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Joyce Vance: “You gonna murder someone else? You can’t kill us all, Nazis.”
Renee Good is dead, and she shouldn’t be. Her death, at the hands of ICE agents, was completely unnecessary. She was shot in her own car and denied the medical assistance of a man at the scene who identified himself to agents as a physician. He was turned away. If agents thought they had reason to stop Good, or even arrest her, they had plenty of options. They could have gotten her car tag. They didn’t have to kill her.
Wayland Smith on Facebook
A bit over a year ago, I retired from law enforcement after just shy of 23 years. I went to the Academy, had required annual retraining, was in instructor, and received a lot of extra training in use of force. I retired as a Sergeant and a supervisor.
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Every agency I have trained with is taught not to fire into a moving vehicle. It creates many new hazards.
An officer can use lethal force when they believe their life is in danger. A driver backing up and then turning their vehicle away from officers does not qualify.
I am not aware of ICE having any actual jurisdiction to detain this woman in the first place. All accounts say she was a US Citizen. Even if she had not been, it would not justify their behavior.
There is no way it is legal or within acceptable bounds for an officer to leave the scene of a shooting. This alone strongly suggests that not only does the officer involved know he was in the wrong, but that so do his colleagues, who did not stop him leaving the scene.
Mirror: ICE ‘blocked doctor for 15 mins’ and ambulance from trying to help dead shooting victim
Witnessess claim a doctor tried to help the victim but was refused through by ICE agents, while an ambulance was also reportedly blocked
LAWdork: An ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good. Judge Sara Ellis all but told us today would happen.
404 Media: DHS Is Lying To You
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
Mary Geddry: Two Stories, One Body in the Snow
Ken Klippenstein: ICE Kills Unarmed American Woman in Minneapolis
Trump decries “radical left;” homeland security screams “domestic terror”
Slate: Trump Isn’t Just Defending ICE for Killing a Woman. He’s Taking It a Chilling Step Further.
The president is blaming his political rivals—and possibly opening the door to more repression.
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Nevertheless, the MAGA commentary machine made it clear that the video wouldn’t disrupt their narrative around ICE and deportations. The party line quickly emerged: The victim was a threat whose killing was justified. And beyond that, the commentators identified the people truly at fault for the killing: Democrats who criticized ICE agents.
(Slate more…)
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – January 7, 2026
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to Minneapolis leaders, Good was a legal observer: a volunteer trained to observe police conduct in case of future legal action.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
Marisa Kabas: The hell of being a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ victim
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Andrew Torrez: Wyoming Really IS The Equality State … For At Least A Little While Longer
On Tuesday the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state’s abortion ban. By a 4-1 vote, the conservative justices held that the law violates the constitutional right to make health care decisions. And they did it in the funniest way possible.
The ruling has its genesis in a bit of performative Republican theater back in 2012 when Republicans were fear mongering about the recently enacted Affordable Care Act.
Death panels for everyone!
Enter State Sen. Leslie Nutting (R-Cheyenne), with a proposal to amend the state’s constitution to ensure that Obama couldn’t come for granny. She called to add language to preserving the right of each “competent adult” in the state of Wyoming “to make his or her own health care decisions” and protecting those rights “from undue governmental infringement.”
The amended language, known as Section 38, passed by a 77-23 margin. That’d show those death panel bureaucrats in Washington, DC!
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WSJ: U.S. to Control Venezuelan Oil Sales Indefinitely
Bulwark: Taking Venezuela’s Oil Isn’t the Win Trump Claims
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Marcy Wheeler: Stephen Miller Has Similar Plans for Colombia and Columbia
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NY Times: University to Pay $500,000 to Professor It Fired Over Charlie Kirk Post
NY Times: Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato
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James Eagle: Britain’s huge decline in maternal mortality
It is easy to forget how dangerous childbirth once was. This chart shows a transformation so dramatic that it almost fades into the background of history.
(James Eagle more…)
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NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
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