Johnathan Ross Minneapolis ICE agent went overboard says FBI official but previous incident which left him seriously injured may have scarred him and justified lethal force in shooting death of Minnesota woman.
New details surrounding the Minneapolis ICE agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old mother of three have revealed that Johnathan ‘Jon’ Ross being involved in a previous operation which led to him suffering serious injuries while attempting to arrest an alleged illegal immigrant sex offender.
‘He’s the same ICE agent who got dragged by car 50 feet back in June, so he has a history,’ an FBI agent speaking on condition of anonymity told the dailymail.
The revelation wasn’t to abet the agent’s behavior which has since stoked controversy on the political divide but to shed light on the ICE agent’s state of mind, the FBI official said.
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Renee Nicole Maklin Good, 37, was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon while she was driving her SUV down a street where ICE agents were on duty. At the time the agents had been met with demonstrators and Renee Good’s SUV vehicle had been blocking the road to the chagrin of agents who got out of their vehicles towards Good’s Honda Pilot.
Multiple videos show the Minneapolis ICE agent, opening fire on Good and hitting her in the face while she was behind the wheel as she attempted to back out and leave the scene after resisting an entreaty to get out of her car.
The Trump administration says Good was a ‘professional agitator’ who had been stalking federal agents. But Democratic officials in Minneapolis have said her shooting was murder. The tragedy has since led to steep political divides and debate as to whether agent Ross was within his rights to shoot the motorist as she attempted to leave the scene in a moving vehicle.
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Good, 37, was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon while she was driving her SUV down a street where ICE agents were on duty.
Multiple videos show ICE agent Johnathan ‘Jon’ Ross opening fire on Good and hitting her in the face while she was behind the wheel.
At one point the agent is seemingly seen running after Good as her SUV proceeds to pass the agent. It is at this moment the agent reached into the passenger side window and fired not one but three shots, raising questions whether the ICE agent has abused his position of authority?
The previous incident in which Officer Ross was dragged by a car took place in Bloomington, Minnesota with Johnathan Ross officer suffered a serious injury to his right arm which required 20 stitches according to the FBI source.
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The official shared how typically that previous incident would be used to establish agent’s state of mind during Wednesday’s shooting.
‘State of mind, that’s part of a good investigation. You establish what their state of mind was. If they get nervous around cars,’ the source told the dailymail.
Of note, the FBI agent noted that he does not believe Ross was justified in his shooting of Good.
‘Shot one, sort of can be argued, but shots two and three – they cannot be argued.’
Witnesses claimed Good, a mother of three, and her wife Rebecca were acting as legal observers and filming the protest when she was shot on Wednesday. The Trump administration continues to double down and described her as a domestic terrorist and ‘left wing radical’ who along with her ‘activist wife’, Rebecca Good had sought to interject themselves and derail ICE agent operations.
Minneapolis has remained on edge since Good’s death, with protesters gathered outside the city’s immigration court on Thursday for further demonstrations.
Activists were seen carrying signs and chanting, including some signs that say, ‘ICE Out Now,’ ‘We deserve to be safe in our community,’ and ‘Resist Fascism.’
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has deployed more than 2,000 officers to the area in what it says is its largest immigration enforcement operation ever.
Noem said more than 1,500 people have been arrested while Minnesota state Governor Governor Tim Walz warned that he would deploy the Minnesota National Guard to Minneapolis. Any deployment would put a stay on ICE operations in that state.
