The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed an American woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest last Wednesday was dragged about 100 meters by a getaway car in an earlier raid, according to local media.
The federal agent, identified by local media as Jonathan Ross, required 20 stitches after the incident for a forearm wound.
The getaway driver was convicted of assault last month, reports The New York Times today, which adds that Jonathan Ross resides in Minneapolis and is a 10-year veteran of ICE operations’ special response teams.
Meanwhile, the Minnesota Star Tribune explains, according to a person close to the case and court documents, that the event occurred last June, when Jonathan Ross was involved in the arrest of Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, a Mexican citizen, who had been previously convicted and detained.
The Mexican, according to the media, ignored the agents’ orders, including the one to roll down the window, which caused the federal agent to break his rear window and reach in to unlock the door, causing him to be dragged out of the vehicle.
This history, could, in part, bolster the argument defended by the Donald Trump Administration, which claims that he shot to death Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman who died Wednesday, because she drove her car into him.
“Don’t you think he might be a little sensitive to the idea of someone ramming him with a car?” said Vice President JD Vance at a White House press briefing.
All members of the U.S. government have backed the ICE agents and have gone so far as to accuse the victim of “domestic terrorism.”
However, although the investigation into the accident is still ongoing, this is not the story that the thousands of citizens who protested his death are betting on, nor are all the political leaders who claim that Ross’ shooting was an abuse of power.
Good died Wednesday during a protest of ICE’s presence in the city.
The woman, who blocked the officers’ path with her car, was maneuvering her vehicle in the middle of the raid when the officers approached her in an attempt to stop her and Jonathan Ross, who was in front of her, shot her, ending her life.
The U.S. government has sent some 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis since early December.
The most populous city in the state of Minnesota was already at the center of the 2020 murder of George Floyd, a mile from where Good’s murder occurred, at the hands of a police officer, which sparked a wave of anti-racist protests across the country.
Since its creation, ICE has accumulated numerous criticisms and complaints of discrimination and racism that have skyrocketed since the beginning of Trump’s second term, which has made it the fundamental tool of his policy of mass deportations.
With information from EFE
