ICE agent shoots protester: Why I’m not concerned

Timothy Jankowski | January 9, 2026

In another time and another America, I might have felt some sympathy for Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the woman who was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis after she attempted to interfere with them. I might have felt that the authorities were too aggressive in their approach, and that while she was clearly guilty of criminal activity, there was no real reason to think that she was a deadly threat when they approached her vehicle. But that time and that place are long gone.

Those were the days before Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, before 18 people were arrested for their involvement in a co-ordinated plan to attack an ICE facility in Alvarado, TX, before a shooter fired on an ICE transport in Dallas, TX and killing two people, before anti-ICE protestors dropped rocks on passing police cars from an overpass, before leftists torched Tesla dealerships, before a young Republican club leader was gunned down at Brown, before Donald Trump was shot, and before Steve Scalise was shot and nearly a dozen Republican congressmen narrowly avoided being slaughtered.

Leftists at the highest level have openly stated that they want members of the Right, including immigration officers, dead, and they have repeatedly taken steps to accomplish this goal. So why would we assume, and the ICE officers in Minnesota in particular, have any reason to believe that Renee Good was up to well…any good? The planned attack in Alvarado involved luring ICE agents out of their office and into a parking lot where a sniper lie in wait to shoot them, so why wouldn’t the agents in Minneapolis think that Ms. Good’s efforts to block traffic was a stunt designed to get them out of their cars where they could be immediately targeted by one of the bystanders watching them on the street? Even if she didn’t act in concert with anyone in particular, she caused the agents to be put at risk by having to stop their vehicle and get out.

And yet we still have people on the Right watching the video frame by frame trying to determine with 100% accuracy whether the officer who fired the fatal shot was correct in doing so. Why? A woman affiliated with a group that has openly called for killing ICE agents and who has actually tried to do so illegally interfered with the lawful duties with ICE members that put their lives at risk. End of story.

Meanwhile however, for the Left this was merely a transactional performance. They sent a useful idiot into a dangerous situation and now they are able to use her death to foment even more anger and violence against ICE members. This is what they do and we have now seen that they have a vast army of human drones, people with empty lives looking for some kind of meaning that are willing to destroy their careers, their relationships, and even their lives for the sake of some meaningless cause that will be forgotten in a year. The Left gin these people up knowing that if even one percent of their crowd goes off the rails, they will strike fear into the citizens and officials of cities and states which they then can leverage for power.

The civil war in America isn’t coming, it’s here and it’s hot and conservatives are being assaulted and killed on a now ongoing basis. The time for hedging about whether someone driving a car at a law enforcement officer turned their wheels slightly or hypothesizing whether an officer should have dove out of the way of an oncoming car is over. The time to return to the rule of legitimate law and order is now and that may mean that the useful idiots of the Left learn the hard way that there are serious consequences for their actions. So no, I do not feel compassion for Renee Good, not because she had opinions different than mine or because  she expressed them in a lawful and orderly manner but rather because she colluded in an illegal manner with those who align themselves with criminals while actively seeking to harm and even murder law abiding citizens.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/ice_agent_shoots_protester_why_i_m_not_concerned.html