The killing of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross reflects increasingly aggressive and violent immigration & customs enforcement and policing in the US. What’s behind this growing violence in law enforcement?
Has ICE become more violent or are we just paying closer attention? What has changed with the organization under Trump?
On January 7, 2026, 37 year old Renee Good was shot and killed in Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Since the killing, protests have surged in the Minnesota city. The White House and supporters of ICE state that Good was a domestic terrorist who threatened the ICE officer. But numerous accounts, videotaped taken by residents on their phones, have shown a very different story of the altercation. Residents, as well as elected officials have demanded that ICE leave the city and allow local law enforcement to maintain control. In response the Department of Homeland Security has indicated they will send hundreds more ICE officers and the President has threatened to declare war on the city via the Insurrection Act. On today’s show we will explore the history, policing, and impact of ICE on American cities. And we will explore the narratives told about these killings and how increasingly the visibility and transparency of policing has altered the narratives. [ dur: 58mins. ]
- Felicia Arriaga is Assistant Professor in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. She is the author of “PolICE in Schools: Immigration Enforcement as a Racial Project and Opportunities for Resistance” and Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America.
- Greg Brown is Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Department of Law & Legal Studies at Carleton University (Ottawa). He is the author of The blue line on thin ice: Police use of force modifications in the era of camera phones and YouTube, and Police body-worn cameras in the Canadian context: Policing’s new visibility and today’s expectations for police accountability
This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian, Anna Lapin and Sudd Dongre.
Politics and Activism, Governance / Law, police, Civil Liberties, Police Brutality
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