Minnesota Should Charge ICE Agent With Murder

On Jan. 7, less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered nearly six years ago, ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good as she tried to drive away. Once again, video footage filmed by bystanders recorded a brutal murder by a member of law enforcement, engendering outrage around the country.

Good was a 37-year-old mother of three and a U.S. citizen who was beloved by her family and her community.

Multiple news outlets, including The New York Times, have analyzed the video recordings and concluded that Good’s vehicle was turning away from Ross when he began shooting her.

Yet President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Department of Homeland Secretary (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem all claimed that Ross was justified in gunning down Good.

Immediately after Ross shot Good, Trump wrote on his social media platform,

“The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and 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.”

In fact, cell phone footage reveals that after one of the agents yells, “Get out of the fucking car,” Good briefly reverses, turns the steering wheel towards the passenger side and drives ahead, after she smiled and said, “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” As Ross fired the shots at her, he could be heard to yell, “Fucking bitch.”

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