"Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a "domestic terrorist," a "professional agitator," and an "anti-ICE rioter" behind the wheel of a "thousand-pound missile," here is how they might describe her dropping off her son at school just before she was killed."
"The terrorist drove a 4,000-pound guided missile to deliver her small associate to the rendezvous point. She pulled up to where dozens of others just like her were also making their sinister deliveries at "School." (An ominously short, unpatriotic name for any building. Where is the "Trump"?) Their tiny accomplices climbed out of the rolling weapons, carrying bags on their backs full of scribbled writings-Codes, perhaps? Or manifestos?-in crayon and pencil and Magic Marker."
"Despite the snow on the roads, these terrorists were out in force in their four-wheeled missiles. The missiles were garnished, in some cases, with stickers. (Stickers that have slogans on them, religious icons that almost seem to spell out COEXIST-a threat, to be certain.) Some of them were wearing hats but no makeup. (The mark of a mind disturbed.) Some of these women had a husband at home, and some had a wife."
Federal officials labeled Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman shot and killed while protesting ICE, as a "domestic terrorist" and "professional agitator," portraying her vehicle as a "thousand-pound missile." Descriptions recast a school drop-off as a coordinated, sinister effort in which parents drive "guided missiles" to deliver children to "School." Children's backpacks, crayons, juice boxes, Uncrustables, and stuffed animals are framed as codes or weapons. Stickers, hats, family arrangements, and lack of makeup are interpreted as ideological or psychological indicators. The rhetoric raises questions about motives, funding, and the tendency of security narratives to criminalize everyday acts.
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