Fox News Predicts Mass Suicide by ICE
A condensed overview of 23 hours of Fox News for the week ending 1/11/26
Last Wednesday a 37-year-old mother of three, Renee Good, was shot and killed in her car by an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A video captured by a bystander of the incident immediately went viral along with footage taken from other angles. Fox News reacted immediately by blaming Democratic lawmakers and the woman herself.
The Trump administration also promptly blamed Good and cleared the agent of any wrongdoing despite the lack of an investigation into the incident.
According to the government Good purposefully tried to ram Ross with her car. Many experts, from multiple media outlets, concluded that the Trump administration’s official explanation of the event doesn’t line up with the video evidence.
In nearly every case of a fatal shooting by law enforcement state or federal authorities would at least launch some type of investigation into the incident before making any public declarations.
In this case an unarmed woman was shot in broad daylight in front of multiple witnesses and the Trump administration called her a domestic terrorist before her body was cold.
The federal government has taken steps to prevent officials in Minnesota from conducting their own investigation.
The folks at Fox News were more than happy to attack Good’s character and repeat the Trump administration’s talking points. Jesse Watters even took things further when he predicted a wave of suicidal leftist activists sacrificing their lives to make a political point.
No one disputes that after Good was shot three times in a matter of seconds some of the ICE agents fled the scene, including the shooter, and that it took Emergency Medical Services six minutes to administer aid to a U.S. citizen who was killed by the hand of an immigration and customs enforcement agent.
After the shots were fired and Good’s car drove out of control an agent, some have disputed that it was Ross himself, called the young mother a “f*cking bitch.”
Government officials have since reported that Ross suffered internal bleeding from the incident. In the video evidence he walks away seemingly unharmed. He showed no signs of injury. It’s not even clear in the video evidence if he was struck by the car.
I’m not a criminal forensics expert but The NY Times did do an exhaustive analysis of the first video that was shot by a bystander you can find it here.
Fox programs I watched and analyzed last week:
Fox & Friends
The Five
The Ingraham Angle
Jesse Watters Primetime - Tuesday - Friday
Hannity - Tuesday - Friday
Jesse Watters Wins the Award for the WORST Person on Fox News
Predictably the folks at Fox News disparaged the character of Renee Good - a young mother of three children. The world knew very little about Good until after she was shot in the face three times by an ICE agent.
Jesse Watters wasn’t the only Fox News personality who trashed Good. He just decided her sexual orientation and past marriages were relevant to the reasons she was shot.
“The woman who lost her life was a self-proclaimed poet from Colorado with pronouns in her bio, a 37-year-old white woman named Renee Good. The Daily Mail says she leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage,” said Watters Wednesday night on Jesse Watters Primetime.
By Thursday on The Five Watters pivoted to show false concern for a stranger.
“This is a woman who was in severe crisis. She lived a very sad and very chaotic life. She was divorced from her first husband and lost custody of her two kids. Another husband, she lost him. Then she gets involved with a female partner. They flee the country to Canada after the election.”
Good’s second husband is deceased, a detail Watters could have easily included, but instead he decided to use the term - lost. It certainly wasn’t her fault that her spouse died.
Watters is also divorced. He has children with two different women.
Millions of Americans are divorced. Plenty of folks have children with more than one partner. It’s no indication that they are unhinged mentally or emotionally unstable.
Watters famously publicly cheated on his first wife which a much younger co-worker. His twin daughters were quite young when his infidelity caused his first marriage to fall apart.
He also ‘joked’ on The Five in 2022 that he intentionally let the air out of his second wife’s tires so she would be forced to ask him for a ride home. This would have been while he was married with two young children.
Watters has also shared with the Fox News audience that his mother wouldn’t invite him or his family to a Thanksgiving celebration. He has spoken about his strained relationship with his mother for years.
Watters is in no position to judge anyone else’s personal life.
Later that night on Jesse Watters Primetime Watters described Good as a social justice activist.
“One of the moms described Renee as an anti-ICE warrior. Is this what led her to chop her hair off and drop her kid off at school, and stalk ICE agents all morning until her life came to a tragic end?”
Watters included a photo of Good with short hair smiling with her partner. The length of her hair has absolutely no relevance to her death.
“This was a woman in crisis, living a chaotic life on the fringes,” said Watters.
Are lesbians with short hair really living life on the fringes? It looked more like she was living in a fairly nice residential area of Minneapolis.
The next night on The Five Watters repeated some of his untrained psychoanalysis about a woman he knew very little about. This time he included her partner.
“They were hard core trained anti-ICE agitators . . .If you watch the full video, you can see the partner, egging this guy on, calling him fat. I mean, these are not innocent women, and they don’t deserve to be shot for insulting this ICE officer. But when you’re driving a car right at them, these things can happen.”
In the video Good was turning her wheels away from the officer when she was shot.
“Trump and Noem, they are surging forces into these cities, and they’re not going to tolerate crazy women putting themselves in the middle of a dangerous law enforcement operation, where these guys are trying to go into these homes and pull out gangsters and drug traffickers. This is not a peaceful protest. If it was a peaceful protest, I’d say, fine, go out, hold a sign, blow a whistle. They’re getting in these guys faces. They’re punching him in the face. They’re kicking him. They’re screaming. They have no right to do that. That is actually an illegal act. And then ICE has to get much tougher. ICE is too nice,” said Watters.
There’s no evidence that Good or her spouse punched or kicked anyone. Insulting or taunting ICE officers is not a crime. Screaming or speaking loudly at law enforcement agents is also not illegal.
Later in the week a video from the ICE agent’s phone was released. In the footage Good says, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” She was smiling as she spoke.
Within seconds of the brief interaction, she was shot three times in the face. One bullet pierced the extreme bottom of her front windshield; the second two bullets pierced the driver’s side window.
The agent, who officials claim was in fear for his safety, also managed to hold a cell phone with one hand with shooting through Good’s car with another.
Jesse Watters - Suicide by ICE
On Friday on Jesse Watters Primetime Watters went to an incredibly dark place.
Suicide by cop is a rare form of provoked homicide that involves a deeply disturbed individual often suffering from severe mental illness who purposefully threatens a cop in the hopes that the officer will take their life.
Jesse Watters laid track for any future ICE agent killings when he declared that activists will purposefully put themselves in harm’s way in as a means of protest.
“So now that we understand the strategy, we have to realize the left’s tactics. They’re only going to get more aggressive. They’re going to drive more cars into ICE. They’re going to throw their bodies into ICE cars. They’re going to spit kick. It’s going to look like a UFC fight. It’s going to look like demolition derby. Suicide by ICE. That’s what you’re going to start seeing. So they can frame the federal government as a murderous dictatorship and then take any means necessary to end it.
The Trump administration has to be vigilant about all ongoing ICE operations. They need to start setting up perimeters around entire blocks. Boosting manpower. Providing backup for the safety of the ice officers and the agitators. Because these guys want blood. That’s what they’ve said. We can’t give it to them. They want a civil war. They’ve said that. Can’t give it to them. So be calm. Be professional. You anticipate that people are going to start throwing themselves in front of cars. You anticipate there’s going to be more blockades. They’re going to get more aggressive,” said Watters.
Dozens of videos have circulated on social media that feature ICE and CBP agents dragging people out of cars, smashing windows, pulling children away from their parents and generally terrorizing communities.
Even this week Fox News included footage shot by FreedomNews.TV that showed ICE agents indiscriminately spraying what looked like pepper spay at unarmed nonviolent protesters.
Watters has flipped the script. The masked armed agents are victims of an unhinged radicalized mob who want to kill themselves for a cause.
So far ICE agents have had at least 16 shooting incidents during Trump’s second term.. Last year 32 people died in ICE custody.
Source - “2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody.” The Guardian, January 6, 2026.
According to reporting by The Guardian:
“They died of seizure and heart failure, stroke, respiratory failure, tuberculosis or suicide. Some died at ICE detention centers and field offices, others after they had been transferred to hospitals, but were still under ICE custody. In some cases, their families and lawyers have alleged, they died of neglect, after repeatedly trying and failing to get medical care.”
By December the agency had 68,440 people in detention. December was the deadliest month of the year with a total of six deaths. According to The Guardian nearly 75% of those held in detention had no known criminal record.
Hannity - Poor ICE
On Wednesday Sean Hannity had a very different take on the killing of Renee Good. The far more experienced host did not attack Good’s character.
Instead, he portrayed all ICE agents as victims while placing the blame on Democratic elected officials.
“At this hour, we are monitoring the ground in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where tensions are extremely high and federal officials have come under attack. Well, thanks in part to Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other far left Democrats who are literally and have been fanning the flames of unrest now, baselessly in this case demonizing ICE agents and, as per usual, lying to their unhinged base and the entire country.”
Paul Mauro - This Killing Is All to Distract from the Fraud Cases in Minnesota
On Thursday on Fox & Friends while being interviewed by Griff Jenkins, Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector, claimed the uproar surrounding Good’s killing was really a means to distract from fraud cases in the state.
Mauro: But also show the protesters if the regular police department, who handles crowd control all the time, had gotten there, set up barriers, get people out of the way, let ICE do what they’re going to do or let ICE leave. None of this happens.
Jenkins: To that point in the last 15 seconds have got. Do you believe that the rhetoric from Democrat leaders like Frey or Governor Walz set into this tense situation?
Mauro: I think that Frey and the whole crew up there got the city burnt down once, and I guess that wasn’t enough. That’s number one. And number two, anybody who believes that this is not intended to shake some of the heat off of them relative to the Somali fraud, is not paying attention.
Minneapolis was not burnt down during the riots and protests surrounding the police murder of George Floyd.
Greg Gutfeld Kept Saying Democrats Wanted an ICE Murder
Wednesday - The Five
“What do you expect? You amplify a directive that is designed to do one thing, which then becomes the rallying cry for more chaos. You get the new Michael Brown, the new George Floyd, the new Kent State,” said Gutfeld.
Thursday - The Five
“I use that term AWFLs in humor, the affluent white female liberal. Well, that comedy turned to tragedy because it was egged on by people who only use these women as props. They put them out front because visually, it’s a great statement when they get when they get touched by a police officer. They did. They did. They do this in all in all protests. You shouldn’t be mad at ICE. You should be outraged at those who foment these moments with the purpose of leading to chaos and death. All these videos contain white liberal women. Why isn’t anybody talking about this? Screw the fake empathy about the dead mom from all these mayors and all these talking heads. If they had sincere empathy, they would ask that question. If you had sincere empathy, you would want to ask, why are there so many liberal white women?
This was all a setup. It may not have been her that maybe they were hoping for a Black woman. Probably it would have been better if it wasn’t her. Believe me, they are not unhappy this mother is dead. She is being used. The goal was to get somebody killed. Create a spectacle that explodes. So, you have riots. So, you have protests. And hopefully in some minds revolution. A lot of these people, they’re not against ICE. They’re against all law enforcement . . .She is being used. The goal was to get somebody killed, create a spectacle that explodes,” said Gutfeld.
Friday - The Five
Dana Perino: Jennifer Welch, the very left wing one. She said that this is a George Floyd moment. It’s like that’s what they want.
Gutfeld: That’s what they wanted. Exactly.
Jessica Tarlov - The Lone Voice for Renee Good
On Thursday on The Five, Jessica Tarlov, the liberal voice on the show, was the only person to point out a lot of the discrepancies between the video evidence of the killing of Renee Good and the government’s version of the shooting.
“So, Jesse, you just said this woman is in severe crisis. She was boxed in. If you watched the whole video. . .Okay? The team was boxed in. She moved over to the side, and then she actually waves another ICE officer past her. Right.
So, she’s in such severe crisis that she can be polite in traffic and say, you go ahead, and then you hear her actually audibly saying, ‘I’m pulling out, right?’ She she signals exactly what she’s doing. She starts to move forward and everyone should go and watch The New York Times has about 3.5 minutes of footage coming from every angle.
And this is what they brought up to President Trump when they were meeting with him last night when he said, you know, the officer, the brave officer. And after he tweeted, I, I it’s hard to believe that the officer is alive when he walked away completely unscathed. We can see that on video as well. But the footage contradicts the administration on almost every level of what they’ve said.
Renee Good, waving the vehicle by. The officer was to the side of the car when he drew the gun. He leaned over the hood for the first shot. You can see that on the angle, too, that he fired two more shots at arm’s length on a 90-degree angle, and it almost doesn’t matter actually what she was doing because she didn’t have another weapon.
According to DOJ policy, which they should be in compliance with. It says deadly force may not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect. Firearms must be discharged at a moving vehicle unless the person is threatening deadly force by other means than the vehicle, and no other means of defense exist, including moving out of the path.
He could clearly move out of the path because he did, and that’s why he was unscathed in this. I don’t know why it wasn’t good enough for Secretary Noem, or the president or the vice president to say, this is a tragedy. We need to investigate this. And not only do we need to investigate it, we need the FBI to work with local officials on the ground in Minnesota, which apparently they do not want to do.
And Governor Walz was talking about that as well. That would have been the responsible thing to do here, and talking as if there is no potential that this officer is at fault with what happened. It feels like you’re getting a little bit ahead of your skis, especially when there is so much footage that contradicts the story that the administration is getting,” said Tarlov.
Stories Fox News Ignored
Every week I compare the hours I’ve watched on Fox News to five hours of the PBS News Hour. The following list are stories that PBS covered that Fox News did not. Source - PBS News Hour transcripts.
It’s been five years since a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to disrupt the certification of the presidential election that he lost. PBS produced a segment on the misinformation promoted by President Trump to re-write history surrounding the violent riot. White House correspondent Liz Landers interviewed the former leader of the Proud Boys along with others who had gathered in the capital to commemorate the day. (PBS News Hour)
In Wyoming, abortion will remain legal after that state’s Supreme Court struck down two laws it found unconstitutional. That includes the nation’s first ban on abortion pills. The justices sided with Wyoming’s only abortion clinic and others who argued that adults have the right to make their own health care decisions.
The ruling means the state remains one of more than two dozen states across the country, plus Washington, D.C., that allow abortions up to 20 weeks of pregnancy or later. Wyoming’s Republican governor says he will push for a constitutional amendment banning abortion that would go before voters this fall. (PBS News Hour)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down with its final edition due in May. The family-owned company that runs the paper, Block Communications, pointed to mounting losses, saying it’s lost $350 million over the past 20 years. It also cited a recent court ruling that would have required the paper to operate under what it called an outdated labor contract. (PBS News Hour)
Last Thursday in Ukraine, Russia’s military struck energy targets causing massive blackouts. The attacks affected two southeastern regions, with a local official saying it was the widest blackout since the start of the war. The city of Dnipro was plunged into darkness, even as the region is bracing for colder weather. Ukrainian officials have condemned what they call Russia’s strategy of weaponizing winter. Ukraine’s energy minister says power has been restored to one of the affected regions. (PBS News Hour)
Last Friday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia’s use of a new hypersonic missile was meant to send a message to other European nations. Fragments of the Oreshnik missile were found in the Western city of Lviv near the Polish border. It’s only the second time that Russia has used such a weapon against Ukraine. And it comes as Ukraine and its allies reported progress on security guarantees. Moscow says it was retaliation for an attempted strike on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences last month, which Ukraine has called a lie. In his evening address, Zelenskyy said that European cities could be next. (PBS News Hour)
In Gaza last Friday loved ones grieved the deaths of 13 people who officials say were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes. Israel’s army says that it targeted Hamas operations and that the strikes were a response to a failed projectile launched by militants. Meantime, former U.N. diplomat Nickolay Mladenov met with senior Palestinian officials in the West Bank. He’s been tapped for President Trump’s so-called Board of Peace, which Trump himself is heading. He’s expected to announce the rest of the board this week. (PBS News Hour)
Eva Schloss, Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank, has died. Schloss was born in Vienna in 1929. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, she and her family fled to the Netherlands, where Schloss became friends with her neighbor, Anne Frank. Their families both hid from the Nazis, but were eventually captured and sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Schloss and her mother were the only survivors in her family, a reality she was “never quite able to accept.” Schloss reflected on her personal tragedies in 2019. After the war ended, Eva Schloss’ mother married Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father. In her later years, Schloss lived in the U.K. with her husband and three children and became a prominent Holocaust educator and author. Eva Schloss was 96 years old. (PBS News Hour)
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