Each day brings fresh examples of ICE‘s atrocities in Minneapolis. They’ve spent the last few weeks brutally subjugating the city and trampling over the Constitution: detaining, beating, maiming, blinding, and killing regular Americans.
The murder of ICU nurse Alex Pretti, who spent his life caring for injured veterans and was executed in the street after coming to the aid of a woman being pepper-sprayed by ICE thugs, is attracting condemnation from across the political spectrum.
However, in some ways, it’s the smaller, pettier acts of cruelty that cut deepest. The Atlantic has just published ‘Welcome to the American Winter‘, which goes into great detail about the evil that ICE has brought to the streets of Minneapolis. Within this, there’s a chilling account that doesn’t involve violence, but speaks to much more deeply seated institutional sociopathy.
46-year-old documentary filmmaker Chad Knutson says he was watching a live feed of a memorial to murdered mother-of-three Renee Good and saw a woman leave a rose behind. Once she’d departed, an ICE agent plucked the rose from the memorial and then mockingly presented it to a female ICE agent as the two laughed at their own joke.
“You stole a f–king flower from a dead woman!”
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— Joe (@JoePostingg) January 26, 2026
Knutson said that when he saw the two ICE agents laughing after desecrating a memorial to an innocent woman one of their own had just murdered “something broke inside him”:
“I grab my keys, I grab a coat and drive over. I barely park my car and I’m running out screaming and crying. ‘You stole a f–king flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?”
If nothing else, this moment is a peek behind the curtain of how these ICE thugs act when they don’t think anyone is watching. After all, if they were honest with themselves about their monstrous behavior they’d have to miserably conclude that they’re the villains in this story, the jackbooted thugs sent to terrorize ordinary Americans.
Instead, they must frantically reinforce their mutual belief that, actually, the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are actually no big deal. In fact, you know what, they both definitely had it coming, and if you really think about it, it’s actually kind of funny.
All this underscores that when ICE is disbanded, and when this criminal administration faces justice for its crimes, there’s going to have to be some sort of reckoning for individual ICE agents. People this fundamentally broken cannot simply be allowed to return to normal society as if nothing happened.
Who can say what this reckoning will look like, but I suspect in the coming years and decades, those who currently work for ICE will come to deeply regret this public stain on their reputations.
Published: Jan 27, 2026 05:32 am