The thuggish and murderous rampage by ICE that is terrorizing the country continues, and now we have the murder of a woman on the streets of Minneapolis. There is video of the event that shows her trying to drive away and being shot multiple times by ICE agents. Trump is of course lying about what happened, claiming that she ran over the ICE agent when the video clearly shows nothing of the sort. There is only one word to describe it: murder.
Here is a video of the murder and the aftermath showing ICE preventing a physician from checking on the victim.
The mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey was unequivocal in his condemnation of the murder, not mincing his words.
The murder has enraged local people.
Back at the shooting scene on Wednesday morning, ICE agents agreed to leave after intense protest from hundreds in the street. They faced near-endless shouting from observers telling them to leave town and that they committed murder. “Read your history books,” one person yelled at them. “You guys are the villains!” One woman moved through the crowd quickly, telling people more were needed at a nearby school, where ICE had been seen.
The ICE murder victim was as far as one can imagine from the profile that Trump and his thugs have been portraying on the people that they claim that they are rounding up.
Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the woman killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, and portrayed by the Trump administration as a “domestic terrorist”, was an “affectionate” mother of three children who had recently moved to Minnesota, and had won an award for poetry.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
“She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.”
…Her ex-husband, who asked not to be named out of concern for the safety of their children, told the Associated Press that Macklin Good had just dropped off her youngest son at school Wednesday and was driving home with her partner when they encountered a group of ICE agents on a snowy street.
He said she was not an activist, and had not taken part in any kind of protest that he was aware of. He said she was a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger. She loved to sing, participating in a chorus in high school and studying vocal performance in college, he said.
The FBI has taken over the investigation.
The FBI has taken full control of the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) officer in Minneapolis, it emerged on Thursday.
In a statement, the Minneosta Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said it was initially called upon to help investigate the shooting before federal officials “reversed course” and said the case would be solely led by the FBI. As it now no longer has access to the case materials, witnesses and evidence, the BCA said it had “reluctantly” withdrawn from the investigation.
This is not good news. The FBI was never the independent and impartial investigating body that it prides itself on being. It has a terrible history of abusing people perceived as acting against the policies of the US government, however peacefully they did so. But it is now even worse. It is now a fully operational arm of the Trump regime and acts under the directives of him and his puppet attorney general Pam Bondi. They will drag this out for as long as possible and try to cover it up by suppressing evidence and distorting the facts. We should view anything coming out of them with the deepest skepticism.
Hey
Hey
NRA
Where was the good guy with the gun today?
Absolutely baffling to me that nobody has started sniping these pricks from vans yet. Half the country and more than half the world would hail them heroes.
ICE agent who killed woman in Minneapolis shooting named: https://www.independent.co.uk/-b2897135.html
Wikipedia has a comprehensive entry: Killing of Renée Good
You idiot, we’re in the shit now. I told you not to shoot any white people…
File thirteen says @ 4
Nailed it !
really?
sonofrojblake@#1:
Absolutely baffling to me that nobody has started sniping these pricks from vans yet. Half the country and more than half the world would hail them heroes.
Eventually that’ll happen, but a lot liberal sentiment is to take it and keep on taking it because something something Gandhi something liberals something. Part of liberals’ problem is that Trump’s end-game is not quite visible from here and we’re waiting to see exactly what he’s doing before we start slashing at his strategy. One puzzling thing is that Trump’s coup plans don’t seem to be very well thought-out. He seems to be angling to call the Insurrection Act, which -- OK -- fine as it is -- but that’s not going to work in the context of him using the military to control the voting systems. That will nourish a zillion conspiracy theories and may not work -- probably won’t -- in most of the country. All it seems he is likely to do is bringing more attention to the balloting systems in the swing states.
Meanwhile, Elon tried to outright buy the election in Pennsylvania and it may have worked. But, instead of raising hue and cry, the democrats slunk off, “oh, I guess we lost” I’m amazed at that.
If the situation gets worse and more violent then we may see some action. More professionalization is needed, and I sincerely hope some good guys are getting jobs in the fusion centers, or the Palantir terminals. I have a very low opinion of governments’ ability to keep systems functioning -- I suspect that Palantir will turn out to be useless crap, as such systems usually are. Getting inside their comms will be crucial. Random snipers won’t do it -- what will is when ICE starts to have a force protection problem. Truck-bombing one of the hotels where they are staying would have a profound effect. Or, when 20 ICE troopers go out on a call and just -- disappear. Never found. A program of dropping leaflets in the mailboxes of ICE agents’ homes: “you have stopped playing nice so we are stopping playing nice. this is a courtesy note to let you know that, since you consider our families and children to be fair game, we will do likewise with yours. Your attention to this matter is appreciated.” You go after where they sleep, where they live, and where they eat. ICE’s tactical skills are _zero_ and they don’t seem to understand the difference between “angry sniper” and “interlocking fire from a team of snipers.” If they keep pushing it will eventually go that way, I guess. I sure hope whoever starts shooting adopts the Israeli technique: kill from the top down. That horrible little asswipe Bovino seems to think he’s a badass. Someone ought to convince him otherwise.
There are a lot of ex-military scratching their heads trying to decide what to do and when. Frankly, I wish they’d get off the bench but it’s not my decision to influence. I have heard various rumors about the Black Panthers reconstituting, and/or the minutemen (not the 60s ones) I’d like to see that. Whoever’s working on that is being careful, as they must.
Our enemy is the dumbest bunch of motherfuckers on earth, remember. Their supreme leader is a demented narcissist who’d embarrass Hitler. His chief factotum is a creepy ghoul who’d make Himmler sit at another table. His spokespeople are like dollar-store Goebbels’ and the head of the secret police is in the job as a designated fall guy because he can’t seem to get that everyone hates him because they’re bigger racists than he is. The whole system is doomed to collapse in on itself because there are literally no competent people anywhere. When the circular firing squads start, it’s going to be a hoot.
Marcus
I think top down is the wrong way to go. Start from the bottom and go up.
Here’s the headline this needs:
SHIT THAT’S BEEN HAPPENING FOR DECADES STARTS HAPPENING I FRONT OF CAMERAS TO MIDDLE I COME WHITE PEOPLE
Minneapolis killing “morally justifiable” say guys who are OK with paedophilia.
The argument against violent direct action against the fascist forces isn’t philosophical but pragmatical. Based on work of academics that research resistance movements, success rate is higher when the resistance is non-violent. One academic who gets referenced a lot is Erica Chenoweth. And even so, success is just a bit over 50%.
The model that gets promoted in places such as Pramila Jayapal’s Resistance Lab workshops or Seattle Indivisible calls isn’t Gandhi’s India but the resistance to Milosevic in Serbia. The key to the success of the resistance was that the demonstrators made friends with the cops, brought them coffee etc. So when the cops were ordered to shoot at the crowd they refused.
There are veterans organizing right now, and the ones I know about are organizing for non-violent action, mostly to remind soldiers of their oath. This does not apply to ICE.
One of the weapons we have and can apply on a mass level is economic pressure. In response to Gangster Don’s action in Venezuela there is a call to boycott and picket Chevron and Citgo gas stations. See https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/ for events near you.
Part of liberals’ problem is thinking that Trump even has an end-game, plans, or strategy.
I am mystified why no-one in the USA yet seems to have worked out which organisations are repairing the ICE/DHS/Stasi vehicles, and which organisation have been supplying and are still kitting out replacement vehicles with twinkly lights, gun-racks, taliban-style running boards, and radios for counter-civilian action.
Which organisations are supplying their copious demand for ammo? (Surely in the land of the second amendment that must be a badly kept secret.)
Not even who is importing their Velcro-backed insignia?
There is a national-budget busting amount of money being spent; a lot of people are gratefully accepting the big government moulah while looking the other way. Those are the people who need to start having prickly feelings about whether they will have their fifteen minutes of fame —years from now— in a truth and reconciliation commission or in a Nuremberg tribunal.
File thirteen says @ 4
“You idiot, we’re in the shit now. I told you not to shoot any white people…”
On the contrary, I would bet they were told to kill a white woman, hoping to incite a riot. “See? Look how violent and lawless Minnesota is, that’s why we need the Gestapo, sorry, I mean ICE, there.”
I’m actually impressed with how little physical violence there has been against ICE as yet. There is a huge advantage to be gained by it being explicit that ICE are the people who start violence. Even if there is violence later it is good to do all you can before resorting to it, as EigenSprocketUK says expose who is servicing ICE in all ways. Particularly in this economy the amount of money being made to enable others to suffer is a potent weapon, even without the pressure exposure will put on those suppliers. It’s the kind of thing that helps build and strengthen community, and the base for further action.
I really hope that it isn’t necessary to resort to violence, I think there is a lot to be said for the ‘we know who you are and where you sleep’ approach before that step is taken. I fear for you that that will not be enough.
Mano et al, the media seems to have gained access to the suit camera of the ICE agent who shot the woman. It is even worse than we thought!
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Meidas Touch:
“All HELL BREAKS LOOSE as NEW VIDEO SURFACES of ICE MURDER”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=er1rMAt_mqM
The Right’s Charlie Kirk Rules Don’t Apply to Renee Good, Apparently
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=0eKEBWKRR14
-But we already knew they were super-hypocrites and moral tapeworms.
Just want to add that it’s probably not a good idea to try to track ICE expenditures on guns and ammo. To be blunt, we’re already losing the fight for common sense and decency against the liars, frauds, and murderers who want to profit from seeing more people killed. If anything we can wait until after we win the fight against ICE to mix these two issues in the hopes of it maybe helping sort out the gun problem.
The problem if we mix them now is a bunch of dumb people will hear some fraud shout “They’re comin’ fur yer gunz!!1!!1!” and for some insane reason they’ll believe it. And Trump’s clown show will push it as a national security issue.
JD Vance says the assassination was really awesome
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=hZU2pp68K2I
Meidas Touch at Youtube:
“Trump Gets UNEXPECTED BACKLASH from ENTIRE WORLD over ICE Murder”
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=lQwIu6VXV6k
JD Vance may inadvertedly have helped the prosecution!
.https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17zSQ6nEek/
Guess the old “post more than three times in a thread and you’re banned” thing is over, huh?
sonofrojblake, @#21,
I run the blog as I wish and I did say that I will use my discretion to decide when the violations are egregious enough to warrant banning.
So do not make any assumptions.
I apologize for making more than three comments, but here is a *real* law enforcement officer’s comments about the video of the shooting.
.https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Eg18vtYdf/
Quoted for truth.
I can’t say it any better.
Non violent protests stopped the Vietnam war, took down the USSR, sent the Shah of Iran into exile, and freed Eastern Europe from the Soviet puppet governments.
It isn’t time yet to try to out-violence ICE.
And, I and many other people couldn’t out-violence them no matter how hard I/we tried.
A lot of us are never going to be good terrorists or thugs.
PS. You do know that violent retaliation is what the GOP and the Trump regime want?
Their idea is to provoke a violent reaction, declare marshal law, and cancel the elections.
That was the main idea for calling up the National Guard and sending the US military into the cities.
Chenoweth’s work is dubious, involving a considerable amount of cherry-picking and misdescription of particular episodes. It was also closely connected to the State Department, for whom her co-author worked. I’ll re-find my references for these statements, but don’t have them handy and don’t have time right now.
KG @ 25, I would very much appreciate you sharing those reference as it’s an area I know little about. I would love Chenowith to be correct, but that bias and my reading about such conflicts over the years makes me wary of their results, so some knowledgeable commentary would be very helpful.
Some references for #25:
Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance; When Are Social Protests Effective?; Molotov Cocktails to Mass Marches: Strategic Nonviolence,
Symbolic Violence, and the Mobilizing Effect of Riots; The Flawed Social Science Behind Extinction Rebellion’s Change Strategy.
There has also been pushback against such critiques, and Chenoweth herself has conceded that in recent non-violent campaigns in Brunei and Bahrein, her 3.5% threshold was exceeded, but the movements failed -- which she attributes to powerful external support for the opprssive regime. This is very much an ongoing and contested research area; but it certainly won’t do to cite Chenoweth and claim non-violence is always more likely to succeed.
jazzlet@26,
I just posted a comment with some references, but it’s being held for moderation, probably because I included too many! Hopefully it will appear before too long. As I say in that comment, there has also been pushback against the critiques; it’s complicated, but it certainly won’t do to cite Chenoweth and think that’s the matter settled. As I don’t say there, I couldn’t find some of the references I was actually thinking of @25!
Thank you KG, that’s this evening’s reading sorted!