Yesterday’s news out of Minnesota has been shocking, with the death of a Minneapolis woman at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. As Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and ICE itself all explained, while doing their jobs, ICE agents were suddenly surrounded by “violent rioters,” and one of them decided to “weaponize her vehicle” and try to kill them by running them over. Fortunately, but tragically, a quick-thinking ICE agent, fearing for his life and the lives of his colleagues, pulled out his gun and fired “defensive shots” at the car, saving all of their lives. The injured agents, ICE informed us in a statement, “are expected to make full recoveries.”

You can watch the entire, heroic sequence of events in an eyewitness video taken here:

Huh. There must be some mistake. Because in the scene captured on film, there are no violent rioters, just a scattering of neighborhood residents standing around and filming ICE agents who are in a large, open space. The driver involved didn’t try to run anyone over, but had stopped, reversed away from the agents, and was driving away from them with her wheels pointed in the opposite direction of the agents when one of them, who actively walked in front of her car, shot and killed her. Not a single officer sustained any serious injury they would need to recover from. And the only one who conceivably might have, the shooter, is seen walking away completely normal after killing the driver.

In fact, the video seems to line up much closer with what several eyewitnesses told local news. According to them, the driver — now identified as Renee Good, a mother of three who recently moved to the state — was complying with an ICE agent’s instructions to leave the area when a different ICE agent tried to open her car door and told her to get out of the car, while a third one, who soon killed her, got in front of the vehicle. The killer then pulled out his gun and shot her several times in the face, including more than once from the side of the car — which, as anyone familiar with cars might know, is a position that tends to be hard to be run over in. In fact, the most dangerous, erratic driving only came after Good was shot, when, dying and with her foot on the accelerator, she sent the car careening uncontrollably down the road and crashing into a pole and several parked cars.

In other words, ICE and Trump officials are lying, as they have done so many times already about their increasingly out-of-control deportation operations: they’re lying to you about something that multiple eyewitnesses can describe, something that you can watch on video with your own eyes, and about a situation in which it is the federal agents themselves — not random migrants or nonexistent rioters — who have once again proven to be the biggest danger to American communities.

They’re lying because this completely avoidable death is their fault, with a DHS official telling NBC News that every single thing the ICE agent who killed Good did was in violation of the agency’s own training guidelines: approaching the car head-on, firing at a moving vehicle, and using force without any imminent risk of harm. In fact, an alternate eyewitness video shows that the ICE agent was actually behind Good’s car to begin with, before walking all the way around to deliberately get in front of it, all while holding a phone with one of his hands and filming. Not for the first time, ICE agents needlessly escalated a situation and killed a random person — in this case a US citizen — and in the process they’ve left her young child without a single living parent. This is the exact type of crime we keep being told justifies the deportations in the first place.

And it gets even worse, because according to both video footage and reporting, as Good bled to death, ICE agents refused to let a doctor near her to give her medical help and even blocked the path of an ambulance, all but guaranteeing she would die — even to the point of threatening to shoot the person who said he was a doctor. The vast majority of migrants that federal agents have arrested in their big city blitzes don’t even have criminal records. Yet we’re meant to believe they’re a bigger danger to American communities than this.

This is the inevitable and entirely predictable outcome of Trump’s turbocharged mass-deportation operation — so predictable, this magazine warned this exact thing would happen just three months ago. That operation has involved not just massively stepped-up, militarized, and indiscriminate detentions of anyone who “looks” like a migrant but a mass ICE hiring spree that has seen trainings drastically shortened and recruits taken on before background checks are even finished.

The result is that ICE has ended up recruiting former criminals themselves and candidates unable to pass a basic fitness test, whom ICE officials themselves describe as “athletically allergic” and “pathetic.” One former director of ICE has already publicly speculated whether “this rushing of hiring of people” and “shortcutting on our training” may have played a role in this death.

What’s happened in Minneapolis, in other words, is exactly what you’d expect from deploying a heavily armed and poorly trained quasi-militarized police force into American streets, made up of officers who are at once both highly aggressive and prone to panicking, and allowing it to operate with impunity. As long as these operations continue, Good will end up being just the very first US citizen that federal agents kill.

There is one more thing to say about this horror show. Both Noem and Trump adviser Stephen Miller rushed to use the magic, all-justifying words in the wake of this incident “domestic terrorism.” Already one of the most meaningless words in political language, the Trump administration has somehow found new ways to numb us to the “terrorist” label.

First, it was random Venezuelan migrants who were terrorists. In September, it was drug cartels. Then it was left-wing protesters. By the end of the year, simply videotaping ICE agents was “domestic terrorism.” Now, apparently, it’s slowly backing up your car and trying to drive away in it.

In other words, under Trump and for everyone in his administration, “domestic terrorism” now effectively means anything and everything that they don’t like. And since it is apparently punishable by immediate death, the more accurate definition is “whatever the government decides it wants to kill you over.”

We have all seen some version of what happened in Minneapolis before: an armed, faceless government agent murdering a person accused of resisting repressive state policy, getting away with it, and government officials and regime loyalists lining up to tell the public that what they see with their eyes isn’t true and that the victim was a terrorist. We’re used to seeing this kind of thing in the authoritarian-led countries that Trump and his allies usually want to bomb. They have instead now imported this practice right here to the United States.