The death of an American citizen who was gunned down by an ICE agent in Minnesota on Wednesday was always the inevitable conclusion of letting poorly trained, armed and masked thugs roam the country with zero accountability.

While it wasn’t clear when something was going to happen, it was obvious that it eventually would. Equally predictable was that a lawless administration would rush to claim that the victim, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, was a “domestic terrorist.” Or that Donald Trump, even though the killing was recorded from multiple angles, would try to gaslight his followers into believing that she “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense,” and that it “is hard to believe he is alive.” Or that congressional Republicans would vote down an effort to subpoena all records and footage related to the incident.

The inescapable conclusion following Wednesday’s events is that, in the best case, the administration didn’t mind or care that this kind of tragedy would eventually occur.

In the worst case, the White House was hoping that sending its goons into Democratic-led cities and states to round up harmless immigrants would lead to an escalation that would then allow Trump to dispatch troops or punish states that didn’t vote for him in some other way.

And that’s exactly what lies ahead.

Speaking of lies, this week has shown an escalation in how shamelessly Trump, other administration officials, Republicans in Congress, and the entire right-wing propaganda machine are willing to rewrite history and reality.

While that hardly seems possible in light of the endless lies the president and his followers tell in order to create an alternate reality, the White House’s brazen retelling of January 6 and the charge that Good was a domestic terrorist (or that her killer somehow barely escaped death) are Orwellian on another level.

In a functioning democracy that values the rule of law, these recordings (and any others that House Republicans apparently don’t want the public to see) would be used to investigate the shooting and prosecute the ICE agent.

However, we have scant hope that this is going to happen — certainly not on a federal level.

Because these are obviously not the first clips showing that federal agents abuse their power, arrest American citizens, manhandle Democratic officials, rough up peaceful protesters, lie, and, of course, assault immigrants.

And yet there is no evidence that any of them have faced or will face repercussions.

Which brings us back to why this tragedy is not surprising at all.

If you let gun-toting and trigger-happy individuals who clearly lack the training and temperament required for this job run rampant through the country, all while allowing them to hide their identities and making it clear that they will face no repercussions for any of their misdeeds, then this is the logical conclusion.