"By now you've almost certainly seen the video for yourself, or read about it: an ICE agent shooting a Minneapolis woman, Renee Nicole Good, in the head from point-blank range, killing her as she attempted to drive away from the scene of an immigration sting where protesters had gathered on Wednesday. The agent's actions, caught from several angles on video now widely available across all forms of visual media, are indefensible."
"By any human standard the shooting is a murder, made all the more appalling by the Trump administration's rush to exonerate the murderer with obvious lies, and paint the victim, an unarmed U.S. citizen guilty of nothing more than perhaps having panicked when masked agents surrounded her car and tried to yank her out of it, as a terrorist and would-be killer."
"A masked government agent, a member of Donald Trump's unaccountable racist paramilitary force, shot one of Sen. Klobuchar's constituents in the head and killed her, in response to her, at absolute most, having moved her vehicle a few feet instead of allowing herself to be violently accosted by men in masks. The outrage is not that the agent did so without having coordinated that action with local cops. The outrage is that he did it at all."
A masked ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good at point-blank range as she attempted to drive away from an immigration sting where protesters had gathered. Multiple camera angles show the agent's actions, which are described as indefensible and by any human standard a murder. The Trump administration moved quickly to exonerate the agent, advancing false claims while portraying Good, an unarmed U.S. citizen, as a terrorist or would-be killer. The killing has shocked the nation and diverted attention from other major actions by the administration. Criticism focuses on mainstream Democratic responses that emphasize procedural concerns rather than explicitly condemning lethal state violence.
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