Dems Incite Violence Against ICE
The heated rhetoric against ICE agents finally led to the death of a protester who used her car to obstruct operations and attack an officer.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday when she accelerated her car and struck an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer. She had already obstructed ICE agents’ work and traffic on a public street and then refused to comply with another officer’s orders to get out of the vehicle.
“ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” said the Department of Homeland Security in a post on X. “An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired [three] defensive shots.”
It’s a tragedy that Good is dead, but if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
The video is here if you have the stomach for it.
Two quick observations about the video. First, the firing officer was impacted by the car and certainly seems to have had a reasonable fear for his life in a split-second decision. He couldn’t wait to see if she veered away, and she might have done so only after seeing the gun and/or being hit by a round or rounds. In fact, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that the same officer had been struck and dragged by a protester’s vehicle in June, and that Good had been “stalking and impeding” agents all day. Second, the video doesn’t provide the opening context for the confrontation; it only picks up as the officers stop and exit their vehicle to address the woman’s obstruction. Law enforcement indicated that “agitators” had attempted to ram ICE vehicles earlier that day. It’s happened plenty of other times, too, which is part of a pattern of inflammatory rhetoric and violence aimed at ICE.
All in all, it was an outrageous incident that ought to infuriate every American. Citizens should not be obstructing law enforcement officers conducting lawful operations to detain and deport people who committed the crime of entering the United States illegally.
Democrats are instead outraged at ICE.
Knowing that the internet’s armchair quarterbacks — many of whom incited the Summer of Rage after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin subdued George Floyd until he died of heart failure and drugs — would join them in their fury, Democrats like Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey directed their ire toward law enforcement and the Trump administration.
Frey was vulgar. “I have a message for ICE,” he said at a press conference. “Get the f**k out of Minneapolis.” He called DHS’s claim of self-defense “bulls**t” and declared that ICE is in Minnesota to “literally kill people.”
After praising all those immigrants who’ve “contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy” (by stealing billions in social welfare money), Frey declared that Minneapolis residents “are going to meet that hate with love.” Heh.
As an aside, one of those fine Somali immigrants, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, called the incident “state violence.”
Walz, who just announced that he is dropping his bid for a third term because he got caught allowing immigrant corruption to run rampant in his state, marveled, “We’ve never been at war with our federal government.” (As if they are now.) Even before the shooting, Walz raged about ICE’s “war that’s being waged against Minnesota,” and afterwards, he talked about deploying the Minnesota National Guard against “rogue federal agents.”
Remember when Democrats went into hysterics because Donald Trump used the word “bloodbath” to describe bad economic policies and they pretended he was calling for literal violence? Remember when they feverishly insisted that he “incited an insurrection” that was the “biggest threat to our democracy since the Civil War” because he used the word “fight”?
As The Babylon Bee headlined, “Democrats Once Again Threaten Civil War To Stop Republicans From Taking Away Their Slave Laborers.” I thought the Bee was supposed to be satire.
To be fair, Walz urged January 7 protesters to behave “peacefully, as you always do.” (Please. I’m old enough to remember 2020.) But Trump also urged his January 6 supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Democrats didn’t care.
American citizens have the right to voice their opinions, even when using vulgarity or displaying obnoxious signs on the street. They do not have the right to obstruct or attack law enforcement. Unfortunately, though my conclusion is that the ICE agents were correct and the driver was indeed a threat, many Americans will instead decide that ICE now has far worse than an optics problem.
