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A federal immigration agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renée Nicole Good during a January enforcement operation in Minneapolis, an event that has shaken the city and left grieving family and neighbors demanding answers. The shooting happened amid a large DHS operation and officials — local and federal — have offered sharply different accounts about whether the agent acted in self-defense.
Governor Tim Walz answered the tragedy with charged language, calling the incident “the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines and conflict” and ordering a warning-level preparation of the Minnesota National Guard while insisting the state “does not need any further help from the federal government.” Those words were not mere rhetoric; they read like a governor choosing sides in a fight with the federal government rather than calming a city in mourning.
Conservative voices across the country — including Glenn Beck on his program — have said bluntly that Walz’s posture is corrosive and that a governor who talks in war metaphors while citizens are dying has forfeited legitimacy. Beck and other commentators argue Walz should resign for recklessly stoking division instead of securing facts and protecting Minnesotans, a position many hardworking patriots view as common-sense accountability.
Republican lawmakers piled on, warning that Walz’s threats to interpose state forces against federal agents could invite unconstitutional confrontation and even likening the rhetoric to the language that preluded past national ruptures. Calls for invoking federal insurrection statutes to check a governor who appears to be courting a showdown underscore how dangerous political grandstanding has become.
Video from the scene and eyewitness accounts have already raised serious questions about the federal narrative, with local officials saying the footage does not support the claim the agent was run down or gravely injured before he fired. Minneapolis leaders and honest journalists alike are demanding independent investigations — and any responsible governor should be leading those efforts, not fanning the flames of outrage.
Make no mistake: conservatives believe in law and order and in the importance of secure borders, but we also believe in due process, accurate reporting, and leaders who put safety and truth ahead of political theater. Walz’s choice to use incendiary language and to posture against federal law enforcement at a moment of national tension shows terrible judgment and betrays the trust of citizens who want protection, not partisan performance.
For the sake of Minnesota’s families and for the preservation of civic calm, Governor Walz should step down or be held to account by his own party and by the people he claims to represent. America cannot afford governors who turn tragedy into a campaign prop; we need steady leadership, transparent investigations, and an end to the dangerous politics that threaten to tear our country apart.
