Watching Rep. Jasmine Crockett dissolve into tears on the House Judiciary dais over the tragic death of Renee Good felt less like grief and more like political theater designed to score points against conservatives. Crockett angrily accused Republicans of lacking “decency or heart” and even invoked the assassination of Charlie Kirk as a moral comparison, using emotion to pressure colleagues rather than wait for the facts.
The death at the center of the outrage involved an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer who shot Renee Good during an encounter in south Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, a confrontation that immediately produced sharply different narratives from federal officials and local authorities. Videos released and analyzed by multiple outlets raised serious questions about the official account that Good was “weaponizing” her vehicle, and Minneapolis leaders publicly rejected the federal spin even as the family retained high-profile counsel.
Crockett’s tearful invocation of Charlie Kirk — who was assassinated last September — was meant to dramatize a moral double standard, but it exposed something worse: a willingness to substitute theatrical outrage for sober judgment. Conservatives and independents alike remember Kirk’s murder as a national moment of horror, yet using that tragedy as a cudgel in a crowded, unresolved case reeks of opportunism rather than leadership.
Meanwhile, the Good family’s decision to hire a prominent civil-rights firm and Minneapolis officials’ fierce denunciations of ICE have fueled a predictable media feeding frenzy, with the left elevating grief into a political narrative about federal overreach. That reaction is understandable emotionally, but it should not erase the possibility that agents on the ground were facing genuine danger — nor should it absolve local leaders from asking why federal operations were being run in their city at all.
From the conservative standpoint, the rush to assign blame and to weaponize footage for a partisan cause undermines both truth and public safety. Some footage and reporting have been cited by pro-law-enforcement voices as supporting the agent’s claim of self-defense, and reasonable Americans should demand a full, transparent investigation before Congress or cable news hand down verdicts.
Patriots who care about justice want accountability for any wrongdoing, but we also want our law-enforcement officers — especially those in dangerous, complex operations — treated fairly until the facts are known. Voters are tired of performative sob stories and virtue-signaling from politicians who prefer headlines to governing; the better course is to secure our borders, support honest investigations, and stop turning every tragedy into a partisan cudgel.
