Hours after Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed during an ICE operation in Minneapolis, Kristi Noem stepped in front of microphones with what sounded like sympathy. “Any loss of life is a tragedy,” she began. But that sympathy lasted about ten seconds.
For the next 10 minutes during her Wednesday press conference, Noem performed a full, unflinching prosecution of a dead woman. She made a sweeping attempt to reframe Good’s killing as part of a nationwide terror campaign.
