More on the shooting:

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 is Jonathan Ross, the same officer who was dragged and injured by a fleeing driver in a separate incident last year, according to a person with knowledge of the case and verified by court documents.

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“He acted according to his training,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman and “has been serving his country his entire life.”

His training told him that trying to leave is the same thing as trying to run over an Ice agent?

We don’t know for sure what she was doing, but I think it’s fair to say that what she was doing could have been simply trying to leave, as opposed to trying to hit a agent with her car. I think it’s also fair to say that’s what it looked like.

She had positioned her car so that it blocked the street, so the ICE agent had good reason to see her as obstructing ICE’s work, but that’s not the same as good reason to think she would try to kill him with her car.

Five use-of-force experts interviewed by the Star Tribune questioned the agent’s decision to shoot at a moving vehicle, with some outright calling it a “bad shooting.” Others said the agent who fired may have legitimately feared for his life, but they noted that most police departments discourage shooting at a moving vehicle because deadly force is unlikely to stop the car and could jeopardize bystanders.

Maybe protesters need to draw up some rules themselves. I suggest a rule to park your vehicle (if any) at least a 15 minute walk away from the protest area. Do not, repeat DO NOT use it as an instrument of protest. A car is a deadly weapon.