What both sides get wrong about the Minneapolis ICE shooting, by Luke Gittos

This is the most sensible thing I’ve seen about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. From Luke Gittos at spiked-online.com:

American Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday morning. The reaction online has been alarming, from both sides of the aisle.

Footage shows two officers approaching a car, parked horizontally across a suburban street, and telling the driver to exit. One officer stands at the side of the car, trying to open the driver-side door. When the car begins to move suddenly in his direction, the second officer, standing in front of the car, fires multiple shots, one of which penetrated the front windscreen. The car veers off down the street before crashing into a parked car and a power pole. The driver, who has since been identified as 37-year-old mother-of-three Renee Nicole Macklin Good, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head, and pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

The context of the killing is significant. Local residents had been protesting against federal immigration enforcement for days, following what the Department of Homeland Security described as its largest ‘immigration-enforcement operation ever’ in the city. It followed allegations of industrial-scale fraud at daycare centres run by local Somali residents. The street where the shooting occurred is little more than a kilometre from where George Floyd was murdered by police six years ago – an act that sparked the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.

Much as Floyd’s death did, the shooting on Wednesday has split America along partisan lines. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said that the driver killed on Wednesday had engaged in ‘domestic terrorism’, and claimed the officer had acted in self-defence in firing at her. The Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, dismissed this as ‘bullshit’. Protests have erupted on the streets of Minneapolis, demanding that ICE agents leave the state.

The commentariat is also split. Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire posted that ‘an easy way not to get shot by a federal agent is to refrain from hitting them with your car’. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, claimed that the ‘Democrat Party is committed to inciting violent insurrection’. Meanwhile, those on the left are calling for the officer to be arrested for murder, while the ICE agency has been called Trump’s ‘Gestapo’.

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3 responses to “What both sides get wrong about the Minneapolis ICE shooting, by Luke Gittos

  1. Read one that Minnesota should secede if they don’t want to follow American laws.
    This is a feature to the comrades who have been working tirelessly for this outcome.
    You don’t vote your way out of New Man workers utopia.
    Watching a great one about the Munchausen Trilemma!

  2. “ People on the internet have wasted a lot of energy on armchair forensic analysis of the Renée Good shooting. The truth is that the precise angle of the tires and exact positioning of the ICE agent’s body with respect to the left headlight of the Honda Pilot don’t matter very much. A shooting like this was inevitable given the protest tactics at hand, and more shootings will follow. Each one will be decried by the activist left, and should a protestor ever kill an ICE agent instead, the protesters won’t miss a beat in celebrating his death.”

    From
    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/courting-death-to-own-the-nazis

  3. fourth world turd's avatar fourth world turd

    Watching the Nick Shirley video about Minnesotastan.
    Two visits and $8 million dollars stolen.
    Zero children, blacked out windows, locked doors during 9 to 5.
    He is saying my son Joey needs daycare and one owner goes hysteric.
    Societies that are way too stupid to exist for $0.00 Alex.

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