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The question the FBI must answer in Minnesota ICE shooting: Minnesotans are pawns in a much larger battle
Spectator World ^ | 01/10/2026 | Rachel K. Paulose

Posted on 01/10/2026 5:57:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind

For the third time in a week, Minnesota is making national headlines, and for all the wrong reasons. In a massive show of federal force against a resistant sanctuary metropolis, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deployed 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis-St. Paul in the largest immigration enforcement operation in the nation’s history. Against the backdrop of what federal prosecutors described as a nine billion dollar federal fraud scheme centered in Minnesota’s Somali immigrant community, agents have gone door-to-door investigating human trafficking, narcotics and gang activity, and surreptitious employment by illegal aliens.

Tensions, already high, erupted on Wednesday when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot Renee Good, a US citizen protesting ICE enforcement in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis. Bystanders filmed Good slowly driving her car around the neighborhood while her wife, standing outside the vehicle, repeatedly taunted agents. Good, ignoring commands from agents to get out of her car while her wife appears to be instructing her to “drive,” suddenly accelerated. An ICE agent standing in the vehicle pathway shot Good three times, resulting in her death.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem described Good as a domestic terrorist who used her vehicle as a weapon to try to run down the ICE agent, who had previously been attacked by an illegal alien and required medical attention. For his part, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey hotly disputed what he described as the Trump administration’s “garbage narrative.” Both Democrat Mayor Frey and Democrat Governor Tim Walz demanded that ICE leave Minnesota, a primal scream echoed across the progressive left in Minnesota.

Meanwhile, a tug of war ensued between federal and state authorities over who should lead the investigation into the use of force resulting in Good’s death. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota disinvited state investigators from the probe, prompting Democrat state and local prosecutors to promptly announce they would conduct their own competing investigation into the actions of ICE agents whom Walz has described as “Trump’s modern day Gestapo.” Walz poured fuel on the fire by describing Noem as “judge, jury and basically executioner.”

None of this gives the citizens of Minnesota any confidence that justice will be served or that their own lawmakers are acting in their best interests. Indeed, it seems that Minnesotans are but pawns in a much larger battle between an administration that is desperately trying to make up for the sins of the past and the resistance, presently centered in Minnesota, that does not seem to care how many of its own people it sacrifices in service of a lost and most unheroic cause.

There is one question to be answered in the investigation of Good’s death under federal standards: did the ICE officer who used deadly force do so because it was necessary? In other words, did the officer have a reasonable belief that Good posed an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer himself or another person? Federal authorities are uniquely qualified, experienced, and staffed to answer that question. No competing state narrative need undermine a federal answer to the question presented.

ICE agents are in Minnesota precisely because it is the epicenter of a massive, and in some ways, unprecedented, fraud on the public fisc perpetrated in large part by a segment of the Somali diaspora. DHS federal agents, moreover, are doing precisely what the Constitution and laws of the United States empower them to do: investigating, detaining and preparing to expel illegal aliens who have no right to reside in the United States. Additionally, those agents are focused precisely on those aliens who have racked up serious criminal records including murder, sexual assault, and trafficking in humans, narcotics, and firearms. To attack those agents as Nazis or defend such criminal illegal aliens as victims of xenophobia is worse than ignorant: it is a dangerous lie.

No one else need die for such malignant fictions. Let ICE agents do their job peaceably. Let protestors exercise their First Amendments rights respectfully. And let us send back to their native lands with all deliberate speed and with due process every criminal illegal alien, as we should have been doing all these many years, before it became a border crisis from Mexico to Minneapolis.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; ice; minnesota; moonbats; multiplenicks; randspam; tds; trollfarm

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1 posted on 01/10/2026 5:57:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
You aint gonna make it after all


2 posted on 01/10/2026 6:00:44 PM PST by al baby (I miss that ol windbag )
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To: al baby

+1 for those of us born in or prior to the 60s


3 posted on 01/10/2026 6:07:11 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: All

From what evidence I have seen lately, most Minnesotans are too stupid to even make a decent pawn.


4 posted on 01/10/2026 6:20:25 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

“ From what evidence I have seen lately, most Minnesotans are too stupid to even make a decent pawn.”

Back in the 1960s-1980’s, Minneapolis was a hub for high tech industries, all of that industry has left. 3M is still headquartered there but they haven’t built anything new in the area for decades.


5 posted on 01/10/2026 7:38:44 PM PST by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: wjcsux

It’s starting to look like Minnesota needs a good housecleaning, but few there seem to understand the meaning of the word. The Minnesotans need to take a good look at other states not having all these problems & wake up.


6 posted on 01/10/2026 8:01:13 PM PST by oldtech
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To: SeekAndFind

They may be spawns but they’re rich spawns. They shared 20 billion American taxpayer dollars.


7 posted on 01/10/2026 8:55:48 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC far-left turd worlders have "ICE Watch". What happened to "FBI Watch" and "CIA Watch"?)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is one question to be answered .......”did the officer have a reasonable belief that Good posed an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer himself or another person?”

Federal authorities have answered this question repeatedly in the affirmative. The public can see the video.This

So whats left to hype?

Spectator Worlds Rachel K. Paulose has a leftist axe to grind, her vaunted question has already been answered repeatedly.

The lefty communuts want chaos, but insytead they got bullets and now are anry. The left communuts refused state and local police assistance to the feds and now they want in to Fabricate murder charges like they did with the Floyd case?

Eff the communuts of Minnesota, every one, many paid by the SOROs organization.

They want an Insurrection Act intervention? They will be looking down the gun barrels of the US Army.Let the cannon fodder flow.

When the Dems murdered Ashli Babbit they allowed no stink at all in the press. Babbit was assassinated. Now this Goode dyke lady who had her head aerated for driving her vehicle at an ICE officer is an issue rife with moral turpitude? Give me a break.

Lets get CW II over with, it will only take a week.


8 posted on 01/11/2026 1:51:08 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: SeekAndFind

There is one question to be answered in the investigation of Good’s death under federal standards: Why did Rachel not choose to walk away and choose peace???


9 posted on 01/11/2026 4:45:03 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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