Title says it… What is the name of the ICE agent who shot Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis? And why is this not being reported? And why did the local police not arrest him?
I believe it’s not publicly known, ICE tend to spirit away agents who do bad things to make it difficult to prosecute them, and they wear masks and no visible identification. He’s probably out of the state by now.
As uncomfortable as it might be, this person who shot her will likely not be arrested or convicted. I’ve seen several such situations where a person is driving a car towards an officer and they are shot and killed. Every single time this has happened the officer’s right to kill the driver has been upheld.
Yes, I’ve seen the video and it looks similar enough to the other cases I’m aware of where the officer is not arrested.
In this case she was driving away though.
There was a case in Mesa (AZ) waaaay back in the dawn of time, pre-internet (circa 1988) where two teenagers in a Suburban “drove”* into MPD and the cops pumped something like 40 bullets into the vehicle. Not one officer was even reprimanded. ** Nothing ever changes.
*no they didn’t
** as far as I can remember. Details are lost in time, like tears in the rain
Nope. Same same. The others were nearly all ‘driving away’ like she was
As I noted in another thread, it seems clear her intent was to drive away (as opposed to driving over him), but it does appear he was initially standing in front of the car when it started moving. He didn’t appear fearful for his life and easily stepped sideways to avoid the car while shooting into the cab, but the argument will be made that the agent was just defending himself.
I just rewatched the video. The woman had turned sharp right and was driving away when the shooting occurred. The only time an ICE agent was in front of the car was when she moved forward a couple of inches before stopping. Nobody was in danger, and she was shot and killed as she drove away.
The argument is being made that she’s a domestic terrorist as well. People can argue anything they want. Those arguments fall apart when they’re contradicted by evidence.
I’m not sure why you’re putting facts in scare quotes here, in FQ of all places.
As in its being deliberately kept from the American people who totally have a right to know, and there is no expectation of privacy in any form. Of course if we had a working media that wasn’t completely dependent on being gullibly fed the official line from police news conferences without question, they would have found out.
There are rumors online but all of them sound pretty unreliable…
I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some attempt to convict him at the state level. It may not be successful but given how high profile this is, and the positions the state politicians have taken on it, I’d be a little surprised (though not completely shocked) if no attempt was made. Needless to say zero chance of the feds doing anything besides declaring the victim a terrorist and arresting the people who took the video.
There is precedent….
But the state has already dropped its investigation because the FBI isn’t cooperating.
Taking the announcement literally, they have only withdrawn their participation in the joint state/federal investigation. They could pursue a fully-independent state investigation. But the statement also says that they expect the FBI to conduct a “thorough and complete investigation,” (hah!) which doesn’t suggest they intend to complete their own investigation. Outrage to whimper in about one day.
The fact it ends with
and adds that the team is ready to resume a joint investigation if the FBI decides to “reconsider its approach.”
Doesn’t obviously support that conclusion. You could also read that choice of words as the state saying they will be forced to do their own investigation if the feds don’t “reconsider” (they have stopped cooperating with the feds not dropped the investigation). OTOH it could totally be them just saying “we gave it the ol college try and the feds said no, so nvm”
This may be a tangent too far for this thread, and if so, forgive me.
I think having given the old college try but quit is exactly where we are. They can’t conduct a particularly good investigation without the cooperation of the feds. No access to their body cam or dash cam footage (if any). No interviews with agents. No records of the information that prompted the raid. No records of how Renee Good may have interfered with ICE operations at other times. Not even lists of the agents who were there that day. In theory, the state could gather evidence from the public but there is an ongoing federal investigation into the same conduct. I wouldn’t put it past this administration to claim that by gathering evidence relevant to a federal investigation, they were interfering with that federal investigation. While the federal agents have protection under supremacy clause principles from claims they are interfering with the state’s investigation, state officers have no such protection from similar federal claims. I hope I am wrong, but I don’t see the state pursuing a diligent independent investigation.
I posted this in the P&E thread.
The most current news I could find ( Minneapolis ICE shooting: Everything we know so far) says “Officials said an ICE officer who was “fearing for his life” fired “defensive shots” to save himself and his officers, killing the woman.” and that the officer involved in the shooting has not been identified. Please note that the interior quotation marks are for actual quotations made and not scare quote marks.
NYTimes article: Minn. Officials Say They’re Being Blocked From Investigating Fatal ICE Shooting (gift link)
A top state law enforcement official said Thursday that federal agencies were denying Minnesota investigators access to evidence from a fatal shooting by an immigration enforcement officer the day before, preventing them from participating in the inquiry into an incident that officials have described in starkly different terms.
Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said on Thursday that his agency had withdrawn from the investigation of the death of Renee Nicole Good, 37, as a result.
“Without complete access to the evidence, witnesses and information collected, we cannot meet the investigative standards that Minnesota law and the public demands,” Mr. Evans said in a statement.
Personally, I feel there’s enough evidence to prosecute the guy. If the feds are not cooperating then charge them for covering it up!
The lawsuits after these idiots are out of office will probably bankrupt the country.
What guy?
Very funny! I’m sure his name is known, I just wish someone would publish it!