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How car ‘weaponization’ became a dangerous justification for lethal force
Two thousand federal agents descended on Minneapolis on Jan. 6, 2026, an urban occupation framed as the “largest immigration operation ever.” By the next morning, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was dead.
In the shadows of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation blitz, a lethal pattern has emerged. Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle (two of them fatal, including Wednesday’s shooting). In each instance, the playbook is the same: the agent claims self-defense, asserting they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them.
Whether the use of lethal force in this case was lawful or unlawful should be decided by a jury in a civil damages case (and perhaps also a criminal prosecution of the agent who pulled the trigger, if warranted by the facts). But for the victims of constitutional violations by federal agents, the courthouse doors are effectively bolted shut.
While the facts of Good’s death are still being determined, the DHS machinery is already in motion, churning out a narrative of “domestic terrorism” to sanitize the killing. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, “Our officer followed his training, did exactly what he’s been taught to do in that situation,” while DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed Good “weaponized her vehicle” to run over officers.
Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in her car in Minneapolis this week, was in court weeks ago testifying about another violent incident on the job last year, in which he was dragged by a fleeing driver while attempting to make an arrest.
New details from the June 2025 case came from a transcript of Ross’ testimony before a Minnesota district court jury, obtained by MS NOW. The statements reveal previously unreported details about Ross’ life and role within ICE, as well as a prior confrontation with a driver that he said made him “fear for [his] life,” months before his fatal encounter with Good.
Ross described himself as an Indiana National Guard veteran who served in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 as a machine-gunner on a combat logistical patrol team. After serving, he joined the U.S. Border Patrol and was stationed near El Paso, Texas, where he worked on patrol, tracking and field intelligence. In 2015 he joined ICE and is currently assigned to the Enforcement and Removal Operations special response team in the St. Paul, Minnesota, field office. Ross said he worked in fugitive operations, targeting “higher value targets,” and as a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
He testified that he was a “team leader” who would “develop the targets, create a target package, conduct surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant.” He also worked as a firearms instructor, an active-shooter instructor, a field intelligence officer and a member of a SWAT team.
On June 17 last year, while on patrol in Bloomington, Minnesota, Ross said he pulled his vehicle in front of a car driven by Roberto Carlos Muñoz — a Guatemalan citizen who had prior convictions for criminal sexual conduct — who refused to pull over during a traffic stop.
According to the federal prosecutors in the case, Ross “pulled diagonally in front of Munoz’s car in an attempt to force Munoz to stop.” After Muñoz stopped his car, Ross and an FBI agent got out of their vehicles and pointed their guns at him. When he raised his hands in surrender, Ross holstered his gun.
But when Muñoz refused commands to lower his window and open the driver’s side door, Ross pulled out his Taser and pointed it at Muñoz’s chest, court documents state. Ross broke the rear driver’s side window with a spring-loaded window punch and reached into the car, at which point Muñoz accelerated. Ross testified he shot Muñoz with his Taser 10 times and saw “the impacts on his face,” but said the suspect did not stop.
“I was fearing for my life. I knew I was going to get drug. And the fact I couldn’t get my arm out, I didn’t know how long I would be drugged. So I was kind of running with the vehicle.”
Jonathan Ross identified as ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis
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Ross said he was dragged for more than 100 yards before he was knocked free. He received 20 stitches for a cut on his right arm and 13 stitches on his left hand, prosecutors said. Photos of his injuries were included in court documents.
Ross described the pain from the dragging as “pretty excruciating.”
A jury found Muñoz guilty of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous and deadly weapon, and causing bodily injury.
Federal officials did not publicly identify Ross as the officer involved in Wednesday’s shooting, but they did refer to his involvement in last year’s case. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance defended Ross’ actions as lawful and said he acted in self-defense. Their descriptions of the 2025 incident led social media sleuths to Ross’ identity, and his name quickly spread online.
Politicians and protesters in Minnesota are calling Ross’ actions unjustified, pointing to videos of the shooting that suggest Good didn’t pose a threat.
Earlier this week, a Minnesota resident posted an update on Threads that quickly went viral. She described the widespread terror being inflicted by ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. She wrote the following:
I don’t know how much people are seeing outside of Minnesota, but I can assure you it’s worse than you can imagine. We are not okay. They’re kidnapping citizens, going door to door in many neighborhoods, knocking down doors, shoving and threatening bystanders. Kids are not going to school. People of color are afraid to leave their homes and are carrying their citizenship papers with them. ICE is literally everywhere.
It appears we have arrived at the “show me your papers” point in this timeline.
Meanwhile, the Trump Regime continues to send in more agents, and their tactics grow more aggressive by the day. They have been given permission to do whatever they want by the highest levels of power. They have been told that violence is acceptable if they feel disrespected.
That is a recipe for disaster.
The agent lied.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html
We witnessed a murder. But that old saying seems to have some weight here. The that says “when you ignore when they come for your neighbor, no one will be there to help you when they come for you.
So white america was okay with the thugs with badges murdering non whites, so now that they are murdering white women, who’s left to protest?
State officials say FBI is freezing them out of Minneapolis ICE shooting probe
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota authorities said Thursday that the FBI was taking over the investigation into an immigration officer’s deadly shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, freezing them out of the inquiry and blocking them from accessing evidence.
Because of the federal move, “it feels very, very difficult that we will get a fair outcome,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) said. “And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment,” he added.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on Wednesday, setting off protests in Minneapolis that continued into Thursday. Trump administration officials have defended the shooting as appropriate, with Vice President JD Vance on Thursday praising the ICE officer, criticizing Good and calling her death “a tragedy of her own making.”
Authorities initially said the investigation into what happened would be conducted by the Minneapolis Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), a state agency, and the FBI. The Minneapolis Police Department described them both as “leading the investigation.”
On Thursday morning, however, the BCA said in a statement that it had been told by the FBI that the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis “had reversed course: the investigation would now be led solely by the FBI, and the BCA would no longer have access to the case materials, scene evidence or investigative interviews necessary to complete a thorough and independent investigation.”
As a result, the BCA said, the agency “reluctantly” pulled out of the investigation.
Trump administration officials, including President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, have defended the Minneapolis shooting, saying the ICE officer, who has not been publicly identified, feared for his life and was acting in self-defense when Good threatened him with her car.
Good “attempted to run a law enforcement officer over,” Noem said Wednesday evening.
Speaking Thursday morning, Noem said the investigation into the shooting was continuing but repeated her defenses of the ICE officer, calling him “an experienced officer who followed his training.”
Video from the scene raises doubts about some parts of the administration’s defense of the shooting. Footage showed that while the vehicle moved toward the ICE agent while he stood in front of it, the agent was able to move aside and fire at least two of his three shots from the side of the vehicle, a Washington Post analysis found.
Emily Heller, who witnessed the shooting, also told The Post that the ICE agents appeared to give conflicting instructions to Good, indicating they wanted her to move her car before advancing on the vehicle.
Video from Heller’s phone, which she shared with The Post, showed a neighbor who identified himself as a doctor trying to approach Good’s car to provide aid, only to be rebuffed by officers, one of whom said: “Give us a second. We have medics” en route.
According to the Department of Homeland Security’s use-of-force policy, as posted on its website, the agency’s officers should use force “only when no reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist.”
Many law enforcement agencies prohibit officers from shooting into moving vehicles. The Homeland Security document said that officers are prohibited from firing at the operator of a moving vehicle unless using deadly force is justified by the broader use-of-force standard. It also said that officers should get medical assistance “as soon as practicable” for anyone who appears injured.
The posted policy was updated in 2023. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the policy has been changed since then.
The decision by federal officials to unilaterally take over the investigation marks a break from past instances when local, state and federal authorities worked together on high-profile inquiries. After Derek Chauvin, a police officer in Minneapolis, murdered George Floyd in 2020, igniting widespread racial justice protests, the FBI and BCA carried out a joint investigation.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D), who prosecuted Chauvin, called the unilateral FBI probe “deeply disturbing.”
“My question is: What are you afraid of?” Ellison said on CNN. “Maybe they don’t care. They’ve demonstrated a degree of cavalier conduct that is extraordinary and unprecedented.”
The FBI declined to comment on the BCA’s statement regarding the investigation. The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis and the Justice Department’s headquarters in D.C. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The move comes as Trump and officials within his administration have repeatedly taken sharp aim at Minnesota, its leaders and residents alike. Republicans have recently focused on cases of alleged social services fraud in Minnesota, while Trump has vehemently lashed out at the state’s large Somali immigrant population.
When Noem was asked Thursday at a news conference about state authorities being kept from the investigation, she said they “do not have any jurisdiction in this situation” and pivoted to attacking them.
“They’re allowing this situation to be volatile, they’re not doing their work, they haven’t for years, and maybe they should get to work a little bit on the unprecedented fraud that we’re seeing in Minnesota,” she said. “Minnesota is a train wreck. It’s corrupt.”
The move to sideline the BCA drew rebukes from local and state authorities. In a statement, the city of Minneapolis called the decision “deeply disappointing” and asked “for a clear and transparent process that includes state investigating agencies.”
Walz, speaking at a news conference Thursday, said: “Minnesota must be part of this investigation.”
The BCA said Thursday that it was ready to rejoin the investigation if the FBI reversed course. Barring that, however, the agency said it expected state officials would eventually gain access to the FBI’s investigative records.
“We expect the FBI to conduct a thorough and complete investigation and that the full investigative file will be shared with the appropriate prosecutorial authorities at both the state and federal levels,” the agency said in its statement.
Vance dismissed state officials’ anger at being kept out of the investigation, calling the ICE officer “a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That’s a federal issue.”
Speaking at the White House, Vance claimed without evidence that Good, a poet and mother of three, had been “brainwashed” and “a victim of left-wing ideology.” He accused her of “trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement officer” and called the incident “an attack on federal law enforcement.”
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis this week came after confrontations between federal immigration agents and demonstrators across the country since Trump’s second term began.
While many federal officials and some Republicans in Congress defended the ICE agent’s actions, Tom Homan, the administration’s border czar, struck a more cautious note in an interview with CBS News on Wednesday.
“It’d be unprofessional to comment on what I think happened in that situation,” Homan said. “Let the investigation play out and hold people accountable based on the investigation.”
Local, state and national Democrats pushed back on the Trump administration’s defense of the shooting, which Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) said “was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.”
After protests stretched overnight, hundreds of demonstrators angered by Good’s death gathered Thursday morning outside a government office building to heckle and scream at federal officers as they drove in and out of the parking lot.
“No more Minnesota nice; we don’t want your fascist ICE,” they chanted.
A line of officers stationed at the parking lot entrances admonished those filling the roadway to step back. Officers deployed tear gas at one point and arrested at least a few people.
Protesters held signs that said, “ICE out” and chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, ICE has got to go.”
One man wore a sandwich board with Smokey Bear’s face that said, “Only you can prevent fascist liars.” A woman handed out snacks, and a man passed out whistles so people could alert others if they see ICE agents in their neighborhood.
“It feels like we are reliving the George Floyd moment,” said Teresa Thomas, 58, who gave out the snacks.
Several protesters in yellow vests stretched across the roadway, slowing federal officers as they drove into work. Another group stood along the median, shouting at them as they turned into the parking lot. Others stood farther back along the sidewalk. One woman filmed cars as federal officers came into work, and she recited their license plate numbers into her phone. Another filmed them with one hand and flipped them off with the other.
As we all now know, the country is in a state of turmoil following the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good, a woman who was shot point-blank by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ms. Goode was a mother, a partner, a poet, and a writer. She was also somebody’s child. A local resident, Emily Heller, who witnessed the shooting, went on CNN to push back against the truly horrific propaganda and disinformation coming out of the Trump regime in the aftermath of this killing. Heller explained what she saw on CNN:
Heller: President Trump posted a video saying that it was lucky the ICE agent was alive. I want to be very clear about this. The ICE agent was walking afterward. We know that because he went to the hospital and was released. He was fine. He just stood there. Other ICE agents surrounded him. He was obviously spooked, too. They seemed like children. They seemed like untrained people. That agent was clearly shaken because he had just killed someone. It was very obvious to everyone who witnessed it that she was not going to make it. They gathered around him, and then a gold SUV arrived. They put him in it and got him out of there because everyone knew he had killed someone. President Trump says the woman was disorderly, obstructing, and resisting, and that she violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who then shot her in self-defense. That is the only reason I am here. I do not think I am the most articulate person, and I do not want to be here, but I knew this would be twisted into self-defense, and that is absolutely not what happened. My life is forever changed from having witnessed this, and I cannot let this narrative that it was self-defense go any further, because that is not what it was.
Heller described the agents as appearing like children, untrained and unsure of what they were doing. That observation matters. For those unfamiliar, I strongly recommend Chris Geidner’s Substack, Law Dork. Geidner wrote that Judge Sarah Ellis all but warned that a shooting like this would happen. In a ruling dated November 20, the judge wrote,
Agents have used excessive force in response to protesters and journalists exercising their First Amendment rights without justification or warning, and even against those who had begun to comply with agents’ orders.
Judge Ellis also addressed the lack of training, or the deeply inadequate training, many ICE agents have received. The Department of Homeland Security and ICE are desperate to hire new personnel to meet arrest and detention quotas of roughly 3,000 people per day. That requires bodies, not competence. As a result, many newly hired agents are unqualified and inexperienced, frankly consistent with the Trump regime.
Under normal circumstances, an incident like this would be investigated jointly by state authorities and the FBI. Initially, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the BCA, was expected to work alongside the FBI. Today, however, The Guardian reported that the FBI has taken full control of the case and revoked the BCA’s access to investigative materials. This is deeply troubling. It is yet more evidence that the FBI, and the Department of Justice more broadly, are no longer independent of the executive branch. The FBI has excluded Minnesota’s investigative agency because it wants total control over the outcome. We already know the conclusion they intend to reach because Donald Trump, Karoline Leavitt, JD Vance, and Kristi Noem have already told us.
This afternoon, a press conference was held about Ms. Good’s killing. It was obviously designed to gaslight the public and spread disinformation. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had the audacity to express the president’s sympathies, not for the victim’s family, but for the man who killed her. This is how Karoline Leavitt addressed the press:
Leavitt: Good afternoon, everybody. Let me be clear. President Trump and his entire administration stand fully behind the heroic men and women of ICE and will always uphold law and order in the United States of America. The deadly incident that took place in Minnesota yesterday occurred as a result of a larger sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country, where our brave men and women of federal law enforcement are under organized attack.
Leavitt went on to promise that the administration would double down on the very policies that led to Ms. Good’s death. She said the administration would intensify efforts to remove the “worst of the worst” and continue door-to-door investigations in Minnesota, blaming Democratic Governor Tim Walz for corruption and fraud. If these people truly cared about protecting children or rooting out predators, they would resign and release the Epstein files. But that is not what this is about.
Vice President JD Vance then blamed the media for the death of an unarmed woman who was sitting behind the wheel of her car when she was shot three times. He had this to say:
Vance: Somebody sent me a photo of a CNN headline about what happened in Minneapolis. And this is the headline, I’m just going to read it. “Outrage after ICE officer kills US citizen in Minneapolis. Well, that’s one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours. And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order. This was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day. What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ice officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs.
None of that is true. Ms. Goode was not interfering with anything. If the agent was still traumatized from an incident six months earlier, the obvious question is why he was placed in a situation where he was armed and interacting with civilians at all. Vance knows he is lying. They all do. They always do. When asked whether he was preempting an investigation, Vance doubled down.
Vance: Well, first of all, the Department of Justice is going to investigate this. The Department of Homeland Security is already investigating this, but the simple fact is what you see is what you get in this case. You have a woman who is trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation. Nobody debates that. You have a woman who aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator. Nobody debates that. I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe against our law enforcement officers.
What movement? Can they prove that she was intentionally trying to hurt those officers or to interfere with a so- called legitimate law enforcement operation? What were they trying to do other than terrorize Somali Americans in Minneapolis? Vance suggests that any federal officer has absolute immunity, which is news to anybody who has read the Constitution. Here are his remarks regarding that:
Vance: First of all, I wish the state officials in Minnesota would investigate why you have so many people who are using their vehicles and other means to actually interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation. The precedent here is very simple. You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That’s a federal issue. That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job. The idea that Tim Walsh and a bunch of radicals in Minneapolis are going to go after and make this guy’s life miserable because he was doing the job that he was asked to do is preposterous.
Is it preposterous? I love it when fascists call people on the left radicals. If it weren’t so horrific, I guess it would be amusing. Soulless Vance continued to lie more about what happened:
Vance: Look, I don’t know what is in a person’s heart or in a person’s head, and obviously we’re not going to get the chance to ask this woman what was going on. What I am certain of is that she violated the law. What I’m certain of is that that officer had every reason to think that he was under very serious threat for injury or in fact his life. What I’m certain of is that she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy. I don’t know what was in her heart and what was in her head, but I know that she violated the law and I know that officer was acting in self-defense. It raised an interesting point though. Look, if people want to say that we should have a legitimate debate about what was she really doing? Was she panicking when she drove into this officer or was she actually trying to ram him? That’s a reasonable conversation. What’s not reasonable is for so many of you to plaster all over the media that this was an innocent woman and that the ICE agent committed murder, which is what many of you have said explicitly and some of you have said implicitly.
Interestingly, he claims not to know what was in her heart while confidently asserting what was in the officer’s. The only thing I agree with is that we should not be referring to this as murder because that requires a trial and a verdict. It looks like murder…Should he be charged with something? If they are so convinced that this man did nothing wrong, fine. Have an investigation.
It is worth being precise. Based on the available video, the car backed up slightly. The wheels were turned away from the officer. He was standing near the left headlight. The car did not hit him. It was driving away when he fired three shots through the driver’s side window. If he had been under the wheels or struck by the car, how would that even be possible? After the shooting, the agent walked away, asked someone to call 911, and then left an active crime scene with other agents. Trump, Vance, Noem, and Leavitt are maligning a dead woman in ways that are beyond despicable. Nothing they are saying about her is true. I hope her family sues every single one of them for everything they have.
Perhaps one half of one branch of our government is going to try to provide some kind of oversight and employ those checks and balances we often hear about, which, these days, seem almost mythical. It is a bad sign that only five Republicans voted to reign in the executive branch here, but at least it happened.
That is where we are.
Yesterday, it seemed like all of the Minnesota showed up to denounce ICE. Prince may finally be getting his revolution
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2048484046055464
One demonstrator explained why he was there:
This is insane. I’ve never protested in my life. I’m far enough away that I usually just sit at home and get mad. They’re just trying to scare people. But why shoot people? What really pisses me off is that they detain people, cuff them, and then still beat the shit out of them. They say it’s immigrants. It’s anybody. I have friends who were detained just driving home from work. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning like everybody else. I’m just trying to stand up for community. We’re all human beings. I don’t care who you are, where you came from, or what you look like. This is wrong.
Former law enforcement officer, Kramer Hammy:
“It is clear that US citizens’ ignorance of federal laws and law enforcement duties, procedures, and limits of authority is getting to the point where it is deadly. I spent probably 3 hours watching and re-watching, and finding every single video and angle I could of the situation in Minnesota yesterday and came to one immovable conclusion based off of what I saw and what I know from a professional standpoint. This is long, but please give it a read.
“As a former officer, let me make something clear: ICE agents ARE NOT police officers, deputy sheriffs, or troopers. They are not local/state law enforcement. They are not federal criminal law enforcement. They have an INCREDIBLY limited scope of authority, and that scope of authority exists in detaining and arresting with probable cause and/or SIGNED WARRANTS those investigated and suspected of being in the US illegally.
“They cannot just pull anyone over for a traffic violation or because their car is in a place they don’t want it. They have NO authority to pull people over for ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement- and even then that involves probable cause, such as a known vehicle of someone they have been tracking, or a warrant. On very rare occasions they have the legal authority to pull someone over if they are threatening the lives of others, but that was not happening in this case. They do not have the training nor the authority to pull ANYONE else over. They cannot arrest legal citizens. They cannot detain legal citizens without probable cause to believe they might not be legal. They have ZERO authority to be attempting to force entry into a vehicle- without even identifying themselves, without a warrant, without exigent circumstances such as a life being directly threatened- that is trying to drive down the street without probable cause in relation to IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
“This ENTIRE situation in Minnesota was outside of the scope of legal authority from the get go. None of it was done within the scope of authority of ICE. Every single behavior those agents made was procedurally incorrect, done without proper authority, and was based off of intimidation and the assumption that people do not understand the law and their rights in regards to interactions with ICE.
“On no planet should an officer, agent, or any human being ever step in front of a car in ‘drive’ that is actively trying to leave and use their body as a shield to prevent a person from LEGALLY LEAVING a situation in which they are not legally being detained. It takes maybe a week of any kind of actual law enforcement training to understand that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever place yourself in front of a vehicle in ‘drive.’ That agent had every single opportunity to simply take two steps to the right and not be standing directly in front of a vehicle attempting to conduct their legal right to drive away.
“You can see the wheels are turned, [Renee] backed up and turned them to the right, moved forward a bit to leave, couldn’t because an agent was standing in front of her, and continued to try to leave by TURNING HER WHEELS TO THE RIGHT and moving forward. He continually chose to stand there and not allow her to legally leave as she had every single right to do.
The officer pulling on her door and banging on her window and swearing at her had ZERO authority to order her out of her vehicle or attempt to make entry into her vehicle. NONE. A single day of actual training of the legal scope of authority and the LAW would’ve prevented that from happening.
“You now have a frightened citizen being blockaded by immigration agents (with another person in her vehicle) who had zero obligation to follow legally invalid orders from that agent, being blocked in and having a fully grown, masked man attempting to make entry into her car. If this were reversed, every single person would immediately feel she had every reasonable expectation to fear for her safety. It doesn’t matter if she knew it was ICE because the agents weren’t even acting in their scope of authority anyway.
“Whether or not she made the right decision by very CLEARLY- based off of how hard her wheels were turned and how low and to the driver corner windshield that shot was fired- trying to drive to the left of that agent is IRRELEVANT in the picture as a whole.
None of this would have happened if those agents had done even one single thing correctly. Not just correctly, but within their legal scope of authority. Every single moment of that interaction was escalated by untrained, unprofessional, procedurally inept “agents” who not only had zero control of themselves but everything around them. And not because they are helpless, but because their actions that did not fall under their scope of power CAUSED this. Their tempers, lack of training, and the knowledge that they can get away with violating their own scope of authority caused this.
“I will always be the first to defend law enforcement when lethal force very clearly is required. But this was not even remotely the case, and as an actual TRAINED professional in that field with experience and understanding of both the law and procedures, there is no justification for this- and it would benefit EVERYONE to actually read up on the laws, scope of authority, and use a single shred of common sense to see that this situation was started, escalated, and caused by the ICE agents involved. I have zero respect for those in power who are ignorant of the scope of their authority and abuse it at the cost of lives around them.”
US used powerful sonic weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees during Maduro raid: witness account
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US used powerful sonic weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees during Maduro raid: witness account
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Some of our under water friends who have been on Earth more than a thousand years loner that humans want to exact some measure of revenge for the constant pollution of their environment by those humans. They want to use the water in Lake Superior to flood the entire landmass of North and South America.
This could easily be done since Lake Superior contains so much water, over 3 quadrillion gallons, that it could flood the entire landmass of North and South America to a depth of one foot (30 centimeters).
I’ve been married four 7 years. We are Muslim. Occasionally, he asks me how my day has been when he comes home. There’s never any intimacy or contact unless he wants to fuck me. We’re never close to each other. Sometimes I almost wish he would beat me. I can’t yell at him. I can’t tie his body to mine. I can’t tear out his eyes so that he’ll become blind and dependent on me. I can’t take him in my arms and rock him to sleep when I see that he’s upset and has problems.
My Muslim female friends tell me to give up the hope for that kind of intimacy to seek comfort in Allah and find a way to enjoy what I have. They tell me to seek comfort in raising our children. My american female friends tell me talk to him and if that doesn’t work take a lover or leave the “bastard.”
I too, am married to a Muslim. The religion exists to serve men and to keep women in a state of terror. We can be beaten or killed for any reason that displeases the man or taints his “honor.” It is nothing short of sexual slavery. Yet, the other men of the world look the other way while trying to do the same thing to us. The world belongs to to men, we just live in it.
Me I am comfortable putting a bit of my piss or turd in his food. I call it passive resistance. What other options do I have? If I try to leave this forced marriage, I will be killed.
Women need to talk to each other. We can learn something from each other.
I am completely hopeless. Even though I do everything my husband wants me to, neither he nor I are happy. Mostly we become moody and depressed. So now I pretend to be happy, and then he’s also happy. My female friends feel the whole thing is disgusting.
What would they think if I told them that I am not easy, but I can be seduced. And that’s not the way it should be. I fucked his father. He thinks that I enjoy sleeping with him, but I just like the feeling I get when we are in the room with his son, my husband, and he smiles and says “I love your wife.”
All what he want from you is to be happy, but I guess you are the problem.
How am I the problem? He expects me to just stay at home and take care of the children. While he gets to socialize while he works. I am a person too, and like any other person I need human contact. I am more than just a mother, just as he is more than just a father.
Read Hala above. Like her and other women, we need affection. And not just when a man wants to fuck us. Most men only think of themselves. They regard us women as just something necessary to get sexual pleasure from and to bear and babysit their offspring.
If men want us to be faithful, they need to step up and be the companion we women thought we were getting when we agreed to be their partner for life.
Men who think like you are either single, or divorced because unless you are a man whose “religion” forces the woman to obey, she will not stay in a loveless marriage.
There is no perfect marriage
You acted like you are happy and he became happy too if you smart enough, you try to communicate with him so you can work it out and work, if he refuses and you couldn’t work it out with him just divorce him.
Let’s imagine for a second he’s not happy with you and he went and slept with your mom and your sister. What should we call him? Should we call him? Stupid b
Eazy answer an asshole
As usual you make a very good point. I’d like to know if she lives in a moslem country. If she does how can she even dare to question her husband?
I don’t think you know what it is like to live in an Islamic controlled country. I’v been raped by both my husband’s brothers. They know that if I tell, I will be killed for dishonoring my husband. When I visit my sisters who are married to those rapists, they just rape me. I am sure they have fathered some of my 6 children.
Ididn’t pick him. We live in the same house. He came upstairs where we live turned me around, pushed my head into the sofa, pulled up my dress and raped me. After that, he told me that if I said anything my husband, his son would be sent back to Hama, and I and my two children would remain in America with him. So I accepted my situation. He has been raping me whenever he fills like it for Seven years now.
“…to be happy,” What does than mean? If his being “happy” forces his wife to be his idea of what a wife should be, then he is the problem. Marriage means compromise. In business men recognize they will not always get their way. They have to give a little to the partnership. A marriage is also a partnership, the man has to realize that he cannot always have his way. He has to be willing to compromise or risk losing the piece in the marriage if not the marriage entirely.
If you are not married, come to America. I live in Dayton Ohio. We could check each other out.
Why would Nader1 want to come to America to meet you?
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In 1903, French chemist Edouard Benedictus dropped a glass flask on the floor
The flask broke, but did not shatter into thousands of pieces scattered everywhere in all directions.
Examining it closely, Benedictus noticed that a film had formed on the inside of the container.
The flask contained an alcoholic solution of collodion, a type of plastic made by treating cotton with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acids.
When the solvent evaporated, a film of plastic remained inside the container.
Benedictus forgot about the incident until he heard about a young woman who had been seriously injured by glass shards in one of the first car accidents.
He then spent an entire night trying to reproduce the same coating on a sheet of glass.
In just one day, he had the first safety glass, which he called “triplex” because it resembled a sandwich of two layers of glass with a film of cellulose nitrate in between.
In 1909, Benedictus patented his discovery, which began the production of triplex.
The first practical use was in the protective screens of gas masks during World War I.
This was followed by pilots’ goggles and windshields for cars and airplanes.
By 1920, triplex had become standard equipment on all American vehicles.
However, cellulose nitrate did not have good aging properties: it turned yellow over time.
For this reason, in 1933 it was replaced by cellulose acetate, which, although not as durable as the material it replaced, did not turn yellow.
Finally, a synthetic resin, polyvinyl butyral (PVB), was found to be the material with the best characteristics, and it consequently became the material of choice in the production of windshields from 1939.
And all this because of the clumsiness of a chemist so clumsy that he could not hold a flask in his hand
Dear Iranians, we see you.
We stand with you, and you are not alone.
Freedom will come, and the Islamic regime will be gone.
We will dance again.
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The details matter. This moment demands more than vigilance. It demands a reckoning with the system that allowed someone like this to ascend. Returning to what existed before is not enough. The American government, as it once functioned, no longer exists in any meaningful sense. It must be reimagined from the ground up.
This moment requires courage. It requires truth. It requires supporting people who are willing to offer both to the American people. Those are the people we must elevate. Those are the people we must put in power.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this too. So much has happened/is happening that should not have happened. Laws have to be put into place. I don’t think that our founding fathers thought that we would have such a corrupt president that had absolutely no morals and integrity. If there is a silver lining in all of this, it is that we do have to start from the ground up and put those laws into place that will prevent this type of corruption on such a high-level.
And Scotus should not be given carte blanche. We need to have a policing system that is separate from anything else because we know many of them have been benefiting in numerous ways by being bribed. And I’ve always said they should have term limits. This forever on the bench is BS.
On another note, but a similar vein, loved Nikki Glaser and her opening monologue dissing, CBS news,(https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTZUixxDioB/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==) and yet there she is hosting the Golden Globes on CBS. Cant love it enough. More people need to be as ballsy as she is.
The most intelligent answer I’ve heard yet. You’d make a great politician. Run for something.
Your silver lining assumes that we will have a country to rebuild. And, that the people would have a say it in. Chances currently aren’t good that you’ll get that choice.
The gutless wonders in Congress continue rolling over for the despot, time and time again.
The Senate voted 51-50 on Wednesday to block a resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from using military force in Venezuela without congressional approval. Two repugnants that pushed the measure forward choked at the eleventh hour: Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Todd Young, R-Ind.. This administration is not going to step down when their time is up. Why would they when they have carte blanche to do as they please?
I know it’s optimistic thinking. I can’t debate anything that you’ve stated. Unfortunately, you’re absolutely right.
Democrats are still dancing around what is happening in this country. What more needs to occur before there is clarity? How many more innocent, unarmed, nonviolent protesters must be killed, illegally detained, or disappeared into modern-day gulags before Democrats understand that the problem is not the protesters?
The problem is the agencies that empower people who are comfortable with, and capable of, murdering a woman in cold blood and then referring to her as a “fucking bitch.”
Sit with that for a moment.
Donald’s authoritarian impulses are no longer subtle. In an interview with Reuters, he openly suggested ending elections altogether. Discussing the upcoming midterms, he said:
It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms. When you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.
Karoline Leavitt attempted to explain this away by claiming he was joking and speaking facetiously. He was not joking. Historically, he means what he says.
Meanwhile, the consequences of the Trump regime’s policies are all too real. According to ABC News, 1.4 million fewer Americans signed up for Affordable Care Act insurance plans this year. The primary reason is the expiration of enhanced ACA premium tax credits, which had been expanded during the COVID pandemic to make coverage more affordable. Republicans opposed extending these credits, even shutting down the government rather than allowing millions of Americans to maintain their health insurance. Ultimately, eight Democratic senators voted with Republicans, allowing the lapse to stand.
Now the credits have expired. For those who relied on them, marketplace premiums will rise by an average of 114 percent. Under the Trump regime, Americans are already struggling with rising costs and a weakening economy. This is another massive financial burden. One mother from Georgia explained her fear succinctly:
A little over a year ago, I had so much hope for my kids. Today it feels overwhelmingly crushing. I’m afraid for my youngest’s access to the medication he needs to live. A type one diabetic can’t live without insulin. I’m afraid that if something happened to me, he would be left in a system that doesn’t value his life.
That says it all.
Republicans do not care about human life, not even their own families’ lives. They are committed to destroying democracy and the planet itself.
Imagine where we might be if those eight Democrats had held their ground.
Perhaps it is better not to imagine it at all. It is too depressing but that is where we are.
There will be a reckoning. Like the Nazis in WWII, they won a lot in the beginning, but they lost in the end. Unless the racist Americans who urged the Germans into that concept have learned from their mistakes, they are destined to repeat them.
I miss Tsarme
Who is “Tsarme?” Are we talking about the TAo member on Michelle’s blog?
I am talking about my friend, Tsarme. He was a very good friend of Michelle (my ex), and I for many years.
The tRump administration operates on the principle that they can get judges to give them a win when they falsely accuse non citizens of crimes by having those judges not bother with the Constitutionality of the charge. Their Bought&PaidFor judges find or make up an administrative rule that would bar the accused from having the tRump charge litigated on the merits.
Donald has been intentionally provoking violence for years. Now, as courts place modest limits on his power, he appears to be escalating matters to justify invoking the Insurrection Act. This law allows the president to deploy federal troops or federalize the National Guard to suppress unrest within the United States.
There is no reining him in. We have crossed the Rubicon.
This afternoon, Donald posted on his failing social media platform:
If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the laws, stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that great state.
After Donald’s post, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed his rhetoric during a press conference. She said:
The Insurrection Act is a tool at the president’s disposal. It has been used sparingly, but it has been used by previous presidents. The president’s post spoke loud and clear to Democrats who are encouraging violence against federal law enforcement officers and encouraging left-wing agitators to obstruct legitimate law enforcement operations. It’s shameful that Democrat governors and mayors have told state and local law enforcement that they cannot cooperate with federal law enforcement. They cooperated under the Biden administration. These Democrats are deranged in their hatred for President Trump.
At this point, it is difficult to articulate what purpose the Department of Homeland Security or ICE serve.
They must be abolished.