New evidence confirms that ICE shooter Jonathan Ross is a murderer

Additional videos, transcripts of 911 calls, and witness testimony have confirmed that ICE agent Jonathan Ross was never under threat when he shot and killed 37-year-old Minnesota mom, Renee Good. All of the evidence creates a solid case that Ross's actions were nothing short of deliberate murder.

New information about Good's shooting shows that she was alive when paramedics first arrived on the scene. Good had an "inconsistent, irregular, thready" pulse when emergency personnel reached her wrecked vehicle, but she was not breathing. She had been shot twice in the chest, once in the arm, and possibly a fourth time in the face. Attempts to revive her were suspended on the way to the hospital.

Meanwhile, shooter Jonathan Ross left the scene and was taken, not to a hospital, but to a "federal building." This is completely at odds with claims that Ross had "internal bleeding" following the incident. Videos also show Ross walking normally and checking his phone after the shooting, contradicting reports that he was limping after contact with Good's vehicle.

Frame-by-frame analysis of new videos from both The Washington Post and The New York Times shows that Ross was not struck by Good's car at any point in the incident. Instead, Ross shot into the vehicle as Good "veered past" his position.

Not only does the video evidence indicate that Ross is guilty of murder, but by delaying medical assistance to Good—both through denying access to a physician on-scene and delaying the approach of emergency personnel—Ross and all other ICE officers on scene are subject to an additional charge of manslaughter.

There is no version of the protections given to peace officers or federal officials that would prevent Ross from being charged and convicted.

On Thursday, Lawfare confirmed what Uncharted Blue had reported earlier: Ross can be charged and prosecuted by state and local officials. However, there's an additional hurdle that could delay any charges against the ICE murderer.

As a practical evidentiary matter, if the FBI or other federal investigators do not share their investigatory files with the state, state officials have cautioned that they might determine that they do not have a sufficient evidentiary record to make a charging decision. That’s not a foregone conclusion, of course, and even if they conclude that they cannot charge Ross now, that assessment could change if a future administration is willing to share information with the state.

While the video evidence and statements from witnesses may seem compelling, and are certainly enough to solicit charges from a grand jury, it's understandable that state or local prosecutors would be concerned about proceeding to trial in a case where:

• They can expect to be fighting against the federal government.
• That same federal government has access to evidence it refuses to share.

There's no statute of limitations on either the potential murder or manslaughter charges. Still, obtaining the necessary access to ensure the best case against Ross may have to wait until Trump is removed from the White House.

While the immunity granted to federal officials is in no way "absolute," as J.D. Vance claims, there are very few cases in which states have charged federal officials while those officials were on duty. However, a big part of the scarcity of such cases isn't that they're difficult. These cases are rare because the FBI and DOJ are usually eager to charge corrupt officials.

That Minnesota and Hennepin County prosecutors are having to deal with this is only because the independence of the DOJ has been completely eroded under Donald Trump and Pam Bondi. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem calling Good a "domestic terrorist" immediately following the incident, and Trump insisting that Ross was "run over," put attorneys at DOJ in a position of having to challenge those statements in order to investigate Ross.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon proved that she is not up to that challenge.

Meanwhile, Trump and Noem have sent even more ICE agents into Minneapolis, so many that they now outnumber the police five to one. Those agents are regularly engaging in violence against protestors, bystanders, and people simply trying to go about their lives in the besieged city. As Bellingcat reports, that includes using "less lethal" weapons in ways that are designed to cause the most harm.

Four of these shots [from a B&T GL06 40mm less-lethal launcher] appeared to be aimed directly at protesters’ faces at close range, while a fifth was fired from a distance towards a crowd after tear gas had already been deployed.

Trump is right about one thing: There are thousands of paid agitators roaming the streets of Minneapolis. They all work for him.

And at least one of them is a murderer.