UNDERSTANDABLY, the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has sparked furious controversy and protest.

Video footage shows clearly that an Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) officer shot her at the wheel of her car as she was slowly pulling away from several of his colleagues. Her car brushed against him as he walked across the front of it and drew his pistol.

Any injury suffered by officer Ross did not prevent him firing two more bullets into her head through the open window on the drivers’ side and then, after steadying himself slightly, walk after her car as it careered out of control.

Should Good have been parked where she was? Was her intention to help block an ICE operation on that residential street? Should she have vacated her car as demanded by approaching officers, assuming she heard the command?

Was ICE-man Ross justified under the law in his use of deadly force?

In any civilised country, these questions would be the subject of an open, no-holds-barred inquiry conducted by competent and respected personnel.

While this should not halt public discussion of the incident, wild and baseless speculation and attribution serve no useful purpose. With that in mind, the responses to the shooting from the US president, vice-president and secretary for Homeland Security are all the more outrageous.

President Trump tweeted that Good “viciously ran over” officer Ross whose narrow escape from death required hospital treatment — none of which was true — and blamed the “radical left” for daily violent attacks on law enforcement officers. In a rant accusing the media and opposition politicians of spreading lies and inciting violence, Vice-President JD Vance claimed that a “brainwashed” and “radicalised” Good had caused her own death and announced the novel doctrine of “absolute immunity” for federal officials.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned the “act of domestic terrorism” committed by a driver who had “weaponised” her vehicle.

But this is all part of a pattern which demonstrates the contempt felt by the current US cabal in the White House for the principles of equity and justice. Likewise, Trump and his crew display the same disdain for domestic and international laws, constitutions and charters that claim to uphold such principles.

Instead, their guiding motto is “might is right” when it comes to enforcing this criminal band’s increasingly authoritarian rule in the interests of giant US oil, armaments and other corporations.

In 1935, Georgi Dimtrov and the Communist International defined fascism as the “open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”

The US appears to be travelling down that road. State terrorism is launched against enemies at home and abroad on a scale unseen for decades. The ICE paramilitaries, with powers and resources hugely expanded by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are the cabal’s Brownshirts to crush democratic opposition.

Trump even does a passable impression of Benito Mussolini, albeit without the gravitas.

The US people and their mass organisations have a mighty struggle on their hands to block the way. People’s hard-won freedoms to speak out, to protest and to vote must be defended and exercised.

In Britain, we already have Labour, Tory and Reform UK leaders who support Israeli genocide, demonise refugees and denounce the “hate-marches,” “hate-speech” and “terrorism” of those who defend international and humanitarian law.

And we ignore the reality that millions of British and US citizens who parrot their lies and slanders at our peril.