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Showing Original Post only (View all)Agent John Ross was FAR some untrained ICE yahoo, in fact, reality is so much the contrary I find it suspicious [View all]
Before I start, I think it's interesting to note that the one neighbor who's made a comment said didn't even know he worked for ICE
Also interesting to me is that, to date, apart from that one neighbor, we've heard publicly from NOBODY who's claimed to actually know him. And the public's knowledge gap seems pretty extreme. For example, we don't know if he's married, has kids, we've seen no social media posts, we don't know where he was born, if/where he went to college (unlikely), almost nothing apart from employment/service records. In fact, the guy is pretty ghost-like for someone living in today's world. So it strikes me as odd(ly convenient) that nobody has apparently been able to dig up such information, nor interview anyone who knows him.
So lets look at we know about this guy:
Served as a truck gunner in a combat patrol unit in Iraq.
Connotes: Front‑line combat experience, exposure to high‑stress lethal force situations.
U.S. Border Patrol agent near El Paso (from 2007-2015)
Worked on the southern border, later promoted to field intelligence agent focused on cartels, drug trafficking, and human smuggling.
Connotes: Experience with organized crime networks, higher‑level analytical and investigative responsibility, not just routine checkpoint work.
ICE deportation officer, Minnesota (from 2015)
Assigned to fugitive operations in the Twin Cities, targeting what he described as higher‑value targets.
Connotes: Work on planned, higher‑risk arrests rather than random street sweeps, with responsibility for locating and apprehending specific individuals.
Team leader on FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force operations
Acted as a team lead on multi‑agency arrest operations with the FBIs JTTF.
Connotes: Command‑type role in the fieldcoordinating officers from multiple agencies, making tactical decisions, not just following orders.
Firearms instructor / active‑shooter instructor for DHS/ICE
Trained other officers in firearms use and active‑shooter response.
Connotes: Recognized as highly proficient and trusted to shape others tactics; clearly not an inexperienced or minimally trained agent.
Field intelligence officer / tactical planner
Described as an intelligence officer helping plan and brief operations, including risk assessments and target information.
Connotes: Involvement in planning and directing operations, not just executing them.
Prior dragged by car incident (Bloomington, 2025)
Broke a car window and reached in to unlock it during an arrest; was dragged ~300 feet, leading to serious injuries and later conviction of the driver for assaulting a federal officer.
Connotes: Past front‑line tactical engagement, but also a history of high‑risk, aggressive tactics that led to a near‑fatal outcome.
IMHO, taken together, these roles paint him as a senior, tactically experienced operator and team lead, not even remotely an untrained newbie. Making it quite plausible (though not proven) IMHO that he held a command‑level role on the ground during the operation in which Renee Good was killed.
I'm not making an assertion here, just pondering that this background might suggest he may be someone who, if told by his commanders it was necessary for "the mission" to create conditions where martial law could be declared, and was told he had ZERO risk of personal accountability over whatever he does, it wouldn't take a whole lot of coaxing for him to take such an action. He's been training to shoot people (and even professionally training others to do so) throughout his adult life. He could also be versed in tactics that allow officers/agents to use deadly force under the guise of "self-defense", as we recently learned that ICE was doing at least as recently as 2014.
I've also thought it's interesting that just as Ross is sneaking around the passenger side and moving to the front, filming, that Good's attention is forcibly drawn away by agents pulling up to her left, who begin barking commands in a threatening tone, then try to open the door. Also, logically the fact that she's turning right means she's looking to her left EXACTLY when Ross is circling around out of view, likely suddenly appearing to her with his gun out just when she started pulling forward. And let's not forget that she'd been previously ordered to move along.
So I wonder if Agent Ross isn't someone who'd have known how to pull "Operation Martial Law" off, while making it vaguely look like self-defense. Not saying he DID, but if someone wanted to create conditions for increased civil conflict (and doesn't MN make for a perfect place to do so?), seems to me a guy *like* Ross fits the profile of someone you'd ask to help you do so. A trained operative who's so discreet his neighbors don't even know he works for ICE, and NOBODY wants to publicly say a word about. It's like he had zero life, outside of work. Like I say, pretty convenient that a guy like this just happened to be the one to pull the trigger.
This is not a conspiracy theory, I'm not making any accusations, I'm not claiming anything I've speculated IS true, at all. I'm just thinking out loud and asking questions. The exact sequence of events plus his extensive background are interesting to me