Hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis protester Renee Good on January 7, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Good was engaged in "domestic terrorism" because she had "weaponize[d] her vehicle" and "attempted to run a law enforcement officer over." Noem averred that Good therefore posed a potentially deadly threat to Ross, "the other officers around him," and the general public, which she said justified Ross' "defensive shots."
After U.S. Border Patrol agents fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti on Saturday, Noem likewise portrayed that use of deadly force as obviously justified. "This individual went and impeded their law enforcement operations, attacked those officers, had a weapon on him, and [had] dozens of rounds of ammunition" in two magazines, she said. Pretti, Noem claimed, was "wishing to inflict harm on these officers" by "brandishing [a gun] like that and impeding their work that they were doing." Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino drew a similar picture, saying "this looks like a situation where the individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement."
