Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman confirmed on Sunday that he donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign supporting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent accused of fatally shooting Renee Good during a federal immigration operation in Minneapolis last week, which touched off a fierce national debate over the deadly encounter and the broader immigration enforcement strategy.
Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, took to X to acknowledge the contribution to a fundraiser for ICE agent Jonathan Ross, saying he was motivated by a belief in the legal principle that individuals are “innocent until proven guilty.”
Ackman also said he had intended to give to a separate fundraiser benefiting Good’s family, though that campaign had already closed after raising more than $1.5 million by the time he attempted to donate.
The GoFundMe for Ross was started by a supporter who argues that the officer “was 1000 percent justified in the shooting.”
Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, was shot and killed by Ross during an active ICE enforcement operation on January 7. The exact circumstances of the encounter have been sharply contested. Federal officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Vice President JD Vance, defended the agent’s actions as self-defense, alleging Good’s vehicle posed a threat to officers.
Local leaders and critics have disputed that narrative, pointing to video footage and eyewitness accounts that appear to show Good’s SUV turning away from agents before shots were fired. Minnesota officials have accused federal authorities of restricting local access to key evidence as the FBI leads a criminal investigation.
The shooting has ignited protests in Minneapolis and beyond, with demonstrators decrying what they view as excessive use of force amid a broader surge in ICE activity in the Twin Cities.
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I don’t think anyone should support the trampling of our civil liberties simply to stick it to the libs.
Pay for slay!
10 G for a Billionaire??? Praise?? Thats 1G for a millionaire… and 10 dollars for me. Praise for 10 dollars??? Bizyonot!!
And the killer needs money why?
Stay off the streets and get out of the way of the police. They are doing fine work cleaning up the illegal and dangerous people that don’t belong here. Just common sense. Everyone knows that the country will be safer and more secure. No question about it. They have guns for a reason and if you want to stay safe – stay home.
zaltz, there has been no trampling. There is no such thing as a right to resist arrest, or to obstruct or interfere with an arrest. You have only the right to protest peacefully, and from a reasonable distance.
If you are ordered to get out of your car and submit to arrest YOU MUST DO SO IMMEDIATELY. Even if the policeman is wrong, you have no right to resist, and if you do that itself is a crime for which you can go to prison. And if you drive your car at the policeman, as the woman in Minnesota did, then he has every right to shoot you dead. This is not a joke.