After watching every available video more times than I can count, I keep coming back to the same framing: everything that matters happens in about five seconds. Renee Good and her wife were intentionally obstructing an ICE operation. That much now seems clear. The ICE officer who ultimately fired the fatal shots had been circling the vehicle, recording license plates and interactions, while Good’s wife taunted him and urged confrontation. When two other ICE agents suddenly rushed the car, the situation escalated instantly.
The critical moment begins when an officer orders Good out of the vehicle and reaches inside. Her wife yells, “Drive, baby, drive.” Good puts the car in motion. An officer is directly in front of the vehicle. Within seconds, shots are fired. The car crashes. Renee Good is dead. Everything else, the motivations, the politics, the legal theories, exists outside those few seconds and is inevitably shaped by what we already believe going in.
