Violence

Joe Lancaster | 1.15.2026 1:15 PM

Last week in Minneapolis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, who had been blocking traffic with her car. Right away, federal officials claimed Good had tried to run Ross over, characterizing her as a terrorist and implying she got what she deserved.

The video evidence, at the very least, casts doubt on the idea that Ross was in any immediate danger. The FBI is investigating the shooting, even preventing Minnesota police from doing so.

But Good's death is a perfectly foreseeable result of the current presidential administration's written policies, which treat left-wing protesters akin to terrorists and deserving of violent crackdowns.

"Heinous assassinations and other acts of political violence in the United States have dramatically increased in recent years," according to a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) that President Donald Trump signed in September. The order described a "pattern of violent and terroristic activities under........

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