GOOD MORNING MINNEAPOLIS!

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 6, 2026

If you build it, they will come. That’s the old saying from “Field of Dreams,” and it is true. In normal times, law enforcement agencies don’t announce the places they are going to go and target for action, because it makes no sense to do that. In President Trump’s current America, ICE and Homeland Security announce when they are going to go into major American cities to conduct sweeps and raids. Does that make any sense? Of course not, they are tipping off actual criminals they should catch, and making the job of their officers harder. They do it though, because they openly want the attention. Not shockingly, their announcements attract people- supporters and protestors- who either want to make their voice heard or openly engage the action. This is reckless, dangerous, and stupid, of course. It’s asking for violence and engagement between extremists, agents, and civilians. It has had predictably terrible results.

A woman is dead in Minneapolis. Renee Good should not be dead. By now if you’ve seen the video, you know that J.D. Vance is full of shit as usual, and she certainly wasn’t making an attempt to kill the officer who shot her. Perhaps she was fleeing arrest, or just afraid, or even maybe trying to use her vehicle to intimidate the officers- all of which aren’t great things under the circumstances- but none of them would carry a death sentence, even on conviction (In fact, even if she drove at the cops and did try to hurt or kill them, she’d almost certainly not get a death sentence.). I really don’t know what she was doing there, or why she was there, and I don’t really care. I saw the video. The officer was never really in danger or hurt, and by the time he shot her, she was no longer a threat to any officer in any way. Renee Good didn’t need to die. This was absolutely stupid, inhumane, and pointless.

Kristi Noem and her trolls at the Department of Homeland Security are going to get a lot of people killed with this behavior, be they members of the public, illegal immigrants, or actual agents in the field. This serves absolutely no public or policy objective. If anything, this even makes raids to capture actual threats to the public harder. This is stupid and heartless to the core, and no one should be cheering it.

By the way, for those of you cheering this on and blaming the victim- here is your “injured” agent, who shot her.