People defending the killing of Renee Nicole Good are revealing why they support Donald Trump. They follow their prejudices instead of the truth, just as he does.
Here are more facts they do not let get in the way of their opinions:
- Ice agents have NO policing power. They cannot stop traffic, direct traffic, make any arrest unrelated to immigration. They had no legal right to tell Renee to do anything because she was in the street in her vehicle where they have no power to do anything.
- The agent who tried to open her SUV door initiated the confrontation and no doubt scared her, as any woman would be if a man dressed in battle gear rushed her car as he did Renee’s.
- No ICE agent has the legal right to shoot at a driver who has no weapon. Stepping in the way as she tried to drive off as Jonathan Ross did was his fault, not Renee Good’s, and was without any legal justification.
- When the video shows in state court as it will that her wheels were turned away from the agent, his defense will fall apart because it rests on his claim that she tried to run him down which the video clearly shows was not the case.
- No ICE agent on the scene showed concern or compassion for Renee in the least, especially Ross. After he shot her, he walked toward her crashed SUV, looked at it, and then walked back to where he came from waving his arms as if there was nothing to see. Another agent who said, “I don’t care” to the man who said he was a doctor and wanted to come to her aid told us all we need to know about who these people are.
- Any civilian who shot Renee the way Ross did would be in jail right now headed for an arraignment on murder charges. So should Ross.
- Supporting this unlawful shooting is tantamount to supporting the lawless behavior of ICE agents across the nation who are using Gestapo tactics to round-up anybody they think looks like an immigrant.
- Mass deportation is as un-American and unnecessary as it can get. Barack Obama deported more criminal immigrants than any president before or since, but never did what Trump is doing.
ICE has become synonymous with government abuse of power, reflective of Trump who does it every day. That perception will deepen as agents continue to arrest innocent people, including U.S. citizens, abusing them physically and emotionally, and holding them in filthy prison conditions where they are denied basic needs in violation of the 8th Amendment that prohibits excessive penalties and demands humane treatment of people in the American criminal justice system.
Trump’s mass deportation policy directed by his Nazi-like aid, Stephen Miller, unavoidably violates the Constitution and is intended to create an America no genuinely patriotic citizen wants to live in.
So let’s be clear. If you support Jonathan Ross killing Renee Nicole Good, you apparently want to live in an America millions of us are determined never to let you and Trump create.
