Did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security release an image of Jonathan Ross's arm with an IV tube as evidence that the ICE agent suffered internal bleeding from Renee Good's car? No, that's not true: The photo was taken by a college student in 2016 and used in an attempt to convince his professor that he was hospitalized and should be excused from midterm exams. The purported IV line is a Macbook charging cable. The account that shared the image carries a "satire" disclaimer.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) where it was published by the @PoliticoForYou account on X on January 14, 2026, with a caption that read:
BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
US Department of Homeland Security release hospital photo of ICE agent who murdered Renee Good after reports of internal bleeding.
This is what the image in the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: X.com)
A Google reverse image search (archived here) found numerous examples where the same image was used as a joke on social media since 2016. It also included a February 2016 Daily Mail article (archived here) headlined "F for effort! Columbia pre-med student tries to skip a midterm by emailing his professor pictures of himself 'in hospital' - but uses HEADPHONES as his oxygen tubes."
The article opened:
A creative student's hilariously bad attempt at getting out of his midterm exams has made him internet famous.
Joker Terrell Finner, a premed student at Columbia University in New York, posted a photo on Valentine's Day of himself with a pair of headphones shoved in his nose and a Macbook charger across his arm to make it look as if he was hooked up to tubes in the hospital.
'I'm emailing these pics to my chem prof bc I had a nosebleed & had to be hospitalized & can't take this midterm Wed, [sic]' he wrote on Twitter.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of dailymail.co.uk)
The Daily Mail article also included a screenshot of the image in Finner's tweet, which the newspaper captioned:
Not hiding it well: In one of the original images, the Macbook charger can be seen obviously, along with a piece of paper Terrell has scrawled on to look like a hospital bracelet
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of dailymail.co.uk)
Finner's February 14, 2016, Twitter post is no longer online, but the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine did save it that year without the images.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of web.archive.org)
