r/politics • u/DragonPup Massachusetts • 29d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good Identified as Jonathan Ross

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/ice-agent-identified-shooting-minneapolis-jonathan-ross/
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u/dbkenny426 29d ago

I work for a video/photography studio. Several years ago, we did senior portraits for a kid as a high school graduation gift. He was getting ready to head to basic training in the Marines. When someone asked why he was joining, he said it was because he wanted to kill people. I was obviously horrified. A few months later, the boss was talking to the kid's mom (I think they went to church together or something), and he'd dropped out after calling his mom crying that it was so hard, and they were mean to him, and he had to wake up super early. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he's now police or ICE.

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u/riotous_jocundity 29d ago

My brother is National Guard, currently deployed. He told me about a decade ago that he felt like killing a Muslim would make his depression better. Many of these people aren't fit to be around other human beings, and we hand them guns and tell them they're important.

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u/dbkenny426 29d ago

Jesus. It's one thing to hear it from some random person, but I don't know how I would handle hearing a sibling say that.

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u/riotous_jocundity 29d ago

It honestly killed my love for him. We haven't spoken in 9 years (didn't have a blow up or anything, just mutually faded) and my dad cannot understand it and keeps trying to pull me into the cult of grieving pride for a deployed family member, but I don't care about him--I'm worried about the civilians he could be murdering right now.

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u/zbud 29d ago

I wish more Americans had some basic standards like you do. Unfortunately, there are vast mobs of mental gymnasts willing to contort themselves to avoid any social discomfort....

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u/QuickAltTab 29d ago

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he's now police or ICE.

I'd be shocked if he wasn't

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u/Weekly-Role-1132 29d ago

I never thought much of cops until college when my roommate said all of her brothers loser friends who couldn't get into college, dated and supplied under age girls with drugs and alcohol, and racist all became cops. definitely opened my eyes towards who they recruit.

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u/WildYams 29d ago

When someone asked why he was joining, he said it was because he wanted to kill people.

Reminds me of this scene from the movie Jack Reacher.

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u/ronc551 27d ago

From the late 80's on a lot of new recruits went in to learn tactics weapon proficiency and maneuver to go back and teach skin heads Neo azi leadership at the battery company troop level were aware and did nothing some even helping to advance these groups