It’s a rare occasion when I base the title of one of my weekly offerings on a rap song.  I have long been of the opinion that it’s no coincidence that Rap rhymes with crap.  However, since the nation’s most influential DJ, John Donald Trump, has been known to play rap music,  I made an exception.

The song in question is Vanilla Ice’s, Ice, Ice baby.  Vanilla Ice actually performed at President Trump’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-A-Lago.  The reason why I know this is because I came across a media hit piece that criticized Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem for singing and dancing to the song at the party.

In the aftermath of the ICE shooting in Minnesota, I thought of Ice, Ice Baby because the song is about a shooting.

Gunshots raged out like a bell
I grabbed my 9, all I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper, the avenue’s packed
I’m trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene, you know what I mean?

I rest my case.  It’s no coincidence that Rap rhymes with crap.  In any case, the Minnesota shooting has some parallels with the son’s lyrics, which is not to trivialize the fact that an ICE protestor was killed.  The shooting didn’t have to happen, but the fact remains that it did happen because, and only because the woman, 37 year old Renee Nicole Good, deliberately obstructed and provoked the ICE officers who were lawfully on the scene trying to do their jobs.

Unsurprisingly, the lap dog media is trying to paint Ms. Good as an innocent motorist who just happened on the scene, and had no choice but to attempt to drive away.  She’s being cast as “the Minnesota mom,” much as Kilmar Abrego was called “a Maryland dad.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.

First of all, Good wasn’t from Minnesota, and wasn’t simply a motorist in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Depending on what report you want to believe, she either was from Colorado or Missouri.  A rabid anti-Trump activist, she and her significant other dutifully left the United States after the 2024 election, and moved to Canada for several months.  They came back, and settled in Minneapolis, for the purpose of obstructing ICE operations.

Rather than a simple Minnesota mom, Good was a rabidly anti-Trump radical who had been trained as an “ICE Watch warrior,” and presumably knew what she was doing when she behaved aggressively toward the officers.  I stress that this is not a rumor being spread by the Administration, it comes from one of her close friends, a woman named Leesa.

It seems that Good’s decent into anti-ICE mania was cultivated by her contacts within the charter school where she enrolled her 6 year old son.  The Southside Family Charter School is connected with “ICE Watch,” a group of local leftist activists devoted to disrupting ICE raids in the area.  This group has been known to use their vehicles as weapons against law enforcement.

Good’s friend Leesa said of her, “She was a warrior.  She died doing what was right.”  Leesa revealed that Good “was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training.  To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.”  Leesa added, “I know she was doing the right thing.  I watched the video plenty of times but I also know in my heart the woman she was, she was doing everything right.”

I guess Good’s anti-ICE training wasn’t thorough enough to include a lesson on not trying to run over the ICE officers when they order you to stop.  Or maybe she was absent that day, because that’s what happened in this case.  Good was described as the leader of the anti-ICE protestors who had been harassing the ICE officers all day long.  When one of the ICE vehicles got stuck in the snow, Good used her vehicle to box the officers in.

Video of the incident shows that officers tried to get Good out of her car.  “Get out of the car. Get out of the fucking car,” one agent was heard saying in the video as the group approached the vehicle on a snowy road in a suburban neighborhood.  The agent then grabbed the car’s door handle, and a bystander is heard yelling “No!” as the driver begins to move the car backward.

Another agent was seen circling the car just as it was moving, eventually standing in front of it just before it lunged forward.  He fired at least two shots at the driver as the car came towards him before moving out of the way as it continued moving forward, the footage shows. The car then veered off the side of the road and crashed into another vehicle.  The officer who fired the shots reportedly was dragged 50 years by a protestor’s car in Minnesota last June.

There will have to be a complete investigation of this incident, and likely a grand jury hearing.  That’s routine procedure.  However, the result likely will be a determination that this was a justifiable shooting.  I, unfortunately, have some experience with such incidents.

I was a prosecutor for 25 years.  On the day my oldest daughter was born in 1988, the State Police were conducting an operation to arrest a man on drug distribution charges.  The man used his pickup truck to try to run over two Troopers.  One of the Troopers shot and killed the driver.  The shooting was found to be justified.

But just as in the shooting in Minnesota, the 1988 shooting didn’t have to happen.  In each case, the driver of the vehicle set in motion the deadly result.  Police officers do not lightly resort to the use of deadly force.  They aren’t villains, they aren’t brutes, they are human beings, and taking a life takes a toll on them.

The Trooper who was forced to shoot the suspect in 1988 suffered an emotional breakdown, and required years of therapy before he could come back on the job.  In Minnesota, Ms. Good was a professional agitator who was trying to call attention to herself.  She succeeded.  Her actions are a symptom of the sickness that affects the Left.

These people truly believe that their anti-Trump, anti-ICE cause permits them to ignore all laws on the books.  ICE had and has every right to conduct its operation in Minnesota, or anywhere else in the country.  They are in the streets to arrest criminal illegal aliens who are involved in violent crimes. Leftists brand the ICE agents as terrorists.

The law clearly authorizes the use of deadly force when an officer’s life is endangered.  Leftists want to ignore that law as well.  And for what?  To oppose all things Trump, and to give aid and comfort to violent criminals who would just as soon kill one of the mindless protestors as an ICE officer.

The Biden Administration nurtured the notion that laws need not be enforced, when a leftist cause is at stake.  Soros financed prosecutors still practice this insanity.  The fact is that Ms. Good chose to give her life to protect illegal alien child molesters, who no doubt would victimize her 6 year old son if they got the chance.  If she was the saint they are making her out to be, she would be alive today, and her son wouldn’t be an orphan.  Here’s some good advice.  If you don’t try to run over a law enforcement officer, you won’t get shot.

I’m sorry if that sounds cold, but that’s the way it is.                                                  It’s ICE, ICE, Minne (too cold, too cold).