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I hold a research grant focused on vehicle ramming attacks, and I curate what I believe is the largest database of these incidents, more than 500 cases worldwide since 1987. 
As a result, I have watched more video footage of vehicle ramming attacks than most people ever will.

That is why I am going to be direct about what the available video shows in the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Based on the publicly available footage described by multiple outlets, I do not see indicators consistent with a deliberate vehicle ramming attempt.
When authorities claim “she tried to run over an officer,” they are not just offering an interpretation. They are trying to lock in a narrative that justifies lethal force after the fact.

What I see, and what is being described in reporting based on video review, looks like ambiguity and escalation, not a textbook ramming attempt. Reports indicate the agent was not in the vehicle’s direct path when shots were fired, and that at least some shots were fired from the side as the vehicle moved away.

This matters because I know what ramming attempts look like when they are real. 
Across hundreds of cases, intentional vehicle ramming attacks tend to leave a signature in the footage. 
* A purposeful approach line toward a person. 
* Commitment to that line. 
* Steering corrections that track a target.
* Acceleration and follow through.

Those indicators are the difference between “the vehicle moved” and “the vehicle was used as the weapon.” When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior.

~ Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, PhD
Associate Professor at the Royal Military College
of Canada [/quote]

So the ice agent should know what this expert knows?
I’m not defending the agent. I’m calling this out as a poor, specific argument.[/quote]

Everybody on this board would have avoided Good's car by just standing in place or taking a very casual step to the right. He's making the "fear for his life" defense because that's literally all he has. And it comes across as completely laughable to anybody who actually watches the video.[/quote]

You have no idea what anybody would do in that situation.

All these armchair critics, I swear.[/quote]

There wasn't even a reason to pull their service vehicles over and get out of their pick up trucks. It all went down from there. They could have just continued on to their break.[/quote]

I would love someone to address that. All the other cars went through. Why did they stop and force a confrontation?

They are not traffic cops so since she wasn't physically impeding them...

Any thoughts?[/quote]

They stopped because she was[b] creating a blockade and a road hazard[/b]. A car that is not disabled, and is parked perpendicular in the road both causes a back up, is suspicious, and a safety hazard.  They were absolutely right to investigate and tell her to move.  That is not normal behavior- to put your car sideways in the road and creates a hazard to all other drivers, not just law enforcement. [/quote]

That's why these highly trained ICE agents, after detaining the driver of a vehicle on a high-traffic road, left the vehicle in the road, in neutral, and it rolled and caused an accident. (I've seen video of the vehicles that collided with it, and it is included in the lawsuit filed by the state.) There are also reports of agents brake-checking cars and a video of them ramming a car at a red light (but not pursuing that vehicle, instead they turned onto antother road). [/quote]

They are going to wind up hurting someone totally uninvolved. [/quote]
They already have.[/quote]

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