New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- It would appear that we are still in the era of extraordinary mobile-phone videos. The latest among them is footage taken by a bystander in Minneapolis as hooded officers of America's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has acquired the chilling acronym ICE, raided a locality looking for illegal immigrants.

An American woman who was not a target of the raid but was there to protest against it blocked the road. We can see an ICE agent grab the handle of her car door; she reverses and then drives ahead, perhaps trying to get away. Another agent responds by shooting the woman dead.

Until a few years ago, most people in the world had never seen a human die. Then the proliferation of mobile phones made it common....