THE MINNEAPOLIS SHOOTING: THAT SETTLES IT. Although the argument goes on, the video of the Minneapolis shooting taken by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot Renee Good effectively answered the question of whether the agent, Jonathan Ross, acted lawfully. The video, and other evidence as well, suggests that he did. 

“Regardless of whether you believe Renee Good’s death resulted from either her poor decision-making in gratuitously courting danger, or Trump’s excessive zeal in ramping up immigration enforcement, the legal case comes down to whether the agent reasonably perceived a potentially lethal threat,” wrote former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. “From what we have seen so far, he did.”

That doesn’t mean the situation wasn’t tragic or that Ross made the best possible decision in pulling the trigger. But it does mean that, given everything that happened, and given what Good did, Ross was acting within the law when he used lethal force.

Ross is highly unlikely to face any sort of federal prosecution over the incident. But that does not mean that officials in the state of Minnesota will see things the same way. “I’ve just been through enough of these cases where if there’s a political agenda, then the law gets thrown to the side,” Eric Nelson, the lawyer who defended Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer now jailed for the death of George Floyd, told the

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