How many more?
The senseless shooting death in Minneapolis is the latest, but sadly, probably not the last that will be perpetrated by the tin soldier brigades deployed across the county by Donald Trump.
At least 30 incidents in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint since Trump launched his immigration crackdown have been documented by The Trace, an organization that tracks gun violence in America. Four people have been killed and five others injured.
The dead include victim Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a U.S. citizen who appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket. She was shot and killed soon after dropping off her 6-year-old son at school. These circumstances mirror the death of Silverio Villegas González, fatally shot by federal immigration agents during a traffic stop in Franklin Park on Sept. 12, 2025, after he dropped his daughter off at school.
Within hours of Ms. Macklin Good’s death, Trump, Kristi Noem and others concluded the shooting was justified because federal agents were in fear for their lives. The victim was labeled a domestic terrorist, a radical and violent left-wing ideologue. Never mind her social media accounts, where she described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.”
The day after the shooting, Minnesota state law enforcement learned they would not have access to evidence from the shooting. The FBI alone will conduct what’s sure to be a thorough and independent investigation. Apparently, they still have plenty of whitewash left over from the thorough and independent investigation of the Epstein case.
In 1971, following the murders of four students on the Kent State University campus, Neil Young asked, “What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?” In 2026, how can we run, look away and ignore the reality that the Trump administration has brought violence, lawlessness and killings to American communities? This madness must end.
Steven M. Ostrowski
Lombard