In the case of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, there is a congealing media narrative of a wife, mother, and good neighbor being gunned down in cold blood by the evil fed. There were other, less convenient details to this story that became public today. However, the legacy media evening newscasts have not yet reported them.
There is more to Good’s story. Per this reporting, Good was more than an innocent bystander. She was, in fact, “an anti-ICE warrior:” Per The New York Post:
Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
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 prioritizes “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.
None of the evening newscasts mentioned these details, which would inevitably alter public perception of the story. There is certainly the matter of timeliness, but this is no excuse. The story was published, then updated shortly before the evening newscasts went on the air. Time was tight, but the networks have demonstrated time and again that they will get late-breaking news into the newscast when they want to.
The details of Good’s advocacy are not convenient to the narrative of a terrified mother seeking to get away from the scary immigration agents. None of the evening network newscasts, despite there being time to squeak something in, included this vital detail. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC.
Good’s advocacy clarifies both her presence at the scene, and a potential motive for the actions she undertook which, sadly, ended with death. The media’s refusal to cover these details (so far) betrays the ongoing disconnect between them and their viewership.
