CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 115th Edition. The Killing of Alex Pretti, Hageman flees the stage, ICE blocked in hotel.

CNN has an excellent breakdown of the killing.

Film analysis.   

People like to say you can see more than one thing on these things. Well, let's say you can. Those last few shots are an execution.

These guys should be tried for murder.

ICE/Border Patrol in the interior should be disarmed.

Frankly, these morons are lucky this wasn't a local matter.  Things are turning against ICE and Trump, even here.  The ICE/Border Patrol killings became a topic that surprised Harriet Hageman, running for Senate, and current Wyoming Congressman, at a really hostile town hall meeting in Casper.

Hostile.

She was confronted on this and her reaction was to flee the stage.

She next appeared in Thermopolis where things didn't go much better. The crowd started yelling at each other.

Meanwhile, in Riverton, locals blocked ICE agents into their hotel. The police had to come and rescue them.

In some parts of the country, there's an effort at a general strike today.

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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 114th Edition. The Armed Citizen and ICE. He never served but they did. Geographically ignorant. He's demented. Canada comes to the US's aid. . . again.

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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.