One Video Blows Up Countless Media Narratives About Minnesota ICE Shooting

One video sank an entire media news cycle of false narratives.

On Friday, Alpha News released a video taken by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent involved in the shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an ICE agent that’s become an international story. The notion that the agent shot her for no reason at all has just gone up in smoke.

Not only does it appear the deceased woman, Renee Nicole Good, was being egged on to behave aggressively by her wife, but it’s clear that she hit the gas of her SUV while seeing the agent was directly in front of her.

Take a look and judge for yourself.

Bodycam video of Rebecca Good taunting ICE, ignoring orders and accelerating her SUV into the agent

At the end of the day this is still a tragedy, even if it’s one of Good’s own making. Her partner should have never encouraged her to disobey the authorities, she should never have blocked traffic, and it’s terrible that she lost her life for a very bad judgment call. The officer too will have to live with the fact that he shot someone.

But in no way is this story anything like the narrative that’s been generated by much of the legacy media in the last 24 hours. And I’m not even just counting the hot takes. There have been enough bad ones on this incident since Wednesday to blot out the sun. I’m also talking about the reporting.

Frankly, I agree with Vice President JD Vance who said at a news conference Thursday, “The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”

Vance read a headline by CNN during the press conference, “Outrage After ICE Officer Kills Citizen in Minneapolis.”

As of my writing this, the Washington Post hasn’t issued a correction.

The New York Times wasn’t much better. The Times reported, after interviewing President Donald Trump–who said the woman ran the officer over—that according to their “analysis” from three camera angles “the motorist was driving away from—not toward—the federal officer when he opened fire.”

Even before this recent video was released it certainly appeared to me that the vehicle was driving toward the officer.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt demanded The New York Times correct this report.

I don’t know where the media goes from here. Maybe they just move on to other things. Hey, there was another incident in Portland they could twist to fit the narrative (though that one is looking even less useful for their purposes).

Maybe they focus on the fact that the ICE officer cursed under his breath after firing at Good.

Or maybe they just blindly charge ahead as if the most recent video doesn’t exist or that 2+2=5.

I really don’t know.

What I do know is that this incident highlights just how the legacy media long ago lost the trust of the American people. Hopefully this incident will get the investigation it deserves. There are still many unanswered questions about what led up to this incident.

I’m certainly thankful there is a vaster ecosystem, whatever its faults, of alternative media that now exists in this country.

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Jarrett Stepman

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” Send an email to Jarrett. Jarrett on X: @JarrettStepman.

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