He has me confused. Is Eric Erickson stupid, naive, or dishonest? Erickson says
The New York Times pushed out a story just the other day after Renee Good got killed by the ICE agent, a multi-angled camera view to insist it did not look like the ICE agent got hit.... CNN echoed The New York Times, claiming that it did not appear that he got hit.
We now have the medical records of the ICE agent. I believe his name is Jonathan Ross- internal bleeding in his hip area from the impact of the 3,000+ pound car hitting him. He was hit by Renee Good.
The New York Times pushed out a multi-angle camera view claiming Renee Good did not hit the ICE agent. But now we have the agent’s medical records.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally
shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal
bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials
briefed on his medical condition.
It was unclear how extensive the bleeding was. The
Department of Homeland Security confirmed Ross' injury, but has not yet
responded to CBS News' requests for more information. This story will be
updated as we learn more.
Videos from the scene showed Ross walking away after the
incident.
Ross has not returned to work, one source said, but did not
say why.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, previously
acknowledged that Ross was taken to the hospital after the shooting and was
released the same day. She said he was recovering from his injuries, describing
him as an experienced law enforcement officer who believed he was defending
himself and fellow agents.
Not only is it unclear how extensive the bleeding was, it is unclear whether the injury was more extensive than a common, everyday household injury. As described by the Cleveland Clinic, this sounds a lot like internal bleeding:
“Ecchymosis” (pronounced “eh-chuh-mow-sis”) is the medical
term for a bruise. A bruise, or contusion, is skin discoloration from damaged,
leaking blood vessels underneath your skin. Even though there’s blood pooling
underneath your skin, you won’t have any external bleeding unless your skin
breaks open.
We don't know whether Ross was severely injured. However, we do know that "internal bleeding" can be no more serious than a bruise and that we cannot take remarks by anyone in this Administration about this incident as the gospel truth.
Soon after the shooting, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem called Renee Good a"domestic terrorist." She was not.
Vice President J.D. Vance called the victim a "deranged leftist." There is no evidence that she was deranged or in any way mentally or psychologically deficient.
President Trump almost instantly after the killing remarked that "the woman" was "very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer. She did not. (Good was leaving the scene when she eviently was shot three times and clearly did not "willfully and viciously" run anyone over.)
This Administration's record on the killing of Renee Good alread has been one of division and deceit, lying profusely to justify its inhumane and destructive policy toward both immigration and protestors. Nonetheless, we'll be able to determine definitively, hopefully, the extent of Agent Jonathan Ross' injury once his medical report is released. That may be released simultaneously with the release of the alleged shooting of presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July, 2024 or release of the full Epstein files. When pigs fly.
Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told me that
since ICE ramped up its operations in Minneapolis, it’s felt “like we are being
inundated with a hostile paramilitary group that is mistreating, insulting,
terrorizing our neighbors.” And the residents of Minneapolis have responded:
“People have got their whistles, and they’ve got their little alert system to
tell people ICE is in the neighborhood. They’ve been protesting. They’ve been
out there trying to protect their neighbors.”
Many of these people probably believed that even in Trump’s
America, citizens still have inviolable liberties that allow them to stand up
to the jacked-up irregulars who’ve descended on their communities. The civil
rights of immigrants have been profoundly curtailed; even green card holders
are on notice that this government may detain and deport them simply for
protesting. But Americans — particularly, let’s be honest, white Americans —
might have thought themselves immune from ICE abuses.
The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a [white] mother of three
and widow of a military veteran, tests that assumption.
S.M. concludes
The Republican base is as racist as you imagine. But the
racism of the right is part of a larger belief system in which people with
certain attributes -- white, right-wing, heterosexual, Christian,
anti-feminist, pro-gun, and pro-fossil fuel -- are seen as better than everyone
else in the world and deserving of a homeland in which no other people exist,
or at least none have power, including mere voting power.
I don't think many of the anti-ICE protesters expected to be
immune to ICE violence -- less susceptible, clearly, but certainly vulnerable.
These people hate everyone who disagrees with them to at least some extent.
Their core hatred might be racial, but they have plenty of rage to go around.
That's largely accurate. However, we knew that much of the GOP base is racist (or racially biased, as I would argue) and there is a core hatred of non-whites.
What we have never acknowledged- and which, to her credit, Goldberg comes close to doing- is that the hostility is usually not primarily grounded in ethnicity. The left is coming close now- with absolutely no help from the center- in acknowledging that most unjust state violence is not perpetrated for reasons of race.
We should have understood this in the summer and autumn of 2020. I tried, with limited success, to explain that there are many evils in this society and that most of them cannot justifiably be attributed to race. Instead, when the George Floyd protests came about, virtually no one (and "virtually" may be inaccurate) in the center or on the left found anything wrong with a movement called "Black Lives Matter."
Somehow, we got it into our collective heads that all - yes, all- of the problem with police violence against the public involved black civilians. There were victims and all were black, perhaps with a few Latinos.
There were three responses to the movement launched by the murder of George Floyd. There were supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, which in those heady days constituted a majority. Most of those opposed to the movement protested that "Blue Lives Matter." And then there were a few people, usually denounced as racists by not only leftists but also by centrists, who maintained "All Lives Matter."
What a bizarre claim! The notion that "all lives matter" was considered bigoted and/or bizarre not only by the left- progressives and liberals alike- but also by centrists. Meanwhile, conservatives countered with the politically wise "Blue Lives Matter." It was hard to argue against that slogan and the left was not chanting "civilian lives matter" nor claiming that police lives don't matter. Strategically, the politically correct "Blue Lives Matter" was the correct, albeit disingenuous, response.
No one I heard or read ever suggested that not only was the slogan "black lives matter" exclusive of whites, but also of Latinos and Asian-Americans. Yet, while there was disproportionate (unjustified) police violence directed against blacks, there were other individuals who were victims of bad policing. I'm sure Daniel Shaver would agree, were he still alive to be asked about it. In December, 2017 The New York Times reported
Newly released body camera footage shows a police officer
shooting an unarmed man in an Arizona hotel after the man sobbed and pleaded
with officers not to shoot him.
On Jan. 18, 2016, six officers were called to a La Quinta
Inn and Suites in Mesa, Ariz., after guests reported seeing a man with a gun in
the window of a fifth-floor room. The video showed Mr. Shaver and a woman
walking into a hallway as Philip Brailsford, a two-year veteran of the Mesa
Police Department who was wearing the body camera, trained an AR-15 rifle on
them.
Another officer can be heard ordering them to get on the
floor and threatening to shoot if they do not comply.
“If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very
severe possibility you’re both going to get shot,” the officer says in the
video. He shouts at Mr. Shaver, “If you move, we are going to consider that a
threat, and we are going to deal with it, and you may not survive it.”
“I’m sorry,” Mr. Shaver says at one point. “Please do not
shoot me,” he says at another.
The officer’s commands at times seemed contradictory.
“Do not put your hands down for any reason,” he tells Mr.
Shaver. “Your hands go back in the small of your back or down, we are going to
shoot you, do you understand me?”
“Yes, sir,” a tearful Mr. Shaver responds.
But immediately after, the officer commands, “Crawl towards
me,” prompting Mr. Shaver to lower his hands to the floor and begin moving
toward the camera.
A police report by an officer who reviewed the footage
offered two possible explanations for why Mr. Shaver had bent his arm, the
movement before the gunfire. It was “a very similar motion to someone drawing a
pistol from their waist band,” the officer wrote, according to The Atlantic —
but it “was also consistent with attempting to pull his shorts up as they were
falling off.” No weapon was found on Mr. Shaver.
The Police Department fired Officer Brailsford two months
after the shooting.
If you haven't already guessed, Shaver was white; if you didn't hear about this killing at the time, you weren't alone. It didn't fit the narrative of the left, the center, or the right (for the last group, because police can do no wrong). Interestingly
The jury deliberated for less than six hours before
acquitting him. The acquittal came the same day that a judge in South Carolina
sentenced Michael T. Slager, a white police officer, to 20 years in prison for
the 2015 shooting of an unarmed black motorist, Walter L. Scott.
Perhaps now, with the killing of Renee Gold, we will begin to understand that most law enforcement officers are fair and just and some, (being human) are not, as with persons in every profession. Of course, there is a danger of over-reaction, inaccurately concluding that state and local police officers are anything like Donald Trump's ICE, which is increasingly acting with impunity.
The upside of the killing of Good- as Goldberg notes- tests the assumption that whites are immune from our "inviolable liberties" being nullified by the Trump Administration and/or its lackeys. But Goldberg and S.M. need to understand that some of us, even back in 2020, knew that the heavy fist of law enforcement authorities was not confined to blacks. All of us- and our freedoms- matter, or at least should.
In his press briefing on Thursday, Vice President J.D. Vance condemned "many people in the corporate media" for their coverage and added
And I say "attack" ver, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order," Vance continued. "this was an attack on the American people."
Vance said the CNN headline also left out that the woman was there to "interfere with a lefitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America" and is "part of a broader left-wing network" that attacks ICE officers and prevents them from doing their jobs.
"If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth, that a group of left-wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques, to try to amke it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elcted him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws," Vance said.
So Vance (presumably) believes Good's misbehavior "was an attack on law and order.... and on the American people." She was allegedly part of "a group of left-wing radicals (who) have been... using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do." Previously, he had stated "the reason this woman is dead is because she tried to ram somebody with her car."
Good may have been interfering with a law enfocement operation. However, once she began to pull away, she was removing herself from the situation. That did not satisfy, or even please, Officer Jonathan Ross. But in the Vice President's telling, Renee Good was a left-wing radical who attacked law and order with domestic terror techniques to obstruct the will of our President and of the American people and specifically tried to ram somebody with her car.
She factually was not a domestic terrorist and Vance probably was aware that video would prove that she did not try to ram somebody. But, aware of the political difficulty that would ensue, he did not wish her dead. Oh, that makes so much sense.
Also not wishing her dead was the President himself. Yet, in a Truth Social post of 3:28 p.m. on Pearl Harbor Day, Donald wrote/typed/dictated
I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and reisisting, who then violently, willfull, and viciously ran over the iCE officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense....
Let me see if I understand this correctly. "No one of the right wishes that person were dead." The leader of the right, Donald J. Trump,illegally orders boats, probably carrying drugs to Trinidad or Europe, blown up along with the occupants. the leader of the right, He (presumably) believes that the ICE officer, in order to prevent being injured or killed, shot a professional agitator who was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, then trying to run over the officer.
If Trump did in fact view the "clip" of the killing, he would know that the Good woman did not try to run the woman over, which would prove very inconvenient for the Administration once it was widely seen. She was a dangerous radical but he's sorr she's decesdl. But he did not wish the Good woman dead, even though if he did watch the clip he claims to have watched, he would know that big trouble awaited- if she had lived.
President Trump and Vice President Vance may not be glad that Renee Good is dead. Call them "relieved."
On Halloween, the Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who reportedly is in charge of immigration policy, appeared on Fox News. Host Will
Cain asked Miller under what federal authority the Trump
administration could arrest Pritzker if the governor tried to arrest ICE
agents.
“To all ICE officers, you have federal immunity in the
conduct of your duties,” Miller said. “And anybody who lays a hand on you or
tries to stop you or tries to obstruct you is committing a felony.”
ICE officers thereby were given a "get out of jail free" card. And on January 7, 2026, one emboldened immigration agent decided to take advantage of Miller's largesse.
Of course, this would be legitimate were Renee Nicole Good attempting to stop the officer or trying to obstruct him. This does not appear to have occurred.
One officer approached the driver's side of the car and may have yelled for Good to get out of the car. Another officer was moving from the front passenger side to the front driver's side, whereupon the motorist steered clockwise, away from the officer, who then fired the fatal shot. Former FBI supervisor Rob
D’Amico said the officer’s attempt to open the door may have
distracted the woman, causing her not to notice the other officer in front of
the vehicle, and that better training could have helped prevent the situation.
“It reminds me of a time that one of the first arrests I
went out in Miami, I actually got in front of a vehicle, and my supervisor
grabbed me after, and I think he was pretty strict with me. He said, ‘Look,
people don’t block vehicles. Vehicles block vehicles,’” he recounted. “Don’t
put yourself in a situation where you then have to employ deadly force if that
vehicle comes at you, because, one, you’re not going to stop it. You’re going
to get hit no matter what.”
Horrible, foolish police work, in which authorities escalate rather than de-escalate a situation, is not necessarily illegal, but it is very important. Few if any in the government (of course) or the media seem interested in the motive of the three ICE officers who approached Good's vehicle. They might find out that that the motorist was partially blocking the roadway and that good police work would entail approaching the vehicle in an unthreating manner and ordering the motorist to leave the area.
The purpose, presumably, would be to clear the area, which Good was trying to do as she began to drive away. And if that was not the aim of the officers, law enforcement was even more irresponsible than the appears from the video.
Apprised of this incident, Stephen Miller's heart leapt. So did J.D. Vance's heart, and that of Donald Trump. Jesus wept.
