Days after Renee Good’s murder, ICE agent threatens a woman filming him — ‘Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?’
They're inches away from explicit violence.
Just days after the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, a new video has surfaced revealing a troubling trend. An ICE agent appears to be using the spirit of Good’s death as a weapon against a woman recording him.
In the now-viral clip, a woman is filming ICE agents in public, exercising her rights under the First Amendment. Soon, an agent approaches her, and she shouts, “Shame on you!” But instead of de-escalating, the agent forces a chilling warning at her:
“Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?”
The ICE agent delivers the phrase as a threat, not as a neutral inquiry. That single line carries unmistakable subtext. Less than a week earlier, Renee Good was killed by a federal agent during an encounter where cameras were present. The invocation of “the past couple of days” is not casual commentary. It is intimidation.
The ICE agent asserts that Good’s murder should be a lesson
The woman, naturally frustrated with Good’s murder, only uttered “shame on you” toward the agent. After the agent’s threat, she asks him, “Learned what? What’s our lesson here? What do you want us to learn?” At no point did the woman physically engage with the agent. Yet, he resorts to aggression, snatching the woman’s phone violently. The video then ends abruptly.
This is not a benign encounter. The woman only exercised a lawful right to film federal agents in public. And yet the response was violence. The reference to recent events is also not contextualized by any legal basis. It is a psychological lever to scare people if they challenge or record federal enforcement.
Threats, intimidation, and property seizure are not lawful responses to a camera phone. Recording law enforcement in a public space is a well-established right under the First Amendment. And no statute gives the ICE agent the right to confiscate a civilian’s phone just because they’re recording.
The ICE seems to love to bully women
What the video shows is not a lawful arrest or detention. It is a personal escalation. The ICE agent is forcing his authority into a citizen’s day without probable cause, lawful warning, or constitutional grounding. What he meant by “the past couple of days” is clear to anyone paying attention: a federal agent just killed a U.S. citizen.
Instead of condemning violence or clarifying lawful boundaries, the agent in this video seems to be motivated by Good’s murder. Social media users responded with frustration at the agent’s conduct, where one pointed out, “They seem to love to pick on women.”
Another added how they’ve “lost count” of such videos where an “ICE agent acts in a completely unprofessional and aggressive manner.” They were also surprised by the agent’s “complete lack of composure and the knee-jerk violence”:
He is talking to her calmly and then, without warning, aggressively grabs her phone. These agents appear to have been poorly trained and have no idea how to talk to ordinary civilians without acting aggressively.
Clearly, the public is being reminded that cameras and criticism can provoke retaliation, and even prove fatal. That is not law enforcement, it is the enforcement of fear.
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