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Walz Rages That Feds Won’t Share Evidence In ICE Shooting After Forbidding His Law Enforcment From Cooperating With ICE

Updated: GOVERNMENT

Tim Walz is an enigma wrapped in a riddle surrounded by a question mark and topped with a heaping dose of hypocrisy. The guy is a left-wing mess and he embodies every single thing that is wrong with the modern Democratic Party.

Walz is also a man who openly declared “war” on federal immigration enforcement officials on the same day a woman who appeared to be trying to run over Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with her SUV was shot and killed in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, by the way, is a de jure sanctuary city, meaning it does not cooperate with federal immigration officials.

Minnesota itself is a de facto sanctuary state, with a legal opinion from the attorney general earlier this year strongly advising jurisdictions on a policy of non-cooperation. Walz is now busy raging that the same federal officials that his people won’t work with won’t share all the information he wants about the shooting of Renee Good, implying — using inflammatory language yet again, with even more reason to believe that it might lead to violent consequences — that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “is judge, jury, and basically executioner.”

And to think: just over a year ago, Democrats were prepared to place this man one heartbeat away from the presidency.

As the facts emerge, the gap between rhetoric and reality only widens. Renee Good, 37, was interfering with a federal enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when officers instructed her to move her vehicle. Video evidence shows an agent positioned directly in front of the SUV as Good shifted the vehicle from reverse into drive and began accelerating toward him. Shots were fired moments later.

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Good was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead:

While the shooting of Renee Good is unquestionably tragic and deserves a thorough investigation, there’s a compelling reason Gov. Tim Walz should not be front and center in this matter — beyond his repeated attempts to cast it as “George Floyd 2.0.”

Minnesota has become national news not just for this incident, but for the massive fraud and entitlement abuses that have drawn federal scrutiny. Federal prosecutors say Minnesota’s social services system, including Medicaid and other programs, has been riddled with fraud — so much so that they’re auditing 14 “high-risk” programs and billing more than $18 billion since 2018, with estimates that half or more could be fraudulent.

That’s not a small scandal hidden in the background. It’s a historic breakdown of oversight under Walz’s watch — and he spent much of the early controversy downplaying or disputing even the federal government’s estimates, framing figures like $9 billion as “sensationalized” rather than confronting the problem head-on.

When questions about fraud were raised — and continued to mount — Walz didn’t lead a strong accountability effort; he demanded that people to stop asking questions. According to commentary now circulating on this topic, that reflex left Minnesota vulnerable and fueled political backlash, to the point Walz recently announced he won’t seek a third term.

Then, when federal immigration agents actually carried out enforcement actions in Minnesota, Walz went beyond mere criticism and openly described the relationship between his state and federal authorities as “a war” — language more evocative of Orval Faubus or George Wallace at their most defiant than a governor in a constitutional republic. That’s the same kind of rhetoric Southern Democrats once used to reject Brown v. Board of Education as merely a suggestion — something they were prepared to fight tooth and nail rather than accept:

And then, on Thursday, he did what Democrats always do: he turned around and demanded that the very people he’d been at war with just a day earlier — and had refused to work with for years before that — suddenly drop everything and cooperate more closely with him on the investigation.

“Yesterday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the BCA, spent the day yesterday attempting to get that accountability. We have learned that the Trump administration has now denied the state that ability to participate in the investigation,” he said.

“And I just want to make this as clear as possible to everyone. Minnesota must be part of this investigation. These are nonpartisan career professionals that have spent years building the trust of the community … it feels now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation. It feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome, and I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment. From the president to the vice president to [Department of Homeland Security Secretary] Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false, verifiably inaccurate.

He added that it will be “very, very difficult for Minnesotans to think in any way this is going to be fair when Kristi Noem was judge, jury, and basically executioner.”

Yes — in Minneapolis — a city already a tinderbox of political violence and now roiled by the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three by a federal ICE agent — Gov. Tim Walz still thinks it’s a smart look to turn this into a political spectacle. The man who bungled oversight while his city became a national spotlight for chaos and fraud is now inviting the podium and painting the DHS secretary as some sort of “Judge Dredd in uniform.” No wonder he’s not being taken seriously in any federal investigation.

Walz is a clown — and clowns aren’t harmless. They can be funny, or they can be dangerous. The killing of Renee Good is in no way funny — and the optics of Walz grandstanding while FBI and federal authorities tighten down the investigation are reprehensible.

There will undoubtedly be a long and contentious investigation into this incident. For that investigation to have credibility and reach appropriate conclusions, malefactors like Tim Walz need to be kept far from it. If he doesn’t understand that, too bad: this isn’t about his ego — it’s about accountability for a city and state that have repeatedly chosen politics over public safety.

Meantime, governor, get some help. Your left-wing hate is making you crazy.

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