BREAKING: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing

Summary

Bulwark Takes — BREAKING: New Footage in Minneapolis Killing
Podcast Summary — January 9, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of Bulwark Takes is hosted by Tim Miller and centers around the newly leaked body cam footage showing the fatal shooting of Renee Goode by federal ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. The host provides a detailed, frame-by-frame breakdown of the incident captured on tape, arguing that the footage confirms this was an intentional and unjustified killing. The discussion responds to attempts in right-wing media to justify the agent’s actions, insisting on accountability and pushing back against efforts to reframe the narrative.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Context of the Leaked Video

• Leaked to Alpha News: Tim notes the footage was released to a right-wing outlet, Alpha News, yet believes it unequivocally incriminates the federal agent involved.
  • "It was leaked to Alpha News... which just shows you how far gone the MAGA media is on all this that they think we're about to show you in some way exonerates this guy. And boy, it's the exact opposite to me." (00:59)

2. Critique of Law Enforcement’s Presence and Approach

• The Bulwark team questions the legitimacy of ICE’s operation: why armed agents in masks were engaging with protesters peacefully exercising their rights.
  • "These guys had no business being in this neighborhood. They had no business pulling weapons or wearing masks or going after protesters who are exercising their first amendment rights." (02:00)

3. Detailed Breakdown of the Incident (Body Cam Review)

• Setup: Agent Ross is seen approaching Renee Goode's vehicle, where she’s sitting calmly with her dog in the backseat.
• Demeanor of Renee Goode: She remains calm, friendly, and non-threatening throughout the encounter.
  • Renee (on footage): "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you." (04:04)
  • "Twenty seconds after this, she's dead." — Tim Miller (04:06)
• Escalation: Other protesters are present, some making teasing, mildly confrontational remarks (e.g., “go get some lunch, big boy”), but there is no sign of violence or imminent threat.
• Critical Moment: Ross walks directly in front of the car, with a clear view of Renee turning the steering wheel away from him—not towards.
  • "She's turning the wheel, not towards him... She was turning the wheel to turn away from him. He can see that." (07:04)
• The Shooting: Agents shout “Get out of the car,” and without clear provocation, three gunshots are fired. Car pulls away, Renee Goode is fatally shot.
• Aftermath: Agent is heard saying, “fucking bitch,” after shooting her.
  • "They shoot her three times in the head and then say, ‘fucking bitch. Fucking bitch.’" (08:53)

4. Challenging the Official Narrative

• Tim contests the idea that Ross feared for his life:
  • "You're telling me this guy was scared for his life?... this car is barely moving. You're scared of this? You had to shoot three times?" (10:24)
  • "Like, what’s the worst thing that's going to happen? This guy, like, like some bruised quad, an adductor strain, like, are you shitting me?" (11:09)
• Compares this response to the restraint shown by Capitol Police during January 6th:
  • "Michael Fanone... got his ass beat at the Capitol... They didn't kill a single person outside." (11:24)

5. Strong Moral Stand Against the Killing

• The hosts demand accountability and reject efforts to minimize or excuse the killing.
  • "There should be a punishment for that, okay? You can't not listen to cops... But the punishment shouldn't be summary execution." (14:07)
  • "He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. No, no, no. We do not have to accept this. People should protest peacefully, should speak out about this..." (15:18)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• 00:59 — Tim Miller:
  "We have what appears to be leaked body cam video from the federal agent that murdered Renee Good. And to me, this body cam footage confirms that that’s exactly what happened."

• 04:04 — Renee Goode (via footage):
  "That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you."

• 08:53 — Tim Miller:
  "They shoot her three times in the head and then say, ‘fucking bitch. Fucking bitch.’"

• 11:07 — Tim Miller:
  "How big of wimps are all you people that are defending this and saying that this guy had legitimate fear for his life in that moment?"

• 13:39 — Tim Miller:
  "Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said, dude, I’m not mad. Other agents stormed her car. She was afraid. He walks around to the front. She turns her wheel to get away from him. You can see that clearly."

• 14:17 — Tim Miller:
  "But the punishment shouldn’t be summary execution on the street about getting like a little bumper car Nick, at worst case scenario at two miles an hour."

• 15:18 — Tim Miller:
  "He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. No, no, no. We do not have to accept this..."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:59 — Introduction to the leaked body cam footage
• 02:00 — Critique of law enforcement actions and context
• 04:04 — “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you” — Goode’s demeanor moments before death
• 07:04 — Detailed breakdown: turning the wheel away, not towards agent
• 08:53 — Aftermath: “fucking bitch” comment by agent after killing
• 10:24–11:23 — Host sharply rebuts “fear for life” justification; comparison to January 6th response
• 14:07–14:19 — Consequences and proportionality: “summary execution” versus appropriate response
• 15:18 — Final plea for action, protest, and refusing to accept the killing

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Tone and Takeaways

The tone is urgent, outraged, and unyieldingly critical. The host insists the available footage makes clear that this was not a justifiable act of self-defense, but a summary execution. The episode closes with a demand for accountability and a call to not be "gaslit" by attempts to frame the killing in less damning terms.

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For listeners seeking a concise, pointed breakdown of the body cam footage and its implications, this episode is an unflinching, morally urgent analysis calling for accountability and justice in the face of state violence.

Transcript

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[B]

Hey everybody, it's Tim Miller from the Bulwark. We have what appears to be leaked body cam video from the federal agent that murdered Renee. Good. And to me, this body cam footage confirms that that's exactly what happened. Interestingly, it was leaked to Alpha News, which I'm not familiar with, which appears to be a right wing site which just shows you how far gone the MAGA media is on all this that they think we're about to show you in some way exonerates this guy. And boy, it's the exact opposite to me. So it's a 47 second video. Fair warning, you know, I just. Because we know it happens to her, it is traumatizing to see it this close up. You don't, there's no blood or, you know, you don't see anything graphic. But I did want to warn people I'm going to go through it very slowly because this body cam footage I think gives us the best perspective on like what it felt like to be.

[C]

In that moment in that scenario.

[B]

I have from the start been of the view that like these frame by frame analysis of this is stupid because these guys had no business being in this neighborhood. They had no business pulling weapons or wearing masks or going after protesters who are exercising their first amendment rights. Like just the whole, like whether which way she turned her wheel or whatever was like never really that important to me because in a free country, a citizen of the state should not fear that agents are going to go surround her car when she's not breaking any laws and then shoot and kill her when she tries to leave. So that's my perspective on this. But I think that because there's a lot of discussion on this, because the vice president's obsessed with this, Vice president's tweeted this exact video. As a matter of fact, I think it's important to go through it second by second, because it reveals the most clearly to me that this was an intentional killing and that the perpetrator should be prosecuted. So let's do it. We start here, just to kind of get your bearings. We're about 30 seconds before the ICE agent fires his weapon. He's walking around the vehicle with Renee Goode in the driver's seat and her dog in the backseat. So let's watch a little bit.

[D]

That's fine, dude. I'm not medical.

[B]

Right? So you can see there the ice agent, Jonathan Ross, the one that kills Renee Goode. Jonathan Ross gets out of the car. He sees the dog in the back seat of the Honda Pilot there. And then he walks around the front of the car, at which point, with her window down, Rene says to him that, that's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. Very calmly, she smiles. Let's actually play that one more time.

[D]

That's fine, dude. I'm not mad.

[B]

I think that's very important. 20 seconds after this, she's dead. She looks at him very calmly, window down, dog in the back of the car. That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. So that.

[C]

That does not seem like a menacing.

[B]

Person at that point.

[C]

This does not seem like.

[B]

It's not like he comes around the car and it's somebody with a bunch of tattoos on his face, on their face, and they see a weapon, you know, in the driver's seat. You know, it's not somebody that's, like, raging, yelling at him, fuck you, ICE agent. I want to take you out. Like, none of that. Calmly, she smiles. That's fine, dude. She says specifically, I'm not mad at you. Twenty seconds later, he kills her.

[D]

Show your face. I'm not mad at you.

[B]

That's okay.

[D]

We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later.

[C]

I.

[A]

That's fine.

[D]

U.S. citizen.

[B]

Former.

[D]

You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I said, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

[B]

Go ahead.

[E]

Out of the car. Get out of the car.

[B]

Okay, so After Good tells Ross that she's not madam, he walks around the back of the car, encounters someone else who's there with her. And she. She's a little bit more aggressive, tells him that she's a U.S. citizen. There's somebody shouting that they should take off their mask. And he comes back around towards his car, back towards the front of the vehicle, at which point she's saying, hey, big boy, go get some lunch. Teasing him a little bit. She's obviously taping him. He's obviously taping her back. So, like, that's. That's what happens this next 18 seconds. So he encounters Renee Good. She very calmly says she's not mad at him, indicates she wants to get out of there. He sees the dog. He sees the other person. There are other protesters that are shouting. There's some sirens. And he gets. He gets teased a little bit. Who knows whether that affects his psyche? But he does get teased again. He gets called big boy by someone else. Not the person he murders, but by someone else. And now the next 10 seconds is where tragedy ensues.

[E]

Get out of the car.

[B]

See here in the distance, the other officers approaching Renee Good. And they are shouting. The one guy that I can hear, they're shouting, get out of the car. Get out of the car. Ross comes to join them. He walks in front of the car. Okay? He was. He was off to the side. He walks right in front of the car, and you can see clearly on his body cam footage that he can see the driver. Now I want to pull up this one frame. He can see two things clearly. Number one, Ross is in front of the car, and he can see Renee.

[C]

Goode turning the wheel.

[B]

Okay? She's turning the wheel, not towards him, right? He's right in front of the car. If she wanted to ram him over.

[C]

She would have just pressed on the.

[B]

Gas and she could have rammed him over right there. Okay? But she wasn't doing that. She was turning the wheel to turn away from him. He can see that it's right there.

[C]

We can just see it's point blank.

[B]

The windshield isn't dirty or doesn't have sleet on it. He can see very clearly Renee Goode right before she dies, turning the wheel away from him while he's standing right in front of her. He can also see that this other woman is trying to get in the car. So again, it's not a situation where it's like, oh, these are agitators. They're both in the car and they are revving their engines and trying to come after up. No, it's like. It's like the passenger is trying to get in the car. The dog is in the backseat.

[C]

The car is stopped. She's turning the wheel.

[B]

He can see that clearly right before he shoots her. So let's watch the last few seconds.

[E]

Get out of the car.

[B]

In the last few seconds. You see his body cam get jarred. You hear the. The three gunshots, and you see the car pull away. And then what do you hear? That's what Jonathan Ross or one of the other ICE agents says about Renee. Good. After they execute her in the head, they shoot her three times and kill her with her dog in the backseat with her kids, toys in the passenger seat.

[C]

They shoot her three times in the.

[B]

Head and then say, fucking bitch. Fucking bitch.

[C]

You're telling me that's not a murder?

[B]

We walk off after the car and let her bleed out? You're telling me this guy was scared for his life?

[C]

By the way, I want to play.

[B]

This one more time.

[C]

I want to play it at full.

[B]

Speed, at real life speed, not slow mo. Not frame by frame, real life speed. I want to play this one more time, starting from the moment where he starts walking in front of the car to when he sees her turn the wheel, to when he shoots her and murders her. Let's watch it one more time. Go ahead.

[E]

Get out of the fucking car. Get out of the car.

[C]

Are you kidding me?

[B]

You wusses and all you and all you tough guys on the Internet, all you alpha macho guys.

[C]

This car isn't even moving. Like, this car is barely moving. You're scared of this. You had to shoot three times. I mean, like, this is something you do with, like, your teen kid who's. Who's screwing around. You kind of, like, press the gas a little bit while they're not getting in the car. Like, you're afraid that you're gonna die in that moment. Let's watch it again. Go ahead.

[E]

Get out of the fucking car. Get out of the car.

[C]

You're telling me this guy was afraid he was gonna die? Like, the car is barely moving. Like, even if it did hit him, you just kind of move off to the side like, she had no space. It's not like there's any space for her to jam on the gas and run him over and trample him. Like, how big of wimps are all you people that are defending this and saying that this guy had legitimate fear for his life in that moment? Like, what do you do? You guys get scared walking down the street In a neighborhood when cars are going 15 miles an hour, you jumping by, jumping behind the bushes to try to get away from them. Like, how do you guys live a life? How do you survive in society if you're so scared and you're so trigger.

[B]

Happy, you have to shoot somebody when.

[C]

Their car is moving like three miles an hour, two inches in front of you? Like, what's the worst thing that's going to happen? This guy, like, like some bruised quad, an adductor strain, like, are you shitting me? Are you shitting?

[B]

Are you.

[C]

These fucking people are gaslighting us into thinking that this guy had to murder someone. In this moment, Michael Fanone, my friend Michael Fanon got his ass beat at the Capitol. He got his ass beat. People were tasing at them. People were hitting them with poles. There was a mob trampling them. They didn't kill a single person outside.

[B]

They were trying to compare this to Ashley Babbitt happened inside, like.

[C]

Sick Nick, who's dead now? Like, these Capitol police got, got trampled. They didn't kill anybody. This guy was scared because when he saw the wheel turn, the car going two miles an hour right in front of. Are you fucking kidding me? Like, cops put themselves on the line every day. They're. The cops are in more danger than this every day across this country. Every day. Okay?

[B]

It's a hard job. It's a real job. I respect people that do law enforcement, okay, do it the right way, want to serve their community, want to protect people. I have nothing but respect. All right?

[C]

This is a scary country.

[B]

A lot of weapons are everywhere.

[C]

Okay, I get it. If you're a cop and it's like you're in an unknown situation, you're walking.

[B]

Into a, you know, a drug den, you know, you're walking into a house, you have a warrant where there's gang activity.

[C]

You don't know if people behind that.

[B]

Door, you're carrying weapons, all right?

[C]

You know, you're pulling over a car.

[B]

And the suspect has, you know it to be a violent criminal, come out to the window.

[C]

I understand that sometimes cops have to live in fear. That's scary. This wasn't fucking scary. There was nothing scary about this situation. This, this lady told him, she was like, dude, I'm not mad at you. 20 seconds earlier, a 37 year old lady in a Beanie in a Honda.

[B]

Pilot with stuffies in the passenger seat.

[C]

You thought this lady was a crazed murderer. She talked to you. She just talked to you.

[B]

I will not be fucking gaslight by these people.

[C]

And I will not calm down the.

[B]

Rhetoric and tone it down and be like, oh, you gotta understand the other perspective.

[C]

Jonathan Ross murdered her. She talked to him calmly, said, dude, I'm not mad. Other agents stormed her car.

[B]

She was afraid.

[C]

He walks around to the front. She turns her wheel to get away from him. You can see that clearly.

[B]

He can see it clearly.

[C]

She goes to get away from him.

[B]

You hear sounds. Maybe again, maybe it did bump into him.

[C]

Not good, by the way. She should get a. There should be punishment for that, okay? You can't not listen to cops, all right? You can't bump into a cop with your car.

[B]

You can't do that. There should be a punishment for that.

[C]

But the punishment shouldn't be summary execution.

[B]

On the street about getting like a little bumper car Nick, at worst case scenario at two miles an hour. And like, seriously, I've seen more violent attacks at the bumper cars at Carousel Gardens than that. All right, like, this is fucking insane, okay? I will not, I will not abide any efforts to be like, oh, you have to feel bad for this guy, or oh, shoot, it was a tough call in this moment.

[C]

We all are watching this. This is not a tough call. If I'm carrying a weapon and I.

[B]

Just Talked to a 37 year old lady and a Honda pilot and she said, I'm not mad at you, dude. Smiled. And then some other people start yelling at her and she goes to turn her car away from me and it's like right in front of me and she's going two miles an hour.

[C]

I'm not going to take out my.

[B]

Fucking weapon and shoot her in the.

[C]

Head three times and then call her.

[B]

A fucking bitch after I killed her. He orphaned her child. He orphaned her child and called her a fucking bitch after he killed her. No, no, no. We do not have to accept this. People should protest peacefully, should speak out about this. But do not let Donald Trump and J.D. vance and Kristi Noem and these thugs try to convince you that this is anything other than murder, because that's what it is.