"And so what we have all witnessed, and I think part of the horror of this, was that you saw a police killing, you saw a police murder of this woman. Was she engaging in civil disobedience? Yeah, maybe. But that doesn't carry a death penalty, Sykes argued, adding: And civil disobedience is not domestic terrorism. These words have consequences."
"The key thing about this new video is it does not show the actual shooting. And the story is the shooting. And I think the ugliness that we're experiencing here is recognizing that this armed brute squad that has been dropped into our communities, that's supposed to make us safer, in fact, poses a deadly threat, not just to the illegal immigrants, the worst of the worst."
"And by the way, they're obviously not going after them exclusively. But it poses a threat to Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights, who are protesting against all of this. And it is an ugly moment. It is an ugly moment. And unfortunately, and I have a lot of questions here about the future of ICE. My short answer, it's going to get worse. And we know that it's going to get worse because we know the message that is coming from the top."
An ICE agent's bodycam clip circulated after the shooting of Renee Good. The clip does not show the actual shooting, and the shooting itself remains the central fact. The incident has been described as a police killing and a police murder of the woman. Questions arose over whether she engaged in civil disobedience; civil disobedience does not carry a death penalty and is not domestic terrorism. An armed enforcement squad operating in communities poses a deadly threat to undocumented immigrants and can endanger Americans exercising First Amendment rights during protests. A recent Presidential directive to DHS indicates enforcement may broaden, raising expectations that the situation will worsen and prompting questions about ICE's future.
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