- Trump presidency: federal officers fired
12+ times on people. - Incidents
killed at least four individuals. - Seven
others suffered injuries.
The death of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, when an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fired three shots into her car at
close range, striking her in the face and sparking protests across the nation,
is one of at least 16 shooting incidents by federal officers in the past year.
Numerous riot control weapons, including rubber bullets,
pepper balls, and chemical sprays, have been used, sometimes at close range,
and federal immigration police have held people at gunpoint in at least 15
other incidents without firing.
The Trace’s study and an examination of federal statistics
probably constitute an undercount because thousands of officers are still being
added to places that are predominantly run by Democrats.
“This makes us all less safe,”
according to gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun
Safety.
“Armed intimidation in our communities does not make
anyone safer,”
added Brady, a nonprofit organization against gun violence.
“More firearms in neighborhoods already impacted by gun
violence helps no one. Police violence is gun violence.”
The most recent federal statistics show that 20 persons were
killed
by immigration police in 2023 and 2022. According to federal data, ICE and
border patrol officers, the organizations responsible for the Trump
administration’s most recent round of federal law enforcement actions used
lethal force against 19 individuals during that period, while a Coast Guard
member was accountable for one death.
According to ICE’s annual report, the internal guns and use
of force committee looked at three instances in which an officer used a firearm
during the 12 months ending in September 2024.
A 2024 investigation by The Trace, Type Investigations, and
Business Insider found that ICE agents were accountable for 59 shootings during
the six-year period between 2015 and 2022.
The first fatal shooting by immigration officials in the
second Trump administration occurred in September when Silverio Villegas
Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican parent and cook, was shot at “close
range” while reportedly attempting to escape ICE officers during a traffic
check in Chicago.
According to the agency, a border patrol officer in Rio
Grande City, Texas, shot a 31-year-old Mexican national three times last month
while attempting to apprehend him. About an hour after the incident was
reported, he was declared dead.
In Los Angeles, California, an off-duty ICE agent shot and
killed 43-year-old Keith Porter on New Year’s Eve.
Porter, a father of two, was apparently celebrating the New
Year by firing a firearm into the air.
A few days prior, an American citizen in Los Angeles was
shot in the shoulder by an immigration officer. Carlos Jimenez’s attorneys
claim that he warned the officers to leave the area because youngsters would
shortly be there. He allegedly accelerated his vehicle in the direction of an
officer while attempting to escape, according to federal authorities.
According to a Wall Street Journal study, immigration agents
have fired on moving cars at least thirteen times in the past year.
Administration officials have defended these measures against drivers who have
“weaponized” their vehicles against law enforcement.
“When faced with dangerous circumstances, DHS law
enforcement used their training to protect themselves, their fellow officers,
and the public,”
Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told the
newspaper.
Officers are not allowed to fire at a moving car unless
“no other objectively reasonable means of defense appear to exist,”
according to Department of Justice guidelines.
“Everything about these incidents indicates that these
are probably shootings that did not need to happen,”
Georgetown Law professor and former Department of Justice
litigator Christy Lopez told The Trace.
Although the majority of recent shooting occurrences took
place in the Chicago and Los Angeles regions, a number of them, including
Good’s murder, happened in and near Minneapolis.
An ICE officer opened fire on a guy in an SUV in St. Paul,
Minnesota, late last month after the driver allegedly hit two officers with his
vehicle. The driver did not sustain any injuries.
Additionally, the same ICE officer who shot and killed Good
was hurt when he used a Taser on a driver during a traffic check in June.
According to his testimony, the officer, Jonathan Ross, shot Roberto Carlos
Muñoz ten times with his Taser after smashing the rear driver’s side window and
witnessing “the impacts on his face.”
“I was fearing for my life. I knew I was going to get
drug [sic],”
Ross said.
“And the fact I couldn’t get my arm out, I
didn’t know how long I would be drugged. So I was kind of running with the
vehicle.”
According to prosecutors, Ross claimed he was pulled over
100 yards and had 20 stitches for a cut on his right arm and 13 stitches on his
left hand.
Muñoz, however, made it through the meeting. He was later
found guilty by a jury of assault with a deadly and dangerous weapon and
causing bodily harm.
Which agencies conducted the shootings and where did they
occur?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE) and Customs
and Border Protection( Border Patrol) agents conducted the maturity of the 13
blowups by civil immigration officers since January 2025, primarily targeting
vehicles during expatriation operations and hobbies.
ICE agents fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, during a road- position enforcement action, with videotape showing
agent Jonathan Ross blasting as her auto moved forward DHS claims tone- defense
against a” weaponized vehicle.”
ICE fired on a van in Glen Burnie, Maryland( near Baltimore)
on Christmas Eve 2025, injuring Portuguese motorist Alexandrea Sousa- Martins
and Salvadoran passenger Antonio Serrano- Esquivel during an escape attempt
original DHS narrative revised after original police disagreement on collision
details.
