Time to Ask if Stephen Miller Has Authorized Assault and Murder of Peaceful ICE Observers
I started my day intending to write about the details surrounding SEIU California President David Heurta’s assault in June revealed in a motion to dismiss and a motion to compel discovery filed yesterday. And I’ve been meaning to do a post on what much coverage of the dismissal of the case against Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a TikToker ICE shot on October 21, has not said: Basically DOJ avoided giving Parias due process by stashing him in a GEO detention facility and preventing his criminal defense attorneys any access, effectively escaping accountability for the shooting that way.
But later in the day, a DHS officer shot and killed an ICE observer, Renee Good, in Minneapolis. Both the Star Tribune and MPR have a running threads of developments.
Here’s a tracker of all the people ICE have shot, including a guy in San Diego shot after he shot his own gun to celebrate the New Year only to have an off-duty ICE officer kill him.
And so instead I’m going to float a suspicion I’ve been nursing.
In Greg Bovino’s deposition for the Chicago Book Club lawsuit, plaintiffs counsel Locke Bowman asked whether Kristi Noem gave him direction on the use of force. She does not.
Q Do you report to Secretary Noem to receive direction as to the use of force in the course of Operation Midway Blitz?
A Are you asking if — if she gives me driection —
Q Yes, sir.
A –to use of force?
Q Yes. If she gives you direction as to how and when to employ force?
A No.
But when Bowman asked Bovino if he had spoken to Stephen Miller about use of force, the DOJ lawyer, Sarmad Khojasteh, instructed him not to answer.
Q All right. How about Mr. Miller, have you spoken with Mr. Miller on the subject of employment of force and the issues of crowd control that you were facing in Operation Midway Blitz?
Mr. Khojasteh: Object to form. I’m going to instruct the witness not to answer to the extent that it — doing so would implicate executive privilege.
Q Okay. So there has been an invocation of privilege, and you are not answering the question based on that invocation, correct, sir?
A That’s correct.
Q I will ask the same question generally. Other than the two individuals I have mentioned, have you spoken with any of your superiors in the executive branch with respect to the issue of crowd control and the application of force in the course of Operation Midway Blitz?
Mr. Khojasteh: Object to form. Lacks foundation. Vague as to superiors in the executive branch.
Q I’ll stand on the question. Could you answer, please?
A Sir, could you be more specific, please?
Q In what respect?
A Who in the executive branch?
Q I’m asking anyone in the executive branch.
Mr. Khojasteh: Then I’m — if you’re going to be that vague about it, Counsel, I’m going to instruct the witness not to answer to the — that to the extent that doing so would reveal executive communications.
Q All right. Without revealing executive communications, and my question didn’t ask for the revelation of communications, can you answer, please?
A Based on the advice of my lawyer, no.
Q I’m not sure — was there an instruction not to answer as to the last question that I propounded?
Mr. Khojasteh: I’m not even sure I understood the last question you propounded.
Q Well, so there was no instruction?
Mr. Khojasteh: Well, I think — I thought it was the same question that I had —
Q Okay.
Mr. Khojasteh: — given the instructions.
Bovino: That’s what I thought. That’s the way I thought.
Q. Okay. All right. So is it true, with respect to the application of force and crowd control, that you take your orders from the executive branch, whether that’s President Trump or Secretary Noem?
Mr. Khojasteh: Object to form. Lacks foundation. Asked and answered.
Bovino: Can you repeat that, please?
Q Yes. Is it true, with respect to the application of force and the matter of crowd control during the course of Operation Midway Blitz, that you take your orders from the executive branch, whether that’s President Trump or Secretary Noem?
Mr. Khojasteh: I’m going to instruct the witness not to answer to the extent that doing so would reveal communications between he and the President.
Q I didn’t ask to reveal communications. I asked if what I just read is a true statement.
Mr. Khojasteh: Yeah, but embedded in your question is the substance of the communication you’re asking, right?
Q This calls for a yes or no. Can you answer it, yes or no?
Mr. Khojasteh: I’m going to instruct you not to answer as with — as it relates to communications with President Trump or anyone in the White House.
Bowman also noted that in a TV appearance, Bovino said he took his instructions from the Executive Branch, whether Trump or Kristi Noem.
The implication is fairly clear: That Stephen Miller is the one instructing him on use of force.
Greg Bovino was present for today’s shooting.
In the wake of the shooting, Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump all have told vicious lies about the shooting; their lies aren’t even consistent with each other, much less the video.
The shooting comes in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Trump can’t deploy the National Guard to cities unless he has first resorted to active duty troops.
It’s time to ask whether Stephen Miller ordered Greg Bovino to shoot those who document DHS’ invasions.
There really needs to be a special place in Hell reserved for Kristi Noem.
I believe that Satan himself, when not guest appearing on South Park, is in the process of constructing level 10! of Hell. Dante’s original 9 not being sufficient for the coming influx of tRump’s administration.
We are a week into 2026, and I despair that ICE shooting a 30-something woman in the face is just not gonna matter. The Trump administration will lie and lie, and nothing will come of it. We had riots over that crackhead George Floyd. Let’s go!
Hmmm…the adjective you use for Floyd tells us exactly who you are,
and advocating for riots [exactly what Trump et al want], leaves us in no doubt.
harpie, you are THE BEST. By which I mean your response to EvilMike is as brilliant as Rayne or EW at their best.
I want to call him out for “thirty-something woman,” a phrase that no one but a creep uses unironically these days. He knew her age. He just chose to demean her too, although not as overtly as he did George Floyd. (If she had been Black he might have come up with viler words.)
How about not rioting, okay? That’s the last thing we need.
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Lay off it, Stephen—we know it’s really you.
In hindsight I should not have approved your comment without a warning, which I will give here now.
Do not make calls for unlawful activity here. If you want to encourage community members to exercise their First Amendment right to protest, fine — but do NOT call for rioting, sincerely or snarkily.
And I agree with the other commenters here that your description of George Floyd is a tell on you. No one deserves to be extrajudicially executed in the street under the knee of a police officer. No one, period. That’s why we had nation-wide protest rallies, not riots.
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There were a lot of people out with phone cams running, so this shooting is well-documented as to what happened. It’s clearly an unnecessary shooting by “officers” who were in no danger. (There wasn’t any riot visible, either. In fact, on that section of street, at least half the visible people seem to be ICE or people with “police” on their vests.)
Two armed masked gunmen approach and threaten me in my car? I’m driving off and over anyone who gets in my way.
Real cops don’t wear masks on traffic stops.
Alternate headline that would more appropriately describe the Chicago Sun-Times story that I read about this:
U.S. Citizen murdered by ICE agents in attempted Carjacking.
Cops have a saying that you might beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride. Meaning if you piss off a cop, the cop will arrest you and take you downtown. I guess if the DA in Minneapolis is angry enough a arrest warrant can be issued. (?) Not sure how that would work. I recall the DA in Philadelphia threatened to do just that to the ICE and border patrol types who overstep their authority.
AP is reporting that the locals say they have jurisdiction over the shooting. I assume they mean Hennepin County officials, but I didn’t take in all the details. So they will do an investigation. Whether that results in charges is another story. Even if it does, DHS could throw sand in the gears by trying to remove it to federal court, where it could be pardoned.
Lawrence O’Donnell made the superb point that, now that Ka$h has circled the wagons and cut out local LE investigators, *one* local official still does have input: the medical examiner. Renee Good’s body was transported to the Hennepin County ME’s office for autopsy, where the ME has exclusive jurisdiction to determine the official cause of death (e.g., which bullet, fired from which direction, killed her) and substantiate his/her findings with evidence from the autopsy.
Renee Good still has a voice in this. Her body will speak for what happened through the ME. It’s critical that the autopsy report be made public.
This seems to be a metaphor for the entire Trump maladministration — they will literally kill anyone who gets in their way. The question is, what will we/can we do about it? And if we ever are able to reclaim our democracy, will we prosecute these thugs for murder and their other crimes, even if Trump is able to hide behind the Supreme Court’s shameful grant of immunity?
State charges.
According to CBS, “The shooting is being investigated by the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.”
There’s no reason to watch let alone cite CBS News anymore. It is a propaganda outlet.
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FBI won’t share the evidence with Minnesota, and insists on taking the lead.
https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-8-2026
Clearly Kash has his orders to make the Feds look good.
Per the Minnesota Public Radio liveblog, witnesses at the scene said that the driver was given conflicting orders, with one ICE officer telling her to get out of the car and another telling her to drive away. Of course she tried to drive away. MPR also reports that ICE officers impeded aid response, both by telling a bystander with medical training to back away and preventing ambulances from approaching directly.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation
I would really like MN to mobilize the NG and place it directly in front of the ICE building(s) until charges can be filed and ICE officers arrested.
It seems to me that the officer who walks up and tries to open her car door, at the beginning of clip, motions with his hand for her to move forward and away. His hand is at belt buckle level and he waves his hand in a ‘move along’ motion. Then he takes several steps forward and tries to open her door. At least that’s what it looks like, must have been very confusing and very scary for her.
If you watch that film very closely you will see the officer that shot her move to the front of the car while the other guy was tugging at the door handle. While that tugging was going on and she started to back up, the front officer was unholstering his weapon. He was planning to shoot while she was backing up. He fired immediately as the car moved forward and jumped out of the way. The car never touched him.
Ice Barbie fully acquitted that guy. She has as much concern for innocent civilians getting shot as she had for the dog she murdered. They’re both equal in her world.
(Sorry, Rayne. Just noticed the typo in my name but can’t fix it)
#tu
I’ve looked at the videos a few times and one of the first things I noticed was when the third ICE officer unholstered his sidearm.
I’ve had to qualify on the range, pass judgmental shooting tests, have taken instruction on federal use of deadly force, and had some degree of responsibility regarding the personnel who checked out duty weapons. You don’t start a chain of event that involves unholstering your weapon unless you can reasonably believe that someone is presenting a deadly threat to yourself or others. The sidearm does not break the plane of your body until the deadly force is necessary. The general instructions were that if you did have to fire, you aimed for the center of body mass — but I never got training in the vehicle-as-a-deadly-weapon scenario. Normally a head shot would be the last thing you wanted to happen.
In this incident, there was a brief period when the vehicle started moving forward and before the front wheels were fully turned for that turn to the right. That appears to be when shooter began firing. And that may be the sticking point of any prosecution or disciplinary action. Did the shooter feel at risk? How many rounds were fired?
But stepping back a little, I am reminded by Deming’s observations that 95% of the problems in an organization or enterprise are the fault of management. There are three groups people here: The potential detainees, ICE, and the public — whether they just happen to live or work in a targeted area, or are protesting.
And this is where “Commander at Large” Bovino utterly shows his incompetence and/or maliciousness. By his enforcement-by-performance, he is dramatically increasing the risks to all three of those groups…The classic wrong thing, wrong way.
He purposely allows mayhem to break out, and cares not one bit for the safety of any among those groups. If you look at videos over the last months, he is constantly and consistently putting his officers in situations where this kind of thing can happen: Officers with their weapons unholstered, and even raised towards unarmed people, in a scene of general mayhem.
reply to Raven Eye:
Thank you for sharing your expertise. You don’t say so, but I’m inferring that the hierarchy of “management” doesn’t end with Bovino. He’s just the strutting bantam sent out to put on public displays locally, but he answers to Noem, who theoretically answers to Trump but almost certainly takes her orders from Stephen Miller.
All of this bears the hallmarks of a Miller enterprise, from the violence-first strategy to the utter lack of legal grounding–because Miller doesn’t know the law, he has decided it doesn’t matter, and with Our Immunity President behind him he can get away with it…for now.
That premise (violence untrammeled by law) seems to filtered down to the boots on the ground. If only they did not carry guns.
To Marcy’s point of Trump choosing the worst possible martyrs, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. Catapulted onto the national stage and seemingly ready for it.
Thank you for picking up my slack!
Watched the news coverage on the shooting and the “speeches’ afterwards, on a number of stations, including the BBC. The BBC film led me to conclude the shooting was not necessary. It was hard to say, What ever Trump and his gang are trying to spin, its not working. Of course there were times in Eastern Block countries that type of thing did happen and in WW II,
Saw the Mayor. First thought, there is the next Gov. of the State. He’s articulate, younger, on the ball. If this is his image he could well run and win higher positions.
Heard an interview with him, where he described that he and the police chief had discussed this very possibility a month or so ago, when ICE began their efforts but before this latest big surge of officers to the Twin Cities.
They *were* ready for it. The only question they had, really, was when it would happen.
The Guardian notes this here.
If there is no use of force policy, does that create a problem for any potential prosecution or civil action against the ICE agent?
I first saw this on Fox News–don’t even remember how I heard about it. But the Fox affiliate (I assume MN) did a very respectful job presenting the video (the one where you have a good view of Renee backing up, turning her wheels, moving forward and the agent that shoots her seeming to appear almost out of nowhere–my own opinion is that the trajectory of the vehicle after she could no longer control it supports an inference that she had no intention of hitting him. NY Post had a decent article about Renee Good but the comments were predictable. I commented there saying that everyone is talking about who was doing what but they are going beyond observed facts. Example: guy says she backed up “to gain distance.” No, you don’t get to say that in court, you get to say she backed up. Anyone who lives where there is snow and cars park on both sides of a residential street (and park further away from the curb to avoid the snow the plows leave behind) has experienced maneuverability challenges on said streets, so there are many possible reasons. I also think the path of the vehicle after she is shot would argue against any intent to hit him or anyone else–but I also know that I am in the realm of inference.
The blood on the snow, the person (I’m guessing her wife based on later reporting) leaning into the vehicle against her body, the blood on the air bag. And to top it all off her former husband and father of their 6 year old passed away previously.
Heather Cox Richardson today quotes an ICE agent as claiming they have their “own medics”, when a physician tries to help Ms. Good. Needless to say, no such person is present. I wonder if this response is part of their training so as to limit the number and expertise of factual witnesses who might speak to the press or testify against them.
Big “oopsie” on the video.
That clip is absolutely gut wrenching. Refusing aid while Ms. Good lays in situ, lifeless and unattended while masked men in camoflauge hold off a doctor at gunpoint.
The fact that the shooter was allowed to casually get into his SUV and leave the scene is outrageous.
There IS a use of force policy. Generally, it is standard across the federal law enforcement agencies. The different executive departments and agencies package it to conform with their own management and command structures, and agencies need to tailor it to the environments they are working in. For example, both the Coast Guard and Fish and Wildlife agents have to take into consideration the special circumstances presented on the waterways and at sea. Regardless, those agencies have to meet minimum standards so that DOJ can bring the cases to court.
Found this online today:
CBP Use of Force Policy January 2021
Chapter 2: Use of Deadly Force
A. General Guidelines and Responsibilities
1. Deadly force is force likely to cause serious bodily injury or death of a person.
2. Authorized Officers/Agents may use deadly force only when necessary; that is, when the officer/agent has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death to the officer/agent or to another person. a. Serious Bodily Injury – Physical injury that involves protracted and obvious disfigurement; protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; or a substantial risk of death.
3. Discharging a firearm at a person shall be done only with the intent of stopping that person from continuing the threatening behavior that justifies the use of deadly force.
4. Discharging a firearm as a warning is prohibited except for the limited
circumstances described in Chapter 3.C.
5. Discharging a firearm as a distress signal is permitted in emergency situations.
6. Deadly force shall not be used solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing subject. However, deadly force is authorized to prevent the escape of a fleeing subject where the officer/agent has a reasonable belief that the subject poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer/agent or others and such force is necessary to prevent escape.
7. Authorized Officers/Agents shall not discharge their firearms at the operator of a moving vehicle, vessel, or aircraft unless deadly force is necessary, that is, when the officer/agent has a reasonable belief that the operator poses an imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death to the officer/agent or to another person.
If he wanted to stop the vehicle with force, why didn’t he just shoot a tire? Still would have been wrong, but probably not deadly.
Trump, Noem, Miller and now JD Vance have weighed in clearly on what they consider “reasonable.” Yale Law grad Vance additionally granted the shooter “absolute immunity.”
We’re supposed to cut this guy extra slack because he was dragged by a car six months ago. If he’s still too paranoid to deal with street wo
Tweet by Xochitl Hinojosa, form head of DOJ Public Affairs:
https://archive.is/wrP20
https://www.justice.gov/archives/ag/file/1220256-0/dl
Did Stephen Miller authorize the assault and murder of…?
People who pilot go-fast boats near South America?
Came across at least at seven unclassified accounts of the U.S. Coast Guard INTERDICTING drug running boats off of the West coast of South America within the last six months. Yes, actually boarding and seizing the cargo and crew. NOT blowing them to bits. Contrast that with the military murdering others near Venezuela. Why the difference, Stephen?
The people of Greenland?
Came across a December 5th National Intelligence Council report about how Greenland is very interested in receiving military and commercial investment from the U.S. and allies. And yet Stephen spurns this for the chance to dominate a country with 28,000 working adults?
Are you okay, Stephen?
If you were reading a report from The National Intelligence Council from December 2025 you should presume the report is skewed to the foreign policy priorities of Donald Trump and his personal ambitions for self-aggrandizement, not US interests, and may well be filled with lies and misinformation.
The Coast Guard, operating under their authorities as federal law enforcement officers and officers of the customs, normally execute the standard operation: Board, search, seize, and arrest. That just doesn’t cut it for Miller’s lust of spectacle.
Instructions: make things worser and worser and drive the populace insaner and insaner, until the perfect pitch needed is reached to cancel the midterm elections.
Applies to all actions, and all the topics of recent posts here at EW.
Time to reread Spiegelman’s “Maus.”
The other possibility: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com › wiki › Bell_Riots
Which is “sanctuary districts” for the homeless and mentally ill, and it gets worse because “out of sight, out of mind” until one day…they get a (more or less organized) riot, and it gets a lot of people killed. But the “sanctuary districts” (which really sound like something Miller would like) are ended.
Trump has taken some hits in the last few months. But the murder of a US citizen, and lies about how it happened which are easily disproven by video, may go much further to alienate Republican members of Congress from him.
Might Stephen Miller finally get put on a shorter leash? Or booted out of the inner circle?
Probably not. Kristi Noem is much more disposable.
“I could stand near 34th street and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
I really hope that the Minnesota State Police is on top of this case where the armed and dangerous suspect for this murder fled the scene of the crime, and that they get a warrant for person(s) matching the description of the guy, and that they book them, fingerprint them, and only provide bail if they surrender their weapons and are forbidden from leaving the state until a trial is concluded.
I can’t embed a link, but per Taegan Goddard, the AP reports that Kash Patel’s FBI is denying Minnesota state law enforcement access to any evidence.
There’s more about this, and a link to Star Tribune
in my comment at January 8, 2026 at 11:42 am.
The likelihood of state prosecution of the ICE officer is extremely low and, even if charged, his first action would be to move the case to federal court. Once there, I doubt a conviction would result.
Bovino, incompetent and insecure, will continue to design these sweeps to maximize the risk to officers, deportees, and the public — continuing the likelihood of similar shootings.
True, but there is no reason to surrender in advance. I think the Hennepin County Attorney should convene a grand jury. Maybe the resulting case gets removed to federal court, but make them do it. That would make the white-washing and cover-up in progress all the more plain.
I have to admit, this hits me very personally. I often pick up my son from his group home in that general vicinity. In fact, ICE was at his group home earlier that very morning trying to get in, but was denied access by the management because they didn’t have a warrant. Even though he is a U.S. citizen and not of color, he was unnerved by that. So, I could have gone to pick him up and been driving in that very location.
If I were in the situation Ms. Good was in, I could see myself getting rattled by a bunch of goons shouting conflicting orders at me and wanting to get out of there. And so getting shot in the head just like Ms. Good.
She could be any of us.
At the least, leaving the scene of the crime should be a charge, for anyone else would be charged with fleeing and eluding, as well.
They have a message for us. “If you resist, we will attack you”.
And, “If you continue to resist, we will kill you”.
“You cannot stop us”.
You missed one:
“If you don’t resist, we’ll kill you and claim you resisted.”
Just saw an interview on MSNOW with a pastor who was handcuffed and put in a vehicle in Minneapolis by ICE/CBP/Homeland Security. They kept asking him if he was afraid of them yet. He kept on saying no.
Eventually, they let him go saying, paraphrase, “You’re white so it wouldn’t be any fun.”
Another day of ICE shooting and killing American citizens. It was all about blame the victim and there were no words of regret, no words of condolence to the family of the deceased. Armed troops in the streets, mass arrests, internment without access to lawyers, inadequate food and health care in the camps. Reminds me of the descriptions of what went on during the Second World War when the Nazis would roll into a country, town, etc.
Kidnapping a foreign leader and invading a country to do so. Now talk of invading other countries just because an over weight, under intelligent man wants to feel like he is a big shot. Only unbalanced people resort to the kind of action Trump and his maga puppets do.
If trump is not stopped soon it is not going to go well for many in this world. He is not a above the law.
Power, not laws, is the primary vehicle of tyranny. The US is now a tyranny: Stephen Miller has articulated it, ICE is demonstrating it; foreign threats & invasion confirm it. Those who are still sleeping are dreaming of mid-terms just like those Germans who thought they could wait out Hitler.
Trump uses & abuses every power available to him whilst obstructing any law that might constrain him. That has been in his nature all his miserable life. The great difficulty is that in Minnesota the only powers available to the State in any opposition to federal depredations are legal. Quite deliberately so.
At a certain point one has to accept that you cannot continue to play a game according to the rules when the other player does not.
Should the Minnesota National Guard end up in a confrontation with ICE then Trump’s federalising of those forces under Title 10 will provide a stepping stone to the Enabling Act – insurrection.
I fear that passive resistance will not cut the mustard in dealing with your regime. Those tactics belong to a world in which the visual image had the power to shame a minority in the eyes of the majority. That ship has sailed like a rusting oil tanker under a foreign flag.
I watched in horror as ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, MN on camera. Then I cried.
ICE, like the Gestapo known for its brutality isn’t about immigration, it is about terrorizing people, U.S. citizens and immigrants. This is not law enforcement. This is murder. This is Trump’s America. Nazi Gestapo tactics. This is fascism.
I have an aversion to watching videos of people hurting or killing others. Sadly, they’ve become all too common and the collective we have become desensitized to brutality. But I forced myself to watch this murder. Several angles and views. One showing her waving ICE vehicles past her as she tried to navigate the icy roadway. Several ICE vehicles did pass in front of her car. She wasn’t obstructing. Another view showing the murder positioning himself to kill her and firing several shots into her car even after the car had past him. And finally another showing ICE preventing a doctor from attending to her.
And then the lies from Noem and Trump. What a disgusting collection of people.
Yeah but didn’t ya love her “there’s a new sheriff in town” hat? Cue suspenseful music.
To paraphrase George Carlin: “She’s wearing a cowboy hat and it’s not even Halloween.” The USA is being humiliated on a daily basis by these buffoons. I’m so damned naive that I actually thought George “Baby Bush the Lesser” would be the dumbest person to inhabit the Oval Office in my lifetime.
I won’t watch these videos of people being killed — I never have and I never will. I don’t need to — my imagination is enough so that I don’t have to watch someone take their last breath. Reading about it is enough.
Vance piled on additional lies.
From the beginning with the ‘family separation’ policy, I have wondered “where do they find the men to man these things”? The wondering becomes more intense and confusing as I notice that to some extent, these ICE squads are integrated.
This administration certainly knows how to get the grievance based immigrants to do their bidding. I am hoping that these groups do not arrive at the “find out” stage as I fear America will be so far gone, they will not get any help. The treatment of Tim Scott, Nikki Haley and Marjorie Taylor Greene should be a warning, but seemingly not. We may get to see if little Marco and Maria Machado get tossed by the wayside and forgotten or asked to leave the administration to “do better things”. President Rubio of Cuba, first of his name, seems to be a possible script.
If you can’t win an election, then join the regime.
https://paaia.org/CMS/paaia-interviews-iranian-american-candidate-new-york-state-senate-sarmad-khojasteh.aspx
TRUMP is RESPONSIBLE for EVERY action HIS Federal Government takes.
So, let’s say, someone is murdered in cold blood by TRUMP’s Goons?
TRUMP murdered that person.
Trump should be impeached for Good.
He is the author of her death.
Any Senator not convicting him has the blood of the next innocent on their hands.
Trump should then be impeached again for causing the death of the next citizen.
And again so that there is a record for posterity of every Senator who backed murder by the State.
I am struck by this: there was no one beyond that shooter for him to “protect.” Shooting the driver of a car, that he supposedly thought was trying to run him over, in the head would do nothing to protect him. The better, and the most logical reaction would be to just step out of the way. Instead, he first stepped into the way. And in fact, his chosen reaction would make things worse for everyone else, because now the car is definitely out of control with the driver dead.
He wasn’t trying to “protect” anyone. He just wanted to kill someone, anyone, and it happened to be Ms. Good. Period, end of story.
The video shows that he had already pulled his gun out of the holster before the car started to move forward.
Maybe this is the plan. 1) Murder an innocent in public view. 2) Lie about it. 3) When the inevitable protests erupt, infiltrate them and begin breaking windows and torching cars. 4) Invoke the Insurrection Act.
COVERUP
I don’t know the exact time of this aricle, but
Aaron Rupar posted it to Bluesky at 11:21 AM · Jan 8, 2026.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said the FBI had ‘reversed course’ on a joint investigation. Meanwhile, protesters gathered at the Whipple Federal Building after thousands attended vigils to remember Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
Star Tribune staff The Minnesota Star Tribune
Here’s a THREAD about it from MN NPR News reporter Jon Collins:
https://bsky.app/profile/jcollins.bsky.social/post/3mbwe7tjxoc2z
11:03 AM · Jan 8, 2026
And here’s a THREAD from Radley Balko:
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3mbwfzra5cs2l
11:35 AM · Jan 8, 2026
“…Practically, unless something changes, Rosen’s intervention means there will be no independent police agency investigating the shooting.”
Civil suit, discovery?
Here’s Puppy Shooter NOEM saying:
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbwhpvwctp2q
12:05 PM · Jan 8, 2026 [VIDEO]
They do. It was in their state, in their major urban area, and one of their UNARMED citizens was killed. Murder is a state crime. (I think it’s only federal if the killer crossed a state line with the intent of murder.)
Your parenthetic statement likely indicates the Federal way forward although it suggests the view of a crime having been committed.
I’m totally not surprised.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/can-ice-agent-who-shot-minneapolis-woman-be-prosecuted-2026-01-08/
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html Devon Lum, Robin Stein, Ainara Tiefenthäler January 8, 2026
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James Poniewozik offers a GIFT Link here:
https://bsky.app/profile/poniewozik.bsky.social/post/3mbwad5afbc23
9:53 AM · Jan 8, 2026
There was great wisdom in the establishment of no statute of limitations for murder.
“The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” –Orwell
The administration’s stance is that the shooter has the same absolute immunity as the president because of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.
J.D. Vance came right out and said it, and he said a lot of other shit, too. They are definitely going to protect the ICEstapo at all costs. We will see how successful they are, in court……
By Susie Wiles’ own reminder to Trump (as stated in VF and elsewhere,) she is the Chief of Staff, not the chief of him. So, what does this mean and, specifically, how does it relate to Stephen Miller?
Well, there are a couple of interesting things to note in the wiki on “White House Chief of Staff.” For example, under the tab on “Role” it says that one of her responsibilities is the “firing of senior staff members.”
And under the tab “Historical background” it says this:
“… it was not until the Nixon administration that the chief of staff took over maintenance of the president’s schedule. This concentration of power in the Nixon and Ford White House (whose last chief of staff was Dick Cheney) led presidential candidate Jimmy Carter to campaign in 1976 with the promise that he would not appoint a chief of staff. And indeed, for the first two and a half years of his presidency, he appointed no one to the post.”
So, why isn’t Susie Wiles taking responsibility for Stephen Miller’s actions? Or maybe she is just fine with what he is doing.
A bipartisan group of Senators are currently seeking answers from Susie Wiles about her knowledge of the Epstein files, based on her remarks in the Chris Whipple article in VF. Maybe someone should also ask her about her supervision of Stephen Miller.
My buddy reports that his granddaughter’s daycare facility in Minneapolis was “visited” by ICE yesterday, No other details.
I’m still flabbergasted. and pretty scared. Where do they find this many sadistic and morally vacant men, ready to carry out Noem’s and Miller’s orders ? Do they really think there will be no accounting?
If I am not mistaken, police training suggests (it’ll make things so much easier for everybody) firing at the tires, and/or disabling the vehicle. I’m so disgusted with this evil fraud dying right before our eyes, determined to take the US down with him.
I have read (or heard) that ICE is now hiring 18 year olds and offering big signing bonuses.
What could go wrong with more masked trumpy men (or women) with guns?
I hope this is not true. Tell me it is not.
Watching video clearly shows ICE officer not being struck by victim’s vehicle or in danger of being struck. Officer had already defended himself by moving away from the path of the vehicle. His spatial separation from the vehicle would have been more evident if he hadn’t paused his steps for the split seconds it took to draw his gun. Tellingly, he starts to draw his gun as the vehicle has backed up and is turning its wheels to go forward but at the same time he is moving away from the front of the vehicle. I submit this is purposeful aggression not preferred de-escalation and suggests a violence prone, overly aggressive officer who seeks out danger for whatever gratification actually welcoming violent encounters. This is not merely arm chair psychology on my part, but rather is a documented psychological phenomenon much more encountered in law enforcement that they are comfortable with discussing or admitting to its existence. Much more nuanced that the “ Dirty Harry “ trope, it is,among other motivations, characterized by an officer fantasizing about lethal encounters, acting rapidly to create the confrontation they believe is coming, and as germane to this incident, positioning oneself for lethal justification. Whether these psychological traits were already formed or developed during this officer’s training, increased during this current period of political polarization, and whether and to what extent were impacted by his previous encounter and injuries with a vehicle as reported might very well be raised and focused on in any future criminal prosecution. Of course, if the DOJ has sufficient control of and successfully interferes or stymies any state criminal probes we will not see any of this as part of any meaningful inquiry.
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis. Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214
Police work is boring and tedious but attracts adrenaline junkies because of the police mythology of constant danger created by generations of copaganda and TV and movie crime dramas. Those adrenaline junkies are forced to create situations just like this.
The classic example is the two agents that get out of the vehicle Ms. Good has attempted to wave by, but has instead stopped. One agent gets out and takes time to survey the situation, the other agents almost runs (the road was very icy) and grabs her car door and starts yelling through the open windows. He is the classic adrenaline junkie. His only intent is to cause as much tension and chaos that he can then control through physical intimidation.
Two apparently shot by CPB in Portland earlier this afternoon.
Vance apparently thinks that federal law enforcement has “absolute immunity”.
https://apnews.com/video/vance-says-ice-agent-involved-in-fatal-shooting-has-absolute-immunity-5109e1f2c2504fc5b3249196cc6ba014
Clearly Vance is unaware of the limits of immunity.
IANAL, but I would welcome comment from those who are about the following: I understand that any state charges against ICE agent Jonathan Ross are likely quickly to end up in Federal court but, nevertheless, is there not value, in the interest of justice, for MN authorities to seek an arrest warrant from a state judge for Ross, citing the multiple videos and witnesses of the incident as probable cause, arrest him, and then let the state and Feds fight out the substantive and jurisdictional issues in court, through multiple levels of appeal if necessary? Or would this just be a waste of time and resources? It seems to me that there are some issues of principle here worth hashing out regardless of the ultimate outcome.
Whatever licenses he has for firearms and LEO use should be suspended for the duration.
The FBI agent who killed Randy Weaver’s wife and baby at Ruby Ridge was prosecuted by Idaho. DOJ got it moved to federal court, but 9th circuit said supremacy clause only applies if the federal official is carrying out his duties responsibly, and that got sent back to state court. Prosecutor ended up being voted out and his successor decided not to pursue the case but there’s precedent. Lawfare podcast brings this up, along with some clarity from a 20 year FBI retiree.
And the admin seems to have some really bad lawyers.
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Hopefully I did that right.
The video is 3 hours of today’s Minnesota protests. At 2:13:03 a former Ranger captain starts schooling the CBP guys who have a line facing the protesters. He continues for some time referring to his service in Afghanistan, including work with local civilian populations. He’s on there for about ten minutes.
He tells them their gear (he refers to plates, which I assume is body armor that isn’t just Kevlar and that they are wearing absolutely the wrong kind of gear for when you are dealing with civilians, and is clearly intended to intimidate–several remarks about Bovino’s “glamour shots” in his Nazi-esque trenchcoat.He’s telling them about how it’s their job to call out jokers (referring to Jonathan Ross as a f-ing joker several times). He says they are geared as a special something and they should be behind the line instead of being at the front of the line. He talks about leadership’s responsibility to train them how to work amongst civilians. He says several times that when he went into Afghan villages he wasn’t masked and he wasn’t wearing plate, often no body armor whatsoever. He asks them if they’ve been told to stay out there all day in the cold instead of getting breaks and changing teams every couple of hours and it’s their team leaders’ responsibility to take care of them. He repeatedly reminds them they signed on to fight cartels on the border fighting cartels instead of shooting civilians and taking down high school kids (he’s a soccer coach who coaches kids at the h.s.) . He’s wearing his Ranger hoodie and saying out he planned to just sit around drinking coffee while his wife works on her architecture stuff from home and had a VA appt in the afternoon, but then he looked out the window and saw the ICE presence and knew he had to get out there. .
I’d love to see someone put him in front of Vance. Vance would be a grease spot on the pavement.
An older clip (these are on r/minnesota) from a week ago shows ICE making a futile effort to drive out of a patch of snow. They deployed to Mpls with RWD vehicles. There is a technique for getting unstuck with RWD. You use gas and brakes, you go a little forward, brake, reverse, brake, and eventually you make a half pipe in the snow, and success comes when you have the rear wheels on the upper slope of the half-pipe and hit the gas forward. Basically it’s like a swing, and when you have the swing moving enough the momentum carries you out of the stuck patch. Best to have some weight in the rear as well. It also helps to have a container of sand (I used to use wood ashes from the outside wood burner my dad used to heat our house, I had a job where I drove 60k miles a year in rural and small town areas of N MN and back then RWD was standard).
If you just keep spinning tires, you might end up with the half pipe, but your tires are warm and you’ve created wet ice and you get nowhere. At that point (there wasn’t enough snow to warrant a shovel) you’re best off waiting awhile so the tires cool down. So they have the wrong vehicles and nobody has taught them how to handle a vehicle in snow. R/minnesota responds with merriment.
Noem’s bit about them getting stuck in the snow almost made me laugh. That street was plowed. Residents had done the necessary rearranging to create parking spaces. No one *else* was getting stuck.
It made me (born, partly raised and learned to drive stick in Chicago) wonder where these ICE goons mostly come from. We moved to North Carolina when I was four. It snowed there once, about half an inch, and the whole county was paralyzed. Few natives knew how to drive on it. I suspect Southerners might be overrepresented among ICE agents, especially recent recruits. DHS would consider it safer politically to cast their net in red states.
I accidentally got into mud once (in a Corolla). Got out using the techniques I’d been taught for dealing with snow (which I hadn’t needed before, or since).
Marcy, this morning:
https://bsky.app/profile/emptywheel.bsky.social/post/3mbyk6533jk2k
7:54 AM · Jan 9, 2026
Links to:
Inside Trump’s Plans To Protect Killer ICE Agents ‘No Matter What’ Minnesota officials want to investigate ICE’s killing of a mother in Minneapolis. Team Trump has been planning for a moment like this. https://zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-killer-agent-plan-minnesota
Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker Jan 08, 2026 // Paid
The last two paragraphs of free content:
Here’s Asawin Suebsaeng with an Update [WH response] on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/swin24.bsky.social/post/3mbx7sfmr522q
7:16 PM · Jan 8, 2026
Unlike fabled law professor-turned-SCOTUS Chief Justice Stephen “Alien Enemies Act” Miller JD?
So the WH DID game out what might happen if they sent ICE and CBP into blue states/cities. And instead of working out de-escalation strategies, sent out thugs with little training and orders to detain 3K a day.
Even more reason to lay this shit on Trump. He owns this.
Here’s VIDEO of BOVINO assaulting a peaceful protester [see 0:09 – 0:10]:
https://bsky.app/profile/noturtlesoup17.bsky.social/post/3mbx22f4l2k2i
5:33 PM · Jan 8, 2026
From November:
The Trump Administration’s Favorite Tool for Criminalizing Dissent Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111-ice/684961/ Quinta Jurecic November 18, 2025
TODAY, in response to TRUMP’s claims re: this murder, Jurecic offers a GIFT Link here:
https://bsky.app/profile/qjurecic.bsky.social/post/3mbud5migcs26
3:38 PM · Jan 7, 2026
Here’s a VIDEO posted TODAY, of one of these GOONS saying
the observer will be arrested under “18 USC 111”:
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mbyoo4be3c2w
9:15 AM · Jan 9, 2026
Asha Rangappa responds to that VIDEO:
https://bsky.app/profile/asharangappa.bsky.social/post/3mbyxqr4zzc2e
11:58 AM · Jan 9, 2026
Links to:
18 U.S. Code § 111 – Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/111
Haven’t checked the link buta friend of mine saw a car stopped by police. (There had been shots fired at an apartment complex in the area with the shooter leaving in a white car, and this was a white car). He started recording. Two women get out and are told to drop to their knees. Turns out both are very drunk. Friend started recording. Police told him to move away, so he went across the street and continued recording.* In the dashcam recording you can hear one of the offices say as soon as we deal with them, he’s going to jail. As soon as they have the women (who have trouble walking on their stilettos) they tackle him, grab his phone, and arrest him. HE ended up getting cited and released and considered fighting them (hence he got the dashcam recordings) but in the end paid the ticket (he had an expired out of state license and may have wanted to avoid being stopped in the future–funny thing is he was also a major local Tea Party figure and he couldn’t even vote because no ID, even though his fans wanted him to run for office). The crazy thing was they did not charge the DUIs, they just drove the ladies home.
*I think it’s funny people refer to filming and taping when there is no physical film or tape involved, so I always say recording instead.
Holman has been vociferous since the start saying that telling people they have rights should constitute obstruction, even if they just say it on the internet.
1] YESTERDAY
A look at how Fox used its coverage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting to push the administration’s propaganda Analysis from The New York Times and The Washington Post counters administration claims parroted by Fox https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/look-how-fox-used-its-coverage-minneapolis-ice-shooting-push-administrations-propaganda
Published 01/08/26 4:14 PM EST
2] So, TODAY TRUMP’s WH posted the entire VIDEO
that Jonathan ROSS was taking DURING his MURDER
of Renée Nicole Good [this link is to Patriot Takes]:
https://bsky.app/profile/patriottakes.bsky.social/post/3mbzbs26xok26
2:57 PM · Jan 9, 2026
3] TODAY, Matt Gertz of Media Matters:
https://bsky.app/profile/mattgertz.bsky.social/post/3mbzgbftht22i
4:17 PM · Jan 9, 2026
The following goes with a comment that’s in the pokey [probably bc I gave too many fvcks]:
Alpha News and then the White House posted the following [this is Anna Bower] :
https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3mbz53x7ons23