"Many saw Renee Good, a mother of three, trying to flee U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when she was shot three times in the face as she drove past the agent who pulled the trigger. Others, including those inside the Trump administration, claim those very same videos show a woman trying to use her car to ram into an agent, who reacted in self-defense."
"While sports obviously pale in comparison to last week's tragedy, please allow me to make this analogy. It's like fans from different teams looking at a replay of the same play and seeing two different outcomes. Not necessarily because their eyes tell them what they're seeing. But because their hearts are telling them what they are seeing. What they see is based on who they are rooting for."
Renee Good, a Minneapolis mother of three, was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during an immigration enforcement operation. The same video footage of the shooting has produced sharply different interpretations: many view Good as trying to flee when she was shot three times in the face, while others, including Trump administration officials, contend the footage shows an attempted vehicle attack and an agent acting in self-defense. The disagreement reflects identity-driven perceptual differences rather than unequal access to information. Observers replay the same frames and reach opposite conclusions. Rival questions about why Good was on the street and whether the shooting was necessary are being used to bolster existing positions.
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