Progressive Politics

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Video and eyewitness testimonies have already circulated widely. There can be little doubt that this was a cold-blooded killing, for which there is no justification.

An ICE agent shot point-blank into the windshield of a car, killing the driver. The woman was believed to have been taking part in some capacity in a protest against ICE’s huge gestapo-style operation in Minnesota, which began at Donald Trump’s behest this week. Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota member of Congress, said the victim was “a legal observer.”

Given ICE’s violent, impunity-drenched core, at a moment when the Trump regime is leaning heavily into a vision of dominance grounded in aggression and lawlessness, such a killing was all but inevitable.