The first outlet to name the agent as Good’s killer was the Minnesota Star-Tribune. When they did, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin declined to confirm Ross’s identity, and demanded the Star Tribune retract its story.
“This officer is a longtime ICE officer who has been serving his country his entire life,” she wrote, adding that Ross had over a decade of experience as an ICE agent.
“Publicizing [ICE agents] identities puts their lives and the lives of their families at serious risk. The Star Tribune should be absolutely ashamed of itself for its reckless behavior, and they should delete their story immediately.”
The Star-Tribune did not do so, and among those who named Ross were CBS News, during its Evening News, which is anchored by MAGA-coded Tony Dokoupil. CBS News reported that he was part of a specially trained ICE tactical unit.
Public records show that Ross served in the military, financing his home through a Department of Veterans Affairs mortgage, while social media photos show him handling an M249 SAW machine gun while in the uniform worn in the early years of the Iraq war, standing in front of a green-painted Humvee in an area surrounded by palm trees.
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