“I said in March, if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed,” said Homan. The Trump administration’s new head of Operation Metro Surge, “border czar” Tom Homan, suggested on Thursday that anti-ICE protests forced federal agents’ hand in the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, in a chilling statement on free speech. “I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March, if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. Please take a meaningful action in the fight against authoritarianism: make a one-time or monthly donation to Truthout.