratum of wise, thinking people emerges, people who are that and nothing more,” Solzhenitsyn writes of those who see what is coming. “And how they were laughed at! How they were mocked!”

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth, whose early warnings about the rise of fascism were largely dismissed, and who told fellow intellectuals to stop naively appealing to “the remains of a European conscience,” saw his books tossed into the bonfires in the spring of 1933 during the Nazi book burnings. So far, we have not burned books, but have banned nearly 23,000 titles in public schools since 2021.

The authoritarian state cannibalizes the institutions that foolishly aid and abet the witch hunts. It replaces them with pseudo-institutions populated with pseudo-legislators, pseudo-courts, pseudo-journalists, pseudo-intellectuals and pseudo-citizens. Columbia University is a shining example of this willful self-immolation. Nothing is as it is presented.

There are increasing numbers of violent kidnappings by masked ICE agents in unmarked cars on our city streets. People are ripped from their vehicles and beaten. They are arrested outside schools and day care centers. They are raided at work, thrown onto the floor, handcuffed, driven away in vans and shipped off to concentration camps in countries such as El Salvador. They are seized when they appear at court for a green card application or interview to finalize a visa.

Once detained, they disappear into the labyrinth of over 200 detention centers, where they are moved from one facility to the next to hide them from family, lawyers and the courts. Due process, once a constitutional right afforded to everyone in the United States, no longer exists.

“Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states,” Hannah Arendt writes in “The Origins of Totalitarianism.” “The clearer the proof of their inability to treat stateless people as legal persons and the greater the extension of arbitrary rule by police decree, the more difficult it is for states to resist the temptation to deprive all citizens of legal status and rule them with an omnipotent police.”

--by Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

continued:

The FBI, in an example of how justice is perverted, refuses to cooperate with local law enforcement agencies in Minneapolis, blocking access to any evidence that would allow them to file criminal charges against Jonathan Ross.

Killing of unarmed citizens by the state is carried out with impunity.

ICE has more than doubled the size of its force since early 2025 — to 22,000 agents — hiring 12,000 new officers in four months from a pool of 220,000 applicants. It plans to spend $100 million over a one-year period to hire even more recruits, part of the $170 billion for border and interior enforcement, including $75 billion for ICE, to be spent over four years. Salaries for these new recruits, poorly trained and often haphazardly vetted, will range from $49,739 to $89,528 a year, along with a $50,000 signing bonus — split over three years — and up to $60,000 in student loan repayments.

ICE is building new detention centers nationwide in 23 towns and cities. It promises that once it is fully operational, it will go door-to-door as part of the largest deportation effort in American history.

ICE agents, intoxicated by the license to kick down doors while wearing body armor and firing automatic weapons at terrified women and children, are not warriors as they imagine, but thugs. They have few skills, other than weapons training, cruelty and brutality. They intend to remain employed by the state. The state intends to keep them employed.

None of this should surprise us. The repressive techniques used by ICE and our militarized police were perfected overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Occupied Palestine, and earlier in Vietnam.

The ICE agent who murdered Good was a machinegunner in Iraq. A night raid in Chicago, with agents rappelling from a helicopter to storm an apartment complex filled with terrified families, does not look any different from a night raid in Fallujah.

--by Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

continued:

Aimé Césaire, the Martinician playwright and politician, in “Discourse on Colonialism” writes that the savage tools of imperialism and colonialism eventually migrate back to the home country. It is known as imperial boomerang.

Césaire writes:

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind—it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices;

that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

During the interregnum between the last gasps of a democracy and the emergence of a dictatorship, the nation is gaslighted. It is told the rule of law is respected. It is told democratic rule is inviolate. These lies mollify those being frog-marched into their own enslavement.

“The majority sit quietly and dare to hope,” Solzhenitsyn writes. “Since you aren’t guilty, then how can they arrest you? It’s a mistake!”

Maybe, the fearful say, Trump and his minions are only being bombastic. Maybe they don’t mean it. Maybe they are incompetent. Maybe the courts will save us. Maybe the next elections will end this nightmare. Maybe there are limits to extremism. Maybe the worst is over.

These self-delusions
prevent us from resisting while
the gallows are being constructed in front of us.

Authoritarian states start by targeting the most vulnerable, those most easily demonized — the undocumented, students on college campuses who protest genocide, antifa, the so-called “radical left,” Muslims, poor people of color, intellectuals and liberals.

They strike down one group after the next.

They blow out, one by one, the long row of candles
until we find ourselves in the dark,
powerless and alone.

--by Chris Hedges; January 11, 2026

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-machinery-of-terror

I'm sorry,
What Was it
you were saying

wormmy?

@19: '"I give them only a few days to ... create such a counter-productively noisy distraction as to derail completely any "Reform ICE" moment"

'Lmao'

Violent deaths of young Black men in the CHOP was just another barrel o'laffs for ya, I see.

Well played.

Now, whine some more about how teh eeeeeebul 'Democrat Party' denigrates you wonderful progressives.

@22

note how
the Wormtongue cun-
ningly Deflects the downfall
of America, one which He assists, here,

and Distracts with yet another tired Trope
about "a failure!" from Three years
previous -- anything But
acknowledge his role
in the Nazification
of America by
screaming:

"STFU, "Progressives"!

Your "useless"
Protestations're
Just Gonna Make EVERY-
THING WORSE! IT CAN ONLY

BACKFIRE ON YOU!" And, he hopes, it Will.

our Authoritarian Master.

Mouthpiece of our
Authoritarian
Masters

no,
YOU
STFU,
wormmy.