Wife of Minnesota woman killed in ICE shooting: 'We had whistles. They had guns'
1d 18m ago by lemmy.world/u/IndustryStandard in news from apnews.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed in her car by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, says the couple had stopped to support their neighbors on the day of the shooting and described the mother of three as leaving a legacy of kindness.
“We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Good said in a written statement Friday that was provided to Minnesota Public Radio.
The statement was her first public comment about the death of Renee Good, 37, who was killed Wednesday after three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from the couple’s home. Video taken by bystanders show an officer approaching the SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.
Trump administration officials have painted Renee Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to run over an officer with her vehicle. State and local officials in Minneapolis, as well as protesters, have rejected that characterization.
Bring guns next time
That whole neighborhood should have brought out guns at that moment.
That would've ended with a lot more of the neighbors dead.
So are you showing up to protests like this armed? If so, does it work?
Of course it works. Armed protests have always been a pretty successful strategy in the US.
Show me.
Black panthers
Show me in the last decade.
How's the unarmed protests going for you, seems like the administration don't care about words in the least
This is a little old, 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
This COVID protest is more recent: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514
I think anyone to the left of Biden taking guns to protests is risking their life but armed right wing nutbags never seem to get beaten and killed at protests.
I appreciate the links, but the government is on both of these people's sides. They weren't going to get hurt by them.
The armed people defending Drag Queens comes to mind.
This is one that actually makes a good point. I wonder how this kept it peaceful (no sarcasm).
It’s honestly because right wing chuds are cowards.
Show me a time in the last decade citizens holding hands and singing songs stopped the government.
Show me any truly successful protest in the last decade. We're getting record attendance numbers but seeing no change because nobody cares to listen. We stopped succeeding when we stopped coming armed.
Its because protests aren't disruptive anymore anymore. We "follow" the protest rules the government laid out, because they know it doesn't work
Thats irrelevant, but as a counterpoint: why wouldn't protestors want to be armed? Its your right just like the freedom to protest, so why not exercise it?
I agree, it's better to just lie down and let them shoot you instead of defending yourself. /s
ICE is happy to kill for a paycheck, i suspect they aren't being paid enough to die for one.
Watch little piggy run.
The Black Panthers bore arms and escorted people. The establishment became much more respectful of the innocent, when they didn't have a monopoly on violence.
These are different times.
I want violence to be the last thing we try. But letting them think we won't use violence is not working
Do like the Bundys, or the Republic of Texas separatists.
Except the government was on their side.
The gov't sided with the seperatists? Sure.
Not necessarily, it would be more akin to a mutually assured destruction kind of thing
https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-richmond-virginia-charlottesville-us-news-2c997c92fa7acd394f7cbb89882d9b5b
You realize that those are the same side as ICE and the cops, of course they're going to be fine.
You guys sure shoot out a lot of pro-violence when you're either using a cheat code (you're on the same side) or you're staying at home being a keyboard warrior. It's like you're a politician that sends other people's kids off to war.
Yeaaaa no, the majority of those people are anti-atf types. That doesn't negate the point though, there was 0 law enforcement trying to do fuck all there.
Also please STFU. I protested with BLM marches with other left leaning people being armed. Every time we were there the cops stood way the fuck back.
Which state?
Yeah okay, that happened. Sure.
I mean, yes, I guess we're going that direction, but the fact we've gotten to this point is horrible.
I'm more for neutralizing the threat before defensive measures are needed. Like, where is the actual authority to stop these killers? ACAB and all that, but people are above the cops, and someone at some point needs to do the job they're paid to do in protecting the public. It may get to the public fending for itself, but it shouldn't.
The authority to stop this was an uncorrupted government that cared to stop it, which we haven't had in a while. Hell, we've gone so far past it that they're actively encouraging it now. While this symptom is relatively new, the disease has been progressing for decades. Once the government stopped keeping the police in line, and the people stopped caring to fix the government to get that back on track, it was inevitable that we'd need to revolt to bring things back. Now the question is whether or not that will be enough. I hope it is.
We found a cool laser mod for our Minecraft server, thermal expansion compatible.
What's that ole saying?
"Armed minorities are harder to oppress"
The trees can’t be harmed
If the Lorax is armed
I am terribly sorry for what happened to Renee Good. I have watched the videos over and over and I really don't understand how anyone could come to a conclusion different than "power tripping ICE agent murders woman in cold blood because he felt slighted by her declaring she was ignoring his order."
That said, the narrative of fear the administration is pushing requires someone armed and dangerous. Renee Good died unarmed, but she is dismantling a whole story line in her innocence. They tried to portray her as a monster, because the reality is they are.
I remember seeing a report that accused her of using her "enormous SUV" to attack people. She drove a Honda Pilot. It's really hard to find a car smaller than that in America, these days.
I remember seeing a report that accused her of using her "enormous SUV" to attack people
Ironically, said by the people who drive lifted trucks as their dailies
The fedposting in this platform is getting rather heated
The Pilot isn't an enormous SUV (that would be something like the Cadillac Escalade), but Honda alone makes the CRV and HRV which are smaller SUVs. Plus sedans like the Civic. It's not hard to find smaller cars, but when you have three school age kids the Pilot makes sense.
The Honda pilot is enormous
The Honda pilot is an SUV (in the marketing crossover sense and common terms)
however yes it is not an enormous SUV, it is just both of those things independently
I don't follow your logic for three school-age kids and the pilot making sense.
Three kids need seats plus cargo space for bags, sports equipment, their friends, etc. Like you could fit everyone into a CRV, but it starts to get real tight when you add bags and stuff. I'm pretty sure her Pilot was also fairly old, not the biggest newest one.
man people really do forget that minivans were made for this specific purpose and do it way better than a crossover
In what way?
just about every way
Well get guns, then. Whistles don't shoot.
Black ICE got a whole new meaning
As in completely enshrouded in black clothing
Turn up the heat. Melt the ice.