Minnesota politicians are now denying that the ICE agent who was clearly clipped by the vehicle driven by Renee Good was legitimately in fear of his life, and are claiming that what happened was nothing short of murder. 

Representative Angie Craig is running for US Senate, calling the act cold-blooded murder.

We all saw the video — ICE murdered a woman in cold blood and robbed a 6 year old child of their mother.

Kristi Noem is a liar and a fraud. It’s time for ICE to get out of our state. pic.twitter.com/iskYvuTiyy

— Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) January 8, 2026

And her rival for the Democratic endorsement is our current Lieutenant Governor, makes much the same claim. 

This is the opposite of leadership, @JDVance. It's disgusting.

We all saw what happened with our own eyes. Renee Nicole Good was a mother, a daughter, a wife, and a neighbor. She didn't deserve to be shot and killed.

I’m praying for her family. https://t.co/gndPgt1HTF

— Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) January 8, 2026

Anybody who has seen the video can clearly see that the officer in question was struck and knocked back by the vehicle, and it's pretty obvious that he was in fear for his life. I personally doubt that Good intended to kill him—I don't think this was literal terrorism—but I do think that he worried that his life was in danger for rather obvious reasons. 

And now we know that he had direct experience with a car being used as a weapon, not just against ICE agents in general, but against him in particular. 

? Via NYP: The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis on Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop

The attack on the officer happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, when… pic.twitter.com/F6LdLkp0Ze

— Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) January 8, 2026

The attack on the officer happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, when ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a serial illegal immigrant with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager, according to records.

You see, that had happened to him already, right here in Minnesota, and he wound up in the hospital because of it. 

The ICE agent who opened fire in Minneapolis Wednesday was dragged 100 yards by an illegal migrant in Minnesota last June after his arm was trapped inside the vehicle during a traffic stop, The Post can reveal.

The attack on the officer, whom The Post is not naming, happened June 17 in Bloomington, Minnesota, exactly a month after embattled Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE agents “modern-day Gestapo” while speaking at a University of Minnesota Law School graduation in May.

ICE agents conducted a traffic stop on Roberto Carlos Munoz, a serial illegal immigrant from Guatemala with a lengthy rap sheet with charges including domestic assault and sex crimes against an underage teenager, according to records.

Munoz refused to exit his vehicle when officers approached his car, and the officer broke the back window in order to open the vehicle from the inside.

The suspect then sped away with the ICE agent’s arm caught between the seat and the car frame, according to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors said he was violently dragged more than 100 yards as the suspect weaved back and forth in an attempt to shake him loose from the car.

The agent was hospitalized with “significant injuries to his arm and hand,” requiring 33 stitches, but made a full recovery, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at the time.

Most of the discussion about what happened yesterday is taking place in a vacuum, with competing narratives, moment-by-moment examinations of the video, and disputes about the motives of the woman who was shot. 

But the fact is that the context here is very important. Minnesota politicians have been calling for violence, and have gotten a fair bit of it already. They tell citizens to get out into the streets and put their bodies on the line in defiance of the law and of ICE officers in particular, and what happened yesterday was part of a long-running campaign to harass ICE agents that has sometimes resulted in assaults on them. 

Dear Democrats:
Can you please ? stop putting Americans at risk? Encouraging people to believe that they need to put THEIR bodies "on the line" to show how goo they are is getting people killed. Lt Gov of Minnesota Peggy Flanagan ? pic.twitter.com/fr2dcHLSRZ

— Maret Jaks - NOT YOUR DONKEY ?????????? (@MaretJaks) January 8, 2026

ICE agents have been shot at repeatedly elsewhere in the country, and they have been injured by "protesters" and illegal immigrants fleeing arrest right here in Minnesota. 

Including this agent in particular. 

Having been severely injured in a vehicle-involved incident just a few months ago and being surrounded by "protesters" shouting obscenities, it is not surprising that an officer would be worried when a car speeds at him while attempting to evade arrest.

Of course he is. 

The politicians ramping up the rhetoric now are the same ones who have been calling for the violence in the first place. You can't say "put your bodies on the line" and then complain that somebody got hurt while doing just that. 

They call ICE "gestapo" and call a clear case of self-defense an "execution" so that more people will go out and harass, threaten, and intimidate ICE agents to try and get them to stop deporting the millions of people they re-settled here.

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 8, 2026

Well, you can, obviously, but only because you are a moral degenerate. 

Tim Walz is trying to walk back his comments about being at "war" with the federal government, but just can't seem to help himself. He called Kristi Noem an "executioner."

?NOW: Video shows protesters blocking federal agents’ vehicles in Minneapolis—standing directly in front of moving convoys—after what happened yesterday; this isn’t “peaceful,” it’s dangerous obstruction, and it needs real consequences.pic.twitter.com/fUpx3R8LHD

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) January 8, 2026

Unsurprisingly, the leftists are stepping up to the plate and pushing for more confrontations. They claim they want ICE to leave, as if the answer law enforcement should give to lawbreaking is to allow it. 

"I heard the Governor say 'Give it up'"
-Minneapolis Police Sergeant Anna Hedberg

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gave orders to allow the Third Precinct to burn, abandoning Minnesota families and police in favor of BLM rioters. pic.twitter.com/X1NYjKA40p

— Clarity (@covid_clarity) August 12, 2024

But of course they believe that. These are the people whose response to an attack on a police precinct was to abandon it and allow it to be burned down. 

That precinct is still not rebuilt, five years later. Instead, the city is turning it into the Minneapolis Democracy Center to celebrate the riots. 

That should tell you something. 

The problem is simple: if people let law enforcement do its job, none of this would happen. If you disagree with the law, vote to change it. What you cannot do is promote violence and then be shocked when it happens. 

? BREAKING: Border Patrol Commander Bovino was just ASSAULTED by leftists on the streets of Minneapolis

This is RIDICULOUS.

How many agents have to be assaulted before the INSURRECTION ACT is invoked?!

IT’S TIME! INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT! pic.twitter.com/Qnkjou2n7d

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2026

After what that officer had already been through, it is absurd to ask him to go through it again. 

The officer suffered significant lacerations that required 33 stitches, and Munoz was later federally charged with assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 8, 2026

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.

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