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CBS Reporter: Still ‘Not Clear’ If Good Hit ICE Officer, ‘How Forceful It May Have Been’
Thursday’s CBS Mornings included a remarkable assertion from correspondent Lana Zak, which was that, despite “the video” of the January 7 incident between an ICE officer and Renee Good (when there are actually multiple vides), “it is not clear whether or not the car made contact with him and — and how forceful it may have been” and it’s debatable whether the officer actually suffered internal bleeding.
The hot take came at the end of her report from Minneapolis:
WHAT?! On Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings,’ correspondent Lana Zak says “it is not clear” based on all of the videos “whether or not” Renee Good’s “car made contact with” the ICE officer or, if it did, “how forceful it may have been”...
“And, as for Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot… pic.twitter.com/6ZWlPy4tUg
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 15, 2026
On Monday, fellow correspondent Nicole Sganga asserted on the CBS Evening News the officer had “murdered” Good, but must have been called the principal’s office as her report was quickly corrected for the west-coast edition.
Rewinding to the beginning, co-host Nate Burleson started with the vague lament of “another shooting involving ICE” as “this time, the man was shot in the leg” and triggered “a new round of protests last night and federal agents once again used controversial tactics against the demonstrators.
Notice what Burleson was missing, which was any details about what took place. Because it’s the Trump administration, better to assume it’s a lie and downplay it than...consider they’re right?
Based on the skepticism from Zak and what went down on ABC and NBC, these liberal journalists might be just as convinced the ICE agent was the one wielding the shovel.
“Well, honestly, there’s a lot we still don’t know, but federal officials say a migrant was shot in the leg after attacking an agent with a shovel. We have yet to confirm that story, but it’s just the latest in a city that is still reeling just about a week after the shooting of Renee Good. I spoke with her attorney about what comes next,” Zak reported.
Zak touted the incendiary video from Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as merely having “urged Minnesotans to protest peacefully and document what he called ICE agent’s atrocities.”
This Walz soundbite sure didn’t seem like it was peaceful: “They are pulling over people indiscriminately, including U.S. citizens...They’re breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street. This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement.”
She also spoke with Good’s family attorney (click “expand”):
ANTONIO ROMANUCCI: The mission that we’ve been told about for over a year is that it’s to get the worst of the worst. I can tell you that Renee was the best of the best.
ZAK: We spoke to Renee Good’s family attorney, Antonio Romanucci. [TO ROMANUCCI] Did Renee weaponize her car?
ROMANUCCI: Looking at the video, the way — the speed of the car, the direction it was turned and what she said to those officers beforehand, the totality of the circumstances would indicate that she did not weaponize her car.
ZAK: On, Tuesday six federal prosecutors stepped down amid pressure, sources say, to treat Good’s killing as an assault on the ICE officer. Now, the family is pursuing its own separate investigation.
ROMANUCCI: The thought that there is only a one-sided investigation is really not palatable to the family nor should it be to the government or the American people.
Over on the virulently anti-Trump ABC, Thursday’s Good Morning America started with more of the same vague but incendiary rhetoric. Co-host Robin Roberts lamenting the “tensions rising in Minneapolis” and “[d]emonstrators clash with police after another shooting by an ICE agent.”
Only then did Roberts note “Homeland Security says the officer shot a man who fled during a traffic stop and then began attacking the officer with two other people.”
Correspondent Faith Abubey decided to accept new marching orders from Walz and fellow far-left kook, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) to tell viewers that the mobs harassing ICE have been up to no good:
Now that Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have come out and told the Minneapolis protests to stop being violent, ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ now branded the mobs as “angry crowds” with “the situation devolving into chaos, people throwing rocks and fireworks” at ICE officers
That said,… pic.twitter.com/UbZFNsLXP4
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 15, 2026
It took until the fourth sentence for Abubey to go from simply referring to “a man” shot by ICE to pointing out he was “a Venezuelan man who they say fled traffic stop and then attacked the officer.”
ABC also continued its absurd fixation on being horrified at the sight of a battering ram (click “expand”):
ABUBEY: Violent scenes playing out on a daily basis. Agents firing pepper spray and dragging people from cars. This newly released video shows the frantic moment as heavily-armed agents used a battering ram to enter an immigrant family’s home in Minneapolis.
WOMAN: Can you put the guns down? There’s kids in this house. There’s kids in the house. Show the warrant first.
ABUBEY: 37-year-old Garrison Gibson, an immigrant from Liberia, was facing removal for a decade-old drug conviction, but his lawyer says he has been checking in with authorities for years.
GIBSON’s LAWYER MARC MROKOSCH: So, if he’s this dangerous person, then why are they letting him walk around?
NBC’s Today also must have realized the coast was clear as correspondent Shaq Brewster made clear to viewers that the anti-ICE crowds have maybe, possibly been violent toward law enforcement:
NBC’s ‘Today’ followed the marching orders from Frey and Walz, now admitting the anti-ICE crowds have been “setting off fireworks and throwing rocks” at law enforcement, but both-sides-ed it by arguing “the situation here just continues to intensify” and had been calm “with a… pic.twitter.com/biUYsQSnra
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 15, 2026
Brewster also ran the cartoonish soundbite from the Good family lawyer that Good was she “was the best of the best” in America, but died while ICE was going after “the worst of the worst.”
To see the relevant transcripts from January 15, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).