Masked ICE Thug Kills American, Trump Lies.
The Trump Administration has made our politics a snuff film.
On Wednesday, 01/07/2025, masked ICE thug Jonathon Ross killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and the Trump administration lied about it. Video shows federal “officers” in gaiters approaching her Honda Pilot as she backs up and turns her wheel to drive away, but then Mr. Ross steps away from her passage, towards her driver’s window, and shoots her in the head repeatedly. The Pilot rolls forward and collides with a parked vehicle. Mr. Ross, visibly unhurt and unshaken, sauntered lazily away playing with his cell phone, got into his cream-colored SUV, and fled the crime scene.
Reportedly, a doctor pleaded with agents to let him render first aid to Ms. Good, but was rebuffed. These cold-blooded sadists shot her in the head, watched her die, and now smear her name.
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The president and his servants watched footage of Ms. Good’s murder, resolved to treat the victim as the aggressor, and accused a dead woman of domestic terrorism. An honest or fair investigation would not predetermine conclusions in advance, especially when the footage released to the public so completely contradicts the “official story” that I doubt the people who concocted it even looked at the clips.
Ms. Good was a 36-year-old widow of a war veteran, a poet, and kept her car glove compartment packed with “stuffies.” Feigning that she was a violent radical may buy the administration a news cycle or two of confusion, but it will not be borne out under scrutiny.
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin lied that “rioters” confronted ICE agents during an operation, and said that Ms. Good was “[a] violent rioter[]” who “weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them.” Except that no footage shows a riot. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said at a press conference: “They’re already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense…. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly—that is bullshit.” He went on: “ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis… We do not want you here. Your stated purpose for being in this City is to create some kind of safety, but you are doing exactly the opposite.” “People are being hurt, families are being ripped apart, long-term Minneapolis residents… are being terrorized, and now, someone is dead. That’s on you. It’s also on you to leave. It’s on you to make sure that further damage, further loss of life and injury is not done.”
The shooting was at 9:30 AM; Ms. McLaughlin’s statement was at 12:45 PM. Are we expected to believe that DHS determined this in three hours? Typically, officer-involved shooting investigations require securing crime scenes, collecting evidence, canvassing for and interviewing witnesses and officers, and obtaining and reviewing video. If Ms. McLaughlin expects the public to disbelieve their own eyes and take the government at its word alone as to whether or not a civilian was murdered, she badly misjudges the American people. That footage will and should be picked apart for months.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said: “We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever,” and called the public to protest. “The desire to get out in the protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is, that is a patriotic duty at this point in time.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker demanded DHS Secretary and puppykiller Kristi Noem resign: “For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people. It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control. It must stop. Kristi Noem must go. Now.”
Ignore the dinosaur.
President Donald Trump tweeted: “The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.” Nobody was run over in the footage. So, he either did not watch the video and is bullshitting based on what his evil vizier, Stephen Miller, told him, or he sees things on the screen that did not exist. In both cases, he is unfit for office. He should be impeached and removed by Friday.
I want to give The New York Times credit here. They not only pressed Mr. Trump on the fact that the incident was not what he described, but they even sat down, watched the video with him, and told him so:
“Mr. Trump’s aide Natalie Harp brought a laptop over to the Resolute Desk to show us what he said would be evidence of the woman’s wrongdoing.... As a slow-motion surveillance video of the shooting played on the laptop, we told him that this angle did not appear to show that an ICE officer had been run over.
‘Well,’ Mr. Trump said. ‘I — the way I look at it …. [i]t’s a terrible scene… horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.’”
The stammering and platitudes are evidence of dissembling. If he did not know before, Mr. Trump now knows he is helping cover up police misconduct and persists anyway.
My assumption here is that the atrocity is the point. After all, it would be beneficial for the president to throw Mr. Ross “under the bus,” right? It would be easy to give up the agent, to say, like “Border Czar” Tom Homan (who accepted a $50,000 cash bribe in a Jimmy John’s bag): “Let the investigation play out… and hold people accountable based on the investigation.”
Nobody would complain if an agent who went rogue and fired into a civilian’s car was stripped of his badge and gun, and the public would be happy to see the administration hold someone accountable. And while Mr. Ross deserves a vigorous defense, it does not need to be from the highest offices in the land. Since it would be less politically expensive to do the right thing, I assume the administration wants the worst outcome—protests, distrust, chaos, fear—because it is the worst outcome.
Ever since Rumeysa Ozturk was grabbed and put in a car by masked goons in a video indistinguishable from a kidnapping, I suspected that ICE agents enjoy hurting women. There have been too many occasions where these big men in masks and full military kit “roughed up,” brutalized, and now even killed women who protested, recorded, or generally existed nearby them.
CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei was minding her own business inside her news truck when a masked ICE agent deliberately fired a pepper ball into her vehicle’s window at close range.
Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh was “violently picked up and thrown to the ground” by ICE in Chicago.
In Maryland, Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink was “grabbed” and menaced by black-masked ICE agents while filming.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/884127587274861/Rep. Adelita Grijalva, the final signature on the discharge petition that triggered a floor vote for the Epstein Transparency Act (which Mr. Trump’s administration has violated), identified herself as a member of Congress and was “sprayed in the face by a very aggressive agent, pushed around by others.”
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On the same day that Ms. Good died, the administration also claimed the damnable January 6 insurrectionist Ashley Babbitt was “murdered in cold blood” by Capitol Police. Seconds after screaming armed rioters smashed the glass of the windows into the Capitol’s Speaker’s Lobby with their fists and a Trump flag, Ms. Babbit was shot by an officer who would have otherwise been torn asunder by that mob.
The ICE agent who shot Ms. Good appeared uninjured, but the administration claims he was “run over.” 140 Capitol Police officers were injured by Trump supporters on January 6, and Republicans blamed the police. In both cases, Mr. Trump is exactly wrong—but then, anybody still in service to him is in the habit of calling evil good and good evil.
I can imagine a new angle for the video where I am wrong, where Ms. Good is really Ms. Bad, and she put her pedal to the metal to send that officer to Hell. And if the administration were showing the same willingness to pause before concluding, so would I. But that caution is a weakness. While waiting to prove whether or not the evidence of my eyes and ears is exactly accurate, the regime has already decided what they want the truth to be and will use the time to propagandize their adorers.
Nobody is surprised that an American citizen was killed by these villains—if anything, most shocking was that it took so long for this to happen. Mr. Trump’s flirtations with having his own Tiananmen Square or Kent State incident have been on display for a decade. Our democracy now faces a crucible—will we investigate and prosecute this? Will justice be done? Will anybody who supported, endorsed, or defended this before the truth was known resign in disgrace? Or will we be a country that guns down its citizens and slanders them regardless of what is real and what is false? Minneapolis, unfortunately, has had an answer to that last question since George Floyd’s murder, even after Derek Chauvin’s conviction.