The woman gunned down by ICE agents in Minneapolis yesterday was, Renee Nicole Good. According to a report by the BBC she was a 37-year-old who had been married twice. Her second husband, Tim Macklin, who she had hosted a podcast with, died in 2023. She was the mother of three children, the youngest six years old. While an undergrad student she won an award from the Academy of American Poets in 2020 for her work. When asked, she described herself as a poet and writer. Her chief hobby was playing the guitar. She was raised in Colorado Springs and had moved from Kansas City to Minneapolis less than a year ago. She was a natural born citizen of the United States of America.
DHS head, Kristi Noem claimed she committed an act of, "domestic terrorism.," While Donald Trump wrote she had, "viciously run over," an ICE agent." Secretary Noem and the President have a problem though. The whole deadly nightmare was clearly shown on the phone cam of a bystander. When watching it, it becomes painfully obvious, to anyone with a brain, Noem's act of terrorism looked a lot more like a panicked woman just trying to get the fuck out of the way. And when it comes to Trump's assertion Ms. Good viciously ran over anyone, is, as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey put it, "bullshit."
Also caught on tape was a person at the scene who identified himself as a doctor, asking agents to let him administer first aid to her. The agents refuse his offer, while offering no aid themselves. They tell the man they have medics on the way. When, they do arrive, reportedly 15 minutes later, they force the EMTs to park a block away, then refuse to let them bring in a stretcher for the victim. As one witness said, "They had to carry her out like a sack of potatoes."
In short, the ICE agents, including the highly ambulatory one who was allegedly run over, allowed Renee Good to bleed out at the scene. Then their bosses, from the top down, did everything they could to paint their victim as a radical left terrorist, hell bent on killing federal authorities.
This is what happens when you put a bunch of ill-trained street thugs in uniform and give them guns. One can't help but think many of the recent ICE recruits didn't join to serve their country so much as to get a chance to carry those guns and break heads whenever they want. It is a suspicion borne out by the observation of one former law enforcement official who, after he saw the tape, said, "The man (the agent who was the shooter) obviously couldn't handle a stressful situation and should have never been allowed to carry a weapon." Other former federal agents and police officials have noted they were all trained to "Never try to block a car by standing in front of it." Although to be honest, to many observers it didn't appear the guy was ever fully in front of Ms. Good's vehicle.
It is time to admit that Donald Trump and his administration has gone totally rogue. The President and his lackies have turned ICE the Border Patrol, and elements of the DOJ into his personal para-military of Donald J. Trump. Congress is riddled with cowards and Trump sycophants who have allowed him to run completely amok. We are to the point the Department of Justice is flat out ignoring judicial orders. They did so this past weekend when another Epstein file deadline was, "missed". (An event many media outlets initially skipped past because they were too busy covering El Don's oil driven adventure in Venezuela.)
Indeed, it looks as if Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, and Trump have realized court orders are unenforceable if the DOJ decides not to enforce them. It's an easy choice to make when the DOJ and their boss are on the receiving end of those orders. Especially when a majority of congress is willing to let them get away with anything and everything.
Yesterday, Mayor Frey not only said the excuses for killing were, "bullshit," his message to the ICE agents roaming the city streets was blunt and angry. He told them to, "Get the fuck out of Minneapolis." Then he added, "We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety and you are doing exactly the opposite."
He was absolutely right. Unfortunately for the twin cities, Minnesota and the nation as a whole, as long as monsters like Don Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest are calling the shots, ICE isn't going anywhere.
Well, other than, someday soon, your living room.
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