Nick Miroff

And some of the folks I spoke to have heard that he, you know, within the Minneapolis area,

field office, you know, had had a reputation for being really, like, gung-ho.

I mean, one person put it euphemistically that he was very enthusiastic about his job.

But, you know, he was a guy who was clearly highly trained and was really doing his job aggressively.

The incident in June in which he was very seriously injured similarly involved

taking some risks, some tactics that are generally like discouraged.

In this case, you know, he was stopping this individual and he shattered the window and then he reached into the vehicle and he ends up getting dragged and all cut up on his arm.

It's not hard to think that that incident must have played into his mindset when he was approaching good.

But, you know, it's like if you've had that happen to you recently, like to go and stand in front of a vehicle like that again is a very dangerous posture to take.

I was surprised.

I mean, my first thought was like, oh, wow, is this one of the new hires that they just, you know, rushed through the academy?

And so to see that...

Officer Ross is not only, I mean, he's not only like a 10-year veteran of ICE.

He's a member of the Special Response Team, which is their tactical unit.

That's the most highly trained.

So they are trained to be in more confrontational and riskier situations.

You know, he's not like some case officer who's been pushed out onto the street with a gun and is out of their element.

I mean, he is used to being in tense confrontational situations like this.

He would have practiced these kinds of scenarios many times before.

And before that, you know, he was a Border Patrol agent.