Democrats and special interest groups continue to inflame tensions around the Minnesota ICE shooting for political purposes, putting police and federal immigration agents in jeopardy.

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Rather than toning down their rhetoric and waiting for the shooting investigation to conclude, some lawmakers and other groups are already calling the death of Renee Nicole Good “murder” and encouraging protests aimed at ICE.

In Waltham, about 500 protestors gathered to condemn ICE and in Boston another 200 demonstrated at the State House, chanting in anger and criticizing federal immigration officers. Far left groups like the Massachusetts Teachers Association that had nothing to do with the shooting also piled on.

“Such a tragedy was inevitable under the Trump administration’s agenda to use masked, secret police authorized to terrorize and threaten communities heavily populated by immigrants,” the MTA said in a statement.

Just hours after Good’s death, Sen. Elizabeth Warren went so far as to say that Good was just a passerby and there’s “no indication that she is a protester” – ignoring widespread evidence that Good was protesting and blocking ICE agents and that her partner was videoing the encounter.

“There’s nothing that – at least you can see on the video, and therefore nothing that the officers on the ground could see – that identify her as someone who’s set out to try to do harm to an ICE officer,” Warren said Wednesday on MS Now, formerly MSNBC.

A number of Democrats called on legal action to be taken against the ICE officer who shot Good.

Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley used the shooting – which she called a “murder” – to call for the abolishment of ICE.

“What happened…is a despicable consequence of Donald Trump’s campaign of terror, fear and demonization of vulnerable communities and we cannot allow it to be normalized in America,” Pressley said.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu blamed the shooting on the “cruel and vicious agenda” of the Trump administration.

Even before a number of the videos of the shooting had come out, Sen. Ed Markey – who is being challenged this year by Rep. Seth Moulton – concluded it was “murder” and blamed Trump.

“This is not self-defense,” Markey said. “This is what happens when a corrupt federal administration floods a city with masked ICE thugs and treats American cities like occupied territory.”

Not to be outdone, Moulton also, within hours of the shooting, said “When I look at that video, I see murder.”

Gov. Maura Healey, who came under withering criticism for her comments after the police shooting of George Floyd and the resulting riots, wasted no time this week demanding that two airlines stop chartering ICE flights out of Hanscom Field in Bedford.

“No matter how the Trump administration spins this, we all saw it,” Healey said in a post on X. “Renee Good was a mother and an American citizen…ICE’s dangerous, aggressive tactics don’t make us safer. Just the opposite. This has to stop.”

Eight days after Floyd’s death in 2020, Healey gave a speech to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce seemingly giving the green light to the violent rioting going on in Boston and other cities.

“Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,” she said.

Two years later, in an effort to stem the political damage her comments caused, Healey was forced to walk them back.

“It was a poor word choice, a poor phrase choice,” said Healey, who is up for reelection this year and is being challenged by three Republican opponents.

Gov. Maura Healey. (CJ Gunther/Boston Herald)