From coast to coast, Americans are being harassed, assaulted, injured, and even murdered by sneering masked thugs hired to attack their countrymen as part of a vengeance presidency that is obsessed with hurting people for sport.
Portland Avenue and 34th Street in South Minneapolis where City of Minneapolis officials have confirmed an ICE agent shot an observer. A neighbor who saw what happened told local MPR news: “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” (Photo: Chad Davis)
Under wannabe dictator Donald Trump, the federal agencies of the United States tasked with keeping the nation safe are rapidly becoming a grave threat to the physical safety of the American people, as trigger-happy officers open fire on those they’re supposed to be protecting with increasing frequency in communities across the country.
Then, on October 5th, 2025, agents shot thirty-one-year-old Marimar Martinezin Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. Martinez was not seriously injured and was thus able to drive away. Although she committed no crime, Trump’s minions charged her and a companion for assault and attempted murder. But prosecutors were forced to drop all charges against both of them only a few weeks later, with her attorney stating: “These agents jumped out and shot Ms. Martinez, a U.S. citizen, whose only crime was warning her fellow community members that ICE was in the neighborhood… That is not a crime. She didn’t deserve to be shot.”
Today, officials at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis said that “armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.” MPR News spoke to a school official about the incident, who related on condition of anonymity: “The guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down… They don’t care. They’re just animals… I’ve never seen people behave like this.”
Also today, right here in the Pacific Northwest, CBP agents opened fire on a man and woman believed to be a married couple in the parking lot of Adventist Medical Center Pavilion in southeast Portland. Here’s more from The New York Times: “The driver of the vehicle that federal officials fired into drove off after the shooting, local officials said, and the victims were found by the police more than two miles away, with gunshot wounds. Emergency medical technicians who rushed the victims to hospitals described both as Spanish speakers in conversations captured by emergency radio broadcasts. The woman had a gunshot wound to the chest, an E.M.T. told a dispatcher. The man was described as having two gunshot wounds.
Details about this latest shooting in Portland are still coming into focus. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted a statement to Twitter about the shooting which was subsequently deleted — and that leads us to worry that the investigation may already have been compromised by political interference from Trump’s regime.
“This violence in our community is devastating,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said. “These are not statistics. These are human beings. Portland is not a training ground for militarized agents. When the administration talks about using ‘full force,’ we are seeing what that means on our streets. The consequences are not abstract. They are felt in hospital rooms, in living rooms, in the quiet moments when families try to make sense of what happened. We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past.”
“That is why we are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place. Our community deserves answers. Our community deserves accountability. And most of all, our community deserves peace.”
“We are all shaken and outraged by another terrible, unnecessary violent event instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration, this time in our own state, in our largest city, coming just one day after the tragedy in Minnesota,” said Governor Tina Kotek, the chief executive of Oregon.
“While details remain limited, one thing is clear: when a president endorses tearing families apart, and attempts to govern through fear and hate rather than shared values, he fosters an environment of lawlessness and recklessness.”
“I am aligned with Mayor Wilson: the priority right now is a full, completed investigation, not more detentions,” the governor added. “The Attorney General, district attorneys, and I have been clear about our concerns with the excessive use of force by federal agents in Portland, and today’s incident only heightens the need for transparency and accountability. Oregonians deserve clear answers.”
“There are those who want to cause chaos. But Oregonians know how to stand up and speak out, peacefully. We must remain united in peaceful opposition to efforts to tear our communities apart and turn against one another. We will not take the bait.”
“I am grateful to the first responders who have been on the frontline of today’s events. The state will continue to support Portland, and stand united with Minnesota.”
“Huge concern about a reported shooting of two individuals by federal agents outside Portland Adventist Hospital,” said Senator Jeff Merkley, Oregon’s junior United States Senator. “My team and I are closely monitoring this situation and are working hard to get answers. I will share any updates as I learn more.”
The Preamble to the United States Constitutions explicitly refers to “domestic tranquility.” That’s how important it was to the Framers that the people of this country be able to live peacefully and prosperously, without fear of social disorder or unrest. Domestic tranquility is a key objective of our plan of government, and the federal government is supposed to meet that objective by enforcing the laws with great care and discretion.
Obviously, that’s not happening right now.
And that’s fine with the people who worship Trump.
What happens when law enforcement officers attack the very people they’re supposed to protect? What then? People are trying to go about their lives in this country and they’re ending up killed or injured because trigger-happy agents full of testosterone have been told they can be as brutal, aggressive, and careless as they want to anyone they happen to come across — and they won’t be held accountable or punished.
This is not “law and order,” this is oppression and systemic violence. Trump has decreed it and Republicans at every level — federal, state, and local — are enabling it.
Renee Nicole Good was murdered on-camera. The footage is widely available. It’s ghastly and horrific. We can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears that we are being lied to on repeat about yesterday’s tragic events.
That’s exactly what Trump-controlled federal agencies are doing.
With Trump’s kakistocratic regime, no American is safe. This is a government of the least qualified and most unscrupulous individuals in the land. It’s the worst government in modern American history by a lot, and the terrible people who are in it seem determined to staking a claim to being the very worst government of all time.
It is our patriotic duty and moral responsibility — all of us who are loyal to the Constitution and to the values of freedom, inclusion, peace, and tolerance — to fiercely oppose this regime and all the evils it is trying to inflict on our country.
In memory of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez and Renee Nicole Good and everyone else who has died at the hands of the thugs working for Donald Trump, we will carry on.
The report / written article has several sections with different versions. But it seems clear that Gestapo leader Stephen Miller is pushing everyone to send the message to ICE thugs and all right wing news media that the government would shield ICE gang thugs as long as they kept the harassment and terrorizing the brown people. The goal of ICE is to make brown people too scared for their lives to stay in the country or come here. The goal of the government is to force the public into instant obedience and to never protest anything the tRump people do or demand no matter how illegal, abusive, or scamming. Hugs
A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver’s window after the car’s bumper appeared to have cleared his body.
The video did not appear to show contact and the officer stayed on his feet, though Ms Noem said he was taken to a hospital and released.
US Vice-President JD Vance says an ICE officer was clearly justified in shooting a woman during an immigration enforcement surge.
Minnesota authorities have accused the FBI of seeking to block their access to an investigation into the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37.
What’s next?
Protesters have taken to the streets and some local schools have cancelled classes for the day.
US Vice-President JD Vance has defended the immigration agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman amid tensions between state and federal officials.
Renee Nicole Good was shot in the head in front of a family member on Wednesday, local time, during an immigration enforcement surge.
Mr Vance said the shooting was justified and that Ms Good was a “victim of left-wing ideology”.
“I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognising that it is a tragedy of her own making,” he said.
Mr Vance said the officer was clearly acting in self-defence.
There has been an outpouring of grief and anger in the community following the shooting. (AP: Mike Householder)
FBI ‘reversed course’ over joint probe
Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said it had been blocked by the FBI from taking part in a joint investigation into the shooting.
Following the shooting, the BCA initially said it had agreed to jointly investigate the shooting with the FBI.
But on Thursday, a day after the shooting, BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said the federal agency had “reversed course” and taken sole control over the probe.
He said that step meant the state bureau would no longer have access to the scene evidence, case materials or interviews.
“As a result, the BCA has reluctantly withdrawn from the investigation,” Superintendent Evans said.
The FBI and the office of US Attorney Daniel Rosen, the chief federal prosecutor in Minneapolis, did not immediately respond to questions about the BCA statement.
Keith Ellison, the state’s Democratic attorney general, told CNN the FBI’s decision was “deeply disturbing” and said state authorities could investigate with or without the cooperation of the federal government.
Renee Nicole Good was shot inside her car on Wednesday, local time. (Reuters: Tim Evans)
Ms Good’s death has left Minneapolis on edge, with protesters taking to the streets in anger and schools cancelling classes as a precaution on Thursday.
Minnesota and Trump administration officials have offered starkly different accounts of the shooting, with US President Donald Trump describing the slain woman as a “professional agitator”.
Democratic politicians and protesters have contested that claim, with the Minneapolis City Council saying she was “out caring for her neighbours” and died “at the hands of the federal government”.
Vance says officer deserves gratitude
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday, local time, that the officer who shot Ms Good had been “dragged” by a vehicle during a previous incident in June.
According to court documents, the officer was part of a team trying to apprehend a man in the country illegally.
JD Vance defended the shooting as self-defence during a press conference on Thursday. (Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)
He broke a window and reached into the vehicle, attempting to open the door when the driver sped off, dragging the officer the length of a football field in 12 seconds.
The officer’s right arm was bleeding, and an FBI agent applied a tourniquet.
He was transported to a hospital, where he received more than 50 stitches.
Prosecutors said he had “suffered multiple large cuts and abrasions to his knee, elbow, and face”.
Mr Vance said 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,” he said.
“He’s been assaulted. He’s been attacked. He’s been injured because of it.”
City and state officials blame immigration surge for shooting
Federal authorities in Minneapolis used chemical agents on protesters during democrations on Thursday, a day after the shooting. (AP: Tom Baker)
The agent was among 2,000 federal officers that the Trump administration had announced it was deploying to the Minneapolis area in what the Department of Homeland Security described as the “largest DHS operation ever”.
But Wednesday’s shooting drew immediate condemnation from city and state officials who blamed Mr Trump’s immigration enforcement surge for sowing chaos in the city’s streets.
DHS officials, including Ms Noem, defended the shooting as self-defence and accused the woman of trying to ram agents in an act of “domestic terrorism”.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, called that assertion “bulls**t” and “garbage” based on bystander videos taken of the incident that appeared to contradict the government’s account.
Videos showed two masked officers approaching Ms Good’s car, which was stopped at a perpendicular angle on a Minneapolis street.
As one officer ordered Ms Good out of the car and grabbed at her door handle, the car briefly reversed and then began driving forward, turning to the right in an apparent attempt to leave the scene.
A third officer, positioned in front of her car on the left, drew his gun and fired three times while jumping back, with the last shots aimed through the driver’s window after the car’s bumper appeared to have cleared his body.
The video did not appear to show contact and the officer stayed on his feet, though Ms Noem said he was taken to a hospital and released.
I wish to thank Ten Bears for the link to this article. We are in a really bad time in this country driven my a dementia addled president that is driven by greed and an unhinged Nazi wannabe man who felt powerless over anyone most of his life Stephen Miller. He has felt less than the women and men around him. Miller has hated brown people since he was a teen and his goal is a white ethnostate. Hugs
The murder of Renee Good was an intentional act in several senses.
First, it was a murder in the classic legal sense, in that the ICE agent who shot and killed her was in no danger — the video clearly shows Good trying to drive away as masked armed men shout contradictory orders at her — so the use of deadly force had no justification. Of course the entire right wing is lying about this, recalling a famous quote from 1984:
The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Closely related to this is the fascist fellow traveler move of invoking some utterly phony Rashomon metaphor about “multiple perspectives” or some such dime store postmodernist bullshit. There are multiple perspectives here, but only because half the country is fascist or enablers and tolerators of the fascist movement that is Trumpism. The perspectives are the truth — Renee Good was murdered by ICE — and a lie: The fascist scum who murdered her was acting in self-defense.
But this was an intentional act in a more abstract and attenuated sense, in that Stephen Miller has created a set of circumstances in which it was inevitable that this sort of murder would happen in this way, so he could pursue his sadistic fantasies of a violent crackdown on protest against the regime (note here that Good wasn’t even protesting; she may have been observing ICE’s activities for evidentiary purposes, but even that is unclear). The local Democratic authorities are asking for calm, so that a proper investigation of the murder can take place, but of course there can be no proper investigation when any such investigation needs to take place in the shadow of a fascist federal government, that quite consciously put into place the policies and practices that would make such a murder, as well as future such murders, inevitable.
Meanwhile Donald Trump, whose brain is turning to mush in real time, is apparently serious about invading Greenland, while Denmark is promising to resist such an invasion with whatever military resources it can muster. All of this is total madness. all of this presages the descent of the nation into pure authoritarianism, and all of this is something that the leadership of the Democratic party is utterly unable to even begin to deal with, as illustrated by these remarks from senior Democratic senators about Marco Rubio and his role in the quarter-baked let’s not even bother to pretend there’s any legal defense for this coup in Venezuela:
“Although I may disagree with him on a day-to-day or hour-to-hour basis … he has shown extraordinary competence,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democratic leader, said in an interview. “I voted for him in this position; I still have confidence in his abilities.”
Others said they respected his particular expertise on issues in Latin America while also raising doubts about the strategy for Venezuela he is laying out in public and in private briefings — which for now involves propping up interim president Delcy Rodriguez as a de facto U.S. puppet.
“You can talk to Marco about — ‘Tell us about Delcy.’ … He knows all of that, and he can give you a sense of who they are and what they’re up to,” said Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), a former colleague on the Foreign Relations Committee.
Kaine complimented Rubio for putting a renewed focus on the Americas, while quickly adding that Trump’s self-proclaimed “Donroe doctrine” is the “wrong kind of attention.”
Compare this attitude toward the Trump administration to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s straightforward response to the federal government’s murder of Renee Good:
Ultimately, there are “multiple perspectives” on things like the murder of Renee Good and the invasion of Venezuela because half the country is fascist, or fascist-enabling. The essence of Trumpism — in all but textbook fascist movement at this point — is to both deny Renee Good was murdered and at the same time enthusiastically approve of her murder (see Holocaust denial for the classic template).
Half the country are enemies of liberal democracy, and they have to be crushed by its defenders. That the political opposition is not currently capable of this even if it should manage to win actual future elections is too obvious for words.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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