The ICE officer who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as Jonathan Ross, who was the same officer who was dragged 50 yards in Bloomington back in June 2025.
  •   The ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as Jonathan Ross.

  •    Ross is the same officer who was dragged 50 yards by a vehicle in June 2025.

  •   DHS has stressed the officer acted in self-defense.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    It’s not that clear, the possibility is just what I pierced together from the facts mentioned in https://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-ross-ice-agent-shooting-minneapolis-minnesota-11332093

    The article comes with the slant from the prosecutors, which seems to suggest he broke the window and then the driver started to accelerate, at which point during the struggle he used a taser that did strike the driver. However, if someone was struck by a taser I doubt they would be “weaving to shake him lose”, they would be convulsing from the shock which would cause a similar effect, including possibly stepping on the accelerator. Considering how much they are lying about Renee Good, I’m not going to give the prosecution’s slant much authority except for the core facts.

    During the June 2025 operation, Ross got his arm stuck in the window of a vehicle as the driver tried to flee an immigration arrest. He was dragged roughly 100 yards down the street before breaking free. Prosecutors said Ross fired his Taser during the struggle, striking the driver, but the shock failed to stop the vehicle. Ross was taken to a hospital with a “significant cut” to his right arm that required 20 stitches and another wound on his left hand that needed 13 stitches.

    The driver later claimed he did not know Ross was a federal agent. A jury rejected that argument last month, convicting him of assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors said the suspect accelerated after Ross broke a back window to unlock the door, dragging the agent for more than 100 yards while weaving to shake him loose. Ross eventually broke free but suffered severe injuries to his arms and hands. …

    • “Ross broke a back window to unlock the door”
    • “Ross fired his Taser during the struggle, striking the driver”
    • “He was dragged roughly 100 yards down the street before breaking free.”

    Like I said, it wouldn’t surprise me if what actually happened was that the moron used the taser and that it caused the driver to compulse and press on the accelerator. That would cause the driver to start convulsing and, regardless of the prosecution’s claims, that would cause a lot of the behavior they accuse the driver of. Normally, one might assume that they’ve already dismissed this possibility, but the US is not living in normal times and under a working system of law.

    The court records are probably the best source if you want to dig at it.