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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith delivered his verdict on Wednesday’s shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minnesota.
During an appearance on his podcast, Smith called the shooting “totally justified” from a legal perspective, but he also believes the agent could have shot the tires of the woman’s vehicle instead.
“I watched the video on numerous occasions and look at what happened from a legal perspective as it relates to a law enforcement official, don’t expect him to be prosecuted. He was completely justified,” Smith said.
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Renee Nicole Good (ODU English department/Facebook)
“From a humanitarian perspective, why would you do that? If you could move out of the way, that means you could have shot the tires. It means you could have gotten a few feet away after you shot the tires. And if you didn’t manage to do that, you could have gotten her off the road.
“You didn’t have to do that. She didn’t drive down the road and come at you 90 miles an hour. She was parked in the middle of the street and instead of getting out of the car, she wrongfully tried to drive away and wrongfully ignored a law enforcement officer, which is exactly what ICE is, and as a result she lost her life because of it.”
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Good was driving a vehicle at the time of her death. Agents ordered her to exit the vehicle, and she refused and “attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle,” according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
“It was an act domestic terrorism” Noem said. “An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, firing to protect himself and the people around him.”
Federal authorities said Good tried to run over ICE agents who was part of a 2,000-member team sent to the Twin Cities to round up and deport illegal immigrant criminals.
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Members of Minneapolis City Council confirmed Good’s identity in a joint statement Wednesday, calling her “a member of our community” and demanding that ICE leave the city.
The Department of Homeland Security reported in December that assaults and violent attacks against ICE law enforcement officers have increased by more than 1,150% compared to attacks during the Biden administration. It found that there were 238 assaults on ICE officers between January 21, 2025 and November 21, 2025, up from just 19 in the same time frame in 2024.
