Is America Addicted to Turning Tragedy Into Tribal Warfare?
Written by Peter Boykin on January 8, 2026
Is America Addicted to Turning Tragedy Into Tribal Warfare?
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Is America Addicted to Turning Tragedy Into Tribal Warfare?
The Minneapolis ICE Shooting and the Politics of Instant Certainty
A woman is dead. An ICE officer survived a shooting. And before the blood was dry on the pavement in Minneapolis, the country fractured into predictable camps, each convinced they already possessed the truth.
That reflex is the real story.
The incident unfolded during an ICE enforcement operation in Minneapolis. A driver later identified as Renee Nicole Good made contact with an ICE officer with her vehicle. The officer discharged his weapon. Good was killed. The officer survived and was later reported as hospitalized.
That should be the beginning of analysis, not the end of it.
Competing Narratives and Conflicting Optics
Donald Trump stated that the officer was “lucky to be alive” and recovering in the hospital, describing the driver as having “violently, willfully, and viciously” run him over. That framing immediately locked in the dominant narrative on the right: attempted murder, justified self-defense, case closed.
Yet widely circulated video footage complicates that account. From multiple angles, the officer appears to walk away from the scene under his own power. To many viewers, it looks like he was barely touched and not in imminent danger. That visual contradiction matters because optics shape belief faster than facts ever will.
Both realities can coexist. An officer can appear mobile immediately after an incident and still be injured. Adrenaline masks pain. Internal injuries do not show on social media clips. Being transported to a hospital after contact with a vehicle is a reasonable precaution. Hospitalization does not prove exaggeration, just as walking does not prove safety.
The danger lies in pretending certainty exists where it does not.
Political Leadership and the Environment It Creates
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey both issued statements urging calm, de-escalation, and patience while investigations proceed. On the surface, those statements sound responsible.
But context matters.
These are leaders who have governed in an environment where ICE operations are openly opposed, where federal enforcement is routinely framed as suspect, and where protest interference is often rhetorically excused or minimized. When political leaders spend years delegitimizing enforcement and then plead for calm after escalation turns deadly, that contradiction cannot be ignored.
This is not an accusation of intent. It is an acknowledgment of consequence. Political rhetoric shapes behavior long before leaders ask for restraint.
The Right’s Rush to Absolutes
On much of the right, nuance vanished almost instantly. The language escalated fast. “Domestic terrorist.” “FAFO.” “Good riddance.” Calls for body camera footage, audio, or a complete timeline were dismissed as weakness or disloyalty.
Slow-motion clips were treated as courtroom verdicts. The assumption became that if a vehicle is involved, the moral inquiry ends. That instinct mirrors the very behavior conservatives once condemned: blind trust in authority when it aligns with tribal identity.
That is not accountability. It is convenient.
The Left’s Dangerous Moral Fantasy
On the left, the reflex ran in the opposite direction but landed just as far from reality. ICE itself was framed as illegitimate. Enforcement was treated as violence by default. Interference was reframed as moral resistance.
In that narrative, Renee Good becomes only a victim of policy, stripped of agency and decision-making. The risk of following, blocking, and confronting armed federal officers is minimized or ignored entirely. Consequences are blamed exclusively on the state.
That framing is not protective. It is reckless. It encourages civilians to place themselves into volatile situations they do not control and cannot predict.
Why Video Is Not Verdict
Video does not measure intent. It does not capture fear, perception, or split-second judgment. It does not tell us what commands were given, what the officer believed in that moment, or what injuries were later diagnosed.
That is why body camera footage, audio, medical reports, and an independent reconstruction are essential. Not to absolve. Not to condemn. But to replace tribal certainty with evidence.
Declaring “100 percent justified” or “cold-blooded execution” before that process is complete is not analysis. It is propaganda.
USA TODAY ARTICLE: Who was Renee Nicole Good? What we know about woman killed by ICE
Who was Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jepdjy256o
The Ashli Babbitt Parallel
The reaction is painfully familiar. When Ashli Babbitt was killed, her death was instantly flattened into competing myths. On one side, she was reduced to an “insurrectionist.” On the other hand, sanctified without scrutiny. The human being vanished beneath political utility.
The same machinery is grinding now. Different uniforms. Different setting. Same outcome.
The Part Nobody Wants to Own
Renee Good may have believed she was doing the right thing. The ICE officer may have believed his life was in danger. Both beliefs can exist at the same time.
Tragedy does not require a cartoon villain. It requires a culture that convinces civilians that interfering with armed authority is righteous and convinces everyone else that death is acceptable collateral if it validates their side.
A woman is dead. That is not okay. It should never be okay.
If our politics cannot pause long enough to grieve, demand evidence, and resist instant certainty, then Minneapolis is not an anomaly. It is a warning.
When Politics Decides Who Deserves to Die, Liberty Is Already Lost
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Let me say this plainly, because plain truth is in short supply right now.
Someone died. That should stop us. Not energize us. Don’t divide us. Stop us.
We can acknowledge that ICE agents are enforcing the law and still say that a death should never be celebrated. We can understand how an officer might perceive a vehicle as a lethal threat and still demand body cameras, audio, and a full accounting of what happened. These are not contradictions. These are the obligations of a free people.
What disturbs me is how quickly empathy disappears once politics enters the room.
On one side, people cheer a death because it confirms their worldview. On the other hand, people excuse dangerous behavior because it fits a moral narrative. Both sides are doing the same thing. They strip away humanity to protect ideology.
Renee Good may have believed she was doing something righteous. The officer may have believed he was about to be killed. Both of those beliefs can exist at once. Tragedy does not require evil intent. It requires escalation, panic, and a culture that tells people this is how change happens.
We saw this with Ashli Babbitt. We are seeing it again now. Different cause. Same machinery. Spin first. Grieve never.
If your politics makes you cheer when someone dies, something is broken.
If your ideology tells you evidence no longer matters, something is broken.
If leaders inflame tension for years and then ask for calm after blood is spilled, something is broken.
A Constitutional Republic does not survive on rage or tribal loyalty. It survives on restraint, accountability, and truth.
Someone died. That should slow us down.
If it does not, then the tragedy is not just what happened in Minneapolis.
It is what we are becoming.
A Woman Is Dead, and America Picked Sides: Inside the Minneapolis ICE Shooting
A woman is dead after a fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, and the political reaction was immediate and predictable. Before all the facts were known, both the right and the left rushed to certainty, turning a human tragedy into tribal warfare. This #GoRight with Peter Boykin commentary examines the conflicting narratives, the role of political leadership, the misuse of video evidence, and why celebrating death or erasing accountability threatens the foundations of a Constitutional Republic. Someone died, and that should stop us, not divide us.
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