Renee Nicole Good. Credit : ODU English Department Facebook

Jeopardy! Host Ken Jennings Posts Blunt Political Statements After ICE Shooting of Minneapolis Mom

Thomas Smith
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Ken Jennings is weighing in online after the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis mother by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent made national headlines this week.

In a series of posts on Bluesky on Wednesday, Jan. 7, the 51-year-old Jeopardy! host shared his thoughts hours after the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37.

“It’s been a dark week, but I just saw someone reply to an ‘Abolish ICE’ post with a scoldy Bluesky ‘Uh, try abolish DHS’ and that joy will sustain me for a little while,” Jennings wrote.

In another post, he added: “The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028.”

A request for comment from Jennings’ representatives was not immediately returned.

Elsewhere on his timeline, Jennings told users he had “been a-blockin’ and a-mutin’ all afternoon,” and offered advice to anyone feeling “anxious and sad about the state of the world.”

Vigil for Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026.Steven Garcia/NurPhoto/Shutterstock 

Good was killed Wednesday morning when an ICE agent — later identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune — shot into her vehicle.

On Thursday, Jan. 8, Jennings also reposted a Bluesky message that said, “The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross.” The post included a link to the Minnesota Star Tribune, which reported that “Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.”

According to reporting on the incident, Good was seen in multiple videos reversing her Honda Pilot as agents attempted to open her car door. The vehicle then moved forward and to the right when the agent opened fire — first through the windshield and then twice through the open window — killing the mother of three from Colorado.

The incident unfolded after a group of people allegedly began blocking officials during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The area is home to the largest population of Somali immigrants in the United States.

Good’s ex-husband told The Associated Press that she had been returning from dropping off her 6-year-old son at school and was driving back home with her current partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on Wednesday morning.

Law enforcement at scene of a shooting by an ICE agent on Jan. 07, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty 

He added that she was not an activist and said he had no knowledge of her participating in protests in the past.

City Council member Jason Chavez described Good as a U.S. citizen who was “an observer … watching out for our immigrant neighbors,” ABC News reported.

In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security accused Good of “weaponiz[ing] her vehicle” in an “act of domestic terrorism.”

Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance alleged that Good was “part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.” He also called her death “a tragedy of her own making.”

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