Newsmax host Greg Kelly was harshly criticized after he called the murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday "totally justified," and was swiftly fact-checked for claiming that the stickers on the back window of her car were for "various WACK JOB groups and affiliations."
On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claimed Good “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” But Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey pushed back against this narrative considering witnesses described seeing Good in the vehicle trying to flee officers when she was shot.
Kelly spoke about the shooting in a segment on Newsmax, advising viewers to "always comply" with law enforcement—and then he went on X to defend ICE and suggest Good was associated with threatening groups, pointing to the stickers on the back of her car.
Kelly wrote:
"TOTALLY JUSTIFIED SHOOTING!!!!!! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! (Curious about these Stickers on the Back of the Car. Various WACK JOB groups and affiliations? )"
However, an X Community Note points out that the stickers on Good's car were national park and wilderness stickers. One sticker is for Kansas City Current, a professional soccer team based in Kansas City, Missouri.
You can see his post and the stickers on Good's car in the photo below.
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Kelly was swiftly called out by one X user, who wrote:
"Those aren’t 'wack job groups.' They’re literally national park stickers. Rocky Mountain, Arches, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier, the kind of stuff normal people collect when they visit America’s parks. The KC one is Kansas City Current soccer. Renee was from KC."
"You’re desperately trying to paint a murdered mom as some radical terrorist over tourist souvenirs. That’s not journalism. That’s pathetic propaganda. The video shows the agent filming on his phone right before he executes her through the windshield while she’s driving away not ramming anyone."
"Stop the victim-blaming. Release the full footage. Let the facts speak instead of your imagination."
You can see their post below.
Others echoed these criticisms.
The Trump administration and their surrogates have justified the shooting by claiming that Good was a "domestic terrorist."
President Donald Trump himself said Good was “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”
Vice President JD Vance claimed that the officer who shot Good—who news outlets identified as longtime ICE agent Jonathan Ross—was merely "defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over."
However, Good's loved ones told reporters that she was not involved in any activism.
Good's ex-husband said she had never taken part in a protest during the years he knew her and had no criminal history beyond a parking ticket. Similarly, Good's mother Donna Ganger told reporters that her daughter was “not part of anything like that at all,” referring to protests against ICE.
