The brutal death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis should wake every parent in America up to the consequences of left-wing policies and sanctuary-city lawlessness. Video and reporting show the deadly encounter took place during an ICE enforcement operation, and the nation is rightly demanding answers about what happened and why federal agents were operating in that neighborhood.
It is also telling where her youngest child was being educated: a tiny charter that advertises social justice and explicitly involves children in current events and activism rather than focusing on basics like reading, math, and civic literacy. Schools that prioritize political indoctrination over academic foundations create the environment where parents trade common-sense parenting for performative righteousness.
Reporters are now connecting the dots between that “social justice” ecosystem and radical street networks like ICE Watch, which train activists to confront and disrupt law enforcement operations. Good allegedly became involved with those networks after linking up with other parents and activists through the school, and witnesses said she received training on how to monitor and resist ICE. This is the predictable result when institutions turn children into agitprop and normalize resistance to lawful authority.
The Biden-Trump-era political theater around labeling violent acts is poisonous. Homeland Security has called the incident domestic terrorism and the administration insists the officer acted in self-defense, while city officials and the media push an alternate narrative. The patchwork of conflicting statements only proves how politicized law enforcement responses have become and why we need clear, uniform rules to protect both citizens and officers.
Look at the curriculum examples being boasted about: lessons on George Floyd and field trips into traumatic local events are being presented as “learning” while ordinary childhood play and safety are treated as suspect. When a kindergarten classroom becomes a recruitment ground for adults to network and radicalize, we are failing a generation and handing our kids over to professional agitators. This is not education, it is organized political grooming.
Meanwhile, the fallout has been predictable: emotional public vigils, millions poured into online fundraisers, and streets filled with protestors demanding answers even as investigators comb the shaky footage and jurisdictional disputes slow transparent accounting. Law-abiding Americans want both accountability for any wrongdoing by federal agents and a stop to the culture that turns parents into foot soldiers against the state. We can have both; we must insist on both.
This moment is a call to action for every patriotic parent: pull your children from woke classrooms that serve activists, demand that charter schools teach reading and arithmetic instead of pugilistic politics, and pressure your elected officials to restore order and respect for law. We must protect our communities, defend our officers when they act within the law, and never surrender our kids to the radical left’s activism factories.
