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What was Renee Nicole Good thinking when her girlfriend yelled, “Drive baby, drive” and grinning she drove her 4,000 lb Honda Pilot SUV at an armed federal law enforcement officer?
Her last thoughts were likely of her imaginary white privilege and why it failed to protect her.
Good had supported BLM and had inhaled its mythology of ‘the talk’, the idea that law enforcement is a racist institution, that police started out as ‘slave catchers’ and that they exist to persecute black people while giving white people a pass. This would have come as a surprise to the over 2,000 white people who have been shot by police officers since 2020.
White leftists go into confrontations with law enforcement officers wearing their imaginary white privilege like the emperor’s new clothes. This ideological fiction that underpins Marxist identity politics works about as well in real life tests as Marxism does. That’s what Renee found out.
There is no white privilege. Talk or no talk, assault or threaten an armed law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and you will die. Just ask any of the 542 white people who were killed in 2025. Three days before Good was killed, police shot and killed Rachel Tarrence when she tried to make her escape in a stolen car in Illinois. Tarrence reportedly backed into a squad car, drove at a state trooper and was then shot and killed. Tarrence, like Good, was a white woman.
Tarrence’s shooting never made national news because she was the wrong race and because her death, like those 2,000 deaths, disproves the same narrative that got Good killed. Tarrence’s behavior closely echoed Good’s. Women are rarely shot by police. The 4% of police shootings involving women generally happen because they escalate the encounter beyond what might lead to a man being shot by not just displaying weapons or threatening to use them, but actively attacking officers or someone else.
That’s what Good did. BLM taught her that people get shot because of race. They don’t.
Asian women are the group least likely to be shot by police, not because law enforcement has a bias towards them, but because they’re the least likely to attack police officers with a deadly weapon. Middle class white women from stable households who aren’t experiencing mental breakdowns very rarely get shot by police for the same reason. What Marxist academics and their media and pop culture allies have popularized as ‘white privilege’ is just behavior.
And making good choices. Good voluntarily took herself out of those categories and got shot.
Police don’t open fire over narratives. They don’t shoot anyone because of skin color. They do open fire in response to threatening behavior. The best predictor of being shot by a cop isn’t race, it’s class, and more specifically, it’s a history of criminal behavior combined with substance abuse and mental illness. Those most likely to be on the receiving end of a police shooting are the ones who disobey police orders, behave erratically, display weapons and attack police.
Renee Good inherited George Floyd’s golden coffin because she hit all of the bases.
The Left, which never got over its ‘Chicks to the Front’ protest tactics from the sixties, is eager to tell us all about Good, the stuffed animal in her 4,000 lb lethal weapon, and how she had dropped off her kids at school before unintentionally committing ‘suicide by cop’ in Minneapolis.
But as useful as a white female martyr may be to the cause, waving this particular ‘bloody shirt’ clashes with the claims of racist genocide that BLM rioters used to burn down entire cities. If a white woman can get shot just like a black man, where’s the systemic racism anyway?
Good’s imaginary ‘white privilege’ wasn’t a bulletproof vest. A federal immigration enforcement officer shot her the way he would have shot anyone, of any race or gender, driving a 4,000 lb SUV right at him. There is no magical ‘white card’ and law enforcement does not allow some people to drive cars right at them while unfairly penalizing others who do it over their race.
Before and after Good drove her SUV at an ICE enforcement officer, ICE and Border Patrol had shot at others, including Latino illegal aliens and gang members, who tried to run them over.
The shooting of Renee Good disproves the idea that ICE is in any way racially biased.
Democrats, Hollywood celebrities (who rallied for Hamas, but couldn’t be bothered to speak out for Iranian democracy protesters) and the media are the ones who made much more of Good’s shooting than any of the other shootings of Latino illegal aliens and criminal car rammers.
Why do they care more about Renee Good? Why does her life matter more? If you want systemic racism and white privilege, the place to find it isn’t law enforcement, but at CNN, the Democratic Party and every organization hag-ridden by leftists including the YWCA, which decided to value Renee’s life more because they can use her death to fuel their narrative.
But if Renee Good’s death is to have one good consequence, it’s that some of the white suburban women who drifted into leftist activism during COVID, rallying for BLM, for Hamas and for open borders, may have the opportunity to rethink their radicalization pathway. Local urban law enforcement has been taught to defer to radical activists shutting down streets and burning down buildings in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles. Under Biden, National Guardsmen were punished for deterring rioters from attacking the White House.
But we’re no longer in the era of FBI agents ‘taking a knee’ to racist domestic terrorists.
The Left violently hates ICE personnel because they’re following the law and doing their jobs. Tweeting angrily at them is one thing, but trying to run them over will ‘George Floyd’ even the whitest woman. Federal law enforcement is done ‘taking knees’ and now fires actual bullets.
Let the word go out after Renee Good’s death, federal immigration enforcement is happy to ‘decenter’ any white privilege and its people will defend their lives without a hint of racism.
White privilege isn’t real and it won’t stop a bullet.
Hi Daniel,
I leave this response here though it is not a direct response to your article – which I always enjoy. It is an advice that I think would go a long way to calming the present ICE-Citizen turmoil.
US Citizens object to a grand sweep including people who are good and potentially great citizens.
1. The US tacitly let in 10 million during Biden. They left the door open and “tacitly” said come on in – just as the door was left open in the Capital for the June 6, protestors to stream in. In both cases it was illegal by law to come in – but officials “tacitly” allowed it..
2. Of 10 million that came in, maybe half are very fine people with best intentions. A route to legality should be provided, by establishing a paper-form that can be obtained and filled out. It would show that they broke no laws while here, were not on any assistence, and perhaps employers could vouch for them. These pages would be notarized and perhaps a paid or provided lawyer to help.
PART ONE – to continue
Hi Barry, I understand your ideas are sincerely meant, but past history shows us that mass amnesties lead to a flood of more illegal aliens. Reagan tried it with disastrous results. Every time we do it, we’re told it’s the last time and from now on the border will be secured, and it never is.
It’s like telling a kid “only 5 more minutes” more than once. Then it becomes forever.
Is there not a case to be made that the problem with Reagan’s amnesty was that there was not a simultaneous—and effective—closing of the border, along with changes to the chain migration welcome mat?
I don’t want the gang members and the fraudsters and the grifters who live on public assistance generation after generation—but I’m equally disgusted with those of my fellow citizens who live that way. And I’d rather accommodate a decent, workaday foreign-born person than pretend the average welfare-dependent city-dweller is going to suddenly discover a work ethic and show up for a low-wage job.
I think Pres. Trump, as a deal maker should be able to come up with a win/win solution. One part of that would be to let people know a reasonable timeline and prospect for obtaining a green card if, for example, they have a clean record on criminal activity and the certainty of a job here in the U.S.
Daniel,
Thanks for your reply.
It will simply not be possible for ICE to continue raids to deport millions more of illegals. The optics are terrible. They do look like Gestapo. Trump will adjust that soon. The question is – how to adjust. Many of the newcomers have the potential to be great citizens. They work. They are religious, they raise children. They were TOLD by the US Govt, tacitly, to uproot and come in. These are the majority.
True, a smaller number – 1 or 2 million are bad eggs and should go. It will be much easier expel them and ignore the rest. Public will support that, but will reject mass deportation of what is now neighbors and friends. How to viably do that. I think we will soon see a shift in ICE policy – started by Trump. He is simply too savvy to allow the present VERY unpopular arrangement to exist.
It is the Government’s fault for this moving of populations. They Encouraged it – just as they encouraged entry into the Capitol Building on Jan 6. “They opened the doors. I went in and walked around like a good citizen, Months later they came and arrested me.”
There is not much difference in the present case. True, “illegal” in both cases. But who knew. Neither thought or felt what they were doing was illegal.
Face it – this country’s bedrock is from immigration of people uprooting to find a better life – my ancestors, your ancestors. From 1924 or so to 65, immigration was closed. Close it again. Keep it closed. But remedy a Govt made problem first.
Keeping it closed is a different problem. It can be supported and met, considering the recent situation.
I enjoy your posts.
Great article Mr. Greenfield!
Didn’t agree with Reagan when he did the mass amnesty. Our country does not need to take in all people’s all the time whether they’re working or not! Secure our boarders! End of issue!
Great response too!
Like it or not, the quote below is the perception that too many middle ground Americans have of what they are seeing, every day all day. It’s not true – but it is what they see.
“He (he citizen) accused ICE agents of going “door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live” and “breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street.”
It is not a sustainable look, Homan and Ice agents should actively be showing, moment by monent what they are actually doing – the care they take. (But I am assuming it’s care. I also have not seen it.)
What we do see are armed gestapo beating innocent women that look like me and my friends,
To Daniel PART TWO
3. This paper would be carried by by hand, by the “illegal” to the border to a special exit table site. The “illegal” would exit at that spot and would be out of the country. He would immediately present his document to the special agent sitting there, who would be familiar with these thousands of papers. He would at a glance see that all the correct boxes are filled and attested to. This would be a legal document. He would stamp it yes, application accepted. The party would step back into the country but would now have entered legally. The turn around would be simple. The important work, done by the applicant, would be to get all the forms right, and legally notorized, This activity – providing the document – in itself would be “citizen-like”, establishing value and intent.
4. Great care would be taken to eliminate cheating on the document. It would not be hard for the US legal system to acknowledge: “no laws broken by this person, employment record good. Taxes paid, etc. These maybe 5 million “illegals” would now be legal and ICE could concentrate on. the rest – many of whom could also qualify positive with only some small infraction. These infractions could be rectified, and on the next try the person would qualify. Perhaps the worst 2 million could never quailfy and they should be removed with the worst 500,000 going first, Americans would not protest this. But this is but my opinion!!
Americans ARE angry that good people, their gardeners, field workers, friends, are included in the grand sweeps. Face it – the US made a mistake letting all in. The US should HELP in correcting their mistake.
And then keep the border closed to most new immigration for 25-50 years until the newest assimilate. Barry Spinello
This is the dumbest idea ever, and nobody except pyscopathic leftards are angry that people are being deported. Although there are some, perhaps such as yourself, that are mad you might have to pay a fair wage to a fellow citizen for goods and services. Theree already is a legal way to obtain citizenship, the U.S. is offering free fare and cash for them to go home. They can then apply legally to re-enter if they so choose. FYI, we already tried the amnesty just this one time route and look where it got us.
Sorry Gordon. My comment was meant for Spinello. I agree with you 100%
Watch. Trump will redirect Ice into a different method. Too many ordinary Americans, who vote, are not happy at wonderful Ice patriots who look like Gestapo raid on theireblock – or what sees like there block as presented continuously on the news. This OPTIC will lose the middle. And the MSMedia will make every raid look like their block.
Watch as it changes by directive. Trump’s too savy. He wont let this optic stand. It’s served it’s purpose. Needs new tactics.
Over the past few years, the very best have started busnesses, hired people, worked, bought houses, send kids to school. You are saying to them – accept $1000 go back to Huacha and apply legally for entrance which will take years. Nonesense. Provide a way for the best to stay. Expel the rest. But improve the optics. We are playing into the left’s hands. They lose every Trump fight – but will win this one. Due to the stormtrooper appearance – justified as it is. It was legal to shoot that woman, but looks unjust. She, and all, should be arrested and held a few weeks. That will quiet them down. They want, love to get arrested for the day or night. But make it a month and that will change.
The present fight is for the middle votes. If we lose the midterms, all is lost. It is easy for the left to organize “protests”. riots, and blame us. And the press will agree.
Damn you’re stupid
Damn you’re stupid!
Grand sweeps, Barry? I was under the impression that ICE is initially targeting specific individuals: foreign fugitives and wanted criminals.
Who are you to proclaim yourself the spokesman of the American people (I’m not even American but I can smell your arrogance from another country). Your pompous selfishness is passive-aggressive contempt — a slap in the face to all Americans who reject and refuse your Toxic Empathy. Your “solution” of haughty Utopianism is the reason why this mess is happening. You will never admit that you’re wrong because your entire identity of smugness and hubris would collapse. Look in a mirror. Self reflect. Try some real humility. Respect all of your fellow Americans and not just the vain ideologues who march in lockstep with you. Stop peddling sob stories for your own “moral” aggrandizement. Learn to mow your own lawn and get a hobby. You have too much time on your hands.
JUST MORE WORK AND BUREAUCRACY AND TAX DOLLARS FOR WHAT WE DON’T NEED.
Follow the procedures of legal immigration. Keep it smooth and orderly.
The USA is not a charity. No country is. No country does anything based on compassion.
But they won’t assimilate, and in fact are never asked to! (after all, why should they assimilate to a “systemically racist” society?) … Sorry, Barry, that’s a pipe dream …
Lawless Democrats never care about Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, Amber Paris,
Kayla Hamilton, or any of the innocent men, women, and children murdered by
illegals.
But who would expect abortionists, drug pushers, terrorist sympathizers, or
inner city slum lords to have a conscience or respect for human life.
It’s all pretense. Good was a useful idiot willing to do Democrat dirty work.
so a truck load of white women drive around america defending criminals and trying to kill federal officers ?! dont they have jobs to go to ? if they dont have jobs are they receiving social services . if they are take it away from them . ashlee babbit wasnt trying to kill a federal officer , justine ruszczyk was shot by a black barbarian in minneapolis and walked , babbit was shot by an incompetent black officer and walked . neither women were threatening anyone . but blacks who are a privilege group get to walk as the blm riots proved . so much for white privilege . any and all criminal activity is all put down to my favourite term , ” mental illness ” its a get out of jail card every time . breaking the law is now excused , no one is held responsible for unlawful actions only law enforcement . ”Good ” , another death in the downward spiral into anarchy .
Daniel, nice piece but limited to the so-called ‘white privilege.’ The vicious wench Good (how ironic!) was a trained & paid militant feminazi! She moved from MS to frigid MN just to harass ICE officers. She hit the ICE officer w/ her SUV! I say, good riddance! Her lesbian ‘wife’ encouraged her, drive, baby, drive. She should be prosecuted & locked up.
All this woke chaos is distracting from the real issue. The billions of $$$ of tax-payer fraud by the execrable Somalis & the corrupt woke MN politicians. The former must be deported posthaste & the latter locked up! Where is Pam bam blondi Bondi?!
They have no clue on how to behave around law enforcement, which requires direct experience. The leftist organizers prepare them by showing them a video which actually encourages behavior likely to get them in trouble with law enforcement.
Because they want that trouble to happen so they can exploit it! The last thing they care about are the hoi polloi, particularly the ones they are using. I despise these types most of all. They are the termites eating away at our society.
“If you’re going to make an omelette you’re going to have to break a lot of eggs.” Walter Duranty. Consider Renee Good just a broken egg for the Left.
What Governor Weirdo’s speech—urging everyone to bring their phones (which, let’s be real, people already do 24/7)—was bizarre enough on its own. But telling folks to film the “atrocities” for prosecution, not posterity? That’s next-level unhinged.
It has to rank as one of the strangest speeches ever delivered by a U.S. governor.
If you could somehow blot out everything else in the public eye for a second and just isolate those two—Harris and Tim Walz—it’s downright terrifying to think they could’ve been running the country. Like a pair of malfunctioning Muppets escaped from a particularly bad fever dream.
Wait until you see JD Tucker Carlson Vance and Qatar running the country. Theres a nightmare looming
The leftards are so focused on “racism” and accusing their opponents of being racist because they are the ideology of racism, have been pretty much forever.
From the days of Rousseau’s “noble savage” to today’s victimology they have been racist to the core.
They don’t believe blacks and women are as competent as white men, and it shows by the way they push for their elevation beyond their capabilities, even though there are blacks and women who can compete on their own merits.
Those who can compete end up getting tarred with the same brush as those pushed up through “affirmative action” which is nothing but another name for racism and sexism.
Of course. The left have never been opposed to those things. They just want their own brand installed.
Great article as always Mr. Greenfield.
I will only say these leftoid SJW’s sure love their SUV’s. Often you will see Bernie Sanders chauffeured around in some big azz tank, all the while preaching to the peasants to give up their cars to save the planet.
Likely when Ms. Good wasn’t protesting on behalf of illegal aliens, beloved “Palestinians” and fellow alphabetarians she was charading for “climate justice” in her energy-consuming home with locking doors and perhaps a security system.
Oh I’m sure. Much as they eat imported food that takes far more ‘carbon’ to transport. Sincerity and leftism very rarely encounter each other on speaking terms.
Daniel, Thank you for your ‘frigid individualist’ (per the commie/islamist putz Mamdani) brain wiring. The 2nd sentence is a jewel that should be chiseled over the gate to every school across the fruited plain, both coasts included.
Having had a close encounter w/ the bloodthirsty claw of the Red ‘paradise’ & its evil agitprop, I’d edit your wordsmithing this way: Sincerity and leftism never encounter each other on speaking terms. Your version rocks, though.
The Ice Agent who managed to take to take out Goody two shoes should have fired an extra round to shut up the idiot fake wife. Unfortunately we will have to put up with that mental case during the agents trial.
You tend to digress sometimes lol.
One of my favorite memories of BLM was this white chick I worked with at a hospital. Nice girl but she wore a huge BLM pin every day. One day she complained to me that she was being marginalized in staff meetings, that loudmouthed, know nothing black girls spent the whole time complaining about whites, that people of color, who were lazy and dumb, were getting promoted over her and basically the entire hospital was being turned into an insane asylum because of DEI. But she kept wearing that pin without a hint of irony and not the slightest flicker of realization. She would talk just as forcefully about social justice and how everything was unfair to blacks. I told her we should form a white supremacy group, where we could run things properly, but then also look out for the best interest of minorities who were unable to fend for themselves. It was satirical, of course, but after a little hesitation she admitted it might be a good idea.
Leftist messaging is really peer pressure geared at people who can’t think rationally. And those people accept it as a moral code without ever scanning it with their common sense.
Definitely peer pressure, I notice that a lot around here.
“Chicks to the front” only works as a passive-aggressive “protest” strategy if males buy into the myth that women must be treated as “ladies” meaning males don’t fight back against “ladies” even if the bitches are hitting and spitting and literally throwing shit at them. This archaic special treatment chivalry fantasy of “the lady” is long dead. Feminism killed it. To be treated as a “lady”, a woman must behave like a “lady”. Women stopped doing this decades ago. When a female violently threatens a cop or any male she’s targeted in a “protest” (with fists, weapons or vehicles), then she is no longer a “lady” but a rabid hyena. When a human animal attacks a male, that animal gets the shit beat out of it or is killed in self-defence. Since there are no more “ladies” but only wild hyenas, then if a white middle aged hysterical Karen Swamp Hag screams, pushes, threatens and assaults any male in public, then that male has earned the feminist right to smash the bitch in the face, flatten her, kick her fucking ass the way he would defend himself against any mad dog attack. This is the only way to stop this “chicks to the front” bullshit. Rabid females get a fist in the face or a bullet in the head. This is feminist justice in action.
I don’t know what kind of women you live around, but that does not describe me, or any of the ladies among my family or friends.
I told a woke neighbour that I agreed with Trump’s “muslim ban” because of 9-11, UK muslim rape gangs, Somali crimes, Oct 7th atrocities, etc. and she said, well I was just at the subway and a muslima in full burka and veil was standing right next to me on the platform and as the train approached she didn’t push me onto the tracks so I don’t know what kind of muslims you live around but the ones I’ve met are lovely and wonderful people who never sawed MY head off or enslaved MY daughters.
Hood died because of her ideology
Renee Good was murdered…
And…
Kyle Rittenhouse murdered those people…
And…
Derek Chauvin was innocent…
St. Cloud mn was once known as white cloud as a problem to fix obviously because they didn’t tend to vote for the right party. Now it has a higher percentage of Somali than even Minneapolis. Problem solved!
The police who arrested J6 protesters and shot Ashlii Babbitt looked like the Gestapo and the Democrats cheered them on. Looking like the Gestapo and optics are not the issue here–politics is. Unlike Biden, President Trump has hesitated to use overwhelming force or censor the media (remember Hunter’s laptop?)–and the results have been predictably bad. Half-measures never work, they only make things worse, signaling a lack of resolve and incentivizing the enemy to escalate. Only a sharp and decisive crackdown using overwhelming force has any chance of success, the sooner and the bigger and the more forceful the better.