A fresh cellphone video capturing the perspective of the ICE agent involved in the shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota has demolished the narrative that Democrats and their allies had been aggressively promoting about the incident.
According to RedState, the footage directly contradicts the carefully curated storyline pushed by Democratic officials and left-wing activists on social media, who rushed to portray Good as an unarmed victim of federal brutality. Yet instead of acknowledging the full context, prominent Democrats appeared determined to ignore or distort reality, using their X accounts to inflame tensions and deepen public mistrust of law enforcement.
In one particularly egregious example, they circulated a graphic that omitted the critical fact that Good had struck the ICE agent, a detail central to understanding why the confrontation escalated.
That omission was not a minor oversight but a deliberate reframing, as the graphic instead implied that Good had said something non-confrontational and that gunshots suddenly followed without provocation. By stripping away the key facts and replacing them with a simplistic victim-oppressor script, Democratic operatives helped create the conditions for outrage in the streets, regardless of what the evidence actually showed.
Now the next phase has arrived the phase many on the left seemed to be agitating for from the start: crowds in the streets denouncing a supposed murder and targeting federal officers.
It does not matter to these agitators that the facts do not support the lie, or that the video undermines the claims they have been shouting through bullhorns and blasting across social media. The Democrats driving this narrative appear unconcerned with truth or public safety, so long as the outrage serves their broader ideological agenda.
On Friday night, that outrage manifested in a radical mob descending on downtown Minneapolis, roaming from hotel to hotel in search of ICE agents they had been conditioned to view as villains.
The crowd stormed The Depot Hotel, a historic property that suddenly became a staging ground for anti-ICE hysteria. Among the demonstrators, observers noted individuals openly carrying a flag for the Communist Party of the USA, underscoring how far-left elements have embedded themselves in these protests. One video from the scene captured the escalation: ?? Scene is escalating as black bloc has begun pounding windows. This is an orchestrated unlawful protest. Crowd is becoming volatile.
Another clip highlighted the ideological backbone of the event: Spotted organizing tonights protests in Minneapolis: the literal Communist Party. Heres the pin theyre handing out to match the flags theyre waving. @realDailyWire. Once inside and around the hotel, rioters overturned objects in front of the building, toppled items in the lobby, and scrawled F**k ICE across windows and doors, turning a private business into a canvas for their rage.
A separate report showed the moment the mob forced its way in: ?????? BREAKING: Antifa have breached the doors of this hotel in Minneapolis and have begun destroying the lobby.
With rumors circulating that ICE agents were staying at the downtown property, the mob settled in outside, determined to make the night as disruptive as possible. With ICE agents rumored to be staying at this downtown Minneapolis hotel, roughly 1,000 protesters are outside shining lights and making as much noise as possible including via bullhorn, trombone, drums and sax on a Friday night, one account noted.
The chaos soon spread to other locations, including the Canopy by Hilton Hotel, where the crowd again attempted to force its way inside.
When security personnel blocked their entry, one member of the mob allegedly spat on a guard, an incident captured and shared via an X link. Security staff, refusing to be intimidated, chased the intruders out as they tried to slip in through what appeared to be a back or employee entrance, demonstrating more courage and restraint than many elected officials who have been silent about the violence. Elsewhere, protesters resorted to crude tactics to keep up the harassment, banging on a dumpster in the belief they were keeping ICE agents awake.
??Minneapolis Minnesota: Protestors have now turned to dumpsters to continue the disruption for the night. @dittletv | @TPUSA, one post reported, illustrating the petty yet relentless nature of the intimidation campaign. As our sister site Townhall reported, the mobs hostility was not limited to hotels and dumpsters; they even turned on local law enforcement.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Police, including Chief Brian OHara, were just chased down and attacked by anti-ICE rioters while escorting a squad car out of the protest area, another video showed, as objects were hurled at officers simply trying to restore order.
Eventually, the police drew a line and declared the gathering an unlawful assembly, moving in with riot gear to clear the streets. BREAKING NEWS: Riot Police are now storming through the streets of Minneapolis. The protestors have been ordered to leave immediately as it has been deemed an unlawful assembly @dittletv | @TPUSA, read one on-the-ground update.
Most of the crowd dispersed under pressure, though some die-hards continued to cause trouble and were taken into custody as the night wore on.
What unfolded in Minneapolis is the predictable result of a narrative built on omission, distortion, and ideological hostility toward law enforcement and federal immigration officers. When political leaders and activists deliberately erase key facts such as the assault on the ICE agent and replace them with emotionally charged slogans about murder, they invite exactly this kind of mob behavior.
This is what the narrative has wrought: a city terrorized, businesses vandalized, police attacked, and federal agents hunted, all in service of a storyline that collapses under the weight of the full video evidence.
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