"You cannot defend yourself from a speeding car by shooting the driver. As in the case of Good, the car keeps going. Why then did the officer draw his handgun when Good was backing her car away from him? Was he thinking "She's going to try to kill me"? No, there was nothing in their interactions that would lead to that thought."
"Terrorist? Bully? Tyrant? Or worse? Whatever you call him, unfortunately, he is our president. All of the Democratic leaders and people of the world know him for what he is. Even Vladimir Putin knows it and and benefits from his undermining of NATO with his strong-arm tactics and his crazy attempt to get Greenland. If you say, do or win something that he does not agree with, he sends his flunkies in to punish, maim and even kill."
""It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people who would bomb a church in Birmingham, Alabama, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say wait on time." These are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr."
An ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good while she was backing her car away, raising serious questions about the claim of self-defense and suggesting the weapon may have been drawn to prevent her escape. The shooting calls for legal accountability and a jury determination about whether the killing was justified. Concerns about presidential conduct argue that the president undermines democratic norms, empowers enforcers to punish dissent, and should face impeachment and legal consequences. A Martin Luther King Jr. warning about the moral danger of silence and the interconnectedness of justice is invoked to demand action against wrongdoing.
Read at The Mercury News
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