Newly released footage recorded on an ICE agent’s phone captures the volatile moments leading up to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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On Friday afternoon, the Minnesota-based conservative media outlet Alpha News scooped the national press with the first publication of the cellphone video of Minneapolis-based Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officer Brian Ross’s deadly confrontation Wednesday with Renee Good. As such it took a few hours for the liberal cable networks to share it and, when they did, the early reactions ranged from mixed to outright condemnation of the video providing a definitive account. MS NOW first aired the video at the start of Katy Tur Reports with the eponymous host arguing “many will disagree” with the belief stated by Vice President JD Vance the video showed the officer was in danger of being hit by Good in her car: MS NOW’s Katy Tur on the cellphone video of ICE officer Jonathan Ross from his deadly confrontation with Renee Good: “Many will likely disagree with [Vice President] JD Vance's conclusion there [that Good hit Ross with her car], as the moment of potential impact was not itself… pic.twitter.com/TEkNAw7Vz2 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026 Tur predictably found a former ICE official to call the conduct “a horrific situation for public safety,” the Trump administration’s actions as “bad for” everyone involved, and wonder why ICE was out there in that section of Minneapolis to begin with (click “expand”): JASON HAUSER: What I see is a — is a horrific situation for public safety. What I see is a horrific situation for federal law enforcement. There is a totality of this event that needs to be thoroughly investigated from all sides, and in a nonpartisan, serious manner by trained federal investigators, by the Office of Professional Responsibility within ICE, within the inspector general, and needs to be looked at holistically. What I see here is the administration seeking to adjudicate this case in the, you know, in the public square on Twitter. That is bad for law enforcement, that is bad for the public, and that is bad for migrants. Even looking at the situation here, what was the predicate for the operation? What was happening? What was the activities that ICE was carrying out in that community? Just specifically on that video? What I see by what is within the use of force handbook within ICE, what has been the directive for the use of force. I see a lot of — of — of — of issues here based on that, that sort of guidance that was developed over the last few years by ICE civilian personnel. What I also see is potentially now an officer with a gun in one hand and a phone in the other. That isn't a best practice. Also, walking in front of the car in that manner. You know, I've been in been involved in dozens of investigations, both within detention centers and the use of force, but also in — in my career in the military have been investigated for use of force and in combat operations in Afghanistan. We need seriousness brought to this situation. What we have here and foundationally, we need to question what is the public safety need for even these operations occurring in this manner, even to carry out the goals of the current administration? All of this needs to be into question, because clearly migrants have the safety and humane care and processing of immigrants to this country. And now U.S. civilians lives are being put at risk. We need to get back to sound law enforcement practices and sort of take this out of the public domain to be adjudicated in this manner. And all of this puts — puts us all at risk. Correspondent Alex Tabet found an anti-ICE protester to discount the video as having shown much of anything at all: Anti-ICE protester on MSNOW says the @AlphaNews video from ICE officer Jonathan Ross is “grainy and unclear” and ones that have already been released were “much clearer” pic.twitter.com/vqWUgOOwG3 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   CNN News Central gave former Comey FBI official-turned-correspondent Josh Campbell the first crack at it and, while he tried to hedge it, he seemed trying to admit the video showed the officer was struck by Good: CNN’s Josh Campbell admits the ICE officer’s cellphone video of his deadly confrontation with Renee Good that the thud heard at the end *might be* sound of the officer being “struck by that vehicle,” but it *might NOT* and instead “could be from you know, the phone on his… pic.twitter.com/RtuUp1ZZAS — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   Former D.C. and Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey actually argued the video made Good and her wife look, well, good (and Ross bad): CNN senior law enforcement analyst and former D.C. and Philly police chief Charles Ramsey says the ICE officer’s cellphone video shows Renee Good did not “seem like a threat at all and she does seem to be pleasant” and while her wife was “making comments,” it was “not a...tense… pic.twitter.com/P8zuWwX0oE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   Chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller seemed more in line with Campbell. He at least was definitive in stating how helpful the video is in giving everyone a fuller picture of what took place: CNN chief law enforcement and intel analyst John Miller’s first reaction to the ICE officer’s cellphone video.... “Well, what stands out is a, it’s another angle that makes it helpful to start with. B, it’s the closest thing that we are going to have in all likelihood, to the… pic.twitter.com/G0sz5W4fEg — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   Shifting to the broadcast network streaming platforms, ABC News Live gave correspondent Armando Garcia first dibs. Garcia scoffed the video will matter all that much, predicting the video will yield “more questions than answers.” ABC News contributor Brad Garrett was like CNN’s Ramsey in stating Ross’s cellphone footage underlined his belief “this is another super sad situation where a lack of communication, I think, caused, not caused, but certainly attitude, somebody’s being harmed.” Serving in the same role former Trump official-turned-Never Trump Elizabeth Neumann did on ABC News Live Wednesday, former Biden Homeland Security official Marcia Espinoza was unhinged in heralding Good and smearing Ross: Biden DHS official Marcia Espinoza says on ABC News Live in reacting to the ICE officer’s cellphone video that Renee Good was just “a bystander in the neighborhood” who was “attempt[ing] to drive way” and the “culture” of using deadly force came from Trump and Kristi Noem...… pic.twitter.com/KYmZPWSsJK — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026 Biden DHS official says on ABC News Live that ICE officer Jonathan Ross and his colleagues were there on the Minneapolis street “to harass [Renee Good] and show, you know, machisimo and intimidate them” into “escalat[ing] a situation” pic.twitter.com/HDFeywwWL1 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   On CBS News 24/7, correspondent Ash-har Quraishi was the only person to weigh in and first tried to downplay it by repeatedly emphasizing a cellphone “isn’t a body cam.” Adding “it's hard to make out some of the audio” since it’s “a little bit garbled,” he cited a protester who sure seemed like the same woman MS NOW spoke with. Thus, the video will be seen as, in Quraishi’s framing, inconclusive and “doesn’t really add much” (click “expand”): Now, just a few moments ago, I spoke to a young lady who was here at this location who also saw the video, and obviously, people are seeing different things in this video. She says it doesn't show clearly that he was actually hit by the vehicle. She says that what she saw was perhaps he bumped into the vehicle, but there was enough space. She says you can see his feet to the side of the vehicle as the car starts to go around him, and those shots are fired, but again, it just goes to the heart of the issue here, which is that people are looking at these videos and how much space there was here and whether or not she was impeding these officers from taking, you know, taking care of the work that they needed to do and whether or not they were justified in the use of force that was used. Still a debate. This video, some people say, clarifies for them on both sides. So, it doesn't really add much in terms of what we are seeing from people here. They say they're not convinced the other way. Thankfully, NBC News NOW wasn’t as slanted as correspondent Maggie Vespa was on Today and more in line with Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News. Here, their initial reactions began with correspondent Julia Ainsley’s quick but dry narration of the video and briefly downplaying it because it’s not as clean as “a bodycam video that would have a much wider perception and would have stayed rolling when he drew his weapon.” NBC law enforcement and intelligence correspondent Tom Winter – who had multiple moments Wednesday displaying the kind of calm, nuanced, sober analysis more in the press need to embrace – again delivered with another breakdown. Along with saying the video “gives us a new perspective” and while Ross’s actions ran counter to what his law enforcement sources told him they would have done, Winter predicted this will all be deemed “lawful”: WATCH: NBC’s Tom_Winter gives a pretty through analysis of the ICE officer’s video just after 2pm Eastern on NBC News NOW, noting what it shows, what it doesn’t show, and what this means for any investigation going forward.... “A couple things stand out to me. First, the… pic.twitter.com/lwL2Elc0Yw — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   NBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos also provided sensible analysis and said the video makes clear Good and her wife “were confrontation with police” and thus this vantage point gave more data for Ross’s use-of-force calculus: NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos on what the ICE officer’s cellphone video showed: “It’s evidence that both the driver and the passenger, her wife, was out of the car, were confrontational with police. Now, that doesn’t mean you conclude they were being violence or… pic.twitter.com/BwG52ESXJx — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 9, 2026   To see the relevant transcripts from January 9, click here (for ABC News Live), here (for CBS News 24/7), here (for NBC News NOW), here (for CNN), and here (for MS NOW).

Hypocrisy was in high gear on Morning Joe today regarding the Minneapolis ICE shooting. The panel accused President Trump and JD Vance of "prejudging" the situation and "jumping to conclusions." But the panel repeatedly described Renee Nicole Good as "the victim." If Good is the victim, that, ipso facto, makes the ICE agents the guilty parties. So who's prejudging now? That wasn't the only instance of hypocrisy/double standards on display. Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson lamented that instead of "trying to calm people's fears down," leaders "are simply playing to [their] base and trying to amp it up." While Johnson didn't name names, this is MS NOW, so his accusation clearly seemed aimed at the Trump administration. But when it comes to playing to the base and amping things up instead of calming people's fears, consider these statements by an array of Democrats: Tim Walz called ICE "Trump's Gestapo," and declared, as he mobilized the MN National Guard, "we've never been at war with our federal government [until now?]" Jasmine Crockett called ICE "slave patrols." Ilhan Omar called ICE agents "vile and beyond cruel." Hakeem Jeffries implored people to "fight" the Trump administration "in the streets." Good old Maxine Waters called Trump "lowdown, no good, filthy," over ICE raids. And then there was Willie Geist, who didn't have his facts handy. He accused JD Vance of "jumping to conclusions" for saying that Good was part of a "broader left-wing network." Willie was apparently unaware that, as the New York Post has reported, Good was a member of "ICE Watch, a group of activists who worked to 'document and resist'" ICE activities. Good was described by someone who knew her as "a warrior." Note: In his remarks on the shooting, JD Vance criticized the media for failing to note that the ICE agent positioned in front of Good's vehicle had recently been involved in another incident in which he was caught and dragged by a fleeing suspect's vehicle, and suffered injuries requiring 33 stitches. Mika Brzezinski engaged in a form of faux sympathy, suggesting that if the agent was "so sensitive" as to become "trigger happy," he shouldn't have been allowed on the job. Here's the transcript. MS NOW Morning Joe 1/9/25 6:00 am ET JD VANCE: This was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.  MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Media analyst and Vice President, J.D. Vance blaming the victim, and the media, following Wednesday's deadly shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis . . . Vice President J.D. Vance yesterday defended the officer's actions and blamed the victim yesterday during a briefing at the White House.  VANCE: What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his leg. So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile? What that headline leaves out is that that woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. She was trying to ram this guy with her car. He shot back. He defended himself. He's already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before. And everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves.  . . .  MIKA: If this guy is so sensitive and the victim of a trauma, what's he doing out in the field? It's just a question. Yeah, I, I don't understand what's going on here. He's been through an incredible trauma. Injured in that trauma. He's out in the field. And that's the explanation? He's trigger-happy because he's traumatized? Great.  JEH JOHNSON: Well, first of all, it's important to remember that the victim, her name is Renee Good, mother of three, who's dead today. I've looked at this video now maybe a dozen times, including at least six on this show yesterday. You don't have to be a law enforcement expert. You don't have to be a former Secretary of Homeland Security to know what happened, to see what happened.  Let's assume that Renee Good was there in an effort to somehow obstruct the enforcement of immigration laws. She was approached by several ICE officers, agents, armed, in a very menacing, aggressive fashion. Looks like she panicked and tried to veer off to the right flee the situation, and she was shot lethally three times in the course of trying to flee.  What I also see here that is problematic is, so many of our nation's leaders are prejudging what happened here, attacking the victim before the investigation is concluded. Actually, Tom Homan is the only one who had it right, who said, I'm going to [a]wait the results of the investigation. Tom Homan is a career law enforcement officer who used to work for me.  . . .  MIKA: The president is blaming the victim and the vice president is blaming the victim.  . . .  WILLIE GEIST: Yeah, and the vice president suggested yesterday during that news briefing that this ICE agent would have immunity in this case because of the context of the shooting.  Again, jumping to all kinds of conclusions before an investigation even has begun, and even suggesting that this woman is part of a, quote, broader left-wing network. He was pressed on that by a reporter and couldn't explain what he meant by that. He just assumed that she was part of something and therefore, I guess, deserved to be shot in the face as she was driving away.  . . .  JOHNSON: The litmus test for our elected leaders in a moment like this is, are you amping it up in your rhetoric or are you trying to tamp it down? Are you trying, for example, Spencer Cox, governor of Utah, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk there. Are you trying to calm people's fears down, or are you simply playing to your base and trying to amp it up? And I'm afraid there are too many in the latter category right now.  . . .  MIKA: The vice president has helped with the investigation in one way, pointing out that this shooter, the ICE agent in this case, was apparently extremely sensitive, a victim of trauma. And so you wonder about not just the training, but the regulations about putting ICE agents in the field who are suffering from trauma. Sounds like a very bad decision. 

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Right LivelihoodAfter working at an Israeli nuclear facility, Mordechai Vanunu told the world about his country’s nuclear secrets. Israel has long followed a policy of “strategic ambiguity,” when it comes to its nuclear program, refusing to disclose whether or not it has nuclear weapons. But in 1986, a former nuclear technician named Mordechai Vanunu stepped forward — and exposed Israel’s nuclear program to the world. He shared what he knew with the British press, which published Vanunu’s assertion that Israel had quietly produced hundreds of nuclear weapons. Almost immediately afterward, Vanunu was lured to Rome by a “honeypot” spy. There, where he was abducted by Israeli intelligence agents and brought back to Israel to stand trial. Mordechai Vanunu was ultimately found guilty of treason and sentenced to 18 years in prison. In the years since, some have come to see him as a noble whistleblower, while others consider him a traitor to his country. The Man Who Documented Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities Born to a large Jewish family in 1954, Mordechai Vanunu spent his early years in Marrakech, Morocco. But in 1963, his family emigrated to Israel. After attending school, Vanunu spent three years serving with the Israeli Defence Force, during which he fought in the Yom Kippur War. Upon the completion of his service, he received an honorable discharge and went to work as a nuclear technician at Israel’s top-secret Dimona nuclear research center in 1976. There, Israel was quietly developing nuclear weapons. While working at Dimona, Vanunu also began to study philosophy at Ben Gurion University. His studies changed his life. As The Guardian noted in 2004, he began to question Israel’s policies, support Palestinians, and work with an organization called the Movement for the Advancement of Peace. Public DomainThe Dimona nuclear facility was top secret – and Israel refused to admit whether it had nuclear weapons. Vanunu also began to question the secrecy around Israel’s growing nuclear program. He began to feel that he had an obligation to share the extent of the country’s nuclear capabilities with his countrymen and the wider world. And when Vanunu learned he was going to be fired in 1985 after nine years on the job, he started taking photographs of the facility. Soon afterward, Mordechai Vanunu left the country — and made the decision to reveal Israel’s nuclear secrets to the British press. How Mordechai Vanunu Exposed Israel’s Nuclear Program With a $7,500 severance payoff in his pocket, Mordechai Vanunu traveled the world, visiting Nepal, Burma, and Thailand before stopping off in Australia. There, he converted to Christianity, and church discussions around peace and nuclear proliferation convinced him to share what he knew about Israel’s nuclear program with a freelance journalist. The journalist shopped the story around, and found an audience for it with London’s Sunday Times. 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