In what felt like a single moment, the world became witness to the shooting of Renee Good. In the depths of a Minnesota winter, she parked her car to observe ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, her right as a US citizen. Multiple videos of the incident show a verbal altercation no worse than you’d see outside any bar on a weekend night, something we’d expect a trained officer to brush off. Instead, despite facing no risk from a car moving at a crawl, a masked officer fired three shots. Good was killed just eight blocks from where George Floyd was asphyxiated by a police officer 5½ years ago.

In the six minutes after the shooting, ICE agents prevented first responders from providing aid that could have saved the 37-year-old mother’s life. They drove their cars away, obscuring evidence. Instead of following protocol that required officers involved in a shooting to separate, they huddled together to, seemingly, co-ordinate their stories before facing scrutiny.

Heavily armed federal law enforcement agents during an immigration raid in south Minneapolis earlier this week.Credit: Bloomberg

Trump’s political identity is tied, as much as anything else, to a browbeaten fear of immigrants. ICE has become the muscle in a massive overcorrection from the lax immigration enforcement of the Biden era that has targeted migrant communities regardless of their legal status. We have seen a pattern emerge over the past year, in which Trump sends in ICE to conduct raids, which terrifies communities, provoking protests that Trump then uses as a prelude for further crackdowns. We saw this........

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