Unlike President Trump, DFH and Jacob Frey, I am not going to comment on what really happened that resulted in a “middle-aged white woman” being shot and killed by an I.C.E. officer after she deliberately used her vehicle to impede law enforcement activities. I will comment on Jacob Frey’s inflammatory, irresponsible rant in front of TV cameras, because I heard the whole thing, and was incredulous throughout. Points:
Interestingly, the New York Times has ignore Frey’s diatribe, and concentrated on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz more measured response. This suggests to me that the Axis believes that Frey went too far, and the less focus on it the better.
1. If President Trump’s tone and rhetoric were as deliberately provocative on January 6, 2021 as Frey’s were on January 7, 2025, I would have been more inclined to back the special prosecutor’s argument that Trump was trying to start an insurrection.
2. Frey, before videos were available to the public, angrily said that DHS statements that the shooting was “self defense” was “bullshit.” Outrageous. The woman was shot as she peeled her car away from an officer who was trying to open her car door. She was driving away from him, but also towards other officers, one of whom shot into the car. It is impossible to tell from that video whether the officer who shot thought his life was in danger and that she was trying to mow him down. Maybe she wasn’t. Maybe it was a tragic misunderstanding. The mayor, however, was recklessly assigning blame and bad motives with no evidence whatsoever available at that time to the public. “This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed,” he said. Whatever happened, that characterization is definitely, to quote Frey, “bullshit.”
2. Frey kept saying that I.C.E. was at fault for the situation, that Federal agents wanted to cause “chaos,” not enforce the law, that they were not interested in keeping the public “safe.” Those comments were intended to demonize I.C.E. agents. It is officials like Frey who are responsible for the incident, along with the woman who deliberately and intentionally put herself in harm’s way. Their wrongful characterization of immigration enforcement efforts and their endorsement of public interference with them made an incident like this one inevitable.
3. Frey continued to mischaracterize the activities of I.C.E. throughout his rant, talking about “good illegal immigrants” (my term, not his) who have become part of the community and “contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy” and repeating the talking point about “families being ripped apart”. Naturally, Frey never mentioned the key and indisputable fact that illegal immigrants are illegal, and have no right to be here no matter how long they have eluded the law.
4. Then Frey’s argument for not rioting as his city did when the late George Floyd also precipitated a violent incident by resisting arrest, was that President Trump wants an excuse for a military “occupation” of his city. Again, that is an unforgivable statement, pure Trump Hate invective, and false. Trump wants immigration laws to be enforced, and for the harm done to the nation by Frey’s party ignoring them for years ameliorated.
5. The duty of public officials in every city is to cooperate with I.C.E. agents as they try to rectify the intolerable situation Democratic refusal to enforce immigration laws has inflicted on society. When elected officials behave as Minnesota’s have, tragic consequences are likely.
6. Frey’s sound bite that I.C.E. should “get the fuck out,” in addition to being incendiary, amounts to a demand that U.S. immigration laws never be enforced, just as his party wants.
Mayor Frey and sanctuary city scofflaws like him are in fact the ones who need to “get the fuck out.”
Ethics Alarms 
7. Far, far too many of the citizens in his city are right now talking about how “brave and courageous” he is. They don’t see it as unethical, they see it has Frey being the only sensible politician out there.
I’m calling it now, there will be calls for him to run for president soon.
Oh, that’s a lock, MB.
He’s an irresponsible woke asshole.
Update: the woman’s car HIT one of the ICE officers. So much for the mayor’s fake narrative.
Yes.
In the other video I interjected that perhaps the officer walked in the car, creating the exigency. He started walking in front of the car when it was stationary. So that possibility does not apply here, at all.
I saw a frame by frame breakdown of the shooting, using the footage I shared. It shows that the officer was in front of the car. The woman then backed up rapidly, with her wheels to the left. She then shifts the vehicle into drive without letting the engine slow down, so the SUV initially peels out. The wheels where still to the left, making her path at that moment right over the center of the officer. She then brakes, and starts turning to the right. It is at that moment that the officer starts drawing his weapon. She then accelerates with the wheels straight, continuing to turn the wheel to the right. At the moment she starts moving again, she is now on a path to put her left front tire over the officer. Had he not gone up over the hood, he would have been run over. As she pulls away, she eventually goes right. That’s about the time that the first shot rings out.
As she starts to drive away, he shoots two more times. That could be interpreted into shooting after the danger had passed, but, there are two things to consider. One is reaction time; the officer is focused on shooting her, and the mental processing to stop shooting takes time. The second is that she went from someone fleeing obstruction to someone fleeing assault and attempted murder of a federal agent. She becomes arguably a fleeing dangerous felon.
As far as the actual contact, it is a video shared on KSTV channel 5, which shows the officers feet leave the ground as he slides over the corner of the hood.
As for those who argue she was unarmed: I would ask, who was more unarmed? Ashli Babbitt or Renee Good? Not only did Ashli Babbitt not have a knife nor gun, she also didn’t have a 5,000 lb SUV.
Crucially, all videos I’ve seen are incomplete. What were her interactions with and movement of law enforcement prior to the shooting?
How many gestures or verbal commands to leave the area were made, what were the responses, if any, to those commands?
I’m assuming the gray SUV to her right is a ICE vehicle, and that she is impeeding enforcement’s travel from the direction of her diver’s side. I’m assuming the SUV drove behind her and parked to her right, but didn’t obstruct her leaving as a signal detention was imminent if she continued to stay.
Clearly she ignored that signal as the gray’s door is open and she’s surrounded by more officers than can fit in a single vehicle on foot. She’s under detention. She’s no longer ‘free to leave’. She reverses to make room, but this action itself endangers the half-dozen officers nearby. Then shifting to drive is worse.
I’m calling it now, there will be calls for him to run for president soon.
Or governor of MN as soon as Tim Walz is forced to step down after the daycare fraud scandal.
Will he be seen crying at the coffin of the women who just died in the ICE incident?
I guess “fuck” is going the way of “suck” and becoming perfectly acceptable in politics and polite society. Soon, it will become completely detached from its sexual, and only, meaning.
Dictionaries, along with English teachers, have long endeavored to stand in the way of the natural evolution of language, opposing the plain fact that, through usage, words take on nuance and new meaning. Yet, even those obstacles to progress would have to acknowledge that the word which I cannot say, or even type, long ago acquired a non-sexual meaning. That’s messed up, right?
Governor Walz threatens to mobilize the National Guard against DHS / ICE, according to Legal Insurrection:
“They have a dual mission. There’s there’s the federal mission, when they’re under Title 10 orders, and then they’re under Title 32 orders, and this Warning Order. There’s nothing officially been done yet. If I am to activate them as the Commander in Chief of the Minnesota National Guard, I will issue the executive order to the Minnesota National Guard, and then they will be put in state duty status. And as you’ve seen over the last few years, that could be flood prevention, that could be after a wind blowing storm up in the north, up in Bemidji, or it could be COVID or George Floyd response. In this case, again, it doesn’t necessarily change the mission. They’re there to protect Minnesotans. They’re there to serve Minnesotans. I think the thing that is so challenging in the moment we’re in is we don’t see a desire to work with us on public safety.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/01/walz-threatens-to-deploy-minnesota-national-guard-against-dhs-ice
Many of the left are absolutely itching for local law enforcement to obstruct the federal government. It will go, really, really bad. We do not need “the troubles” to come visiting America.
In a certain way local law enforcement is already obstructing ICE, but in a passive way by not protecting ICE against activists and not complying with legal requests for rendering illegals arrested for additional crimes.
Here is Fred Idle’s comment at LI:
“If he actually activates the Guard and orders if to interfere with ICE/CBP operations he will have crossed the line into insurrection. Time for him to go. “
The federal protective service were having a problem with ANTIFA types instigating trouble and then running behind the Portland Police. The Portland Police were warned that if they stood idly by and allowed this to happen, the next time PPB officers would be considered complicit and subject to the use of force as necessary.
There was a crappy video out there from early fall where ANTIFA pulled the same antic and the FPS officers promptly lit up the PPB officers with impact munitions.
The schadenfreude was nice.
Is there a possibility that Walz wants the ICE situation to escalate and get out of hand to deflect from the Somali day care center fraud, and the political problems that causes this for him and others (Ellison)?
Laura Ingraham is going nuts right now, essentially repeating what I wrote in the post. She also showed Tim Walz today saying that the woman who died was “innocent”, then says “Let the investigation play out.” She ran down an agent (perhaps by accident)and was obstructing lawful law enforcement. He can’t declare her “innocent” at this point. Ingraham is saying that the Democrats now literally believe law enforcement of any kind is racist and invalid. I’m not sure that’s an unfair analtsis.
She just said, “Come on voters! What’s the matter with you?”
Wikipedia is on it already!
PWS
And inaccurate already too!
Click the “view history” on that Wikipedia article. There had already been a couple hundred edits of it when I looked earlier.
The voters of the area are a bunch of morons who are incapable of realizing that you can’t get shot in the face, through a windshield, while “driving away from officers”.
Maybe it is one of those magic bullets like the one that went through Governor Connally before hitting JFK?
Jack wrote:
“Their wrongful characterization of immigration enforcement efforts and their endorsement of public interference with them made an incident like this one inevitable.”
Exactly. Given the protests this incident has spawned, prepare for more problems and escalating violence.
jvb
I’ve been pounding this point for a while now. It’s an ethics train wreck, because it is getting the gullible harmed. I made that point here less than 24 hours ago.
This is the THIRD TIME ICE agents have shot someone who they thought was going to run them over. It’s just the first time it resulted in a fatality. There are plenty of other cases caught on video where the agents could have justifiably shot someone, but exercised restraint.
What we NEED are all politicians to say: Don’t try to stop ICE with your vehicle. A vehicle is a deadly weapon, and it is only inevitable that people are going to get shot and killed.
Minneapolis chief of police Brian O’Hara deserves a runner up award. He was also at the same press conference.
He was asked by a reporter: “what should you do if ICE is pointing a gun at you?” He basically did the “humina humina” non-answer.
The answer you ALWAYS need to give when ANY law enforcement officer points a gun at you is “COMPLY”. Sort it out in court. Any other advice will get people killed.
CNN said that he said he had seen the video, but he did not say that, so it was impossible to say what he was basing his comments on.
It is amazing to me that less than 12 hours after a dramatic killing, so many people know with great precision from social, political, and news media exactly what happened and who is at fault.
Okay, it’s not amazing. It’s expected, given an environment characterized by hostility and an unwillingness to even consider opposing viewpoints or contravening facts.
Jacob Frey clearly is wrong in characterizing an incident he is not fully familiar with, just as is Kristi Noem.
For many, once provoked, the urge to sound off with the certainty of belief is irresistible, despite professing restraint, so, we hear that the woman killed maybe deliberately and intentionally put herself in harms way. Or, that her actions were domestic terrorism. Or that an ICE agent recklessly used power to kill someone.
One thing my military experience taught me was that if you weren’t there, STFU, at least until the dust settles.
One thing my military experience taught me was that if you weren’t there, STFU, at least until the dust settles.
Bingo.
But you can’t argue that she didn’t deliberately put herself in harm’s way. Her car was perpendicular to the road, obviously blocking ICE’s path. What other reason was there? If you interfere with law enforcement, you’re asking for trouble…as in “harm.”
The latest I’ve seen this morning was that the events leading up to her car being there were unknown. The linked video from Fox is inconclusive as to whether she was trying to leave the area or trying to run over an agent. No need to speculate; eventually the facts will come out as they must in an open, free society. Won’t they?
I saw someone on twitter say how you perceive the video is what side of the political isle you stand on. Now I’m wondering if that’s true and if I’m looking at it objectively.
That was a comment on Althouse. If you believe that all law enforcement is evil and incompetent, then every law enforcement shooting is excessive force. That belief is ignorant and politically warped.If you believe that laws have to be enforced and that officers don’t have to let a stranger decide whether they live or die by presuming good will when said stranger is charging, aiming a gun, going for a gun or driving a car at them, then you are capable of seeing that the woman crossed a line, and did so because Leftist crazies told her that trying to protect illegals is a virtuous thing to do. It’s not.
Here’s a Facebook post of a former reporter who is both dyed in wool Democratic and Trump-Deranged:
What is the name of the agent who murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis? Has he been suspended pending an internal investigation. When is the nation going to demand these agents be required to publicly identify themselves and also not wear vigilante-like masks?
Have you viewed the video of the incident? Do you agree there was no justification for the shooting?
Completely unjustified spin, but I know him, and I’m sure he believes it. At this point there is no reason to assume that 1) the woman intended to harm an officer or that 2) there was any way for the officer to know that when the car of a protester was coming at him.
We’re in this place because both sides won’t be objective.
As you know, I’m pretty anti-cop. I’m a confessed ACAB. BUT:
I could go on, there are plenty of examples among the anti-cop camp. Why am I ACAB?
I only wish that Tim Walz would be stupid enough to cross the line into insurrection. As for Jacob Frey, the weeping coward of 2020, someone else told the federal government to get the f*** out in 1861. You know the rest.
“someone else told the federal government to get the f*** out in 1861.”
Also a democrat…a pattern emerges…?
PWS
“I only wish that Tim Walz would be stupid enough to cross the line into insurrection.”
I don’t. I want Walz to be wise enough to realize that this is not a battle he can win and that pitting the MN National Guard against the Federal Government will be a decision he can’t come back from. The best outcome is that he would have to stand down and look more of a fool than he already does. At worst, there is bloodshed on both sides that escalates into other states.
At this point he really doesn’t have much to lose, and he may be taking the end of his political career and the attacks on his son (who he shamelessly used as a prop) personally. It would probably fail, because the MN National Guard can’t take on the active-duty army and win. It would also force 22 other Democratic governors to decide whether they were going to follow him and make this Civil War 2.0, or if this is going too far and leave the fool to the consequences of his actions.
If he loves his country, he has a lot to lose for himself, his constituents and other Americans. I don’t want this knucklehead causing anything remotely close to Civil War 2.0 over illegal immigrants, much less over a matter of personal pride.
Wasn’t it a couple of years ago that the Left fell over themselves lauding President Biden reminding so-called gun nuts and Insurrectionists that they would need more than assault weapons to take on the Federal Government?
I would not be to sure about that as Democrat politicians’ love for the country comes second to love for the party. Als both Walz and Ellison are implicated in the Somali day care center fraud scandal (perhaps even criminally) they are happy to see that this incident with ICE allows them to change the subject. I would not be surprised to see Ellison try to bring murder charges against the ICE officer who fired the shot.
The ICE officer who fired the shot has been suspended. I believe that that is normal for LEO in these types of situations. He may not be guilty in the criminal sense of the word, however that doesn’t mean that he could not have prevented the situation or have solved it differently (e.g. by stepping out of the way).
In the words of Jack Dunphy: awful but lawful.
https://pjmedia.com/jack-dunphy/2026/01/07/awful-but-lawful-n4948027