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The MAGA Enforcer

Jonathan Ross spent two decades preparing for a moment like this. On a snowy Minneapolis street, it arrived.

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Joshua Powell
Jan 13, 2026
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By the time Jonathan Ross pulled the trigger on the morning of January 7th, sending three bullets into a burgundy SUV driven by a 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good, the 43-year-old ICE agent had been preparing for such a moment for nearly his entire adult life. Machine gunner in Iraq. Border Patrol intelligence officer in El Paso. Deportation specialist. SWAT team member. Firearms instructor. Active shooter trainer. FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force team leader. His resume reads like a catalog of American force projection, domestic and foreign, the kind of career that begins with a teenage boy from a bankrupt household in Illinois and ends, two decades later, with a man standing in the Minnesota cold, recording himself on his cell phone as he fires into a woman’s windshield. What his phone also captured, in the seconds after Good’s SUV careened down the street and crashed into a parked car, was a voice--his own, or perhaps another agent’s--uttering two words that have since echo…

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