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I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Last Thing the ICE Agent Said to Renee Good
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By now, the footage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shooting and killing Minneapolis mom of three Renee Nicole Good has been pored over and dissected frame by frame. When Good tried to drive away from her otherwise anemic standoff with ICE, Ross shot her in the face. Good was barred from receiving medical aid for 15 minutes. It’s all pretty grisly, and it’s increasingly mundane. Already this year, the agency has killed two people. Last year, its most fatal year since 2004, it killed 32. That’s one reason it feels as if Ross could get away with this, a murder, entirely without consequence. ICE has always seemed to operate with impunity, even before this particular administration, and the federal probe into Good’s killing is starting to impede the state investigation.
But on Friday night, a new angle emerged—cellphone footage from Ross himself. In it, more realities of the killing are clarified: Good wasn’t antagonizing the agent, and she had turned her wheels not to try to hit........
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