The killing of Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis has rightly shaken the nation — a federal ICE operation ended with a woman shot dead while sitting in her vehicle, and Americans deserve straight answers about what happened on January 7, 2026. Multiple videos and eyewitness accounts show a chaotic scene during a large-scale enforcement action, and local and federal authorities are now scrambling to piece together the truth.
Newly released footage and on-the-ground videos make one thing painfully clear: Good’s partner was outside the vehicle moments before the shooting and can be heard urging her to “drive” as federal agents worked in the street, then later telling bystanders “I made her come down here,” a heartbreaking admission that changes this from a simple tragedy to a criminal question. The public has the right to know whether that encouragement crossed the line into criminal complicity.
Conservative voices on the air are doing what the rest of the media refuses to do — calling for accountability where it plainly exists. On Newsmax’s Finnerty, commentator Benny Johnson argued the partner should face charges as an accessory to murder for actively provoking her spouse to confront federal officers and urging maneuvers that led to a deadly encounter. It is not partisan to demand the law treat instigators the same as anyone else who helps set the deadly chain of events in motion; it is American.
Let’s be blunt: if someone stands in the street whipping up a confrontation, filming and egging a driver to accelerate toward officers, that’s not protected protest — that’s assisting and encouraging a violent assault on law enforcement. Prosecutors are already asking for every bit of footage and evidence from the public, because this needs a thorough criminal review rather than the predictable rush to politicize the tragedy. The law must be applied equally, and evidence must drive decisions.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects are raising mountains of cash and slogans while skipping over culpability — a GoFundMe for Good ballooned into the hundreds of thousands almost overnight, even as the video record raises real questions about who provoked whom. There is a dangerous double standard when grief turns into instant martyrdom for people who deliberately put officers in harm’s way; generous Americans should pause and demand the facts before turning outrage into funding.
The right answer is not to kneel at the altar of a narrative that flatters a political base; the right answer is to let investigators do their job and then prosecute the people who broke the law, whether they wore a uniform or wielded a phone. If the evidence shows an activist encouraged and facilitated a deadly assault on federal agents, she should be charged and held accountable — because defending order and the rule of law is not negotiable for a free society.
