For the Government, the Lie is the Playbook
ICE killed a woman in Minneapolis today. The government is lying about it. The video shows they’re lying. They don’t care. [Warning: graphic content]
Renee Nicole Good was 37. A U.S. citizen, mother of three. Yesterday morning she dropped her six-year-old off at school, and on her way home she ran into ICE agents conducting an operation in her neighborhood. One of them shot her in the head. She died at the hospital.
Immediately, DHS had a story ready. Spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin released a statement saying Good had “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” Secretary Kristi Noem added that agents had been trying to push their vehicles out of the snow when Good “attacked them.” President Trump posted on Truth Social that Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer.”
There’s video. Multiple angles. You can watch it. The video shows agents approaching Good’s car. It shows one grabbing her door handle, yelling at her to get out. It shows her car reverse, then pull forward. It shows an agent fire through the windshield. It shows her car drift forward and crash.
The video does not show anyone getting run over. It does not show anyone stuck in snow. The street is clear.
Mayor Jacob Frey saw the video. At a press conference Wednesday, he said the claim that the shooting was self-defense was “bullshit.” He told ICE to “get the f--- out of Minneapolis.” Governor Tim Walz posted on X: “I’ve seen the video. Don’t believe this propaganda machine.”
Witness Aidan Perzana was home when it happened. He told NBC News that when he heard Noem’s claim about the woman trying to run down an officer, it didn’t match what he saw. “There was plenty of space between the officers at that point for the vehicle to make it through,” he said.
I’ve been tracking DHS statements about shootings for months. There’s a consistent pattern: make an explosive claim, blast it everywhere, then watch the evidence slowly contradict everything they said. By the time the truth comes out, the original narrative has already hardened.
Marimar Martinez
Three months ago, DHS told us almost the exact same story about a woman in Chicago. That story fell apart in court.
On October 4, 2025, Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times during an immigration operation in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. DHS immediately called Martinez a “domestic terrorist” who had “ambushed” federal agents and “rammed” their vehicle.
Martinez was charged with assault and attempted murder of a federal employee.
Then the evidence started coming out.
Body camera footage, according to court proceedings, showed Exum saying “Do something, b--ch” before opening fire. After the shooting, Exum texted other agents to brag about his accuracy: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
Martinez’s attorney, Christopher Parente, argued that video showed agents rammed Martinez, not the other way around. The gun DHS claimed she brandished? It never left her purse.
And here’s a fun detail: Agent Exum drove his SUV 1,000 miles to Maine before defense attorneys could examine it as evidence.
In November, federal prosecutors dropped all charges against Martinez. The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can never be refiled.
“These agents were lying about what happened,” Parente said. “Ms. Martinez never rammed anybody.”
Even after the charges were dropped, DHS continued to call Martinez a “domestic terrorist.”
The “serious injuries” that weren’t
Before Martinez, there was Silverio Villegas González.
On September 12, 2025, ICE agents shot and killed Villegas González during a traffic stop in Franklin Park, Illinois. He was 38. He had two young sons, ages 3 and 7. He had just dropped one of them off at daycare.
DHS said an agent was “hit by the car and dragged a significant distance” and “sustained multiple injuries” that were “serious.” They said the agent fired because he was “fearing for his own life.”
Two weeks later, ABC7 Chicago obtained body camera footage from Franklin Park police who responded to the scene. In the video, the ICE agent who allegedly suffered “serious injuries” describes them to a local cop.
“I got dragged a little bit,” the agent says. “Uh, just a left knee injury, and some lacerations. Nothing major.”
Nothing major.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker responded: “Two weeks ago, a man was shot and killed by ICE in Franklin Park, Illinois. Shortly after, ICE issued a statement justifying the killing, saying the federal agent was ‘seriously injured.’ ... A man is dead.”
The building “filled with terrorists”
On September 30, 2025, more than 300 federal agents descended on an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black Hawk helicopters. Agents rappelling onto the roof. Flash-bang grenades. Doors kicked in at midnight. Residents dragged out of bed and zip-tied.
The Trump administration released a slick video of the operation. Stephen Miller declared the building was “filled with TdA terrorists” and called it “one of the most successful law enforcement operations that we’ve seen in this country.”
ProPublica investigated. Reporters tracked down 21 of the detained residents and interviewed 12 of them. They reviewed court records. They observed immigration hearings.
Of the 21 detainees ProPublica identified, 18 had no criminal charges against them whatsoever. The other three had been charged with offenses like drug possession and battery, but in each case, the charges were dropped.
In none of the immigration hearings ProPublica observed did government attorneys mention pending criminal charges or allege gang affiliation. Judges ordered deportations or granted voluntary departure, which the outlet noted is “a sign that they are not seen as a serious threat.”
A Texas law enforcement official who is an expert on Latino gangs told ProPublica: “There’s so much pressure put on agents to be documenting TdA that they just see Venezuelan crooks and say, ‘He’s TdA.’”
“I would be very suspect”
After the Minneapolis shooting, Martinez’s attorney gave an interview to Fox 9. He and his client had watched the video together.
“We both said, ‘Of course this happened,’” Parente told The Intercept. “It is no surprise to either Marimar or myself that this happened, and unfortunately, it is going to continue to happen.”
Parente warned the public to be skeptical of anything DHS says. “I would tell everybody what I told them in our case,” he said. “I would be very suspect of any press release that is put out right now by DHS.”
Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois put it more bluntly: “The city of Chicago knows all too well that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem only lies.”
What happens now
The FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating the shooting, though the FBI is not cooperating with local officials. The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office has jurisdiction to charge the agent if warranted.
Renee Nicole Good’s mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter was “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.” She said Good was “extremely compassionate” and had “taken care of people all her life.”
The Minneapolis City Council described her as a resident who was out “caring for her neighbors” when she was killed.
DHS is still calling her a terrorist.
The county DA needs to convene a grand jury, charge homicide, and pursue a conviction. The video evidence supports this course of action. Federal agents are not immune from local prosecution for the crimes they commit.
Just wondering, every single day, if all of this is worth it. Just to keep the black woman out, a felon is in 1600. Doing exactly what quite a few of us figured he’d do. For what? A Minneapolis woman is dead and kids are now without their mother for the rest of their lives. For what? Thanks for what you do, Parker.