BREAKING: JD Vance Pushes Horrific New Video of Minnesota ICE Shooting

What this episode is about

JD Vance promotes a controversial video of a police shooting involving Renee Good, claiming it shows the officer reacting to perceived threats and acting in self-defense. The video, leaked to a right-wing outlet, raises questions about the portrayal of law enforcement actions and highlights the ongoing debate over the justification of police violence in such incidents.

Key takeaways

• The power of video: it can reveal truth or serve as propaganda, depending on who's editing.
• Self-defense or execution? A mother's last words challenge narratives surrounding police use of lethal force.
• JD Vance promotes a video that undermines his case: reality's inconvenient truth often escapes partisan framing.
• Walking in front of a car while filming raises serious questions about officer training and judgment.
• Labeling a mother as a 'domestic terrorist' dims the moral compass in a national debate on law enforcement.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Tommy (Host) · 8 min speaking
• J.D. Vance (Guest) · 3 min speaking
• Christine (Guest) · 3 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Renee Mlin Good, ICE, Alpha News, domestic terrorism
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Antifa, Renee Mlin Good, domestic terrorism
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Donald Trump, police state
4. 9:00 – 12:00: ICE, Donald Trump, George Reddus

Notable quotes from "BREAKING: JD Vance Pushes Horrific New Video of Minnesota ICE Shooting"

• All right, Tommy, we got a new video released of the killing of Renee Good. This is the footage from the officer who killed her. you can see in some of the other videos, he was.

  about Renee Mlin Good · at 0:00

• Justify a homicide? No. and then you can see her in that video as clearly as anywhere else turning the wheel to avoid hitting the ICE officer who then shoots her in the face…

  about ICE · at 2:08

• This woman This is the Antifa super soldier.

  about Antifa · at 4:55

• Want limited government. They wanted the government not to intrude in their lives. They didn't want to live in a police state. But really there's just like this pretty vocal…

  about police state · at 7:07

• Close attention to a lot of these ICE detentions. And so to your point, like I talked to George Reddus about this. This is exactly what happened to him. One officer said, Get…

  about George Reddus · at 10:48

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Renee Mlin Good — Person · Central victim in the discussed incident · 3 mentions · first at 0:02
  The episode centers on her killing by an ICE officer, with the hosts arguing the shooting was unjustified and an example of extrajudicial violence.
• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political leader tied to administration · 2 mentions · first at 8:51
  Speakers attribute the leak to the Trump administration and contrast Trump's reaction to the video with JD Vance's continued insistence on justification.
  This video was leaked to some place called Alpha News, which is some right-wing outlet. So presumably this came from the government, the Trump administration, and they thought…
• Trisha Mclofflin — Person · Referenced social media voice amplifying the leak · 1 mention · first at 0:31
  Cited for challenging mainstream outlets to air the footage, reinforcing the episode's focus on media framing and dissemination of the video.
  Side of the story. JD Vance told us to watch this. He we said everyone should watch it. Trisha Mclofflin said, Will CNN and MS now even dare play this? So here's the footage. Let's watch.
• George Reddus — Person · Referenced anecdotal source about similar incident · 1 mention · first at 10:51
  Mentioned as someone the speaker spoke with, used to illustrate confusion during enforcement encounters (conflicting commands).

Companies & orgs

• ICE — Company · Core institution involved in the incident · 2 mentions · first at 2:13
  ICE officers are described as the agents on scene; the discussion critiques ICE conduct, use-of-force, and alleged lack of accountability/coordination with state authorities.
• Alpha News — Company · Outlet that received the leaked video · 1 mention · first at 0:14
  Identified as the right-wing outlet the footage was leaked to, central to claims about government narrative-shaping and media strategy.
  In some of the other videos, he was holding his phone and filming and this video was leaked to some place called Alpha News, which is some right-wing outlet. So presumably this…

Concepts & topics

• domestic terrorism — Concept · Contested label applied to the victim · 2 mentions · first at 1:55
  The speakers argue the government/right-wing figures are portraying Renee Good as a 'domestic terrorist' to justify lethal force and shape public perception.
  That's that's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. That is what JD Vance thinks was harassment. That's what the government has called a domestic terrorist. You…
• police state — Concept · Broader political framing of government power · 1 mention · first at 7:10
  Invoked to argue that some who claim to oppose government intrusion now tolerate aggressive federal enforcement and street executions.
• Antifa — Concept · Hypothetical framing device in argument · 2 mentions · first at 3:48
  Used as a rhetorical extreme ('masked Antifa soldier') to argue that even under worst-case assumptions, the officer's shooting was tactically and morally unjustified.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 All right, Tommy, we got uh a new video released of the uh killing of Renee Good. This is the footage from the officer who killed her. Um you can see in some of the other videos, he was holding his phone and filming and uh this video was leaked to some place called Alpha News, which is some right-wing outlet. So presumably this came from the government, the Trump administration, and they thought this makes they they think this makes the officer look good and supports their side of the story. JD Vance told us to watch this. He we said everyone should watch it. Trisha Mclofflin said, "Will CNN and MS now even dare play this?" So here's the footage. Let's watch.

0:52 That's fine, dude. I'm not mad, boy. Show your face. I'm not mad at you. It's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. US citizen, former driver. You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.

1:12 Out of the car. Get out of the car. Get out of the car. That's okay. I'm not mad at you. uh were Renee Good's last words. And uh yeah, is what the officer who murdered her said at the end.

1:34 C. So JD Vance tweets quote tweets this video and says, "Watch this as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman. The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense." Like you said, she says, "That's that's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. That is what JD Vance thinks was harassment." That's what the government has called a domestic terrorist. You think that woman is a domestic terrorist

1:58 and a deranged leftist. Now, her friend later does talk some She said that's her. I think that's her wife.

2:03 Yeah. Go, you know, go get some food, big boy, or something like that. Maybe that hurt his feelings. Does that justify a homicide? No. Uh, and then you can see her in that video as clearly as anywhere else turning the wheel to avoid hitting the ICE officer who then shoots her in the face three times and calls her a And again, his life was, if his life was in danger, and he thought his life was in danger, the way he protected himself was to merely step out of the way, which he did. And you can see in all the other videos that she didn't run over his foot, if anything, it like did it nick his leg or something. He walks away unharmed. Calls her a Also, he's able to hold both the phone where he's filming and his gun that he's shooting her. But somehow we're supposed to believe that he was hit by the car even though he was able to hold both things, stand up, and walk away.

2:54 This is the big question. ridiculous. Why is this man walking around her car filming?

3:00 You know, like look, we're not experts on law enforcement procedure, right? I don't want to be like that idiot who sees a bunch of tweets, but like it it would seem like it would be common sense not to walk in front of a car if you're treating someone like they are a suspect or about to detain or arrest them. Um, yeah, you can't like drive away from police and and graze them with your car, but the idea that that is like a death penalty offense that allows for an extrajudicial killing on the scene is so crazy. And I I like I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't understand. JD Vance tweeted this out thinking that this makes his case. H how do like how do you watch this and come away thinking this woman who says I'm not mad at you and then is murdered 30 seconds later that there that shooting was justified?

3:45 Let's just pretend that it was um a a clad from head to toe in black masked Antifa soldier in in in the car. Okay. Um, from the officer training standpoint, what about that officer's training made him think that if someone is to drive and might be near you, that shoot, first of all, shooting them does not help anything because if anything, when you shoot someone like that, they're going to slump over the steering wheel as she did and accelerate the car. The car could have hit the car could have killed more officers. It could have killed more people who were standing there. So, he wasn't protecting anyone by doing that. He wasn't protecting himself. He wasn't protecting his colleagues. And he wasn't protecting civilians by shooting her

4:25 indiscriminately in a community. And he proved that all he had to do to protect himself was to step out of the way. There was no need to shoot her. No matter no matter what angle you look at the video, no matter what new footage you have out there, there was no reason to shoot her.

4:40 Let's run the video again because I like let's just, you know, maybe start from the their interaction. That's fine, dude.

4:55 This This woman This This is the Antifa super soldier. She's a dog in the back.

4:59 She's Her back. Her wife is there. This woman There's There's stuffed animals in the back from when she was just dropping off her kid.

5:05 This woman is a domestic terrorist. Christine, this woman is a deranged leftist who deserved to die. JD Vance. I I I mean, this is a middle-aged mother of three whose kids are now orphaned because an an ICE officer executed her and just I don't like the the talking about deranged the people on the right who were like, "Ugh, Democrats don't want you to see this video. This should be case closed. This is JD Vance tweeted tweeted this video three separate times telling people to watch it. What do they think? They think it proves that he was hit. First of all, it doesn't prove that he was hit at all. It he he when you hear all that sound there, he was shooting her three times.

5:48 Yeah. I mean, what what what it shows is he dropped his phone. It doesn't show that he dropped his phone because the car hit him. He was reaching for his gun.

5:56 Fortunately, we have another angle where he's just walking away and you don't see his and you see his feet away from the car. So, like I don't know what the you're talking about.

6:02 It's just Yeah. Keep going. Let's watch a little more. That's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.

6:12 What What is an ICE officer going to do with her plates? I guess maybe they could try to charge them later for impeding a a law enforcement procedure or something. We still don't know what she's doing in the road necessarily. Like, is she trying to turn around there? Is she trying to turn left, but she can't? It's not clear.

6:24 So, um, that's her that's her wife, and her wife put out a statement uh this morning and said that we were there to help our neighbors. we came across something to help our neighbors. We had whistles, they had guns. So clearly they I think what had happened according to some reports is that um Renee had dropped the six-year-old off and then um her wife said, "Hey, I think there's ice here." Right? And so then she came, met, and then that this is what happened. So there was some kind of an ICE presence and I think they were potentially part of a group that is like when ice is around you alert your neighbors. I just like maybe it was naive, but when uh all those Republicans had like don't tread on me flags in their like Twitter avatars, I really thought that they did want limited government. They wanted the government not to intrude in their lives. They didn't want to live in a police state. But really there's just

7:13 like this this pretty vocal group of like MAGA supporters who really think it's acceptable for the for the the federal official just to execute you on the street.

7:24 Yeah. and fine with that with him politically. And some of them are more honest than others. I saw you tweet about like Matt Walsh today was like it doesn't matter. He said Matt Walsh for of the Daily Wire. It doesn't matter if um she wanted to hit him or not. She she you know the fact that she fact that she was there is

7:39 Let me read it. Do justice. Mr. This is Matt Walsh. It's totally irrelevant whether she was trying to hit the ICE agent or not. Either she wanted to hit him or she wanted to evade arrest and escape and didn't care if she hit him in the process. There is zero moral or legal difference between those two scenarios. In either case, she is 100% to blame and her death is her own fault.

7:58 Honestly, thank you for your honesty. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. That now that's the, you know, talk about mask off.

8:04 But again, look at the ICE is not they're not the organization doesn't exist to arrest and detain US citizens. Anyway this

8:14 thing and again like if you if it ever went to court, which who know? probably won't, but any investigation will show like that the use of force policies they they just completely violated those in that in that in that instance.

8:25 Um, let's keep let's keep rolling it. Good. I just can't get over how clear you can see her turning the wheel to avoid this man and that his reaction to murdering a woman is to call her a And then a bunch of people in the government saw that footage and decided that would be a good thing for them to leak.

8:51 Yeah. Trump will give him the medal of freedom soon. And then you know the man runs over to like they're oh he went to the hospital. He had to get you. He runs over to the car

8:59 with a delay first of all because he didn't care. Then they then then they say let's call 911. Then they tell a doctor on the scene that he's not allowed to provide treatment or see if she has a pulse. In fact um there's one part where the the doctor just tries to go and provide assistance. six ICE thugs with guns like run at him and and threaten him at gunpoint. Um

9:20 and then when she's dead, they just drive away. They just drive away from a crime scene, which is not

9:25 I think they might have spirited this guy out of the state. Um and now I think his name is Jonathan Ross is been it's now been reported um they think they got the guy out of the state and now like any federal officials like the FBI is refusing to coordinate with Minnesota state law enforcement in case there is some sort of effort to prosecute him there. And because this guy had been dragged by a driver um like a couple months earlier, now that is because that is part of the policy too that if you're an ICE agent and uh you're trying to detain someone and they injure you then um you can keep that feeling of anger inside so then later you can violate your use of force policies and murder someone.

10:04 That's sort of the that's the deal. And this is a fair fair point, right? On a human level, JD Vance and others have said that six months ago, this guy was dragged by a car for several hundred feet, needed 30 stitches, some like

10:13 that's awful. I can understand that. That is awful. That should never have happened. I feel for him. Uh I could understand how that would impact how you feel or your sense of fear in this situation. Should you then not be put in this situation by your superiors, right? Because like what if I said to you that that driver had had the ship kicked out of her by an ICE officer six months ago, right? And so she had a I think rational and understandable fear of being detained again. Does that justify her driving away, fleeing the scene? I don't think anyone would argue that.

10:43 And in fact, this woman clearly seems like she and her partner had been paying close attention to a lot of these ICE detentions. And so to your to your point, like you know, I talked to George Reddus about this. This is exactly what happened to him. One officer said, "Get out of the car." The other said, "Get the out of here." It's confusing. You heard all the sirens there. It's it's like it's a everyone's yelling. It's a very confusing situation.

11:05 There's one guy pulling on your door. There's one guy walking around your car in front of you. Like the idea that she could sort of clock where everyone is at all times. Her partner is trying to get into the car. There's a dog in the back. Like

11:15 she doesn't have She doesn't have guns. They have guns. They're supposed to be the responsible ones.

11:20 This is stunning. I I think I've just really been like blown away by the total lack of humanity um in the wake of this tragedy. And like we know Donald Trump's a bad guy and immoral and a piece of Um we all, you know, he seems like like singularly able to lie, you know, and tell but like JD Vance is one of the most depraved, disgusting, dishonest people in public life. He's just a demagogue and a horrible person. And like their case here is basically do not believe what your eyes are telling you. Believe what my tweets. I don't know if you listen to the daily episode of the New York Times reporters in the office with Trump in the Oval Office with Trump and at one point they watch the video because Trump is spewing the the line and then they have him watch it and um it's interesting because you just hear him kind of stop and be like well you know it's horrible. It's it's horrible. And there's this moment

12:11 where like they're all watching it together and he realizes you can tell that he realizes that the initial uh his initial truth was maybe a little Maybe he got out over his skis and so he like pulls back. JD Vance is like doubling, tripling, quadrupling down.

12:25 He's more mad about the media coverage. Yes. He He took to the podium yesterday.

12:28 This is a whiny little Ranting and raving, yelling at reporters. How dare you cover press. I mean, in a in a different in a pre-Trump political world, the fact that Christy Gnome went out straight out of the gate and was like, oh, they were pushing cars out of a, you know, snowbank and they were attacked and rammed. Like a misstatement like that would be a careerending comment, but now it's just sort of like washed away by the lies by JD Vance. Anyway, um they they they don't they want you to see that video. So, yeah, go watch the video. Go watch the video.

12:55 I agree with JD Vans on that part. I hope everyone watches the video. So, yeah, please watch the video and thank you for watching this video and supporting Independent Progressive Media. So, subscribe.

13:03 I don't know. This is the worst. Thanks.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "BREAKING: JD Vance Pushes Horrific New Video of Minnesota ICE Shooting"?

Tommy (Host), J.D. Vance (Guest), Christine (Guest).

What is "BREAKING: JD Vance Pushes Horrific New Video of Minnesota ICE Shooting" about?

JD Vance promotes a controversial video of a police shooting involving Renee Good, claiming it shows the officer reacting to perceived threats and acting in self-defense. The video, leaked to a right-wing outlet, raises questions about the portrayal of law enforcement actions and highlights the ongoing debate over the justification of police violence in such incidents.

What is mentioned in this Pod Save America episode?

9 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Renee Mlin Good, ICE, Donald Trump, domestic terrorism, Alpha News, police state. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "BREAKING: JD Vance Pushes Horrific New Video of Minnesota ICE Shooting"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,764 words in 41 timestamped sections.

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