Twenty-Year Police Veteran Says Renee Good Shooting Was Justified, Blames Media and Sanctuary Policies

The media told us that Renee Nicole Good was a mother. Jonathan Ross is a father of three children who nearly lost their dad. New evidence shows that Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good in self-defense, suffered internal injuries after being struck by her vehicle, debunking claims that the vehicle did not hit him.

Retired police officer Dean Golemis, fifty-four years old, who now heads his own security and investigative firm, said, “I think it was a justified shooting.”

In an interview with The Gateway Pundit, he explained that at a glance it might appear the officer could have stepped out of the way of the car. “But you’re not there,” he said. “That’s what the untrained eye sees.” Given the close proximity and the speed at which events unfold in real life, he said the officer likely saw no other option than to fire.

Some have argued that Good may not have been trying to kill the officer. That does not mean the situation was not self-defense.

Golemis emphasized that a rational person understands the danger of hitting someone with a car. “She knows, a rational human being knows, if I gun my 3,000-pound car toward this ICE officer, there’s a potential that he could fall backward and I could run him over and kill him,” he said. “Or maim him. Or hurt him.”

The critical moment came, according to Golemis, when Good made a conscious decision. “When she cut her wheel, ignored the ICE officer’s commands to get out of the vehicle, and fled from committing a crime, that was obstruction,” he said. He pointed out that obstructing federal law enforcement is a crime.

Golemis added that Good had spent the day harassing ICE agents and blocking roadways. “The idea that you could block a municipal police car going down a street on a Saturday night and let the bad guy get away, you’d never think of doing that,” he said. “It’s the exact same thing.”

The media portrayed Good as an innocent bystander despite the fact that she was a member of Minnesota ICE Watch. “They want to treat this like she was just backing out of her driveway and they came up on her,” Golemis said. “Oh, she dropped her six-year-old. Oh, she’s a mother of a six-year-old.”

He added, ironically, “And that mother decided to drop her six-year-old off and go around all morning and afternoon harassing law-enforcement officers, antagonizing them, obstructing them.”

Referencing ICE body-camera footage showing the moments leading up to the shooting, Golemis said, “You saw the wife berating the ICE officer right before the shooting. These aren’t innocent bystanders who got shot.”

“Terrible,” he said. “I don’t want to see anyone die.”

Liberals on Twitter and Instagram have claimed that conservatives are glad Good was killed, but Golemis rejected that characterization. Most, he said, take the position that the incident was tragic but avoidable, and that if Good had not been harassing ICE agents, she would still be alive.

“It doesn’t have to be attempted murder,” Golemis said. “She consciously drove her car, accelerated toward the officer, knowing he was standing right in front of her. After being told by another officer, ‘You’re under arrest, step out of the car,’ she ignored it. So she’s fleeing a crime toward an officer, knowing he’s in the way, hoping he jumps out of the way.”

“She had no concern for him when she was pulling out,” he added. “A million things could have gone wrong for that ICE officer. He could have backpedaled, fallen, and been run over. He could have been thrown off the hood. He could have grabbed the hood and been dragged, maimed, hurt, or killed.”

“You can use deadly physical force to stop death or serious physical injury,” Golemis said. “Is it reasonable to think you could receive serious physical injury from an SUV barreling toward you? It used to be.”

Golemis pointed to what he described as contradictions on the left. “The same pundits calling for the head of this ICE agent had nothing to say when Ashley Babbitt was shot unarmed in the Capitol,” he said. “That’s the only time I’ve ever seen liberals support law enforcement,” he added, joking.

Regarding Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Golemis accused him of inciting unrest. “Now this Mayor Frey is doubling down. Go in the streets. He’s encouraging anarchy,” he said.

“What are these ICE agents out there doing?” he asked, pushing back against claims about ICE’s role. “They’re looking for criminal illegal aliens.”

He said those targeted are not just people who crossed the border illegally, but individuals who committed additional crimes on U.S. soil. “These are pedophiles, robbers, DWI cases, whatever their deportation order says. They committed a crime in addition to entering the country illegally.”

Golemis argued that by challenging law enforcement, liberal officials are shielding criminals. “All of this could be avoided if you were not a sanctuary city,” he said. “If, when someone was arrested, you honored the ICE detainer, all this collateral damage could be avoided.”

In red states, he said, jails typically hold suspects until ICE arrives. “In sanctuary cities, they ignore that letter and release them back into the population,” he said. “So ICE has to go into the community to arrest people who should have been held at the jail.”

If family members, friends, or colleagues nearby are found to be in the country illegally, they may also be arrested. A criminal record is not required for deportation; unlawful presence alone is sufficient.

Returning to sanctuary cities, Golemis said Minneapolis is “ignoring federal law. When are the mayor and city council going to pay the price for flaunting federal law?”

“The idea that we let this sanctuary city status fly is maddening,” he said. “I don’t understand why being a sanctuary city isn’t a crime in itself. And maybe it will be.”

Turning to what he described as the root of the problem, Golemis criticized political leaders. “The political agitators, the mayors, need to be taken to task for encouraging rioting. They’re encouraging resistance against ICE and federal law enforcement. That should be a crime.”

He warned that continued vilification of ICE would lead to more violence. “Not one law-enforcement professional I know was surprised this happened. I said someone was going to get shot. Then it happened. And it’s going to keep happening.”

Asked whether protests would cause President Trump to back down on enforcement, Golemis said, “It’s going to come down to who blinks first. Who has the stomach for this. It’s a terrible optic for the Trump administration, whether we like it or not.”

He reiterated his support for enforcement and added, “They’re doing this to influence the midterms. That’s the political end of it.”

Golemis concluded, “I wholeheartedly believe Mayor Frey is endangering ICE agents’ lives. And more importantly, he’s endangering his constituents by encouraging them to break the law and put themselves in harm’s way.”

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