Showing posts with label Homicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homicide. Show all posts

Thursday, January 8, 2026

In Memoriam. Renee Nicole Good.

Renee Nicole Good, widow and mother of one, shot dead by ICE at age 37.  The event was widely filmed.  ICE will claim their agent was in danger, and perhaps he was, from her car.  It's a needless tragedy nonetheless and the courts will no doubt sort it out.  Anyway a person looks at it, masked man looking like an army of occupation are an abomination.

It was bound to happen.

Nearly since day one of the illegitimate Trump interregnum, Trump has used use ICE as if it was an uniformed, masked, Sturmabteilung, with that agency recruiting from the MAGA demographic.  They were going to kill somebody, sooner or later.

The irony is, really, that  they killed a white American, which means Americans might actually care about what happened.

The defense will be that the officer thought the car was going to run him over.  Maybe he did.  But at the end of the day, the fact of the matter is that ICE routinely gets into situations where it's hyperaggressive, something made easier by being dressed like soldiers, which they are not, and being masked.  In the U.S. no policeman should ever be masked, and moreover, no policeman should look like a soldier.  It makes people afraid, and people who are afraid, panic.

Officers can panic too, and of course, armed men, sooner or later are going to shoot somebody.