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[Mark J]

28 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

I’ve no idea, I wasn’t there I didn’t see the buildup or what happened prior to the incident or hear the verbal interaction or commands given, plus we all react differently to varying levels of stress and danger. 
He presumably knows the rules of engagement better than any of us and bear in mind the “ stand your ground “ principle. 
You can’t get away from the fact had she complied she'd still be alive. 
Looks like he tried the non lethal method previously. 
 

The federal agent who shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis is an Iraq War veteran who has served for nearly two decades in the Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed Renee Good on Wednesday, has served as a deportation officer with ICE since 2015, records show. He was seriously injured last summer when he was dragged by the vehicle of a fleeing suspect whom he shot with a stun gun.

Federal officials have not named the officer who shot Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot as she tried to drive away from federal agents. But Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said the agent who shot Good had been dragged by a vehicle last June, and a department spokesperson confirmed Noem was referring to the Bloomington, Minnesota, case in which documents identified the injured officer as Ross.

Noem and other Trump administration officials have defended the agent as an experienced law enforcement professional who followed his training and shot Good after he believed she was trying to run him or other agents over with her vehicle. Video has raised questions about whether the shooting was in self-defense, and the FBI is investigating the deadly use of force. Some protesters are demanding that Ross face criminal charges, and Minnesota authorities also want to investigate.

Attempts to reach Ross, 43, at phone numbers and email addresses associated with him were not immediately successful.

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Here are some things to know about him:

Experienced military and law enforcement officer

In courtroom testimony last month, Ross said he deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with the Indiana National Guard. Ross said he served as a machine gunner on a gun truck as part of a combat patrol team.

He said he returned from Iraq in 2005, went to college and joined the Border Patrol in 2007 near El Paso, Texas. He worked there until 2015, serving as a field intelligence agent gathering and analyzing information on cartels and drug and human smuggling.

Ross said he has served as a deportation officer based in Minnesota since he joined ICE in 2015. He is assigned to fugitive operations, seeking to arrest “higher value targets” in the ICE region that includes Minneapolis, he testified last month. He said that he was also a team leader with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.

“So I develop the targets, create a target package, surveillance, and then develop a plan to execute the arrest warrant,” he said.

Ross said that he was also a firearms instructor, an active shooter instructor, a field intelligence officer and member of the SWAT team. He said that he attended the Border Patrol’s academy in New Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish.

Seriously injured last June

Ross was a leader of a team of agents who went to arrest a man who was in the U.S. illegally in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington on June 17. Agents had gathered outside the home of the man, Roberto Munoz-Guatemala, who left in his car, according to court records.

FBI agents activated emergency sirens and lights instructing him to pull over but he did not. Ross pulled his vehicle diagonally in front of Munoz-Guatemala to force him to stop.

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Ross and an FBI agent identified themselves as police and pointed guns at Munoz-Guatemala, who raised his hands. Ross then approached Munoz-Guatemala’s vehicle and ordered him to put it in park.

Ross told the driver to lower his window all the way down and warned that he would break it if he did not. Ross used a device known as a “spring-loaded window punch” to break the rear driver’s side window and reached inside the car to unlock the driver’s door.

Munoz-Guatemela drove off while Ross’ arm was caught in the vehicle and accelerated, dragging Ross down the street. Ross fired his Taser, striking Munoz-Guatemala with prongs in the head, face and shoulder.

Munoz-Guatemela was not incapacitated by the Taser, prosecutors said, and kept driving, taking Ross the length of a football field in 12 seconds. Ross was knocked free from the vehicle by force after Munoz-Guatemala drove onto a curb for a second time and back to the street.

Ross’ right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet. Eventually, he received dozens of stitches at a hospital. Prosecutors said he had “suffered multiple large cuts, and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face.”

“It was pretty excruciating pain,” Ross testified.

Munoz-Guatemela was bleeding from his injuries and had a woman call 911, saying that he was assaulted and didn’t know whether the person trying to stop him was an officer. He was arrested and charged with assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon.

A jury found Munoz-Guatemala guilty at a trial last month, finding he “should reasonably have known that Jonathan Ross was a law enforcement officer and not a private citizen attempting to assault him.”

Federal officials defend the agent without identifying him

Vice President JD Vance praised the agent's service to the country Thursday without naming him, saying the ICE officer “deserves a debt of gratitude.”

“This is a guy who’s actually done a very, very important job for the United States of America,” Vance said. “He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.”

DHS assistant Tricia McLaughlin declined to confirm the agent's identity Thursday, saying doing so would be dangerous for the safety of him and his family. But she noted that he had been selected for ICE’s special response team, which includes a 30-hour tryout and additional training on specialized skills such as breaching techniques, perimeter control, hostage rescue and firearms.

“He acted according to his training,” she said. “This officer is a longtime ICE officer who has been serving his country his entire life.”

 

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• Minneapolis protesters vent their outrage after an ICE officer kills a woman

Perhaps if he was still reeling from being almost dragged under a car, he should have a desk job, and not one where being scared of a car leads to an execution, that or he should have kept his stun gun. 

There's no way to make it look like anything other than it was. 

[Johnsond]

17 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

Ok fair enough you weren't there. It didnt look like a tinderbox situation, the agent was videoing her on his phone so he couldnt have thought that it was a dangerous situation. But with your military training surely you were trained to know how to deal with a situation like that? You run in front of a car and they try to drive away from you at like 2 mph they arent a suspected terrorist and they aren't waving any weapons do you step to one side and take a note of their registration plate or do you shoot them in the head?

 

There are loads of videos showing the build up to the event

 

You cant get away from the fact that if he hadnt shot her she would still be alive and so would he.

 

 

 

If she had obeyed the instructions she would still be alive 

If he’s in the wrong and has not followed the rules of engagement as they see it I’m sure he will be in the shit. 
No I never received specific training to deal with people driving a car at you. It was always a judgment call especially in NI, risk of death or serious injury gave you the authority to engage but only after issuing a verbal warning “ yeah right” 

[Johnsond]

15 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Perhaps if he was still reeling from being almost dragged under a car, he should have a desk job, and not one where being scared of a car leads to an execution, that or he should have kept his stun gun. 

There's no way to make it look like anything other than it was. 

Thankfully your opinion is just that 

“ your opinion “ 

Trump related articles such as this case would guarantee  a number of you guys having only one view. 

[Mark J]

13 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Thankfully your opinion is just that 

“ your opinion “ 

Trump related articles such as this case would guarantee  a number of you guys having only one view. 

Trump related articles... Ha get a grip, hand on knees and suck the golden mushroom... TDS. 
 

[Johnsond]

16 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Trump related articles... Ha get a grip, hand on knees and suck the golden mushroom... TDS. 
 

Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows

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Clip first posted by partisan outlet Alpha News shows perspective of ICE agent as Good was fatally shot

Mark you and a couple of others on here are well known for a totally irrational level of TDS, I’m not here bigging him up, rather I’m commenting on the shooting but in your eyes if someone isn’t slating him they are a supporter 🤷‍♂️that’s unfortunately how you look at it hence you can’t be objective with anything involving him. 
I’ve not watched any of the videos apart from the one I attached and she was not doing 2mph, her gob shite “ wife” was obviously taken suprised by her actions and did not ( luckily for her) get the chance to get in the car despite trying to before she  drove off. 
Like I say if he’s in the wrong he’s in the shit. 

 

[Mark J]

16 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows

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Clip first posted by partisan outlet Alpha News shows perspective of ICE agent as Good was fatally shot

Mark you and a couple of others on here are well known for a totally irrational level of TDS, I’m not here bigging him up, rather I’m commenting on the shooting but in your eyes if someone isn’t slating him they are a supporter 🤷‍♂️that’s unfortunately how you look at it hence you can’t be objective with anything involving him. 
I’ve not watched any of the videos apart from the one I attached and she was not doing 2mph, her gob shite “ wife” was obviously taken suprised by her actions and did not ( luckily for her) get the chance to get in the car despite trying to before she  drove off. 
Like I say if he’s in the wrong he’s in the shit. 

 

I suppose it keep Epstein out the news for a day or two.

[Mesterh]

31 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

If she had obeyed the instructions she would still be alive 

 

If he hadnt walked in front of her to video her car as another agent was trying to drag her out of the car he wouldnt have had to shoot her in the face. He put himself in unnecessary danger to get a video.

 

If you with your military training doesnt know how to act in that situation do you think a civilian who is being attacked by a masked man in combat gear wearing a mask getting out of an unmarked car who has just been told to get out of the way can reasonably follow instructions?

 

"If she had obeyed the instructions she would still be alive " 

 

If it was say you wife, daughter, mother and someone asked why did an ICE agent shoot her in the face 3 times would you quote the above?

 

 

 

 

 

[Johnsond]

22 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

If he hadnt walked in front of her to video her car as another agent was trying to drag her out of the car he wouldnt have had to shoot her in the face. He put himself in unnecessary danger to get a video.

 

If you with your military training doesnt know how to act in that situation do you think a civilian who is being attacked by a masked man in combat gear wearing a mask getting out of an unmarked car who has just been told to get out of the way can reasonably follow instructions?

 

"If she had obeyed the instructions she would still be alive " 

 

If it was say you wife, daughter, mother and someone asked why did an ICE agent shoot her in the face 3 times would you quote the above?

 

 

 

 

 

🧐 On January 7, 2026, a mother of three was shot and killed in Minneapolis during a federal immigration operation. The facts are disputed, the video is being parsed frame by frame, and the politics are already hardening.

But there’s a deeper inversion here that has nothing to do with your preferred narrative.

We are teaching people that obstructing law enforcement is a form of virtue. Not voting. Not persuading. Not suing. Not organizing. Obstructing. Physically inserting yourself into a high-voltage encounter and calling it righteousness.

That moral inversion has a cost, and it rarely gets paid by the activist alone.

She left behind three children. They did not volunteer for her cause. They don’t get to vote on her risk tolerance. They don’t get to opt out of the consequences. They just inherit them.

Here’s the hard truth the commentary keeps dodging: when you’re a parent, your “values” are not a private hobby. They are choices that shape someone else’s entire life downstream. Your family is not a side character in your public morality play. They’re the first obligation. Or they’re supposed to be.

“The Cause” cannot raise your children. 

If you want to fight immigration policy, there are lawful lanes: elections, legislation, court challenges, journalism, organizing, peaceful protest that doesn’t cross into direct confrontation. You can be fierce without gambling your children’s future on an encounter you cannot control.

This is the moral inversion: we’re applauding behavior that a sane civilization would recognize as a reckless prioritization of political emotion over parental duty.

I’m not saying her children were unloved. I’m saying they were left unprotected by the very culture that tells adults, especially parents, that “the cause” is a higher calling than the people who depend on them.

Tragedy should produce compassion. It should also produce clarity. When we sanctify obstruction as heroism, we encourage the next person to step closer to the edge. And when they fall, it won’t just be their life that hits the ground.

It will be the lives tethered to theirs
 

 

They wouldn’t have been be there.
 She was well aware of who she was dealing with and what her role was that day. 

[Johnsond]

25 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

you with your military training doesnt know how to act in that situation do you think a civilian who is being attacked by a masked man

🤔 rubbish 

[Johnsond]

Min 45 men women and children killed by the Islamist regime 🤔

1 activist killed by police 🤔

Interesting to see which one riles up the leftards. 

Edited 10 hours ago by Johnsond