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Talk show loser Jimmy Kimmel unleashed another unhinged rant against President Trump during a monologue Wednesday, peddling the absurd narrative that Trump is out to “kill” citizens through ICE operations. 

Fresh off a justified self-defense shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Kimmel twisted the facts to fuel leftist outrage, ignoring the real threats from violent agitators obstructing law enforcement.

This comes as no surprise from a host whose Trump Derangement Syndrome has consumed his failing show, turning it into a nightly echo chamber for anti-America propaganda.

Jimmy Kimmel pushes the narrative that President Trump is ordering ICE to kill Americans:

"He isn't just killing people overseas..."

"Get the f*ck out of Minneapolis! Get the f*ck out of all of these cities!"

Why is ABC allowing such sick depravity on their network? pic.twitter.com/wsOUkCrxoe

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 8, 2026

Desperate for relevance, Kimmel presented custom t-shirts during the pathetic segment. The prop was inserted presumably as the ‘comedy’, because otherwise it would’ve literally been just him claiming Trump wants to murder people.

He flashed one that read “Donald J Trump is going to kill you” and another aimed at ICE demanding “Get the f*** out of Minneapolis.”

He claimed, “He isn’t just killing people overseas an ICE agent today shot and killed An unarmed 37 year old woman during an ice operation In Minneapolis who were there under the guise of protecting us.”

He then attempted to ridicule Trump’s Truth Social post defending the agent, reading it aloud before dismissively suggesting “Now I saw this video It didn’t look like anybody got run over to me.”

This isn’t comedy or entertainment; it’s a sad bid for attention from a soon to be unemployed has-been. Why does anyone need Kimmel’s withering commentary? Even leftists must find this beyond cringe.

Kimmel’s obsession with Trump borders on pathological—it’s literally all he talks about every night on his low-rated ABC show that absolutely no one watches. With ratings in the toilet, it’s a safe bet ABC axes the irrelevant relic as soon as his contract expires.

Kimmel’s studio audience, behaving like trained seals, reacted with forced applause when he played footage of the embarrassing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey denouncing ICE. Frey called the self-defense claim “bullshit” and labeled it “An agent recklessly using power that resulted In somebody dying,” before saying ICE should “get the fuck out” of the city.

Frey’s remarks have stoked more chaos, his rhetoric encouraging radicals to confront federal agents enforcing the law. Instead of condemning the agitators, Kimmel amplified Frey’s inflammatory words, instructing his crowd to applaud what amounts to incitement against law enforcement.

Radicals are increasingly interfering with ICE operations, endangering agents and the public. Earlier, pundit Scott Jennings blasted the “vigilantism” of leftists impeding ICE operations.

This morning, the fallout boiled over as leftists in Minneapolis began assaulting federal agents, turning protests into outright attacks.

?? NOW: Leftists are GETTING VIOLENT in Minneapolis with federal agents, they are now actively confronting agents in the name of terrorism

Schools are literally CLOSED because of this crap. IT'S ONLY 8AM! pic.twitter.com/PLNlY6sZXq

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

The threats escalated, as rioters screamed at agents: “We’re going to fucking find you, and we’re going to fucking kill you! You’re going to fucking die, bitch!”

?? BREAKING: Leftist rioters just threatened to M*RDER federal immigration agents in Minneapolis because of Democrat rhetoric

“We’re going to f*cking find you, and we’re going to f*cking kill you! You’re going to f*cking die, b*tch!”

ARREST THEM NOW! pic.twitter.com/hirUGmHRY6

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

Arrests were made following the violent confrontations

?? JUST IN: Federal agents are ARRESTING MULTIPLE leftist rioters in Minneapolis already after a violent confrontation

This can get REALLY bad. Democrat officials Jacob Frey and Tim Walz have convinced these people ICE needs to be violently attacked.

Pray for all of them ???? pic.twitter.com/RSFjfJO3P4

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

?? JUST IN: Federal agents in Minneapolis are performing TAKEDOWNS and ARRESTS of violent leftists who are surrounding and ambushing them

MORE FAFO ????

Hold nothing back.

These rioters must be taught ORDER is the only way forward ????

pic.twitter.com/TGs9agHGqa

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 8, 2026

Journalist Nick Sortor urged Trump to federalise the National Guard from Tim Walz’s control before it spirals.

?? BREAKING: CLASHES are underway as leftists attempt to BLOCK DHS agents from leaving their facility in Minneapolis

President Trump should federalize the National Guard. Take them from Tim Walz.

Before this gets INCREDIBLY dangerous. pic.twitter.com/8BWfN3CQ1C

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2026

These acts aren’t protest—they’re assaults on law and order, egged on by figures like Kimmel and Frey who prioritise division over security.

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International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered.

Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits.

Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this coordinated effort?

Doug Casey: Let me draw your attention to three truths that my friend Nick Giambruno has pointed out about money in bank accounts.

#1. The money isn’t really yours. You’re just another unsecured creditor if the bank goes bust.

#2. The money isn’t actually there. It’s been lent out to borrowers who are illiquid or insolvent.

#3. The money isn’t really money. It’s credit created out of thin air.

The point is that cash is freedom. And when the State limits the utility of cash—physical dollars that don’t leave an electronic trail—they are limiting your personal freedom to act and compromising your privacy. Governments are naturally opposed to personal freedom and personal privacy because those things limit their control, and governments are all about control.

International Man: Governments will probably mandate Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as the “solution” when the next real or contrived crisis hits—which is likely not far off.

What’s your take? What are the implications for financial privacy?

Doug Casey: CBDCs are proposed as a solution, but in fact, they’re a gigantic problem.

Government is not your friend, and CBDCs are not a solution.

If they successfully implement CBDCs, it would mean that anything you buy or sell, and any income you earn, will go through CBDCs. You will have zero effective privacy. The Authorities will automatically know what you own, and they’ll be in a position to control your assets. Instantly.

They’ll be able to add CBDCs to the accounts of favored people and subtract from or block access to the accounts of those who aren’t. Digital dollars will be easy to implement since everybody already has a government ID and a Social Security account. Everybody has a smartphone. Soon everybody will have a CBDC account as well. If you lack any of these things, it will certainly ding your oncoming Social Credit Score.

I’ll go so far as to say that Central Bank Digital Currencies and digital “health passports” may be the most dangerous threats to the freedom and independence of the average human being in modern history. They will allow the State to easily control where you can go, what you can do, and what you can own. They’re both very big deals, and they’ll be daily facts of life.

In today’s world, it’s increasingly dangerous to say things that run counter to what’s considered politically correct. If you can’t say something, it’s much harder to do something. And indoctrination through education and the media are making it hard to even think. We will soon be living in a society where you can neither think, say, nor do anything that isn’t PC. Again, the problem is promoted as a solution.

It’s much like what happened during the great COVID hysteria, which was a relatively minor problem from a medical point of view. The State solution was mass lockdowns and mass vaccination. The solutions were much worse than the problem.

In any event, free speech is dying with cancel culture, trigger warnings, safe spaces, and penalties for so-called hate speech. Free speech should be an absolute—including so-called hate speech.

I’d like to reemphasize that although “hate speech” is typically impolite, unpleasant, and acrimonious, it is, perhaps paradoxically, a good thing. Why? Because it allows you to identify what’s going on in the mind of the person who utters it. And I would much rather know what somebody’s thinking and what somebody’s likely to do than have a tight lid put on so-called hate speech. I prefer knowing who I’m dealing with and what they think and feel.

International Man: It’s not just financial privacy but privacy across the board that is being buried.

Cellphones, so-called “smart” appliances, electric vehicles, social media, and other electronic devices create an all-encompassing surveillance system that most people voluntarily opt into.

What is really going on here?

Doug Casey: It’s been said that while art imitates life, life also imitates art. Especially when we look at George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984. In the book, Big Brother had ubiquitous video screens monitoring what the plebs did. We now have hundreds of millions of cameras all around the world—not counting billions more in smartphones. Universal surveillance is making for very grim times.

Recently, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum said that everything will be “transparent”—a euphemism for darker things. But don’t worry: you have nothing to fear, he said, if you do nothing wrong. That’s ridiculous. It’s exactly what the Stasi, the KGB, and the Gestapo said.

I wonder if Schwab would be willing to have a camera observe him in his bathroom and bedroom, when he visits his safe deposit box and has a private conversation with friends—or fellow conspirators? Of course not. Transparency is only for the potentially dangerous plebs, who may not share the views of their betters.

One of the differences between a civilized society and a primitive, barbaric society, is privacy. In primitive societies, privacy doesn’t exist. You have paper-thin walls in your hut. Everybody sees everything you do and everybody you talk to.

One of the nice things about civilization is that you can get away from other people and keep them from observing you. Privacy is one of the central elements of civilization itself.

Eliminating privacy, whether it be personal or financial, is not only an aggression against individuals but destructive of civilization itself. Schwab’s “transparency” is a regression towards barbarism.

International Man: It seems privacy is dead for most people.

If that is the case, what comes next? Where is this trend headed?

Doug Casey: The first time that it became apparent to me on a personal level was at a police station in D.C., where I was paying a fine for some traffic violation. I got to chatting with the cop in back of the computer screen. This was a long time ago, in the late 70’s.

And as we talked, he said, in a friendly way, “Look, you don’t have any idea how much information we have on you—but it’s a lot.”

He wasn’t trying to intimidate me; he was just observing a fact. And that was a long time ago.

About 25 years ago, Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle Corporation, came out and made a shocking statement to the effect of “Privacy doesn’t exist, forget about it.” At the time, I thought it sounded like Ellison approved of it, but now I don’t think that was the case. He was just pointing out a reality.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made an ad during the COVID hysteria. He said, “To hell with your freedom,” encouraging people to stop protesting about getting their shots.

Children no longer say, “Hey, it’s a free country,” when one says or does something that another doesn’t like.

People have been programmed not to take privacy seriously. Worse, they’re now suspicious of it and passively accept the fact that it doesn’t exist.

With China’s Social Credit System, everything you do, everywhere you go, and even everything you say is recorded and reported. We’re going to get our own version. You’ll be rewarded or punished according to what the ruling elite think is good or bad.

So the question is: when, if ever, will this trend turn around? Well, I’m not sure it’s any longer a question of “when.” It’s more a question of “if”—at least within a reasonable time frame. The trend is not only still in motion but accelerating. A lack of privacy means a lack of freedom. And a lack of freedom is what characterizes a serf—although in today’s world, you’re a serf with a high standard of living.

International Man: How can the average person protect their privacy and limit their exposure to State and corporate surveillance?

Doug Casey: Limit airing your personal thoughts and actions on Facebook, LinkedIn, and similar types of social media. It’s all accessible to anybody and makes it much easier for the State to control you.

In my case, I’ve made part of my living by doing the opposite of what you should do. I understand it’s a contradiction. It’s the path that I’ve chosen. But from a personal freedom point of view, it’s not a wise path. I’m reluctant to say so, but I’d advise others not to choose it. It amounts to painting a target on your back.

At this point, if you want to maximize your personal freedom, you ought to consider living in a country where you’re not a citizen. That’s because governments consider citizens to be their subjects, their assets, their property. However, when you’re a foreign citizen living in a foreign country, the local government tends to consider you a non-threat, almost a non-person. Sad to say, in today’s world, from a personal freedom point of view, you’re better off not living in your own country. That certainly includes the US and Canada.

From a financial point of view, it’s very important that you own and hold physical gold and silver, physically in your own possession, as opposed to electronically. Paper or electronic accounts are fine for speculating. But you want to have a considerable cache of the physical metals for safety. Plus, at some point, they will revert to day-to-day money.

Lastly, put a layer of protection between you and the bad guys. Don’t be afraid to use corporations and trusts in the right jurisdictions. Create barriers to make it harder for the bad guys to find out who owns something and where that person really is.

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Update (1858):

The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE "warrior" and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to "document and resist" ICE operations in Minnesota.  

Key details from the NYPost report:

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son's woke charter school, which boasts that it puts "social justice first" and "involving kids in political and social activism," multiple local sources said.

"She was a warrior. She died doing what was right," a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.

Good and her wife Rebecca, 40, who were raising the child together and sent the boy to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 which has from its inception been "unabashedly dedicated to social justice education," according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.

It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in "ICE Watch" — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.

"From my understanding, she was involved in social justice ... we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists]," former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told The Post.

. . .

County worker Kristin Peter, 30, who was also at the vigil, said Renee was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers, and that she herself was attending a meeting of the group Thursday night.

NYPost's report throws a wrench into the just a "driver" or just a "woman" narrative that some corporate media outlets ran earlier.

*   *   * 

Update (1755ET):

Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot and killed by ICE, was driving a Honda Pilot SUV that the Missouri Department of Revenue confirmed was registered with Missouri license plates. Business records show that Good operated a maintenance company in Kansas City, Missouri, called "B.Good Handywork LLC."

Even though the Minneapolis City Council released a statement saying Good was "a member of our community," it does not answer whether she was a full-time resident or simply part of an out-of-town left-wing resistance network conducting pressure campaigns against ICE operations in the sanctuary city.

One eyewitness described Good as "the main car in the protest, as I understand it. She was very successful in blocking traffic. She was doing exactly what she set out to do."

??BREAKING: Witness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting says 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was deliberately blocking ICE vehicles.

“She was very effective in stopping traffic. She was doing exactly what she set out to do,” the witness said. pic.twitter.com/MU5WplqbEs

— I Meme Therefore I Am ???? (@ImMeme0) January 7, 2026

At the beginning of the interview, the eyewitness said, "I woke up to some commotion out front. I heard some whistles going on out front."

We must note that the whistles sounded before Good accelerated her car forward after blocking the street, prompting the officer to fire several shots into the vehicle, killing the activist.

Reuters associates "shrill sound of whistles" as an "anti-ICE resistance tool"...

Democrats were quick to label Good as a "legal observer."

Local media confirmed. 

Left-wing activists can train to be legal observers with the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild. As the Capital Research Center notes, the NLG has been consistently identified with radical-left politics and was heavily influenced by communists in its early years. Key Weather Underground figures like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had strong ties to the National Lawyers Guild (NLG). Dohrn served as the first law student organizer.

"The idea of community members watching law enforcement officers through organized patrols originates from the Black Power Movement," NLG wrote on its website, adding, "The National Lawyers Guild, as the first integrated bar association in the U.S., took components from this practice and developed its Legal Observer Program in 1968 in New York City in response to protests at Columbia University and city-wide antiwar and racial justice demonstrations."

Not even a week ago, we noted, "Today, the Guild provides legal support and protest training for Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other left-wing street movements, teaching activists how to push confrontation to the legal edge without crossing into prosecutable domestic terrorism."

It appears the White House has some understanding of why Good was blocking the street or impeding ICE agents, as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier that the Minneapolis ICE shooting "occurred as a result of a larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country."

NOW - White House says fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting "occurred as a result of a larger, sinister, left-wing movement that has spread across our country." pic.twitter.com/26L1EXAG29

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 8, 2026

MSM being MSM.

Meanwhile... 

Minneapolis (Jan. 8) — Antifa-linked anarchist & far-left extremists have set up blockades on streets using stolen property to slow down DHS vehicles & block drivers. They are standing guard. The tactic was used by Antifa during the 2020 riots to occupy. pic.twitter.com/o9CDW5vTr4

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 8, 2026

POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey refuses to reveal the identities of the NGOs he's working with to organize protests in his city. The DOJ is investigating the groups with funding and directives from Soros and CCP-linked NGOs. pic.twitter.com/C9cWgIZ5VN

— @amuse (@amuse) January 8, 2026

MSM's narrative... 

Democrats have been seeking a proper narrative to justify new rounds of protests and riots, similar to the Los Angeles unrest last summer, to reshape public perception of ICE.

*   *   * 

It didn't take long. Within hours of an ICE-involved shooting in the Minneapolis area, the Democratic Party's protest industrial complex moved into action, quickly creating conditions for coordinated demonstrations across multiple cities. The rapid response suggested these nonprofit activist networks were on standby, waiting for a catalytic event, as an army of radicals intensified pressure campaigns against federal agents, blocking streets, harassing officers, and openly doxxing them.

I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them.

To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.

— JD Vance (@JDVance) January 8, 2026

Shortly after the ICE-involved shooting that left one woman dead, multiple videos of the incident went viral on X. In at least one video, she appears to be blocking the street with her vehicle in an attempt to impede ICE agents and is later shot and killed after advancing toward one of the agents. Numerous angles of the incident are circulating on X, offering competing narratives.

video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. pic.twitter.com/7E2GPAFfly

— Suhr Majesty (@ULTRA_MAJESTY) January 7, 2026

The Democratic Party's propaganda machine, desperately searching for the next narrative after the optically displeasing Somali-linked daycare fraud scandal, was quick to deploy a new storyline.

As we noted hours before protest activity erupted in the Minneapolis area (read here), the left-wing nonprofit Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee functioned as a rapid-response mobilization hub, coordinating a coalition of left-wing activist groups to flood the streets by late evening.

Footage of the demonstrations:

Anti ICE protesters are attacking innocents in vehicles.

This is exactly what @GovTimWalz and @Jacob_Frey asked for………buckle up.pic.twitter.com/Y2fPQ9VpCH

— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) January 8, 2026

HOLY SH*T ?? Anti ICE Protestors are now waving FOREIGN FLAGS while chanting “F*CK ICE”

If you don’t want to be in this country

GET THE F*CK OUT pic.twitter.com/DZqJFypNe7

— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) January 8, 2026

Anti ICE protest happening now in Foley Square after Minneapolis shooting. pic.twitter.com/oOZK4mV5nw

— Marla Diamond (@MDiamond8) January 7, 2026

The rapid response extended beyond Minnesota. In New York, Party for Socialism and Liberation New York City, reportedly funded by China-based far-left billionaire Neville Roy Singham, mobilized activists within hours.

EXPOSED ?? The protest tonight in New York City against ICE is being paid for and organized by ‘PSL New York City - Party for Socialism and Liberation’

They are funded by Neville Roy Singham who lives in China and works with the CCP

He donated over $20 million to entities like… pic.twitter.com/Fy508FFbqn

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 8, 2026

About 1500-1000 anti ice protesters now marching around federal plaza. pic.twitter.com/GYMLcaW9Rk

— Ali (@MerruX) January 8, 2026

??BREAKING: NYC PROTESTORS CALL TO “TOPPLE THE TRUMP REGIME.”

Notice the yellow signs we’ve seen at every protest? pic.twitter.com/61HJltNiW3

— Nick Jacobs (@nickjacobs03) January 8, 2026

Communist Jackson Hinkle appeared enthusiastic about what appeared to be multi-city coordinated protests.

BREAKING: Tonight, cities across the country erupted in protest against ICEpic.twitter.com/CngPJd6AfE

— Jackson Hinkle ???? (@jacksonhinklle) January 8, 2026

In Seattle:

?? Breaking — Antifa and leftist protesters are on the march in Seattle, chanting “Death to ICE!” pic.twitter.com/dQSBf5z4QN

— Katie Daviscourt ?? (@KatieDaviscourt) January 8, 2026

Looking ahead, the socialists are planning pro-Maduro protests in the US, funded by PSL. 

The Trump Administration has kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and started a blatantly criminal war against Venezuela.

Take action with DSA! ?? pic.twitter.com/3DHbts9UOO

— DSA (@DemSocialists) January 7, 2026

Democrats appear prime for a George Floyd 2.0 moment.

On Wednesday morning, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good accelerated towards an ICE agent with her car, and he responded with lethal force. Good was shot and killed.

Democrats and media figures rushed to condemn the shooting as an unjustified murder. 

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed to have watched the video and dismissed the federal government’s claims of self-defense as "bullshit.”

SHAMELESS!

Jacob Frey absolves the victim who tried to run over ICE agents of any responsibility and blames ICE for "killing people." pic.twitter.com/p6alPKJkJf

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 7, 2026

Gov. Tim Walz claimed to have watched the video and disputed the Department of Homeland Security’s assessment that the ICE officer acted in self-defense.

I’ve seen the video.

Don’t believe this propaganda machine.

The state will ensure there is a full, fair, and expeditious investigation to ensure accountability and justice. https://t.co/3faWW4bQvV

— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) January 7, 2026

Others were even less subtle.

”The officer not only needs to be fired and suspended, but based on the video, he needs to be charged with murder," Rep.Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) claimed.

Dan Goldman dumps gas on the fire: “It was an outright m*rder."

“This officer...needs to be charged with m*rder."

Democrats doing their level best to ensure Minneapolis is in flames tonight.pic.twitter.com/io75RP6MrL

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 7, 2026

All claimed to have watched the video of the incident, and many people in the legacy media and on social media rushed to condemn the ICE agent. However, NBC News chose to take an objective look at the video evidence and the facts and vindicated the ICE agent. 

NBC correspondents Tom Winter and Tom Llamas reviewed the footage on air, highlighting critical details that undercut the narrative being pushed by members of the Democratic Party. 

Based on the footage, Winter concluded that Renee Nicole Good had to have been aware that it was law enforcement officers who were confronting her. "We don't know what happened before this, but they're definitely gonna look at the fact this is an unmarked vehicle, but the lights are on, these are clearly members of law enforcement, so that's at least known to this driver," he explained.

"Those officers approach the vehicle, they try to open the door," Llamas added. 

"Whatever is said here, what these officers say, if the driver said anything or not, could really help them understand whether or not they thought there was some sort of an imminent threat. Was this person trying to listen to them? Were they scared?" Winter said.

Llamas then described the sequence that led to the shooting. "And then, of course, what the driver does next … trying to leave there. One of the officers felt like they were forced to fire, and they do," he said. 

The footage they reviewed showed the vehicle accelerating with an officer positioned directly in front of it. But the more telling footage came from a different angle, making the danger posed to the ICE agents even clearer.

 "Well, this appears to show an officer right in front of the vehicle. That, and between the way that the vehicle was moving and the timeline of that, how was the officer responding in that split second gonna be critical for investigators," Winter explained.

NBC Nightly News was the only legacy evening newscast to report that the woman shot by the ICE officer in Minneapolis was in fact obstructing ICE by blocking traffic pic.twitter.com/qQCjO5cShE

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 8, 2026

NBC’s video analysis laid out the key facts in a surprisingly objective way. They saw was anyone could see just by watching: Agents confronted a vehicle blocking them. The driver knew law enforcement was present based on the emergency lights. An officer stood directly in front of the car before it accelerated. The agent made a split-second decision to fire as the vehicle moved forward. 

While there will obviously be an investigation, what we can say for sure at this point is that in all the videos circulating on social media showing the shooting from different angles, they all show the driver accelerating into the ICE agent before he fired his weapon.

In a separate segment, Winter also revealed what law enforcement sources told him about the optics versus the legality. 

"I think from a law enforcement perspective, what you've heard law enforcement say is that they don't - they don't like the way that this shooting looks,” he explained. “And in speaking with people from law enforcement, from that part of the country, they use a phrase that is sometimes heard in law enforcement circles: lawful but awful. They don't like the look of it, but from a legal perspective, it might be okay,"

NBC’s Tom Winters with an accurate reaction from the 4pm hour to the deadly ICE-involved shooting:

“I think from a law enforcement perspective, what you've heard law enforcement say is that they don't — they don't like the way that this shooting looks. And in speaking with… pic.twitter.com/kVvY5oR9Vo

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 8, 2026

Additionally, Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at conservative nonprofit Advancing American Freedom, told the Daily Mail that under the law, the use of deadly force is justified when an officer can reasonably perceive a threat of serious bodily harm or death.

There has been much speculation online over the direction of the wheels as Good appears to be turning down the road away from the officers.

Others have questioned why Ross was standing in front of the car.

Swearer explained that both points are irrelevant to the law.

"He explicitly does not have a duty to retreat in the way that a civilian would under these circumstances," she told the Mail.

"It doesn't matter whether that driver subjectively was not trying to hit the officer,' Swearer added.

"It matters what the officer can reasonably perceive. He can't read her mind. He just knows that you have someone who's ignoring lawful commands, who is moving the car toward him. That is deadly force."

She compared it to a cop being confronted by a suspect who is reaching for a gun in his waistband while being asked to keep his hands up.

"They don't have to wait until they're actually being shot or actually being run over to respond," she said.

While Democrats are hungry to politicize the shooting, the level-headed analysis from NBC News and Amy Shearer clearly opens the door wide for a self-defense argument by the ICE agent.

The FBI now handles the investigation. The footage will determine whether the shooting was justified under the law. But the detailed NBC breakdown already reveals what Democrats and local officials either missed or, perhaps more likely, chose to ignore in their rush to judgment.