The morning of January 7, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Renee Good was shot while in the driver’s seat of her Honda Pilot by Jonathan Ross, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Given the political implications of the shooting — it happened while ICE agents were carrying out an operation, which anti-ICE activists were trying to disrupt — that’s about all anyone on opposing sides of the illegal immigration debate could agree on.

Otherwise, the shooting was a Rorschach test. Do you see a justified use of lethal force in response to a legitimate threat on an officer’s life, or an act of state murder?

There were plenty of cameras on the scene. The first video seemed to show a woman waving traffic around her car and then attempting to drive away from ICE agents before being shot. As more video emerged, including cellphone footage from Agent Ross’s perspective, the narrative of ‘Good as innocent bystander’ grew more complicated. Collectively, the footage demonstrates that Good obstructed a law enforcement operation and hit an officer with her car.

It’s a running theme when it comes to law enforcement and bodycam footage — although Ross’s video was taken with the cellphone he was holding in his hand — that perps who otherwise might have been perceived as perfectly “innocent” often turn out, with the revelation of additional footage, to be less innocent after all.

I’m actually quite well-versed in the bodycam genre. The more I watch, the more it seems bodycams, introduced a decade ago, have only succeeded in recording perps acting against their own best interests.