Few things call out someone being a tyrannical dullard as does their kvetching: “Look what you made me do.”
President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem share the 2026 “No Bull Please Prize” for creating the sorriest-ass excuse for incompetent leadership since FDR signed Executive Order 9066, sending more than 100,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps.
All three have blamed Renee Good for her own shooting death Jan. 7 in Minneapolis.
Vance point blank said Good was responsible for making ICE officer Jonathan Ross shoot her through the windshield of her own car.
He called her “brainwashed” and “a victim of left-wing ideology.”
And more.
“I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement — a lunatic fringe — against our law enforcement officers,” Vance said.
He nearly broke out in his own version of “Cell Block Tango” by singing, out of tune, “She Had It Coming.”
A very large part of this musical farce, complete with ICE cosplay costumery and tough-guy — and for Noem, tough-lady — blocking and choreography is pegged to the idea that liberal complainers are the “enemy in the United States.”
Noem has made Minnesota protesters out to be “domestic terrorists.”
Have none of these people ever been to Minnesota, and especially Minneapolis? Even coming from the friendly West, I can’t help but marvel every time I’m there how cordial and polite everyone there seems to be. These are people who fight over who gets to turn last when they all get to a four-way stop-sign together.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, where Iranians are literally burning down that country in protest of their version of the Trump administration, Trump is threatening to start a war with his Iranian peers to protect those liberal domestic terrorists.
It isn’t that the nation’s threadbare threesome just doesn’t get it and keeps missing the point. They are trying to subvert how our nation’s police forces were created to operate.
Despite Herculean efforts by fog-headed conservatives to deny it, police, local or federal, can only enforce the law, they cannot define it or impose punishment.
That is the job of the courts. It’s that pesky separation of powers thing that keeps galling Trump and his acolytes.
It may well be that Good violated local, state or maybe even federal laws by interfering with police operations while she was protesting them. But even if the punishment for such scofflaw behavior was the death penalty, ICE agents don’t get to be the ones to impose it. Ever.
In journalism 101, we’re taught, as reporters, not to inaccurately promote the wrong-headed idea that cops decide what happens to criminals. To be sure, police cannot arrest someone “for” a crime. Doing such a thing would mean they were convicted by police for the alleged crime. Police arrest suspects “in connection” with a crime, and prosecutors — very, very separate from police — work to have a court — very, very separate from police — charge a suspect with a crime and decide their fate.
It’s not just semantics. It’s the very foundation of the American justice system. This is what set us apart from King George III.
Just as important, local and federal police are supposed to be trained to avoid mayhem and death while carrying out their duties.
No, really.
Aurora is the poster child of what happens when police aren’t trained to do that, or they don’t follow that training. Even after the catastrophe of police arresting and ultimately killing Elijah McClain for being Black and out walking at night in a sketchy part of town, the police department here continues to kill bad guys and just messed up guys while trying to enforce the law.
Law enforcement experts here and across the country never vary from the sage advice that police and the public are safest when cops plan, and think, and do all they can to prevent opportunities for violent confrontations.
What Noem’s cosplay clowns from ICE are doing is the opposite of sanctioned and logical police training. They have been directed to agitate the communities they strike in their very public, kinky, masked-up mayhem parades.
It’s like watching a third-rate video game, “Crawl of Doodie.”
Police and their bosses cannot decide who gets to decide to live or die. That’s what happens in Iran, Venezuela, Russia and China.
Would I advise anyone to intervene in a shambolic police operation from inside a car? Hell, no.
Would I advise an officer to race up to soccer-moms inside of cars and try and rip them out from behind the wheel at gunpoint?
No, because someone would almost certainly get wrongly shot and killed.
I’m not brilliant. I just know how police, law enforcement, the law and reality work.
Clearly, the Trumpster fire raging at the White House does not.
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The profile here is of a needy individual who seeks aspects of meaning in her life by caring for, protecting and “rescuing” others. We all know these types of individuals and they perform a valuable service in our communities. But sometimes, they place their own needs above those of society, and undermine normal law and order. In this case, spurred on by anti-ICE rhetoric by the Mayor, Governor and Democrat Party, chose illegal aliens as her target population to protect, and found purpose and “hero status” by physically resisting ICE officers in the performance of their duties. She crossed the line however, when she endangered the life of an officer by hitting the gas while an officer was in front of her vehicle, and paid the ultimate price with her life.
Well, left-wing Democrats now have their martyr, much like the right-wing Republicans had with Ashli Babbit; only Ashli did not have or use a weapon.
I’m sure Democrats will try to use this event to promote civil unrest in Minneapolis and other major cities. Much like Hamas, they are not particularly concerned with the loss of individual lives as long as it is for the greater cause of maintaining future Democrat Party power.
Governor Walz declared this a civil war against our Federal government. Well, civil wars have casualties – a few when war begins, and more as the war proceeds.
I notice Governor Walz is not out there risking his life by endangering the lives of Federal officers.
“Despite Herculean efforts by fog-headed conservatives to deny it, police, local or federal, can only enforce the law, they cannot define it or impose punishment.”
Translation: “Law enforcement officers should just let themselves be murdered by my rad-left allies because not letting them do anything they want is oppression.”
Oh grow up.
We recently watched “law enforcement” raid an apartment building in Chicago by rappelling down the walls after being dropped onto the building’s roof. Tom Cruise couldn’t have cosplayed better. Pathetic.
Though I don’t remember Cruise raiding hotels to find undocumented aliens. That script idea must have been nixed. Probably not sexy enough.
“Oh grow up.”
Take your own advice, Jeffy-poo. I hardly require a lesson in promoting high-trust societies from the likes of you, Perry, or any other commie subversive over the last 100 years. That record is already its own indictment.
Sir, you’ve outdone yourself. Calling Minneapolis a poster city for peace and love! Bravo, your ability to see through those rose colored glasses knows no bounds. What we do know is that she was sitting across that road for at least four minutes before the agent approached her drivers door. That’s on Video
We also know the other agent was just moving around her vehicle, We also know she put it in drive just as he was in front of her. All of this is without question.
Did she have any intention of killing him? No. But did the idea of doing away with one of the “enemy” maybe make her hit the gas a little harder? Think about that as you continue to inflame the idea among your folks that this is now an all out war.
Her blood is on your hands, along with everyone else who’s using virtual printers ink by the tanker truck load just to rile up these folks to believe this is something it’s not.
There’s usually some fault on both sides in these things. You can usually find places where the officer, in hindsight could have done this or that better. The problem is that the conduct by irrational people usually gives the officer little time to talk. This case is borderline. In borderline cases, I feel that we must give the officer the benefit of doubt. The lady reversed her car and turned the wheel and that helped put the officer in front of her car. She speed away while her spouse was trying to get into the car. Good officer training tells us that we should not stand in front of the car or shoot just to stop it. The lady excelerated with a human in front of the car. Do you do that? She is among a host of people who feel that they can violate laws and impede because she feels justified. It is a dangerous idea for everyone. The language in this editorial shows the problem with the rhetoric on both sides. Elijah McClain was not killed for being black. This woman was not killed for protesting. Their actions are a proximate cause of their deaths. We must learn to take an honest accountability for our actions. It is unfortunate when the combined circumstances result in death or injury. Although the police and law enforcement are poorly trained, the public and our officials never look at the leaders who are responsible for their training. The leaders always tell you how well trained they are. Bull pucky. Anyone in law enforcement who is honest will admit that the training is inadequate.
Aurora’s lack of training plays out repeatedly with no one questioning it.
Don – several comments. If you watch the video, you see he is at the front side; if you look at her front tires they are turned completely to the right to go around him. It appears to me the acceleration happened after she was shot. Administration officials state that the man was traumatized after being dragged by a car several weeks earlier. This happened and it is a sad thing to see; however, a responsible supervisor would have removed him from the front lines until it was certain he was over the trauma. You more than anyone knows that members of law forces are trained to ignore derogatory comments. The supreme court has ruled it is protected speech. We all want human traffickers and drug traffickers out of our country as well as illegals who break the law. I don’t see a well thought out plan to accomplish this. The recruiting public service announcements make it look like a war is being fought; and it is against us as Americans. Protests have been a part of the American landscape since the tea party to protest England’s taxes on us. It is spiraling out of control. The feds use illegal tactics and the protesters accelerate so the feds accelerate and the protesters accelerate. Although I think both are at fault, it upsets me to see a blanket defense of these federal agents who are poorly trained and who are led to believe they can do anything (including killing civilians) without repercussions.
Accelerated. Haven’t had coffee yet.
I was startled this morning to see that Google had marked the Sentinel as from “a potentially dangerous site”. Was it because of this story? Or perhaps because of the trolls?
Yes, “Reverend,” we realize how much it bothers you when your rad-left ideology is criticized and resisted.
“I’m not brilliant. I just know how police, law enforcement, the law and reality work.”
Mr. Perry, I just can’t believe you really believe that or put it to ink. I’ll take the first three words as reality but the rest I really doubt.