The ICE officer who killed a Minnesota woman is a war veteran who spent over a decade working for DHS

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-officer-jonathan-ross-veteran-spent-decade-dhs-rcna253254

I think it is important to not immediately demonize or convict someone before knowing anything about him.

No, he is not an untrained “proud boy” who was hired a few months ago. He is former military, a veteran, and chose law enforcement as his career. That is a respectable career path. He is a husband, and a father, and lives locally.

I’m sure we will learn more, but I hoping people leave his wife and kids alone.

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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

And that excuses him how? If anything, you'd think experience MIGHT lead him to make better decisions. Or does the fact that he is a veteran mean he was trained to kill professionally, which might NOT be the best background for a law enforcement officer?

KunsanVeteran · M

@ChipmunkErnie To tell the Truth: Law Enforcement Officers make pretty crappy soldiers and vice versa. The two roles are very different with different training requirements and different core competencies.

The base near where I live has city police rotate with Active Duty for Gate duty (pretty much amounts to checking IDs) and a lot of city police are veterans. Domestic police work doesn’t bear a lot of similarities to deployed situations.

It gets complicated, complicated gets chaotic, and confusion & poor communication is not uncommon. Training together helps, but usually it only involves the simpler, safer tasks.

And we all know that the entire tRUMP misadministration knows nothing about vetting, training, or supervising anyone and the people at the Top are amongst the least qualified (e.g. Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, Patel, etc.)

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@ChipmunkErnie it doesn’t. I posted the article just to provide information so that others could make their own determinations rather than spreading rumors or conspiracies. I am not excusing him in any way. Frankly, I think I think the opposite. If he was some single proud boy that joined up last september, it would be more understandable. But veteran father with 10 years on the force i would expect better discipline, common sense, and care for human life