"Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society's trajectory right now, but as I followed Wednesday's news of an ICE agent killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, then watched the federal government flatly lie about the sequence of events, the indignant language and informational smokescreens felt nauseatingly familiar. It was as if someone had taken Israel's playbook for Gaza and tested it out stateside."
"It's an American tradition already illustrated by many devastated families and callous police union presidents. But for years now, both in Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has modeled how to act with both viciousness and total impunity. That in turn has affected the efficacy of public pressure in other parts of the world. Entities within the sphere of U.S. power have realized that it is even easier to slaughter a person in the street and get away with it."
"Typically, when an American police officer kills a person for no reason, the department identifies the killer, places them on some kind of administrative leave, and waits for a trial to acquit them of charges, before a civil suit delivers a diminished form of justice which doesn't include accountability for the perpetrator due to qualified immunity."
Federal officials misrepresented the sequence of events after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. U.S. law enforcement impunity is compared to tactics used by the Israeli government in Gaza and the West Bank, with those tactics described as modeling viciousness and total impunity. That modeling has undermined the efficacy of public pressure and emboldened entities within U.S. power to act with less accountability. A typical American police cycle—identification, administrative leave, trial acquittal, and diminished civil-suit remedies under qualified immunity—permits killers to avoid true accountability. Official statements are often convoluted and media narratives can smear victims.
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