The Two Days On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good three times in the face through her open car window. She was a 37-year-old mother of three who had just dropped her six-year-old at school. Her apparent crime: sitting in her car while neighbors blew whistles and held up cell phones to document ICE activity in their Minneapolis neighborhood. On January 8, 2026, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stood at a podium in One World Trade Center. Behind her hung a message: “One Of Ours, All Of Yours.” She wasn’t there to address the shooting. She was there to talk about a six-month-old robbery, an off-duty CBP agent mugged in a Manhattan park back in July. The killing of an unarmed citizen the day before went unmentioned except to repeat the claim that Good had committed “an act of domestic terrorism”—a characterization state officials and video evidence would dispute. Then Noem reminded Americans that Friday was Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. “I’d like to encourage all of you,” she said, “that when you see a CBP officer, an ICE officer... that you thank them, do something nice for them. Buy them lunch.” One day: an agent shoots an unarmed mother in the face. Next day: buy them lunch. The Label Hours before Noem’s press conference, Vice President JD Vance stood in the White House briefing room and explained why Renee Good was dead. “There’s a part of me that feels very, very sad for this woman,” Vance said. “Not just because she lost her life but because I think that she is a victim of left-wing ideology.” He called her “brainwashed.” “Radicalized.” A “deranged leftist.” He said she was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.” He called her death “a tragedy of her own making” and “a tragedy of the far left.” There is no evidence Good was part of any network. Her ex-husband told reporters she wasn’t an activist—just a mom who had dropped her kid at school. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said there was nothing to suggest Good was the target of any law enforcement investigation. But evidence isn’t the point. The Vice President of the United States said a woman was shot because of what she believed. That’s the label. “Left-wing ideology.” And that label is doing a lot of work. Who’s Doxing Whom Vance accused Good of being part of a network that “doxes” ICE officers. Let’s define that term. Doxing: publishing someone’s private information—home address, phone number, workplace—to enable harassment or intimidation. It’s a way of saying: We know who you are. We know where you live. We can find you. Now look at what ICE agent Jonathan Ross was doing when he killed Renee Good. He was filming her. Video shows Ross approaching Good’s car with his cell phone out, recording. He circled the vehicle, filming her face, her license plate. He was still holding the phone when he shot her—gun in one hand, camera in the other. This wasn’t incidental. According to an ACLU lawsuit filed in December 2025, ICE has been systematically using surveillance to intimidate observers: License plate tracking: Agents use law enforcement databases to scan plates and retrieve home addresses. In at least one case, after an observer followed an ICE vehicle, the agent drove directly to her home. Explicit threats: Janet Lee and John Biestman, a retired couple in their late 60s, followed an ICE vehicle after a raid at a Richfield church. Agents boxed in their car, pointed guns at them, and said: “We have your license plate. We know where to find you.” Coordinated propaganda filming: When Susan Tincher was arrested for standing on a sidewalk and asking “Are you ICE?”, a film crew was waiting. The lawsuit states the crew was “clearly coordinating with the ICE agents to gather footage of the arrest and Whipple garage ‘perp walk’ for their own propaganda purposes.” They’re scanning plates. They’re tracking addresses. They’re telling elderly couples “we know where to find you.” They’re filming people’s faces before they shoot them. And they accuse the people with whistles of “doxing.” This is the tell. When someone accuses you of exactly what they’re doing, they’re not describing your behavior. They’re describing their own and daring you to notice. The Documented Intimidation The ACLU lawsuit names six plaintiffs. Their experiences form a pattern. Susan Tincher, 55, arrived at a reported ICE raid in north Minneapolis on December 9. She stood on the sidewalk, six feet from the nearest officer, and asked: “Are you ICE?” Within fifteen seconds, she was tackled and handcuffed face-down in the snow. Agents took her to the Whipple Federal Building, shackled her legs, cut off her bra, and cut her wedding ring, her original band from 32 years of marriage, off her finger. They held her in a cell for five hours, then released her without charges. Rev. Kenny Callaghan, pastor of All God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church, saw agents circling a young Hispanic woman on January 7—the same day Good was killed, just blocks away. He walked toward her and said: “Take me, stop harassing her.” An agent immediately raised a firearm to his face. “Are you afraid now?” Callaghan said no. They handcuffed him and put him in a black SUV. For thirty minutes, agents returned to ask: “Are you afraid yet?” Before releasing him, an agent said: “You’re white anyway. You wouldn’t be any fun.” Janet Lee and John Biestman, the retired couple, had guns pointed at them after following an ICE vehicle from a church. “We have your license plate. We know where to find you.” Other plaintiffs: Alan Crenshaw, pepper-sprayed from a car window after filming an arrest. Abdikadir Noor, a Somali-American citizen for 20 years, detained over four hours with racist rhetoric throughout. This is “law enforcement” in Minneapolis: Wedding rings cut off. Guns in faces. “Are you afraid yet?” “You’re white—you wouldn’t be any fun.” And Renee Good, smiling, saying “I’m not mad at you,” three bullets in her face. The Label Is the Weapon “Left-wing ideology.” “Marxist.” “Radical.” “Domestic terrorist.” What did Renee Good actually do to earn these labels? She dropped her kid at school. She drove through her neighborhood. She sat in her car while neighbors documented ICE activity. She smiled at an agent and said, “I’m not mad at you.” That’s it. That’s the radicalization. That’s the terrorism. They call it “Marxist” like an incantation, say the word and the conversation stops. The person is discredited. But what does Marxism actually mean, stripped of the Cold War baggage? At its core: the people who do the work should share in the wealth they create. The factory, the platform, the profit—shouldn’t be hoarded by a handful while everyone else fights for scraps. The economy should work for the people who make it run. Ask any American: Should your wages keep up with productivity, like they did for your grandparents? Should a CEO make 400 times what you make? Should billionaires pay lower tax rates than nurses? Most people—left, right, center—would answer the same way. So congratulations. By the definition being used to discredit anyone who questions the arrangement, you’re a Marxist too. This isn’t about state control or bread lines. It’s about recognizing that the balance has tipped so far that the system doesn’t work for ordinary people. That’s not radical. That’s what your great-grandparents fought for when they built the unions. That’s the American Dream—work hard, live with dignity. But call it “left-wing ideology” and an unarmed mother can be shot in her car and the Vice President will explain she had it coming. The label does the work. And if you think you’re safe because you’re not a “leftist”—you’re not paying attention to how this works. The labels always expand. McCarthy started with actual Soviet agents. But the machine needed bodies, so “communist” expanded until it consumed actors, writers, teachers—anyone who’d been in a room with someone who’d read Marx. COINTELPRO started… This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.wireframenews.com
