Renee Good was shot by an ICE agent. The woman, a married mother of three including a 6 year old child, was clearly not posing any physical danger to the agents, but she was also doing her best to hinder and annoy them as best as she could. Crucially, she refused to stop her car when asked to do so. She also refused to allow the agents to board the vehicle. She was doing her best to protest and not to obey. At first she refused to leave when the officers told her to do so, but then drove away when they became aggresive. The orders appeared contradictory. One of the officers told her to stay and one to remain, while they forced her window open and were trying to board her car.
So what is the law? Does a private citizen have the obligation to obey orders coming from armed ICE agents? Do members of the general public have a sufficient understanding of ICE to be aware that they must obey orders? Or, are they free to act as they wish?
If, indeed, Renee Good broke the law by protesting and interfering with the work of the ICE agents, why is the US not taking any legal action against against the millions of people who, in response to Renee Good’s shooting are doing the same now? Why does the government not dare issue fines or whatever penalty they deem reasonable to these millions of people? Such penalties are vastly less than the death penalty delivered to Renee Good, and that is not justice.
Google’s AI, now the standard source of information, considered above the intellectual capacity of most people, says the following:
“U.S. citizens are generally not obliged to obey ICE orders because ICE's primary authority is over non-citizens, and citizens have full constitutional rights. “Thus, as a American citizen, Renee Good did not break any law when she disobeyed the oder of the ICE officers and instead told him to take a walk. That officer had no authority over US citizens. He may take pictures, bring the matter to court, and the judge will probably not issue a fine or prison time for the actions of Mrs Good.
Knowing this, and, perhaps frustrated by his lack of power, the officer did what many frustrated med do — violence. To my mind, his actions are running on the same mind algorithms as a parent slapping an annoying child, or a man punching an annoying woman who taunts him the whole day about her rights and his inability to hit her. Of course, since most people who do this are not armed, most such events do not result permanent in harm. Some do, and, in those cases, the men are often prosecuted.
Women do this too, but, less often and due to their biology, women hitting men end up in court less frequently. Now, an agent or policeman is not allowed to act on feelings or personal impulses. Furthermore, an ICE agent, with no authority over US citizens cannot ask a citizen to do what he wants. He may summon the local police, who have such powers, but must not act violently and take matters in his own hands, with a gun.
Make no mistake. Renee Good was there to protest and hinder. She as doing her very best to prevent the ICE agents from doing their jobs. She used whistles to warn potential targets that the officers were trying to arrest with valid powers since they could arrest immigrants. But, when in the police, you can’t just shoot annoying people.
An argument was made that the officer’s past trauma from a different interaction with another person led him to fire his gun. An officer, however, should not fire his gun in a way that is influenced by his feelings, personal situations or past trauma.
The Trump administration took an unusual stance to protect their ICE agent. This, I don’t understand. Normally, the president should have used his right to stay silent on such matters, before an investigation is completed. Maybe state that the officer is innocent until proven guilty or something neutral and non-inflammatory. These are politically correct lies, which are widely used. Trump however, chose to tell the truth. That is, tell us what he believes. Or what he wants the investigation to conclude. That a woman who does not obey the orders of agents who may not be authorized to give such orders deserves to be shot dead on an American street.
In the same way a dictator who runs an oil rich country deserves to be taken from his bed and dragged in front of an American judge, so that the US can run his country and take back the American Oil that Venezuela appears to have stolen. Most notably, similar dictators, not plagued by oil wealth, are not affected. Because American interests come first. Justice is only served when it benefits the right kind of people, the system that supports them or something dark and fuzzy we do not understand.
So many things are happening, that no one thinks of Epstein anymore. The war in Ukraine also risks getting forgotten… Gaza has also not been mentioned for some time.
