Can Trump and Kristi Noem preserve their blatant lies within the face of a number of movies that present the sufferer was making an attempt to drive away when she was shot 3 times by an ICE agent?
Legislation enforcement and a protester on the scene after an ICE agent shot and killed a girl in Minneapolis on January 7.
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Generally actuality is over-scripted. However the sufferer’s identify turned out to be Good.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered by ICE brokers in Minneapolis Wednesday morning. She gave the impression to be making an attempt to show away from an ICE caravan, when an agent ran as much as her window and shot her 3 times, apparently within the face. We solely discovered her identify many hours later. It was the ninth ICE taking pictures since September. She was a US citizen (and white).
If the movies of Good’s homicide–there are a lot of angles–confirmed the gunshot wounds, they might be pulled off (most) social media. Networks would by no means air them. As a result of, by some means, no angle confirmed bloody carnage, we will watch a number of movies, which have been to me virtually equally devastating. She might need began out blocking an ICE show-of-force motorcade. That’s not even clear but. After we hear the gunshots, the movies confirmed Good’s Honda veer sharply left, then crash into parked vehicles; then we heard the automotive horn going off. I don’t know if that’s as a result of she collapsed onto it, or if that’s what vehicles do after they crash. I’m blessed to not know.
That is the longest video I’ve seen of the killing and the aftermath. It’s very laborious to look at.
There’s a video of a physician who was her neighbor, looking for out if she was okay. ICE didn’t permit it.
We noticed video of her neighbors begging ICE brokers to get to Good’s automotive to see if she was alive. ICE blocked them.
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We additionally noticed video of a white airbag coated with crimson blood inside her automotive. Her glove compartment was full of stuffed animals. She had a six-year-old little one. Her partner stood on the sidewalk, screaming as she was gunned down.
Contacted by reporters, Good’s mother said, “She was most likely terrified…She was loving, forgiving and affectionate.”
That wasn’t Homeland Safety Official Kristi Noem’s line. She insisted “rioters started blocking ICE officers and considered one of these violent rioters weaponized her automobile, making an attempt to run over our regulation enforcement officers in an try to kill them,” after which an ICE officer fired “defensive photographs.” (She reiterated this bullshit hours later, after we’d seen movies proving her lie.)
Donald Trump, identified liar, echoed Noem.
“I’ve simply seen the clip of the occasion which came about in Minneapolis. It’s a horrible factor to look at. The girl screaming was, clearly, an expert agitator, and the lady driving the automotive was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting … “
It’s all horrible to look at, however not for the rationale the liar claimed. Are we actually at some extent in our society the place that lie can prevail over a number of video angles that present the lady was making an attempt to drive away when she was shot 3 times, up shut, by an ICE agent? I pray not.
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Mayor Jacob Frey known as bullshit instantly–actually. “Having seen the video myself, I wish to inform all people straight, that’s bullshit,” Frey stated at a information convention. “This was an agent recklessly utilizing energy that resulted in any person dying, getting killed.” He adopted up with “a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis!”
Governor Tim Walz, who simply introduced he is not going to run for re-election due to not solely the welfare fraud scandal racking the state, however threats towards his household, got here out swinging, courageously.
“We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump administration’s harmful, sensationalized operations are a menace to our public security, that somebody was going to get harm,” Walz stated, including to his fellow Minnesotans: “I really feel your anger, I’m indignant.” He went on to ask protesters to “please achieve this peacefully, as you at all times do….Don’t permit them to invoke the Rebellion Act. Don’t permit them to declare martial regulation.”
I hope native protesters hearken to Walz. Trump is on the lookout for an excuse to rain down violence, and sure, martial regulation. Native protesters adopted ICE from the homicide scene as its brokers appeared to retreat, merely pelting them with the occasional snowball. ICE hasn’t responded but.
Do not forget that ICE received additional tens of millions to recruit extra brokers, and it lowered the {qualifications} to affix the benighted company. The creep who murdered Renee Nicole Good remains to be free. This tragedy will occur once more. However I hope anti-ICE Minnesotans can stroll within the historical past of non-violent protest, as a result of these fascists will, if given the possibility, make this not solely an excuse for an anti-democracy crackdown, however a massacre.
Defend each other, please.
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