Renee Good died on January 7. Twenty-four days later, her killer walks free. Jonathan Ross calmly murdered a woman, then he and his crew blocked anyone from giving her medical aid as she died. Minneapolis police were on scene the entire time. They watched Ross leave. They didn’t stop him. They didn’t arrest him. They didn’t intervene while a woman bled out two blocks from her home.

A full month prior, on December 5, O’Hara issued an official directive to his department: any officer who witnesses unlawful force and fails to intervene will be fired. He invoked George Floyd by name. “We’re not going to repeat that mistake with any agency, or otherwise,” he said. His officers watched a man shoot an unarmed mother and flee the scene. They watched federal agents block a physician from giving her medical aid. They didn’t intervene. None of them have been fired.

County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced she has jurisdiction to bring charges. “Let me be clear,” she said on January 9. “We do have jurisdiction to make this decision. It does not matter that it was a federal law enforcement agent.” She said the ICE officer “does not have complete immunity.” On January 28, she told reporters she anticipates having enough evidence to make charging decisions on all three shootings. Attorney General Keith Ellison said publicly, “This is not a situation where we’re all wondering how she died.” Everyone saw the video. Moriarty has jurisdiction. Ross has no immunity. The evidence is sufficient. And yet: no arrest warrant. No charges. No accountability. Just promises that sound like action while producing none.

This is lying. Not lying in some technicality, but lying in the way that matters. The effect of those statements was to reassure people that someone in authority was handling it. That accountability was coming. That we could afford to be patient. That reassurance was false. It created passivity when action was needed. Officials used the language of accountability to produce the impression of accountability while providing none.

Call Mary Moriarty’s office and demand she resign if she won’t issue an arrest warrant and don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking there isn’t plenty of evidence. You’ve seen the evidence. Call 612-348-5550. You can also call your own state attorney general and governor. Tell them: if ICE agents commit crimes here, they must be arrested under state law. No immunity. No deference. The law applies to federal agents or it applies to no one. Send them this article if it helps.