I've skipped over a lot because I'm dealing with the weather her in SEAK so forgive me if this has already been posted but the news from MN yesterday and this AM has me riveted. Then I came across the following from Robert Broderick MacConnell , offered here with the caveat, as always,
If true
I don’t think suspect in yesterday’s confrontation with federal agents, woke up that day planning to get killed. I really don’t. What I do think is that she probably thought she was provoking them in a way that would end with her getting yanked out of the car, maybe shoved to the ground, detained, something ugly but non-lethal. The kind of thing that turns into a viral video where they get to play the victims and paint ICE as monsters. That’s a scenario people assume is safe, especially if they’ve been around activism long enough to believe the script always ends the same way. If her girlfriend was already outside the vehicle filming, that tells me this wasn’t spontaneous panic. That looks like intent to capture a moment. Maybe they thought, “We’ll push, they’ll overreact, we’ll get content.” I’m sure she didn’t think she’d get shot. I’m sure she thought she was in control of the situation.
But then reality intervenes. Maybe she didn’t see the officer in front of the car. Maybe she had tunnel vision and was focused on the agent next to her. But she did accelerate forward, and once a vehicle is moving toward an officer, the situation changes instantly. At that point, whether she meant to or not, she put herself into a lethal scenario, and she lost her life.
That’s tragic. It’s also not the same thing as “this just happened for no reason.”
And if it turns out there’s evidence that this was coordinated... that the girlfriend was setting this up, encouraging it, orchestrating it to get a viral confrontation... then yeah, I think she should face charges too. Not just because someone died, but because if you help engineer a dangerous situation and someone ends up dead, you don’t get to wash your hands of it afterward.
Sympathy doesn’t mean pretending people had no agency. And accountability doesn’t mean saying someone deserved to die. Both things can be true at the same time.
Re Agency and accountability :
Truly wise post!
Maybe, she should have looked harder, any cop shoots someone running a car at them. Fortunately a good shot and a wasted trip by the dope from Colorado.
Indeed.
+++++++++!!!!!!!!!!!!
They were both wrong, but she died.
She shouldn't have been there in the first place. But, neither should have he. I can't imagine a scenario where an officer would be trained to stand in front of a moving vehicle, then shoot the person driving it towards him.
They both put them in positions to do nothing else but fail. We used to call that a "circular firing squad".
Renee Nicole Good was reportedly a Minneapolis “ICE Watch” “warrior” who “trained” to resist feds, according to the New York Post.
The Post reports that Good worked to “document and resist” ICE in Minnesota.
Good is said to have moved to Minneapolis last year and quickly connected with anti-ICE activists through her son’s charter school.
The charter school says it puts “social justice first” and “involving kids in political and social activism,” according to the Post.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a parent whose child goes to the school told the outlet.
“[Good] was trained against these ICE agents, what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training... To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent,” the parent ‘Leesa’ said.
The Goods reportedly moved to Canada from Kansas City after Trump won the 2024 election and planned on living there permanently before relocating to Minneapolis.
Source: New York Post.