Yesterday’s news out of Minnesota has been shocking, with the death of a Minneapolis woman at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. As Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kristi Noem, Donald Trump, and ICE itself all explained, while doing their jobs, ICE agents were suddenly surrounded by “violent rioters,” and one of them decided to “weaponize her vehicle” and try to kill them by running them over. Fortunately, but tragically, a quick-thinking ICE agent, fearing for his life and the lives of his colleagues, pulled out his gun and fired “defensive shots” at the car, saving all of their lives. The injured agents, ICE informed us in a statement, “are expected to make full recoveries.”
You can watch the entire, heroic sequence of events in an eyewitness video taken here:
Huh. There must be some mistake. Because in the scene captured on film, there are no violent rioters, just a scattering of neighborhood residents standing around and filming ICE agents who are in a large, open space. The driver involved didn’t try to run anyone over, but had stopped, reversed away from the agents, and was driving away from them with her wheels pointed in the opposite direction of the agents when one of them, who actively walked in front of her car, shot and killed her. Not a single officer sustained any serious injury they would need to recover from. And the only one who conceivably might have, the shooter, is seen walking away completely normal after killing the driver.
In fact, the video seems to line up much closer with what several eyewitnesses told local news. According to them, the driver — now identified as Renee Good, a mother of three who recently moved to the state — was complying with an ICE agent’s instructions to leave the area when a different ICE agent tried to open her car door and told her to get out of the car, while a third one, who soon…
Auteur: Branko Marcetic
