An ICE agent shot Renee Good three times. A doctor begged to help. Her heart was still beating.
“I don’t care.”
That’s what an ICE agent said to a physician who wanted to check Renee Good’s pulse after she’d been shot. The doctor had his hands in the air. He identified himself. He begged to help.
“I don’t care.”
It turns out – Renee Nicole Good was still alive.
The New York Times obtained emergency responder records this week showing that when EMS finally got to Good – six minutes after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot her – she had an irregular pulse. She wasn’t breathing, but her heart was still trying. Still fighting. By the time they pulled her out of the car, that pulse was gone.
The math is brutal and simple. A physician was on scene, ready to help. ICE refused. Timely CPR saves lives. We’ll never know if those minutes mattered, because ICE decided they didn’t.
Let me tell you about the last two minutes of Renee Good’s life before she was shot.
She was in her car. Window down. Dog in the back seat. Ross – a SWAT team member, firearms instructor, Iraq War vet, self-described “hardcore conservative Christian and MAGA supporter” – was circling her vehicle with his phone out, recording. Not body cam footage. His personal cell phone. Like he was collecting content.
Good smiled at him. Actually smiled. “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
Those were her last words to him before another agent screamed at her to “get out of the fucking car” and Ross opened fire.
Three shots. Through the windshield. Through the driver’s side window. She ended up with four gunshot wounds – two to the chest, one to the forearm, one to the head. One likely went through her forearm and into her chest.
And then, on his own recording, as her car veered off and crashed into a pole, audio captured Ross saying: “Fucking bitch.”
The New York Times did voice analysis. It was him.
This is the guy the Trump administration is protecting. This is who they deemed worthy of immediate hospital care for his “internal bleeding” while Good lay dying in her car with a doctor pleading to help.
Kristi Noem called it self-defense. JD Vance shared the video himself, thinking it proved their point. It did not. Bystander footage shows Ross standing to the side of the car – not in its path – when he fired. The video they thought exonerated him actually shows Good turning her wheel away from him.
Twenty-seven percent of Americans think this shooting was justified. Twenty-seven. That’s it. Fifty-two percent say it wasn’t. And 48 percent say Good “was not trying to kill the ICE officer” and that Ross “acted recklessly.”
But here’s where it gets properly dystopian.
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota just resigned. Not random bureaucrats. Career prosecutors – including Joseph Thompson, who was leading the massive fraud investigation that the Trump administration claimed justified sending 3,000 federal agents to Minneapolis in the first place.
Why did they resign?
Because the Justice Department wasn’t pushing to investigate the guy who shot an unarmed woman three times. They were pushing to investigate her widow.
Becca Good. The woman who watched her wife get murdered. The one in the video covered in blood, screaming “You guys just killed my wife.” The DOJ wanted to investigate her “ties to activist groups.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said there’s “no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Ross. But the widow of the woman Ross killed? Apparently that warrants federal scrutiny.
Former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger – who was appointed by both Bush presidents – called it “disgusting to focus an investigation on the widow of somebody who was shot by a federal agent.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey put it more simply: “The people pushing to prosecute Renee’s widow are monsters.”
Meanwhile, the prosecutors who quit were the same ones actually doing the fraud work. Harry Jacobs, who led the Feeding Our Future investigation. Melinda Williams. Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, chief of Violent and Major Crimes. The people with actual expertise, actual case knowledge, walking out because they were being told to investigate a grieving spouse instead of a killer.
So let’s be clear about what happened here:
An ICE agent shot an unarmed American woman three times, including once in the head. He called her a “fucking bitch” on his own recording as she died. His colleagues blocked a physician from providing medical care while she still had a pulse. The Trump administration called her a “domestic terrorist” within hours. The DOJ refuses to investigate the shooter but wants to go after his victim’s widow. And six career prosecutors quit in protest rather than participate.
This is the efficiency. This is the “law and order.” A 37-year-old mother of three, a poet, a disabled veteran’s wife, shot in the head on a residential street while her dog sat in the back seat. And the apparatus of the federal government has mobilized not to seek justice for her, but to shield her killer and harass her family.
Renee Good’s last words to the man who killed her were “I’m not mad at you.”
And the last thing that man said about her, as she crashed and died, was “fucking bitch.”
That’s America first.
SOURCES
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/ice-minneapolis-shooting-renee-good-timeline.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Renee_Good
https://www.startribune.com/renee-nicole-good-ice-shooting-injuries-incident-report-details/601565066
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-renee-good
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/us/ice-agent-cellphone-video-minneapolis
https://newrepublic.com/post/205373/evidence-renee-good-still-alive-ice-blocked-medic
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-police-fire-department-reports-reveal-chaotic-moments-ice-rcna254362
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5676123/minnesota-federal-prosecutors-resign-after-doj-push-to-investigate-renee-goods-widow
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5686881-6-minnesota-prosecutors-resign-over-doj-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow-reports/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/justice-department/least-3-prosecutors-resign-concerns-probe-minneapolis-ice-shooting-sou-rcna253876
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-doctor-was-blocked-from-helping-an-ice-shooting-victim-is-that-even-allowed-goog_l_6969313ae4b00edae2a4036f