Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement there was “no basis” for an investigation. The statement comes as new polling shows over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
Justice Department officials said on Jan. 13 there is “no basis” for an investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, the mother of three whose fatal shooting by an immigration enforcement agent sparked protests across the country.
“There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement referring to Good.
The 37-year-old was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, when she moved her car forward near the ICE agent. Her death has inspired widespread protests against the Trump administration’s militarized use of the Department of Homeland Security.
There is no longer any justice in America.
Y’all re-elected a former president who attempted to overturn an election through a violent and deadly mob and an invasion on your Capitol Building.
Then during the four years of the next administration you all refused to actually hold him accountable for his actions, afraid of it being “too political”.
There hasn’t been justice in America for a long time now.
There hasn’t been justice in America since the Civil War. But glad you’re awake now
this country was build on Indigenous genocide and Black enslavement. from its founding and even before, the US’s principles of justice have always been a cruel farce.
“All men are created equal”
We had slaves…
The Department of Justice is instead moving to investigate Good’s widow
Jesus fucking Christ, the nerve of these people
the cruelty is the point
These people saw The Handmaid’s Tale as a “How-to” guide.
It has leaked that ICE agents are terrified of blowback from this murder: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice
Yeah of course they’re cowards. Keep the pressure on, don’t let them sleep at night.
I’m reminded of how justice is served on the ice in a hockey game. If a player executes an illegal, dangerous hit on another player, especially if the victim is the goalie or a star player, and the refs don’t call shit, then that guy is about to get his ass beat.
There will be consequences, even if the DoJ refuses to act. The heat is rising on this cold civil war. When trump crowns himself head of the fed and slashes interest rates, and when the dollar crashes soon thereafter, shit’s gonna get crazy.
I’m also predicting that somebody high up in this administration refers to America as an “empire” and then a “realm” and possibly just straight up a “reich” within this year.
That seems to be the thing the administration fails to understand, accountability through apparent investigations and prosecutions mollify the anger. Even if consequences are by any reasonable measure are mild, people are still mollified at an acknowledgement of wrong doing. Deny them this, and the anger rises…
Similarly, being able to lose an election has similar value. Your opponents “won” they don’t need to extract more out of you. Deny them that and again people are going to potentially break.
Anecdotally, I know of a few people that seem shockingly close to violent uprising that I never would have guessed. I can’t imagine the volume of people closer to extreme views and when they will snap…
Turn up the heat, melt the ICE
Amereicha?
I honestly think they are reporting like that to get ICE even more on edge and getting ready to justify them having to go full murder mode.
This is the shit they do with cops. Make sure they are scared and sure everyone is out to get then to make sure they are willing and happy to pull a rifle to an Innocent’s head and pull the trigger.
Propaganda.
If the family members of a couple of them disappeared maybe they’d be scared. Eye for an eye and all that.
But, I’m not evil like them so.
These people are cowards. They fear more for themselves than their family. I’m not kidding, I know people like this.
There are a lot more of us than the are of them.
So what good are they then, and why should American citizens pay to keep them around?
Yea, where is the call to not file taxes this year? We need a movement that calls for it so the few that do are not attacked. If you don’t expect a refund then we should just not file.
If we are expecting a refund would it be more impactful to file and receive that refund or to simply not participate?
Take the refund.
If the government is going to pay you for filing the taxes you have already paid… Take the refund.
If you owe money, tell the IRS to eat a bag of dicks.
I expect to owe thousands this year so I plan to file an extension to October and then just…not file.
And then I’ll just slow responding to the letter if/when they come.
I think it’ll work for awhile, I literally just got confirmation that my 2021 taxes that were filed on time were processed. They’re definitely lagging.
Doesn’t seem to have the 4500 new people’s data leaked from yesterday.
They have been under constant Russian DDoS attack since it was announced (what a coincidence).
They need to put out like 100 torrents and file shares in different locations
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This is pretty much what I expected from this scum administration.
The real depressing news is in the linked article, where a survey showed only 53% of respondents thought the shooting was unjustified (35% thought it was justified, rest gave no opinion). I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion unless you’re just being actively partisan.
Key here is respondents, I never respond, I don’t know anyone who takes these surveys, the only people who pick up and agree to surveys are on landlines and usually old, hardly a real representation of the feeling of the majority
Same, I get tons and tons of survey request texts for some reason. I report them as spam, block, and move on. Too big a risk that it’s a data harvesting front looking for targets or something, since the uptick in number of texts and groups sending them in the last two-ish years has been massive…
I always get frustrated and roll my eyes when a article says after we did a massive survey 80 percent think the sky red in America! And they don’t tell you what that survey is or the questions are or the sample size, usually when they do you find out the questions are misleading to get the numbers whoever is doing it wants, like fox News surveys poll certain states and the questions will be stuff like “if a ice agent is getting run over by a car is it justified for them to shoot” and a more left leaning poll would be " can ice agents kill anyone that is running away from them no questions asked". Obviously these aren’t best examples but I’m sure the point is clear that survey says is bullshit, it’s like the IASIP episode of family feed, surveys mean nothing
I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion
You understand completely, most of those folks didn’t watch the video(s) and if they’ve seen any footage of the incident it’s shortened clips that are edited to be disingenuous at best and downright lies at worst.
I don’t know what it is about people that make them think any law enforcement officer, ever, should be putting themselves in front of a vehicle when there is no danger to the community or bystanders if the person just left. It 100% is on that officer, that man should be locked up in prison.
It’s despicable, disgusting, and frankly un-American what is going on and sadly it’s going to keep going on until more blood is spilled.
There are many people who don’t care about anything, until calamity is on their doorstep.
Unfortunately, the people that voted for Trump either can’t admit that their vote is responsible for death and destruction or they simply don’t even care.
As for the former, they would let the world burn and their children die before they admit they were wrong. It’s that bone headed demographic that we’re talking about.
So the stats (public opinion) won’t budge much further beyond what we see now.
unless you’re just being actively partisan.
Actively propagandised.
over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
That’s a low bar to pass if I’ve ever seen one.
When the people don’t get justice through legal means, they have no choice but to seek it through illegal means.
Time for Minnesota to handle it. You can’t say “we can’t and you can’t either” (granted that’s what they’ll try to say)
I wonder if Ellison can sue for the evidence, and if the evidence is gone if he can bring criminal indictments against DoJ/DHS individuals
Uhhh… uh oh. Considering the immediate and widespread outrage response across the country from this very public murder, this is a boldly stupid move. Resentment and distrust of the US government is already at an all time high, and doubling down on an extrajudicial murder like this is only going to not only grow that resentment, but popularize the idea that if the people want justice, they’ll have to do it themselves. This administration has been making some especially stupid moves recently and I don’t think the world is prepared for the consequences. Like yeah, sure, the trump admin has always blahblahblah, no shit. I must emphasize that this particular term of the administration hasn’t even been this stupid until the last few months. They are very much so overplaying their hand right now and they are absolutely not in a position to handle this level of escalation. I’m pretty sure they both think they have way more control than they actually do and have way too much faith in very inadequate contingencies. They’re gonna continue having the appearance of being firmly in control, but at this rate, it’s just a matter of time before it blows up in their face and then no one is in control. I can’t emphasize enough how unprepared we all are for how quickly that will happen when it does.
Resentment and distrust of the US government is already at an all time high, and doubling down on an extrajudicial murder like this is only going to not only grow that resentment, but popularize the idea that if the people want justice, they’ll have to do it themselves.
They don’t give a shit, they want us to try. They’re fucking daring us. Like, actually; literally.
I mean, sure? Probably even? But this really only emphasizes my point that they’re straight up stupid and beyond incompetent. Even the Romans, for how brutal they were, understood the importance of civic justice in maintaining the continued rule of the state. If the state no longer maintains it’s judiciary responsibility, they’ve basically abdicated their own legitimacy. You can say that the state isn’t abdicating it’s legitimacy if it at least is bound by some of it’s laws, but if the state picks and chooses, is the state not directly questioning it’s own legitimacy? I should point out that it’s hyperbolic for me to say that the state not binding itself to any one law abdicates it’s legitimacy, but there are certain points of judiciary responsibility that will greatly erode the legitimacy of the state if it doesn’t maintain them or at least appear to. A very public murder like this is definitely one of those points. Erosion of state legitimacy brings a fragmentation of those that would maintain it’s power, and I really don’t think they’re considering this factor at all. Those in essential positions within the government will become less inclined to maintain their loyalty to the state and be much more tempted to join those seeking to resist the state’s existence. Setting this precedence sets this administration on a trajectory to an untenable position. The waning loyalty and increasing sentiment of resistance isn’t something that is generally very visible until it VERY much so is. They seem to think they can keep literally and figuratively shooting at us, but it won’t be surprising to those paying attention when more and more of “their own” start shooting back at them.
How can we win.
“They broke the social contract. So fuck your Target. Fuck your Hall of Fame. As far as I’m concerned they can burn this bitch to the ground…”- Kimberly Jones, June 9, 2020
They want a reason to invoke Martial Law. You know what I just realized? You can’t insult them, they feed on it. The same way they feed on violence. Ya know what did work on them?
WEIRD
They had no rebuke to being called weird. It started to work as they fought to make a sensible retort. Everything they tried made them sound even sillier. It was working!
We should do the physical version of that. Turn a mirror on them and embarrass them. Think Mark Rober style of traps. If every porch they smashed had a chance to unleash fart spray on their clothes and equipment, for instance, they might hesitate. Meeting such a thing, especially if automated and filmed, might just make some of that shame seep in.
Just pointing and laughing loudly infuriates the more than anything, they want a tough guy confrontation
I have always thought a political party based entirely on the impotence of its members was weird.
Since we’re impeaching Noem, then we must also impeach Bondi and Blanche. This administration is a horrific, shameful disgrace!
I find it highly unlikely that Republicans will vote to impeach/convict one of their own. The impeachment charges are little more than theater, which is sadly all the elected Democrats in the House and Senate are in a position to do. I’m afraid that the resolution to this constitutional crisis is in the hands of the people, not their elected representatives.
It’s not enough to just remove them from power. They shouldn’t go on to live a life of luxury giving talks on Fox News or whatever.
There are a lot of people that will need to be dealt with once this chapter of American history is behind us.
Behind us? This has ALWAYS been America. These guys are just too stupid to play the game right. You think this is the first white lady murdered by a federal agent that didn’t merit an investigation? Think its the tenth?
Most corrupt DOJ in American history. And that’s saying a lot.
Don’t accept this answer. There must be an investigation as the public demands it. These jokers just don’t get it.
Oh they get it. They do not care because the person that was harmed was not one of them. Even then…the number of faces eaten by leopards is staggering
I agree with you. It is unbelievable that they took a mother away from her children and the next moment they are talking about going after the other parent. To try to take both parents away is truly evil.
We used to wonder how the Nazis came to power. Somewhere far in the future, during a time of peace somewhere within the United Countries of Eurasia, a child will ask a teacher in the classroom, how was it possible for the MAGA to come to power?
First-past-the-post voting.
Unfortunately, the time for posting electoral reform videos has passed. Feel free to look some up yourself.
Definitely helped. Ranked choice seems the fairest.
No one’s going to make them. The entire regime is shit from top to bottom.
Wtf are state investigators, how is there not already a warrant out
State investigators are still looking into it. It’s not impossible, and it looks like the political will in the Minnesota AG office to prosecute is there, but it does face some hurdles. NYT did a pretty thorough look into it today. From the article:
Minneapolis’s top prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, said in an interview on Wednesday that lack of access to the federal investigation was “not a complete barrier” to prosecution. “This isn’t a whodunit,” she said, adding that she was exploring ways to compel the F.B.I. to share the evidence. A thorough investigation likely would take months and require a detailed analysis of the episode . . .
Can the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Be Prosecuted?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/renee-good-ice-shooting-prosecution.htmlArchive link, same article:
https://archive.ph/4sPiZI’d like to add that a good prosecution takes time. Take a hint from Jack Smith and don’t judge them for moving at a snail’s pace here.
EDITED to add a thorough legal perspective addressing the specific challenges of prosecuting Jonathan Ross in spite of federal actions to prevent it at the state level:
Minnesota Can Prosecute Jonathan Ross—But It May Not Be Easy
“States can prosecute federal officials for violating state law, depending on the specific facts and laws”
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/minnesota-can-prosecute-jonathan-ross-but-it-may-not-be-easyWhat in the world else is there to look into
How to get around the federal blockade of the investigation, for one. How to get access to critical evidence like the gun and the autopsy report. How to get past the multiple claims of immunity the defense will try to exercise. How to build a strong case even without key evidence in spite of federal efforts to shut it down at every level, at every step.
This is not a once and done. There is no statute of limitations for murder, even as public consent to the excesses of this regime is obviously past its sell-by date. In both respects, the MN AG has all the time in the world, and is wise to use it.
If Americans against Trump don’t seriously rise up over this - woman shot in the face x3 for nothing, ICE Gestapo acting as judge, jury and executioner - the US is over. There’s no difference between her state sanctioned murder and being disappeared in any Banana Republic.
