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  1. 🧐 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.
  2. Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows APPLE.NEWS 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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”
  5. That may well be the case but it’s irrelevant.
  6. 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. SUPPORT WBUR 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. SUPPORT WBUR 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.” Related: Minneapolis protesters vent their outrage after an ICE officer kills a woman
  7. It’s very simple Mike Armed police tell you to stop, you choose to ignore them and continue driving the car towards or close to an officer 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️it’s the USA, the rules of engagement and attitude to pulling the trigger is way different to the UK. when you hear people say he had time or he could have shot the tyres out you know you are dealing with idiots.
  8. What an utter load of leftard shite from a man with zero military, police or firearms experience but spouting off like a firearm and tactical genius , shoot the tyres you reckon 🤷‍♂️you bloody idiot, stick to watching action movies. Time and space you say !! Couple of seconds to make a decision that could cost him his life. he was the one officer in front of the car she was instructed to stop, probably as has been stated a wise thing to do would be to to comply with the verbal instructions given by the armed police on the scene, had she done so she would still be alive . As usual you are giving an opinion after the event influenced by your life in a safe office and your stinking leftard ideology somewhat like the bastards prosecuting lads for things that happened years ago in NI. Very tellingly you are more outraged by this than the many other murders and rapes we see on our own soil committed by people whom shouldn’t even be here.
  9. Says a man whom supported a party that condoned mutilating children and supported the theory that a double rapist could be a woman just because he said so “ pure deluded sick fantasy” Old Sturgeon and the rotten to the core weak leftard ideology of the SNP you vote for time after time. Luckily for you I’m pretty sure you don’t live in the USA or have any connections with it. Look at the past 18 years of decline if you want to see what ****************ed is closer to home and a bit more relevant.
  10. You taken your tablets today
  11. Weapons handling and tactics expert now too 😞
  12. TDS 😞 Nuclear Mark all the way to provide the reliable base load capacity. Just not French owned rather it should be built owned and run by the state for the benefit of the people. We all rely on oil now ( even the tit SP/TA his train doesn’t run on fairy dust ) and will for years to come, so let’s extract it ourselves. Ignore the earnings of the anonymous fool, it will be there when all of us are gone, one way or another.
  13. Oil running out in our lifetime 😂😂😂👍not that old chestnut 4days 🤪that leaves how many for the rest of the year you fool ?? if it’s so wonderful can you explain why our electricity is so ****************ing expensive?? If we need oil then let’s extract it ourself 🤷‍♂️even a total leftard can surely grasp that logic. What industry do you work in SP/TA ??, diving support for the oil and gas and renewables I take it like I do 🤔 You do realise I was on the job at Blyth when the first ones were put in, and have been involved in the sub sea side of it ever since, excuse my ignorance 😂 PS You any idea how much oil is used in a turbine?? Few questions there which I know you don’t cope with very well but give it a whirl eh. Google will be your saviour
  14. Be a bit chilly today without the evil fossil fuels, not a breath of wind up here today and -7 forecast again tonight. Mind you if we freeze deindustrialise and pay sky high energy prices others will surely follow our world leading example 🤔😳
  15. Dedicated thread for TDS sufferers
  16. Serial rapist Metropolitan Police officer allowed to join the force 'because of drive to improve diversity' APPLE.NEWS A serial rapist Metropolitan Police officer was allowed to join the force - despite previous accusations... The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
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  18. 😂😂😂 Angry man much tonight 42, you see your Labour Party has been helping him take ships, the British always did make damn fine pirates. PS ask Starmer or any of the other grovelling EU weaklings 🤷‍♂️how would I know you daft bugger. The attempt at schoolboy leftard humour is about as hurtful as that retards SCUBA digs https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7413949250809729024-H864?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAADB-kJ0BWrJUW5tVr2sxqvep_SKvMEUK9bk&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link Now there’s something more relevant right here and now seeing as gas is keeping us all warm at the minute.
  19. Reform London mayor candidate accused of talking down capital with ‘pity’ remark APPLE.NEWS Laila Cunningham tells press conference that people pity Londoners for having to live in a city... It’s started already
  20. Yeah I know Stubby I got that ages ago. He succeeds only in making his mental illness more obvious. So I’m happy to play along, mind you he could be a genuine retard. I’ve been given the wink offline regarding such things.
  21. Come on now you haven’t answered SP/TA’s question, how do those poor fishermen get home 🤷‍♂️
  22. Looks like Trump clicked his fingers, mind you we need all the cheap oil we can get seeing as Labour and the SNP are destroying the North Sea UK sector 😂😂😂
  23. FFS lad are you for real 😂😂😂😂For an individual who apparently absorbs information by reading you ain’t making a very convincing argument, I find your claims of being able to read up on a subject and then offer a reasonable opinion a bit far fetched, I’ve told you multiple times SCUBA has no place within commercial diving industry yet you repeatedly keep quoting it, this to me would indicate you are not very quick at the old learnings game.
  24. 😂😂😂Where did you get all that from Dempsey ?? You need to chill out a bit lad, all the EU leaders will still kiss his arse regardless of the rights or wrongs of what he does, they have no choice because they need him far more than he needs them. They only have themselves to blame for this mess , the sooner people realise that the better. PS Im not sure snatching Maduro counts as an invasion, now if you had 40000 men illegally entering your country that might, don’t you think ??
  25. 😂😂🤣🤣keep trying wee man

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