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[bsteels @bsteels]

@SarahisCensored Nope. She's slowly turning away. Then she gets murdered by someone already out of the way of the vehicle.

[bsteels @bsteels]

@FoxNews Happy Birthday, Usha! Your husband is a vile piece of shit.

[Harrison Berger @BergerPosts]

If ICE shoots you in the face, within hours— before any details can emerge and before your body is even cold — half of Congress and the Department of Homeland Security will label you a “domestic terrorist”

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

If you think a single mother whose car is filled with stuffed animals is trying to murder ice agents you are a brainwashed fucking idiot.

[bsteels @bsteels]

@MattWalshBlog None of this is true. Fuck off.

[bsteels @bsteels]

@ofcrdeonjoseph You're (very poorly) defending the murder of an innocent woman while simultaneously displaying a quote about God on your profile. So Jesus-like!

[bsteels @bsteels]

@ofcrdeonjoseph My brother in Christ, ICE is not the same thing as local law enforcement and has exactly zero legal authority to detain someone for blocking traffic. Also officers are trained not to stand in front of vehicles and to not shoot at fleeing vehicles. The car was slowly turning away.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

ICE isn't even allowed stop a car UNLESS they have reasonable suspicion that a vehicle contains undocumented immigrants or if they are targeting a specific individual with a warrant.

NEITHER of those stipulations were true today.

Cold. Blooded. Murder.

Abolish ICE.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

ICE murdered her, and Fox News is pointing out irrelevant facts meant to dehumanize her to their base so her murder will feel justified to them.

[bsteels @bsteels]

JD Vance called her a deranged leftist. Noem called her a domestic terrorist. The truth? Just a non-activist mom trying to get home.

And FWIW, even if she were an activist, it still would have been an unjustified murder.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

The reporting just keeps getting worse for ICE.

Renee Good's ex-husband told reporters this morning that:

1) Renee was not an activist
2) She was in the vicinity because she had just dropped off her 6 year-old off at school
3) She was a devoted Christian and stay-at-home mom

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

The reporting just keeps getting worse for ICE.

Renee Good's ex-husband told reporters this morning that:

1) Renee was not an activist
2) She was in the vicinity because she had just dropped off her 6 year-old off at school
3) She was a devoted Christian and stay-at-home mom

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

The FBI is not allowing Minnesota investigators to access any of the evidence after ICE murdered a 37-year-old mother. They've covered up the Epstein files, murder investigations, Trump's health, economic data, etc. Least transparent administration in American history.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is well within the state’s jurisdiction. The government currently covering up a pedophile ring is now also covering up a murder.

[Seth Moulton @sethmoulton]

.@JDVance is lying. She wasn’t “interfering” with law enforcement and this wasn’t a “tragedy of her own making.” Every video shows it. Blaming a murdered woman to shield federal officers is grotesque and disturbingly un-American. We will not ignore what we can see with our own eyes.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Let's be even more clear about this:

-ICE's jurisdiction is ONLY on matters related to immigration.

-They do NOT have normal police powers or authorities.

-To stop a vehicle they MUST have reasonable cause to believe it contains an undocumented immigrant.

-To draw their weapon on someone they MUST have reasonable cause that their lives are in *DIRECT* danger.

-They CANNOT detain you with out reasonable cause to believe you are undocumented.

-They CANNOT detain a US citizen for passing-by the area.

Ice had NO jurisdiction to stop or interact with this woman at all, never mind pull out a gun.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

What? It's a lady sitting stationary in a Honda Pilot in a neighborhood. She's waving agents past when they storm up on her car. He shoots her in the head at point blank range.
Its not like the cop was eating ice cream and some car swerves at him where he can't see the driver.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus.

It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her.

ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her.

Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable.

I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

The same people stockpiling guns to defend against a tyrannical government now insist that if a federal agent gives you an order, you either comply or die.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Her body is not yet cold, and the vice president is trashing her as a ‘deranged leftist’.

A reminder that for all the faux outrage that the GOP expressed over reactions to Kirk’s death, no top Democrat said anything as vile as this about him less than 24 hours after he died.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

And to your dumb fucking question about the officer:

Is it your contention that the bullets fired by the officer were able to steer the car away from him? Because otherwise, all he had to do to "defend his life" was step out of the way, which he did. The bullets accomplished nothing but ending a person's life.