Retired Police Veteran Says Renee Good Shooting Was ‘Justified,’ Blames Media and Sanctuary Policies

A retired police officer with two decades of law enforcement experience says the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis was justified and argues that media coverage and sanctuary city policies played a significant role in the confrontation that led to her death, as reported by  The New York Post.

Dean Golemis, 54, a former police officer who now runs a private security and investigative firm, spoke about the incident in an interview with The Gateway Pundit.

Golemis said the shooting involving ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be viewed through the lens of officer safety and real-world decision-making rather than hindsight.

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“I think it was a justified shooting,” Golemis said.

According to information he cited, new evidence indicates Ross suffered internal injuries after being struck by Good’s vehicle, contradicting claims that the SUV never made contact with him.

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Ross, who is the ICE agent involved in the shooting, is a father of three children. Golemis said that detail has been largely ignored in public discussion of the case.

Golemis explained that video footage may give viewers the impression that the officer could have avoided the vehicle, but he said that interpretation ignores how quickly such encounters unfold.

“But you’re not there,” he said. “That’s what the untrained eye sees.”

Some critics have argued that Good may not have intended to kill the officer. Golemis responded that intent does not eliminate the justification for self-defense.

“She knows, a rational human being knows, if I gun my 3,000-pound car toward this ICE officer, there’s a potential that he could fall backward, and I could run him over and kill him,” Golemis said. “Or maim him. Or hurt him.”

He said the key moment came when Good made what he described as a conscious decision to flee.

“When she cut her wheel, ignored the ICE officer’s commands to get out of the vehicle, and fled from committing a crime, that was obstruction,” he said, noting that obstructing federal law enforcement is itself a crime.

Golemis said Good had spent much of the day confronting ICE agents and blocking roadways. He also said media coverage portrayed her as an innocent bystander, despite her reported involvement with Minnesota ICE Watch.

“They want to treat this like she was just backing out of her driveway, and they came up on her,” Golemis said. “Oh, she dropped her six-year-old. Oh, she’s a mother of a six-year-old.”

He added, “And that mother decided to drop her six-year-old off and go around all morning and afternoon harassing law-enforcement officers, antagonizing them, obstructing them.”

Referencing ICE body-camera footage, Golemis said it showed Good’s spouse berating an officer moments before the shooting.

“These aren’t innocent bystanders who got shot,” he said, adding, “Terrible. I don’t want to see anyone die.”

Golemis rejected claims circulating on social media that conservatives celebrated Good’s death.

“It doesn’t have to be attempted murder,” he said. “She consciously drove her car, accelerated toward the officer, knowing he was standing right in front of her.”

He said deadly force is legally justified when an officer faces the risk of serious injury.

There are now so many videos showing what happened in Minneapolis and they debunk every single leftist narrative about this shooting:

– Renee Good gleefully danced to her car horn while blocking the road as ICE vehicles try to get past.
– Renee Good’s lesbian partner talked shit… pic.twitter.com/ZZgtUxozYj

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“You can use deadly physical force to stop death or serious physical injury,” Golemis said. “Is it reasonable to think you could receive serious physical injury from an SUV barreling toward you? It used to be.”

Golemis also criticized Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, accusing him of encouraging unrest.

“Now this Mayor Frey is doubling down. Go in the streets. He’s encouraging anarchy,” Golemis said.

He argued that sanctuary city policies force ICE agents into dangerous street arrests that could be avoided if local authorities honored immigration detainers.

“All of this could be avoided if you were not a sanctuary city,” he said.

Golemis warned that continued rhetoric against ICE would lead to more violence.

“Not one law-enforcement professional I know was surprised this happened,” he said. “I said someone was going to get shot. Then it happened. And it’s going to keep happening.”

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