I have to say that something extremely concerning has revealed itself to me in the wake of the shooting of the woman who attempted to run over an ICE agent with her car. I said before that another George Floyd riot situation was likely, but what really concerns me is far bigger than that, and it’s something that I don’t think many people have picked up on yet.
On Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good decided that blocking federal agents with her SUV made perfect sense amid the anti-ICE chaos. She hit the gas as an ICE officer stood in front of her vehicle, forcing him to fire his gun in self-defense. I’m sure you’ve seen the videos from the incident by now. There are two videos available, each from a different angle, both showing the same thing.
Both videos are now at the center of one of the most troubling political spectacles I’ve witnessed in recent memory, and they reveal something deeply unsettling about how far political polarization has gone. The left immediately launched into full gaslighting mode, claiming the shooting was unprovoked, that the agent wasn't in the vehicle's path, that Good was merely trying to turn around, and that she wasn't even part of the anti-ICE demonstrations.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claims he watched the same footage everyone else did and declared it "bulls—t” that the agent acted in self-defense and described it as "an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.” Governor Tim Walz chimed in with his own hot take, dismissing the Department of Homeland Security's self-defense claim as propaganda.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took it even further. "What we saw today, was a criminal, a criminal...murder a woman & shot her in the head while she was trying to flee and escape for her life," she told reporters. She called it a "murder in cold blood" and demanded prosecution. The Washington Post editorial board weighed in too, asserting that "so far social media clips do not show a situation that would justify using deadly force.” And, of course, left-wing influencers across social media kept sharing the identical videos, insisting they proved the ICE agent was unprovoked.
Meanwhile, NBC News conducted a frame-by-frame analysis of the incident and reached a markedly different conclusion. Their law enforcement analyst examined multiple angles and determined the ICE agent was indeed positioned in front of the vehicle when it accelerated toward him.
ICYMI: NBC News Analysis Destroys the Left’s Narrative on the ICE Shooting
Here's what makes this genuinely frightening. The videos circulating on social media make it perfectly clear what happened. Yet somehow, some people are watching the same footage and drawing opposite interpretations, based entirely on their political loyalties.
The left is reflexively siding against the ICE agent because of their opposition to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. They're not even attempting to hide their bias. They've decided ICE equals bad; therefore, an ICE agent is guilty by default, regardless of what the video actually shows. It's ideology masquerading as forensic observation.
This is not a good situation, and if it doesn’t scare the crap out of you, you’re not thinking beyond this one incident, because, frankly, the implications here go beyond one tragic incident in Minneapolis.
When the same piece of objective evidence can be wielded by both sides to support contradictory conclusions, we've entered dangerous territory. Political allegiance now determines what people perceive as reality. A video either shows vehicular assault or cold-blooded murder, depending solely on which team you're rooting for.
This is the same strategy Democrats relied on in their lawfare campaign against Trump. The goal was never to weigh evidence honestly. The goal was to run it through partisan prosecutors, partisan judges, and partisan juries who could be trusted to reach a predetermined conclusion. Once outcomes matter more than facts, evidence is simply molded to fit the narrative.
That is where the country stands now. We are so politically fractured that facts no longer anchor the debate.
