What The Videos Of The ICE Shooting Of Renee Good Do Tell Us

          Multiple videos have turned up of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross last Wednesday, January 7. Most of the videos were taken on cellphones of witnesses. One of these evidential videos was taken by Ross himself on the cellphone which he held in his hand while circling Renee Good's car. He continued holding his phone and recording even while he shot her three times.
​          There've been all kinds of back and forth from opposite sides of the political aisle on what the videos tell us happened, and yet with all the captured angles and points of view and all the subsequent analysis and some rushed conclusions up to date, none of the visual footage actually shows how close Jonathan Ross was to Renee Good's car when she began pulling away, or whether he was in danger of being run over, or, what appears to be the most important element, whether Renee Good's car made contact with Jonathan Ross's body, and if so, when.
              Me, I don't get why someone doesn't just ask Jonathan Ross whether or not he got hit by the car. Or maybe the FBI investigators did ask him, but don't want to share his answer in case it does nothing to support the conclusion required of them by Donald Trump and his clownish vassals, FBI Director Kash Patel and Department of Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem.    

​         But there are things that the videos do tell us, things so obvious that that you don't have to study the frames with a stop-action camera or a magnifying glass to see them.
           What the videos tell us is  that ICE agent Jonathan Ross was poorly trained for the job he was supposed to be doing. 
            According to Department of Homeland Security policy, officers are required to try and de-escalate tensions in potentially volatile situations. But Ross and his fellow agents did exactly the opposite when, instead of allowing Renee Good to leave the scene, they surrounded her car and ordered her to exit. 
          Also per DHS policy, officers are in general forbidden to shoot into a moving vehicle because shooting into a moving vehicle may kill the driver but won't make the moving vehicle stop (Duh). The vehicle then becomes a two-ton missile careening out of control that endangers lives and property.     

​​       Tragic as the shooting of Renee Good was, one can only shutter at the thought of how much more tragic it could have been, had her car crashed into humans instead of  parked cars.
       The video footage further tells us that here is a law enforcement officer who knew no better than to record on his cell phone with one hand while shooting his gun with the other, cowboy style. And here's a question that the video begs: if Ross had time to pull out his weapon, why didn't he instead use the time to jump away from the slowly moving car? 

       The videos tell us that Ross and his comrades were either ignorant of or dismissive of  the basic law enforcement training that instructs officers never to stand in front of or behind a moving vehicle, don't grab a door handle, and don't reach into a car.

        I imagine that smashing a car window then reaching into the car is such unthinkable behavior for a law enforcement officer that no purveyor of police policy ever even thought to include forbidding it in the training manual. But it was this very behavior on Jonathan Ross's part - smashing a car window then reaching inside to try and unlock the door -  that caused him to be dragged and seriously injured just last June. 
         Which knowledge gives us the big picture of what it was we actually saw in the video footage.
​        What we saw was a man who underneath his mask and his Kevlar and his weapon and his authority was afraid.  A man who was perhaps still suffering from PTSD. A man who has been indoctrinated that these people are the enemy.​

    We saw a man who was angry that two women, one of them in a car, ​

...were showing him no respect in spite of his boots and his Kevlar and his mask and his gun and his authority and his masculinity. ​

      What the videos tell us is that this is what our country has degenerated into.

Reference:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/09/us/ice-shooting-minneapolis-renee-good-cell-phone-invs

https://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-ross-ice-agent-shooting-minneapolis-minnesota-11332093

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/08/ice-shooting-minneapolis-use-of-force/88082677007/

​https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/23_0206_s1_use-of-force-policy-update.pdf

​https://www.justsecurity.org/128498/dhs-doj-cbp-policy-force-vehicles/#:~:text=or%20other%20Conveyances-,a.,solely%20to%20disable%20moving%20vehicles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/10/minneapolis-shooting-ice-officers-training-policies/