CBS News has made great strides under Bari Weiss, but clearly there remains work to be done. On Monday’s “CBS Evening News,” CBS News Homeland Security and Justice Correspondent Nicole Sganga declared that the video released by DHS shows “the minutes leading up to the murder of Renee Good.” It is an all-too-familiar pattern in which the mainstream media aligns its reporting with the advocacy of groups on the left. As I have written, one can certainly disagree with the necessity of using lethal force in this instance, but it fell well within the established guidelines for the use of such force set by the Supreme Court and lower courts.
Spanga added, “Trump administration officials have claimed she intended to ram ICE agents before she was shot.”
In the end, it does not matter what her intentions were. Her actions, not her intentions, drive the analysis. She refused orders to get out of the car after obstructing the federal agents and then struck the officer.
The protests and the reporting seem entirely detached from the legal standard. It is much like the media mantra that the January 6th riot was an “insurrection.” It did not matter that no such charge was brought against Trump or others. (Only a handful were charged with sedition, which some of us opposed).
Democrats, particularly in Minnesota, where the fraud scandal is consuming the coverage, have leaped to the front of the mob to call for the arrest of this officer. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday again described the incident as “a clearly thought out murder.”
Omar explained:
“I mean, it is, the most BS statement again, that the administration, can put out. You see this officer clearly go in front of, the car as she reverses. You see his hands, on the car, you see, his feet is very far away from the wheels of the car. So there was no possibility, that he might have been afraid, of getting, hit by the car. And so it is a clear PR, it’s a defense, of a clear murder, that we see on TV, by the administration. And it is shameful, and it should not be acceptable is unconscionable. And I stand by everything that I’ve said.
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“I am very comfortable with the word murder. There is no conscience way in which you watch the video that the administration itself has produced. And you do not see this person, this officer, Jonathan Ross, clearly murdering this woman. Not only does he shoot her in the face, but you see two more shots being fired on the side of the driver’s window. There is no way to explain this outside of it being a clearly thought out murder, an execution of this woman.”
A “clearly thought out murder”? The video shows a split-second response from an officer who was struck by the car.
The Supreme Court has stressed that the reasonableness standard is addressed “from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.” As the Court stressed in Graham v. Connor, “police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving[.]”
Notably, even officers who were able to evade or dodge an approaching car have been found to have lawfully used lethal force. No actual contact is required.
Given the strong arguments that can be made for this officer, one would think that CBS and other news organizations would avoid a declaration of murder. Even if you disagree with the use of force, it is not true that this can be reported as murder. There has not been a completion of the investigation, let alone an adjudication.
Situation Common To Retail Security
Anyone who has worked retail security for any length of time has been in this situation on at least 2 or 3 occasions.
The shoplifter makes it to their car 10 paces ahead of you; then locks themself in and cranks the engine. As the store detective, you can only get their license plate plus a description of the vehicle.
But you don’t jump in front of their vehicle. The shoplifter might be wanted on felony warrants. They may just plow you over! It’s a frustrating situation. But if your day is busy enough, it might be forgotten by closing time.
Therefore this nonsense that Agent Ross had to jump in front of that SUV, sidestep around, then shoot Renee Good 3 times in the face is darkly absurd. Nothing would have been lost if Ross had simply allowed Good to drive away.
Clearly, the ICE agents should have allowed the Good suspect to escape and create a car chase that endangered the public for hours, possibly ending in a vehicular collision that may have taken the lives of or injured Ms. Good, the pursuing agents, and random citizens.
AI Overview
Kate McKinnon and Bari Weiss Had a Brief Relationship in College
Bari Weiss and comedian Kate McKinnon dated during their time at Columbia University, having an on-again, off-again relationship that later transitioned into a friendship, according to profiles of Weiss. While they were romantically involved in college, Weiss later married someone else and is now married to journalist Nellie Bowles.
OT. ^^^
In the same thread, SCOTUS is hearing the Erasure of Women case today.
Peace
Dear leftys,
Please quadruple down on your position on this shooting, in fact protest loudly against LEO’s please. Defund the police 2.0!
Sane people are watching and voting accordingly like before hehe.
“This will Never be a socialist nation” -Donald J. Trump
In case you’re still wondering why he was elected.
This is definitely much worse than the vice president declaring the dead woman a domestic terrorist with no investigation of any kind.
Yawn, she was part of a ANtI-ice group.
X says: If there was nothing wrong with the conduct by the agents, then it would be a very simple matter to do a formal investigation that has always been routinely done for officer involved shootings, and then formally exonerate the agents.
But X… why isn’t the FBI’s formal investigation not good enough for you? What other federal agency would be acceptable for a federal officer engaged in enforcing federal laws shooting a felon assaulting that officer?
You’ve been celebrating and claiming the trustworthiness of the FBI with what they did during the Arctic Frost and “Trump-Russia Dossier” investigations! Now they’re not good enough for you?
BTW… as our resident self-identifying expert on law enforcement and the Constitution… provide the link to the formal investigation done into the extrajudicial execution of an unarmed Ashley Biden at point blank range by a male officer twice her size! While she was sprawled half in and half out of a window, not engaged in assaulting anyone, including the group of officers in full battle rattle that were watching her from behind at touching distance.
Your analysis of that formal investigation done of the for Capitol Police officer who killed Babbitt could be considered by you to be “a teachable moment”.
352 days of complete and abject failure each day remaining in 2026, X/Anonymous/George/Svelez….
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday again described the incident as “a clearly thought out murder.”
In the interest of preventing the slaughtering of citizens, protecting women, ensuring human rights and peaceful protests, Rep Ilhan Omar should travel to Iran to serve as a legal observer, from one Muslim to a group of Muslim jihadists. another. Birds of a feather.
What could possibly go wrong ?
Iran now slaughtering civilians — not just protesters — as death toll surges into the thousands
https://nypost.com/2026/01/13/world-news/iran-is-now-slaughtering-civilians-who-arent-involved-in-anti-regime-protests-witnesses-warn-as-death-toll-surges-into-the-thousands/
Any person operating a vehicle and repeatedly non-compliant with any law enforcement anywhere would have been shot in same way. Race, sex, gender, income level, legal status, political ideology, are all irrelevant factors in this shooting. The templated media and Democratic Party reactions and coverage to leverage and sell the story are certainly expected, predictable and certain as well. The only exception to being shot may have been if the driver were a 95 year old with cognitive impairment. Perhaps the ACT-UP or whatever Leftist Non-Profit Community Agitation Organizations are involved should recruit elderly minority women to train in upcoming ICE interference operations for optimizing outcomes and daring officers to shoot when great-granny accidentally hits the gas instead of the brakes while she’s only trying to pick up some cat food and prune juice around the corner.
HAHAHAAH – “CBS news has made GREAT STRIDES under Bari Weiss!” WOW – Here’s the latest update on how Bari’s doing at CBS:
She literally wrote in a memo to her producers “Let’s make sure every single night has something with viral potential…..the goal for this road show is not to deliver the news so much as it is to “drive the news”.” WOW – yes Professor Turley – someone with such high journalistic standards is definitely worthy of your praise 😉 No wonder you like her so much – you guys are cut from the same cloth!
It is you who is the fool. You have personally used your own confirmation bias to interpret what she said.
“Drive the news” means to stay on top of it and stay in CONTROL of it. Don’t get caught in a traffic jam- stay focused and move ahead of your competitors. That might mean fighting the propaganda from MSNBC and CNN.
Your interpretation is not fact.
Dear Mr. Turley, until the left begins talking about the many young women killed by illegal aliens, I do not have time for their “tears” over Ms. Good. Ms. Good planned on interfering with a police operation and placed herself in harms way. She got what she deserved.
Research generally indicates that undocumented immigrants have lower homicide conviction and arrest rates than native-born U.S. citizens.
Its 2.2 out of every 100,000 and us citizen is 3 out of every 100,000
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-murderers-texas-2013-2022
Whomp whomp
Research generally indicates that undocumented immigrants have lower homicide conviction and arrest rates than native-born U.S. citizens.
That’s the research that took great care to avoid mentioning that many law enforcement agencies and prisons don’t bother determining the status of the prisoner, whether American, legal immigrant or “undocumented immigrants.
And therefore, the only imprisoned criminal Illegal Aliens are the ones who WERE specifically identified in that group – the rest magically become “native-born U.S. citizens”. Not even naturalized American citizens.
(now how do law enforcement experts make the mistake of improperly calling criminal Illegal Aliens “undocumented immigrants”????)
Same Cato that has been demanding “there shall be no borders” for decades?
^^^ hey boys and girls, get a gander of this one. 😂
. Anyone have the forensic reports? What we know is the deceased died of a gunshot wound to the head. An ICE agent fired 2 or 3 shots in under 1 second.
Nothing else.
Camera angles are not all available.
^^^ Jonathan Ross is part of an ICE special tactical unit. The tactical unit is a SWAT team within ICE.
Please note there is a TRO in place preventing NG deployment. Some agree with Justice Alito’s deep concern for the safety of ICE agents.
^^ President Trump has my admiration at this time and his belief in the United States of America is admirable.
Had Ms. Good not been part of a mob organized to bait ICE agents into reacting in a manner contrary to their mission she’d be alive today. Of course, she never imagined that an armed agent could be goaded, through prolonged and unrelenting physical and psychological harassment, into a life-and-death state of alarm. Too bad for her. Too bad she didn’t understand that all humans have breaking points. Too bad that out of all the agents on scene she accelerated her SUV into one, perhaps the only one, who was so close to the edge of panic that he reacted in a life-and-death manner.
Ms. Good rolled the dice and crapped out. Too bad she didn’t understand the rules of the game.
These idiots who keep quoting “ICE Policy” by posting ridiculous BS they got “off the internet” need to stay in their bubble and leave the running of the country to the adults who are in charge.
Democrat politicians don’t care about the dead girl who clearly and proudly threatened ICE agents. They only care about votes, from Somalis and the blue-haired-nose-ring-self-loathing white chicks who virtue-signal their insanity to achieve status among their bubble mates, caring more about that than their own children.
She lived in a city/state that burned down police stations, defunded the police and clearly doesn’t promote respect for LEOs, as their governor and mayor spew from their cesspool mouths daily.
Nobody with a brain thinks this wasn’t a justified self-defense shooting by a LEO who was rightfully trying to detain a multiple law-breaker.
She didn’t have to die, but it was her choice not to comply, so she reaped what she sowed.
The opposite is true. Politicians are not threatening ICE thugs enough. Those racist violent criminal thugs need to know that their time living outside of prison will soon come to an end.
And that is if we are to go easy on them. True justice will see them all executed.
WOW. You have real issues. Just maybe you jerks should stop attacking federal law enforcement officers.
INCEL much hahaha
I watched a football game this weekend. On a tackle a player was hit in the hip by another players helmit.
He got up limping. It was a natural reaction to a blow to his hip.He wasn’t faking it and he went to the sideline.
I watched the video of the shooting in Minneapolis this morning. After being rammed by the car the ice agent was visibly limping. It too was a natural reaction of a blow to the hip.
We should remember that at first they tried to tell us that the agent had not been struck.
As the song goes the camera don’t lie. If the agent would have reacted just a split second slower he would have been very seriously injured if not dead. A deadly weapon does not have to be a gun. She tried to kill the man but her timing and her aim was off. Will her wife be charged with accessory to an attempted murder in the fine state of Minnesota? Not a snow balls chance in hell.
The racist thug shot the innocent woman after he was safety to the side of the car. It was murder.
Nope..
So now they are racist. This is why normal folks are walking away from you loons