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How Trump’s Cowardly and Callous ICE Betray American Decency

5 21
09.01.2026

A toy unicorn with a turquoise tufted mane in the passenger well.

An open university folder.

An airbag deployed from the steering wheel, designed to instantly protect the driver on impact.

The airbag’s nylon cover stained with the blood of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, mother of a 6-year-old boy who had already lost his father and has now become an orphan.

A bullet hole in the windshield of a maroon Honda Pilot, one of three shots fired on Wednesday morning by a uniformed ICE agent at East 34th Street and Portland Avenue in a middle-class neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Not in the post-shooting photo of the Honda’s interior, but standing nearby, was the ICE agent who had suddenly drawn his service weapon and fired three fatal shots. Video by a civilian witness shows the agent was uncommonly calm. He was right to be, with regard to how his boss would react.

Cosplaying Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wasted no time in telling the press at a Texas news conference that the now-dead mom had “weaponized” her vehicle and sought to kill or seriously injure the agents.

“An act of domestic terrorism,” Noem said from under a cowboy hat. “An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect........

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