The latest details about the Minneapolis ICE shooting cut straight through the activist narrative that has dominated cable news and social media for the past week. According to U.S. officials, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good suffered internal bleeding to his torso during the encounter, a fact that seriously undermines claims that this was some sort of casual or unjustified use of force.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the injury but declined to offer specifics about how severe the bleeding was. What is known is that the agent, Jonathan Ross, was taken to a hospital after the January 7 incident and released the same day. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has consistently defended Ross, describing him as an experienced officer who believed he was acting to protect himself and others.
Noem made it clear early on that this was not a theoretical threat. Ross was struck by the vehicle. He was injured. A doctor treated him. That matters, no matter how inconvenient it is for those trying to turn this into a morality play about ICE.
Ross is not new to danger. Court records show that just last June, he was seriously injured in another Minneapolis-area incident when he was dragged by a car during an attempted arrest. That episode required 33 stitches and hospital treatment. This is not a reckless rookie. This is an officer who keeps showing up to do a job most critics would never attempt.
U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said Ross has received multiple threats since the shooting and is currently in a secure location. He is recovering, and authorities are thankful he survived. That detail alone tells you how distorted the public conversation has become. An officer gets hit by a car, suffers internal bleeding, and still ends up needing protection from threats.
Perhaps the most sobering comments came not from politicians, but from family. Timmy Macklin, the former father-in-law of Renee Good and grandfather to her young son, told CNN that he does not blame the ICE agent. Speaking on Erin Burnett OutFront, Macklin said he supports President Trump and believes the agent was put in an impossible position.
After seeing the video, Macklin acknowledged that the agent was being rammed and that in a split second, it is impossible to know how anyone would react. He was clear that he did not agree with everything Good did, and that the situation was hard for everyone involved.
Even CBS Evening News reported that Good’s biological father, also a Trump supporter, was heartbroken both by her death and by the broader fallout. That nuance rarely makes headlines.
This was not a simple story, no matter how badly activists want it to be. An ICE agent was injured. A woman made catastrophic decisions. And a split-second confrontation changed lives forever. Ignoring the injury to the officer does not honor anyone. It just replaces facts with slogans.
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