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From the Texas Reporter:

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This is Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis. As of today, he has not been indicted.

According to multiple news reports, federal agents recently confronted a New York election worker over an Instagram post that identified Ross and called for his indictment. The election worker says agents warned her she could face legal consequences if she did not remove the post.

Whatever your views on immigration, ICE, or the shooting itself, federal agents showing up at a polling place to challenge a citizen’s social media post should concern everyone.

If posting a publicly available photograph of a government employee and expressing an opinion about whether that employee should be indicted can trigger a visit from federal agents, then we have serious questions to ask about free speech, government power, and political intimidation.

The answer to speech you disagree with is more speech—not government pressure.

Jacob Knutson at Democracy Docket:

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confronted a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent primary elections.  The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) told Democracy Docket it’s reviewing a report on the alarming incident, which again raises the specter of federal agents interfering in active elections. PaigeLynne Gonyea, who was working at a voting site at a public library Tuesday, said on social media that the agents came to warn her to remove a social media account that they claimed broke federal law by threatening federal law enforcement agents. In fact, Gonyea appears to have only shared information about an ICE agent involved in a fatal Minnesota shooting that had been previously published online and reported in the press.

The incident comes as prominent figures on the far right have called on President Donald Trump to deploy ICE agents and troops to polling places in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections as part of a clear effort to intimidate voters and election workers. Federal and state laws largely bar the deployment of law enforcement to polling places. However, the Trump administration has never definitively ruled out the tactic, while senior Department of Justice officials — including acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — have endorsed it.

[...] “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!” her post read. If she didn’t remove her account, Gonyea could face “both federal and state prosecution,” according to a document she received during the confrontation. She said the agents asked her to sign the document to acknowledge she received the warning, but she refused.

"ARREST ROSS" seen on a box truck in South Minneapolis in the early morning hours of June 16, 2026 - hours before arrests were made of those protesting ICE actions. ICE Agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in the head on January 7, 2026.

The federal government has finally started handing over evidence related to the fatal shooting of Renee Good, but not because Minnesota investigators asked for it. Instead, the material is being turned over in connection with an entirely different criminal case involving the same ICE agent who killed her, Jonathon Ross. As you probably know, Good was shot and killed by Ross back in January…