He’s taught in his school from the start by the rule
That the laws are with him to protect his white skin
To keep up his hate so he never thinks straight
‘Bout the shape that he’s in—but it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game.
—Bob Dylan

ICE agent Jonathan Ross is responsible for his actions. Millions of people believe he murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis on January 7. He is also a pawn in the Department of Homeland Security’s lawless campaign to transform a federal law enforcement agency into a state-sponsored apparatus with a chilling past.

A history refresher: a key to the Nazis iron grip on power was establishing the Gestapo, the German secret police, notorious for its brutal tactics, arbitrary arrests, suppression of dissent, and eliminating perceived non-Aryan enemies of the state. It’s eerie how that description fits ICE: masked agents wearing no visible identification, brutal tactics, minimal accountability, and terrorizing communities in service of a political objective: to make America white again.

Agent Ross shot Renee Good three times. She was a 37-year-old mother and a volunteer legal observer of immigration enforcement activity—an entirely lawful act. Most readers have seen the video and heard analyses that convincingly exposes the Trump administration’s bald-faced lies that Ms. Good tried to run over the agent.

Reaction to Renee Good’s killing has been swift, strong, and sustained. The grassroots........

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