A few hours after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the 37-year-old activist was engaged in "domestic terrorism" at the time of her death. "This is classic terrorism," Vice President J.D. Vance agreed the next day. Noem reiterated that description during a contentious interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, saying, "If you look at what the definition of domestic terrorism is, it completely fits the situation on the ground."
FBI agents charged with investigating the shooting reportedly are now trying to support that characterization by examining Good's ties to groups that oppose the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown in Minneapolis. Federal investigators are also looking into protest activities by Good's widow, who was with her when ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed her. That focus on anti-ICE activism, which on Tuesday prompted the resignation of six career prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota, raises new questions about a probe that is supposed to determine whether Ross' use of deadly force was legally justified.
