Highlights from BillOReilly.com’s No Spin News | January 9, 2026

O'Reilly frames Renee Nicole Good's death as a direct consequence of her 'bad decision' to actively interrupt and impede a federal ICE investigation. He emphasizes that putting oneself in such jeopardy, especially as a mother of three, is irresponsible and dangerous, regardless of one's political motivations.

The first bad decision which led to her death was she should not have been interrupting a federal investigation which she was and she had parked her car to try to impede federal agents. That is a terrible decision particularly have three children.

O'Reilly explicitly states his refusal to 'second guess a law officer' or 'pass judgment' on the ICE agent who fired the shot. He argues that such judgments require enhanced videotape analysis (frame-by-frame from every angle) and the officer's testimony to understand their state of mind during a split-second, life-threatening decision, deferring to a federal grand jury.

I'm not going to second guess a law officer. That's cheap and uh I'm not going to do it. All right? I wasn't there... What you would need to make a decision on that is enhanced videotape... and then you would need to hear the agent himself testify what his state of mind was. These are split-second decisions.

O'Reilly asserts that the fundamental cause of the Minneapolis incident, and similar events, is the Biden administration's immigration policy. He claims that allowing 'millions of people unsupervised' into the United States introduces a criminal element, necessitating federal intervention like the ICE operation that led to Good's death.

Now, the bad decision-making goes back to Joe Biden. That's where it goes. that that is the genesis of this story. So you allow millions of people unsupervised to come into the United States, you're going to have a criminal element come in and they're going to kill people, which they have.

O'Reilly accuses leaders in sanctuary states and cities, specifically Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, of 'rebellion' against federal law by refusing to cooperate with ICE. He argues their rhetoric and policies 'incited' individuals like Renee Good to act against federal agents, directly contributing to her death. This is likened to actions of Southern states in the 1850s.

The people who run states like California, Illinois, Minneapolis, um Minnesota, Massachusetts, and others made a decision not to obey federal law. We are not going to obey federal law. This is rebellion... That decision-making on the part of Governor Walls and Mayor Jacob Fry in Minneapolis did contribute to the death of Miss Good because those two men incited Miss Good.

Former police chief Jeffrey Hollstead details how technological advancements are significantly improving law enforcement's ability to prevent and solve crimes. Innovations like drones as first responders, widespread license plate reader technology, and ShotSpotter systems enable faster response times, broader surveillance, and quicker apprehension of serial criminals, making it harder for them to evade capture.

Now, we have drones as first responders where our goal in law enforcement will get to emergency calls in less than 5 minutes. Drones are there in 30 seconds. And then with license plate reader technology deployed all over major, you know, city and metropolitan regions, they're scanning thousands of license plates per second... it's bad days for serial criminals because they even talk on some of their criminal podcast how much they hate drones and advancing technology because they can't get away fast enough.