Vice President JD Vance is set to visit Minnesota tomorrow to discuss “restoring law and order in Minneapolis,” and show “unwavering support” for ICE in Minnesota. Since the killing of Renée Nicole Good two weeks ago, JD Vance has done nothing but lie and cover up about who she was and about ICE’s brutal and ineffective tactics in Minnesota and around the country.
Here’s what’s happening in Minnesota and few of the lies that Vice President Vance has been telling about the killing of Renee Nicole Good:
What’s Happening in the Twin Cities:
- ICE agents have relentlessly deployed tear gas, flash bangs, and pepper balls against unarmed protesters in Minneapolis and gone door-to-door in neighborhoods demanding entry and proof of citizenship from residents.
- ICE’s brutal tactics have drawn pushback and criticism from three top Minnesota police officials. The ACLU is suing the Trump administration over warrantless arrests, suspicionless stops, and racial profiling by federal immigration agents deployed in Minnesota.
- Just this week ICE agents, without a warrant, broke down the door of an Hmong U.S. citizen in St. Paul with no criminal record, dragged him out of his home in his underwear, and arrested him.
- Some schools have temporarily closed and in-person instruction has been interrupted due to the ICE incursion, impacting at least 100 schools and 30,000 students across the Twin Cities.
- Instead of investigating the ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good, Trump’s DOJ has issued grand jury subpoenas to Minnesota’s Governor and Attorney General, Minneapolis’ Mayor, and St. Paul’s Mayor over Trump’s ICE crackdown.
By The Numbers
- About 9 percent of ICE’s total personnel is currently deployed in Minnesota – more than 3,000 agents. Minnesota accounts for less than 2 percent of the U.S. population. Thousands of active duty US Army troops are reportedly on standby to deploy to Minnesota.
- Kristi Noem claims that over 10,000 arrests have been made in Minnesota over the past six weeks. At least one man detained by ICE in Minnesota has died in custody.
- 2 more people have been shot in Minnesota by ICE in January alone, marking 11 ICE shootings nationwide since just September.
- ICE is holding a record high 73,000 people in detention nationwide – and fewer than half have any criminal charges or convictions. Only 5% of people detained by ICE have violent convictions.
- Hundreds of US citizens have been held against their will by ICE nationwide, including dozens in Minnesota as “roving patrols” close in on Americans.
JD Vance’s Blizzard of Lies
LIE: Renee Nicole Good “tried to run over” and “ram” the ICE officer with her car.
- Analysis after analysis has shown that Renee Nicole Good was not trying to run over or ram anyone with her car. Multiple videos show that the ICE agent fired at her as her vehicle veered past him, not towards him.
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- Washington Post: Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him
- CNN: Cell phone footage raises new questions about ICE agent’s tactics before fatal shooting
- New York Times: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
LIE: ICE office Jonathan Ross was “clearly justified” in killing Renee Good and has “absolute immunity” from prosecution.
- Instead of investigating the shooting, the Justice Department is investigating the widow of Renee Nicole Good, an unarmed woman who was shot and killed by ICE on Jan. 7, prompting six Minnesota federal prosecutors to resign in protest.
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- In the immediate aftermath of the shooting the FBI investigated and determined that a civil rights probe into the actions of Jonathan Ross was needed – but that investigation no longer exists and the DOJ now insists that no federal investigation of the killing is necessary.
- ICE and the FBI are blocking Minnesota officials from even investigating the shooting to determine whether it was justified.
- ICE agents do not have “absolute immunity” – they can face criminal charges and civil suits, with only limited, case‑specific qualified immunity.
LIE: Renee Good was a “deranged leftist” and belonged to a “broader left-wing network” organizing against ICE. The “corporate media” is lying by calling Good an “innocent woman.”
- Renee Good was a mother of three who lived in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed. She had no criminal background and her ex-husband told the AP that she wasn’t an activist. Good had just dropped off her six year old son at school and was driving home when she encountered ICE.
- There’s no evidence that Good belonged to any extremist network, had ever encouraged violence against law enforcement, or had any financial incentive to protest ICE.
LIE: Good’s death was “a tragedy of her own making” and “a tragedy of the far left” not an ICE or policy failure.
- Local leaders in Minnesota have called the killing “totally avoidable” and “totally predictable” because of ICE’s reckless behavior.
- Law enforcement experts have called Renee Good’s shooting “a violation of clear and plain police tactics” and “a failure of tactics and law.” The shooting violated agency guidelines about shooting at moving vehicles.
- ICE agents are trained to perform CPR and other lifesaving techniques, but agents on the scene of the Good shooting waited three minutes to call 911, didn’t attempt to perform CPR, and even turned away the help of a man on the scene who said he was a doctor.
- The National Catholic Reporter has excoriated Vance, calling his knowing lies justifying the death of Renee Good “a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith.”