"Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law in July 2020 that clarifies the authorized use of deadly force by peace officers when faced with an imminent threat from a vehicle.
The law, specifically Minnesota Statutes § 609.066, states that if a driver accelerates toward an officer, it creates an immediate, life-threatening danger, and the officer does not need to wait for impact to act.
This statute is part of a broader set of police reform bills and has been a point of discussion in the context of recent incidents, including a deadly shooting involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis in January 2026.
The law is intended to provide clear guidelines for when an officer is justified in using force in such a situation, emphasizing the "objective reasonableness" standard and the immediate danger posed to the officer or others.
Yes. It was justified.
Was it strictly necessary? Probably not. The officer maybe could have jumped out of the way in time. Shooting her did not provide him the opportunity to not get hit by the vehicle. But he did not have a duty or responsibility to not shoot. He was justified by law to fire at her; according to both Federal and State law.
What could have prevented the situation?
Had Renee Good not been convinced by the media and Democrat politicians that there would be no consequences for blocking traffic, challenging ICE officers, interfering with ICE operations, and being a general pain in their ass all day, then she wouldn’t have placed herself in that situation.
When ICE officers had finally had enough of her jackassery and decided to detain her, had she put the vehicle in park and complied with their orders, they would have handcuffed her, and placed her in the back of a patrol car for an hour or so, then let her go when they were done with the operation.
But she decided that she was morally right and they were morally wrong, AND she believed that they couldn’t do anything to her, so she ignored their orders and accelerated her car at a Federal officer; which resulted in the utterly predictable outcome we all witnessed.
"When your identity is your ideology, congratulations—you've officially screwed yourself. It's not just an idea anymore. It's YOU. Challenge it? That's an attack. So you build a bubble: everyone agrees, hates the same people, collapses on cue. Facts die. Logic's dead"
-- George Carlin
