Map of the Kent State shootings – Public Domain

On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State students engaged in a peaceful campus protest against this extension of the War. The students were also protesting the Guard’s presence on their campus and the draft. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded, including one who suffered permanent paralysis.

Fast forward. On January 7, 2026, Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen was fatally shot by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Johathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ross was described by family and friends as a hardcore conservative Christian, MAGA and supporter of Republican President Donald Trump.

Good was a writer and poet and lived with her wife and 6-year-old child; she had just dropped her child off at school.

Including the recent Portland, Oregon shootings on January 8, 2026,[1] Good’s killing was the eleventh time ICE agents had opened fire on people since September 2025. Four other people had been killed during the Trump administration’s deportation operations.

A number of videos of the shooting, show that Good was in her vehicle, bantering with the ICE agents engaged in these operations. When she attempted to drive slowly away from the ICE agents, Ross fired three shots point blank, killing Good.[2] One video showed that Good was........

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