After The ICE Killing In Minneapolis, Will Truth Prevail?

Can Trump and Kristi Noem maintain their blatant lies in the face of multiple videos that show the victim was trying to drive away when she was shot three times by an ICE agent?

By Joan Walsh, The Nation

Sometimes reality is over-scripted. But the victim’s name turned out to be Good.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis Wednesday morning. She seemed to be trying to turn away from an ICE caravan, when an agent ran up to her window and shot her three times, apparently in the face. We only learned her name many hours later. It was the ninth ICE shooting since September. She was a US citizen (and white).

If the videos of Good’s murder–there are many angles–showed the gunshot wounds, they would be pulled off (most) social media. Networks would never air them. Because, somehow, no angle showed bloody carnage, we can watch multiple videos, which were to me almost equally devastating. She might have started out blocking an ICE show-of-force motorcade. That’s not even clear yet. After we hear the gunshots, the videos showed Good’s Honda veer sharply left, then crash into parked cars;  then we heard the car horn going off. I don’t know if that’s because she collapsed onto it, or if that’s what cars do when they crash. I’m blessed not to know.

This is the longest video I’ve seen of the killing and the aftermath. It’s very hard to watch.

There’s a video of a doctor who was her neighbor, trying to find out if she was ok. ICE didn’t allow it.