Was Jonathan Ross Justified in Shooting Renee Nicole Good?

A week has passed since the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There were numerous videos taken at the incident, and they were analyzed in ways that supported the particular viewpoint of the person doing the analyzing. A day or two later, a video began circulating that changed the point of view of many people. ICE agent Jonathan Ross took this powerful video with his cell phone as Good hit him with her car. Here is the sequence of events: 

ICE agent Jonathan Ross approaches the right side of Renee Nicole Good’s SUV, walking in front of her car to the driver’s side (Alpha News).

Renee says “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you” as he approaches (Alpha News).

Ross’ attention turns to Rebecca Good, Renee’s wife, who is standing outside the car filming the encounter. Ross goes to look at the license plate and Rebecca says, “It’s OK, we don’t change our [license] plates every morning, just so you know.” (Alpha News)

“You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead,” Rebecca Good sneers at Ross as he circles around the car back to the front (Alpha News).

Another ICE agent approaches the driver’s side and tells Renee to get out of the car, and tries to open the car door (Alpha News).

Rebecca tries to open the passenger-side door. When she can’t, she tells Renee to “drive, baby, drive!” Renee backs up the car and turns her wheels to drive away (Alpha News).

Renee guns the car forward and you hear it strike Ross, who is standing on the front driver’s side corner (Alpha News).

Ross’ camera is jostled and points in another direction. He fires three shots as the car drives away (Alpha News).

This video shows that Ross did not fire until after he was hit. Protesters in Minneapolis do not seem to know – or care – about the Ross video because they are still rioting.

We know that Ross walked away from the incident, but we learned yesterday that he suffered internal bleeding in his torso after being clipped by Good’s car. We do not yet know the severity of internal bleeding, but we do know that Ross was hospitalized after the incident and released later on the same day. He has since gone into hiding with his family because of death threats.

The Trump administration spoke from its point of view: Ross had no choice because Good had “weaponized” her SUV against him. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem noted that Ross had followed his training. She also reported that Ross had temporarily been hospitalized and went to spend time with his family upon his release.

Those on the Left – Democrats and their rioters – have the point of view that deadly force was not necessary. I suppose they think that Ross should have known better than to shoot.

The lesson that all of us should take from this incident is multi-pronged: (1) Do not interfere with a law enforcement activity, (2) get out of your car when a law officer commands it, and (3) do not weaponize your car. If Good had done any one of the three steps, she would be alive today.

There is some talk that Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, committed several felonies of her own and may be facing charges.

The Oversight Project conducted a force analysis into the shooting of Good by Ross, and Oversight Project President Mike Howell discussed the analysis with The Daily Signal this week. 

“Our team of career law enforcement has carefully reviewed all available evidence and has cleared the officer,” the force analysis reads from the Oversight Project, which has more than 60 years of law enforcement experience on its team. “The ICE officer in question is not only innocent, but was entirely justified in his actions. We pray that the far left comes to their senses and ends this violence.”

[Renee] Good, 37, was shot last week by an ICE officer after allegedly attempting to run him over in Minneapolis. Within hours, thousands of protestors gathered, and local lawmakers called for ICE to leave the city.

“Immediately after that event, every anti-American liberal wacko became a ‘use of force’ expert, right? You have a lot like Omar [Rep Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.] and others saying this is murder and all the Democrats saying this is murder,” Howell said. “It’s just incredibly frustrating to watch that because of the effect it has on a population.”

Through these claims’ lawmakers, like Omar, have made, they have convinced this “mentally ill and unhinged population” that you can attempt to block a federal officer from doing their job….

“They’ve called for the violence against the ice officers,” Howell said. “And now they’re use of force experts too.”

“This isn’t going to fly with us. The Oversight Project is unique amongst organizations in that we have over 60 years of very sensitive and senior law enforcement experience from the FBI intelligence community to elsewhere,” continued Howell.

Howell explained they have a team who have “wielded weapons for a living and been in law enforcement for a long time at the highest levels.”

“It’s indisputable that he was acting within his rights,” Howell claimed of the ICE officer. “He was justified not only legally, but in everything beneath that,” Howell answered.

To me – and I am no use of force expert – it looks like a classic case of self-defense. The ICE officer feared for his life, and he acted to protect himself and his fellow officers. He might have had a little more fear than the average person or average officer because he was dragged by a vehicle in a similar incident six months ago. In that incident, he was also hospitalized with injury to a leg.

I agree with Howell in his description for the people who come out to “protest” the removal of criminal illegal immigrants from our country. If she had just been protesting, Good would not have been interfering with the federal agents in their work – and she would still be alive. Only “mentally ill and unhinged” people would do some of the things that I have watched “protesters” do. Someone is hiring these people and urging them to act this way.