Campaign to destroy René Gide

Renee Nicole Good She was a poet, mother of three children, and wife. Within hours of her death, as far as the government was concerned, She was a domestic terrorist.

On January 7, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot Judd through her car’s windshield and window in Minneapolis. It appears that she was hit by four gunshot wounds According to the New York Timeswho cited the Minneapolis Fire Department report. Hours after the shooting, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Goode of “(Arm) her carPresident Donald Trump claimed that the 37-year-old was “He ran over violently, deliberately and ferociously“The agent who killed her. Deputy Chief J.D. Vance called her dead.”A tragedy of her own making“.

Bystander videos showed something different: It was a good idea to try to get away when shots were fired. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the self-defense narrative “nonsense.”

Despite video evidence… Conservative media fell in line immediately. Judd was “100 percent responsible” for her death, according to the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh. Megyn Kelly said it was “her doing.” The verdict felt unanimous: she deserved it.

But the reasons used to justify her death went far beyond what she did or didn’t do to her car. A lot of it has centered around Judd’s identity as a gay woman.

Walsh described Judd as a “lesbian agitator.” Ian Miles Cheung, a right-wing commentator with millions of followers, described her as a “carpet-chewing leftist”. On Fox News, Jesse Watters male That Good is “leaving behind a gay partner” and highlighted that she has “pronouns in her bio,” in an apparent reference to her Instagram profile.

Judd was in a relationship with Becca Judd, and the two recently moved to Minneapolis Search “for a better life” For themselves, according to A statement Becca was released after her death. They left Kansas City, Missouri, for Canada after Trump won the 2024 election before returning to the United States. I mentioned.

Two days after Judd’s murder, footage appears to be from Ross’s cell phone It leaked For Minnesota conservative outlet Alpha News. It shows the moments leading up to the shooting. Jed sits behind the wheel and calmly says to the person filming: “I’m not mad at you.” Her partner, Becca, is outside the car, confronting Ross. Becca looks defiant and unafraid, telling the person behind the camera: “Go get yourself some lunch, big boy.” As Judd tries to walk away, Ross fires several shots. Then, just before Judd’s car crashed, a voice was heard saying: “You fucking bitch.”

Whoever leaked this video could have edited the slander. They didn’t. And judging by the reactions of right-wing influencers, they didn’t need to.

“There’s a real sense of misogyny in the way conservative media talks about these kinds of protests,” says Courtney Hagel, research director at Media Matters for America, which has tracked the right’s response to Goode’s death. “They’re clearly very angry about the presence of women, especially white women, liberal women.” The video, Hagel said, “reinforced for them that this was not a human being they should care about.”

Some comments, including references to Becca as “Good’s”The so-called wife“It also seemed like a malicious way to delegitimize the relationship between the goods.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, President Trump repeatedly referred to Becca Goode as “Renee.”friend“The woman and her friend were very disrespectful to law enforcement,” he said. Lee Fink, a Minnesota state lawmaker and the state’s first openly transgender elected official, says this kind of erasure sends a message. “All they will portray is that gay women are disrespectful and disobedient to men in power.”