The country keeps trying to file these incidents as separate folders.
Minneapolis: ICE shoots and kills a woman in the street.
Portland: federal agents shoot two people during a vehicle stop.
Columbus: residents trade sightings in group chats and Facebook posts, because official channels won’t — or can’t — provide clarity.
But the folders all belong in the same cabinet.
Because the pattern isn’t random. It’s procedural.
And the question Columbus keeps avoiding isn’t “Is this happening here?”
It’s: “How close are we to it turning deadly?”
A 48-hour timeline of federal force — and public backlash
Wednesday, Jan. 7 — Minneapolis
A 37-year-old woman, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, is shot and killed by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis during a federal operation. Within hours, competing narratives harden: federal officials frame it as self-defense; local leaders say the video doesn’t support the story.
The killing happens less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered — in a city that has become global shorthand for what state violence looks like when it’s caught on camera.
