Late last week, disturbing artwork portraying an ICE agent being shot surfaced on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The hand-drawn depiction, captured in a photo hanging on a post, bore the phrase, “The only good fascist is a dead one.” It illustrated a figure wearing sunglasses, a face mask, and a hat. His shirt displayed “ICE,” with red streams of blood emanating from his head.
The photo was initially shared with The Madison Federalist, an independent student newspaper.
An image showing an ICE agent shot in the head hangs on a post on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison the week of Nov. 10, 2025. (Image provided to Fox News Digital)
Fox News Digital interviewed the student who took the photograph. The student, who requested anonymity, is a board member of the university’s Turning Point USA chapter.
“I found it near Memorial Library, and my initial reaction was that being in a university setting, I wasn’t entirely shocked,” the student explained. “However, I felt disgusted, as it conveys a dangerous message to college students, especially in such a politically charged environment.”
The student said he took a photo of the image before he ripped it off the post.
“I just felt really disgusted, and I felt almost threatened because it kind of shows how, you know, violence against people who are considered right-wingers are kind of normalized in this campus,” the student said.
The student told Fox News Digital that the political bias extends to the classroom.
Police take two people into custody as tear gas fills the air after it was used by federal law enforcement agents who were being confronted by community members and activists for reportedly shooting a woman in the Brighton Park neighborhood on Oct. 4, 2025, in Broadview, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“I feel like a lot of the professors—not all of the professors, but a lot of the professors—they paint right-wingers or conservative Christians or nationalists in a very, very bad light,” he said. “And because of that, these types of rhetorics have almost become normalized even in my university classes.”
He said he has experienced professors “justifying what Stalin and Mao did,” and that violent rhetoric has become more normalized after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s September assassination.
“People celebrating [Kirk] dying wasn’t, like, an anomaly in this campus,” the student said. “So, I just think it’s an amalgamation of years and years of, I guess, normalization of this type of violence against the right.“
A similar image was discovered and photographed on campus earlier last week.
The image, which was spotted by a student and subsequently posted on X by the Wisconsin College Republicans, shows a figure wearing a vest that says “ICE” being shot in the head. Blood pours out behind the agent’s head, creating a thought bubble.
“Speak their language,” the wording on the image says.
A photo of a violent poster found on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, taken on Nov. 12, 2025. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
Below that, it says, “You can’t vote away fascism.”
Nick Jacobs, the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans and a student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, also described an uptick in violent rhetoric since Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University.
“I mean, it’s really bad,” he told Fox News Digital after the first graphic image was photographed last week. “It’s almost celebrated among students to write threatening things about college Republicans, about ICE agents, about Republicans.”
“At my school recently, we did a chalk memorial for Charlie Kirk, and leftists wrote what was on the bullet casing an hour after we did it,” he said.
Bullet casings recovered from alleged Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson were riddled with left-wing messaging, including the title of a popular Antifa song.
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
UW-Madison campus police confirmed that they are investigating both incidents.
The school did not return a request for comment.
