On Wednesday, a woman was shot in the head and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minnesota, less than a mile from the spot where George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in 2020.
Back then, the sense of dread that Donald Trump was presiding over an age of chaos and impunity was palpable, and led directly to his defeat by Joe Biden that year. If an election were held tomorrow, Trump would be beaten again.
Here, but multiplied tenfold, are the same ingredients: a narcissistic US President, more intoxicated than ever by his own power, with out-of-control law enforcement officials and a country divided into two camps, unable to agree on the most basic facts.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, a mother of three who described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom”, would appear to have been fired upon while trying to drive away from ICE agents during a protest against the round-up of illegal immigrants in Minneapolis. Her youngest son, aged six, is an orphan after his father died in 2023.
The left-wing congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez called Good’s death “murder” and that’s what it looked like on video. However, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who showed up at the press conference in a buccaneering ten-gallon cowboy hat, accused Good of “domestic terrorism”.
Trump claimed on social media that Good “viciously ran over the ICE officer” and accused her of being “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting”. He produced a video clip which showed no such thing. Not for the first time, he required Americans to believe him rather than the evidence of their own eyes.
And with Minnesota investigators claiming the FBI won’t give them access to the evidence or work with them on the case, we are entering into the cover-up phase of her killing in which conspiracies will substitute for the truth.
The day before Good’s death, 2000 ICE agents had been dispatched to Minnesota in what the Trump administration hailed as the largest federal immigration enforcement operation in history.
Critics warned when Congress increased ICE’s budget by $75bn (£55.9bn) last autumn that Trump was building a “deportation-industrial complex” flush with cash that would be used against US citizens.
We are seeing its results now. Good is the first US citizen to die in this conflict, but the ninth person to be shot by immigration officers in the last four months.
This “war” by masked, armed officers on American soil is taking place while Trump has embarked on regime change and an oil grab in Venezuela and is threatening to invade Greenland. Truly, we have entered a new age of impunity.
Whether it is a turning point is too soon to say. But even Trump has noticed the disconnect between his “empire strikes back” fantasies of world domination and unrivalled US prosperity, and his actual standing at home.
He whined to Republican lawmakers at the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center in Washington a few days ago that the popularity of his policies was “weaker-than-expected”.
The baffled US President added: “I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy.”
The White House is currently frantically engaged in a round of “affordability” initiatives – from cheaper US car loans to a possible extension of healthcare subsidies – to counter Trump’s sinking status.
According to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted in the first days of January, only 39 per cent of Americans approve of his performance in office compared to 56 per cent who disapprove, with 36 per cent approving of his handling of the economy (57 per cent disapprove).
Trump’s comment to the New York Times that US involvement in Venezuela could last years and that developing “the oil will take a while” will not ease his woes. Only one in three Americans told a Reuters/Ipsos poll they supported the military strike.
Now the shooting of Good has put the Trump administration on the back foot just as it was enjoying a propaganda victory in Minnesota – a midwestern, blue-collar state – after the uncovering of a brazen scam involving pockets of the Somali diaspora.
This week, Maga collected the scalp of its governor, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s underpowered vice-presidential candidate, who announced he would not be seeking re-election after more than $1bn (£745m) was alleged to have been wasted on non-existent social services, including Covid-19 feeding programmes for children.
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But Good’s killing has not only reminded voters of the horrendous murder of Floyd. Jarringly, it occurred at the same time as Trump endorsed a new “official” history of the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol on the White House website.
As well as insisting the election was stolen by Joe Biden, the site proclaims Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Trump supporter who was shot by a policeman breaking into Congress five years ago, as a martyr.
According to the White House timeline of events, Babbitt was “fatally shot… without warning as she climbs through a broken window toward the Speaker’s Lobby. No weapon was found on her, and she posed no threat.”
The smearing of Good and veneration of Babbitt feels like a whole new level of gaslighting from the US President. Just look at the video of both events and judge for yourself.
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