The Trump administration will send hundreds more federal officers to Minneapolis days after a woman was fatally shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the city. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attributed the deployment of the additional agents to “allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely.” The announcement comes amid a series of protests against immigration enforcement in several cities across the nation after thirty-seven-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot in her car. The Trump administration insists that the agent, identified as Jonathan Ross, acted in self-defense, contrary to local officials who say Good posed no threat. Noem said that the officers will arrive in the city in the coming days, warning that action would be taken if people attempted to obstruct their work. “If they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime, and we will hold them accountable to those consequences,” she said.
Every last American should agree the death in Minneapolis of a 37-year-old American mother of three at the hands of a gun wielded by an agent of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an abomination, an indicator of domestic crisis and, we fear, a harbinger of yet worse to come.
Five years ago, video images from a Minneapolis street showing a police officer kneeling on the neck of George Floyd as his life slipped away ignited a social movement.
