Breaking — ICE Tear-Gassed a Car Full of Children Last Night
The Youngest Was Six Months Old. Officers Refused to Call an Ambulance.
While others stenograph, grift, or chase the next distraction—this is the news that matters and how it’s connected.
Shawn was just trying to get his kids out of the neighborhood.
Last night, as protests erupted in Minneapolis over the federal occupation that followed the ICE killing of Renee Good, this father loaded his six children—and his wife—into the car and tried to leave. Ages eleven, seven, four, four, two, and six months. He wasn’t a protester. He wasn’t blocking traffic. He was a parent doing what parents do: protecting his family.
An officer walked up and threw tear gas into his car.1
Sky News reporter Martha Kelner found Shawn at the scene. What he told her should be an international scandal:
“My car just filled up like caught on fire,” Shawn told Kelner. His son couldn’t breathe. All six children were rushed to the hospital. And when Shawn begged officers to call an ambulance? “I was arguing with the officers to call the ambulance for five minutes. He wouldn’t call the ambulance.”¹
The officer who threw the gas knew children were in that car. “He knew that thing was in the car,” Shawn said. “He didn’t even try to help.”
The Pattern Repeats
Eight days ago, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head.2 After she was shot, a physician on scene tried to help. He identified himself: “I’m a physician.” The agent’s response: ”I don’t care.”3 For nearly three minutes, no one touched her. They let her bleed.
Now the same occupation force is gassing children—and when a father begs them to call an ambulance for his kids who can’t breathe, they tell him to handle it himself. Five minutes of arguing while children suffocate.
This isn’t incompetence. This is the culture.
The agents who killed Renee Good and denied her medical care work alongside the agents who gassed Shawn’s children and refused to call for help. Same operation. Same city. Same contempt for the people they’re supposed to serve. When your training produces agents who say “I don’t care” to a dying woman and won’t call an ambulance for gasping children—that’s not a few bad apples. That’s the orchard.
“Protecting Children”
Remember “protecting children”? Drag queens. Library books. Groomers. Traffickers. They’d save America’s kids from all of it.
Here’s how they’re saving them now: tear gas in a six-month-old’s lungs. A father begging for an ambulance. Officers who—when he pleads for help getting an ambulance—tell him to do it himself.
Six children in a hospital tonight. The "family values" crowd? Silent. The politicians who built careers on saving kids from imaginary threats? Nothing. They'll scream about a drag queen reading a book, but real gas in real lungs doesn't rate a tweet.
Ask them what the baby did to deserve it.
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The Pattern
We’ve been mapping this administration against the fascism syndrome—ten indicators that a democracy is backsliding into fascism:
Normalization of political violence: Tear gas deployed against children. A physician denied access to a dying woman. An ambulance refused for suffocating kids.
Erosion of due process: No warning. No distinction between protesters and bystanders. A six-month-old treated as a threat.
Aggression as virtue: This is what “strength” looks like to these people. Gassing babies. Letting women bleed out. Refusing to help. Terror as policy.
This is the harvest.
Want to break the machine that grew it? Start here:
Your Move
How do you explain to a child why federal agents attacked their family—then refused to help?
Where is the outrage from Republicans who spent years screaming about protecting kids?
What’s the difference between “I don’t care” and refusing to call an ambulance?
Martha Kelner, “Father’s six children in hospital after ICE agents throw tear gas at their car amidst Minneapolis protests“, Sky News, January 15, 2026.
International coverage documenting Shawn’s account of the attack. His six children—aged six months to eleven years—were hospitalized with breathing problems after an officer threw tear gas into his car. Shawn told Kelner he argued with officers for five minutes to get them to call an ambulance; they refused. “He knew that thing was in the car. He didn’t even try to help.”
Max Nesterak, “Video post“, X, January 2026.
The viral video of ICE agent Jonathan Ross shooting Renee Good—the incident that sparked the Minneapolis protests where Shawn’s children were subsequently tear-gassed. Viewed over 10 million times and broadcast across major news networks.
@Partisan_12, “Video post“, X, January 2026.
Bystander video capturing a physician being denied access to Renee Good after she was shot. When the physician insisted “I’m a physician,” the agent responded “I don’t care.” This footage, broadcast by CNN, documents the same culture of indifference now visible in agents refusing to call an ambulance for gassed children.
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“I don’t care” is precisely the message from my Missouri “senators” and “representative”