Commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon addressed the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, framing the incident as a tragedy shaped by deeply polarized narratives and widespread misinformation.
Ungar-Sargon said the incident, which was captured on video and widely circulated online, has been interpreted through sharply divided political lenses almost immediately.
“The week ended in tragedy when a 37 year old mother of three, Renee Good, was shot after accelerating her SUV into an ICE officer who drew his weapon and fired, killing Good,” Ungar-Sargon said.
“You’ve all seen the video at this point, you already have an opinion about who was at fault, and that opinion is almost certainly confirming your priors.”
She described how reactions to the video have split along political lines, with each side interpreting the same footage in fundamentally different ways.
“It’s Schrodinger’s shooting people who voted for Trump who believe in his mass deportation agenda,” Ungar-Sargon said.
“See a woman who turned her car into a deadly weapon and a man acting righteously in self defense. People who hate Trump see an innocent woman who was gunned down in cold blood.”
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Ungar-Sargon said the broader issue extends beyond the specific facts of the shooting to the national challenge of addressing divisive incidents honestly while maintaining empathy.
“How to break through this log jam?” she asked.
“It’s a question that’s as important as what really happened on that Minnesota Street, whichever side you’re on, this is the real challenge facing us as Americans. How can we tell the truth, as we see it, with empathy, without deepening the divide?”
She argued that misinformation played a central role in the events leading up to Good’s death, emphasizing that federal immigration enforcement activity in Minnesota was tied to large-scale fraud cases, not indiscriminate actions against the community.
“And that truth piece is very important because it was a lie that led to the death of Renee Good,” Ungar-Sargon said.
“ICE agents surged in Minnesota due to the massive fraud uncovered in the Somali community there, by and large, unreported by the mainstream media.”
Ungar-Sargon said ICE operations targeted serious criminal activity, including large-scale financial fraud.
“ICE was in Minnesota to arrest criminals like those who bilked the American people out of billions of dollars opening daycare centers that serviced no children, and health care centers that healed no patients, and soup kitchens that cooked no meals,” she said.
She added that arrests also included violent offenders.
“They also picked up a registered sex offender from Somalia convicted of 17 crimes, a man convicted of sexually abusing a minor, a man convicted of domestic violence, among Many other criminals,” Ungar-Sargon said.
According to Ungar-Sargon, it was during this enforcement operation that agents encountered Good.
She said Good had moved to Minneapolis roughly a year earlier and enrolled her young son in a charter school with a focus on activism.
“Renee moved to Minneapolis a year ago and enrolled her six year old son in a charter school that, according to a New York Post article, puts social justice first and even involves the kids in political and social activism through the school community,” Ungar-Sargon said.
Ungar-Sargon said Good later became involved in ICE Watch, an activist group known for interfering with ICE operations.
“Through the school community, Renee became involved in ICE Watch, an activist group that disrupts ICE arrests,” she said.
“That’s what she seems to have been doing when she used her car to block ICE agents.”
Ungar-Sargon emphasized that Good did not see herself as engaging in extremism.
“On the day that she tragically died, Renee wasn’t a terrorist, radicalized by moms at her kids’ school,” she said.
“Renee Good died thinking she was making the world a better place.”
She argued that Good acted based on false narratives spread online and by major media outlets.
“Kept in ignorance about the crimes of her neighbors by social media algorithms and a liberal mainstream media committed to lying about Somali fraud, she chose to believe the mythology that they spread,” Ungar-Sargon said.
Ungar-Sargon said those narratives included claims that ICE should not operate in sanctuary cities and that immigration enforcement itself was illegitimate.
“Instead, those networks would have you believe that ICE doesn’t belong in sanctuary cities, that you should protest free and fair elections with riots, that the will of the American people in electing Donald Trump to deport every illegal alien is negligible, and that her fellow Americans were Nazis,” she said.
She concluded by returning to the central question raised by the incident.
“This is how a mother who had just dropped her child off at daycare died defending Somali fraudsters and their daycare centers full of immigrant children who don’t exist,” Ungar-Sargon said.
“How can we discuss this in a way that is kind and compassionate to the victim of this horrifying tragedy, but also honest about the dangerous lie that she bought into?”
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