The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.

In social media accounts, Macklin Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis,” displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.

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    If that group of armed men approaching her car had been black, we’d be having an entirely different conversation.

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    A life snapped in a moment by someone that had no right. She was executed while trying to run away from a terrifying situation, and now her kids also have to endure the way they’re talking of their mother and try to process that.

    Don’t let it be in vain.

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      The other day I was in the car and I remembered that gruesome video where a brick flies out of the back of a truck and instantly kills a mother in the following car’s passenger seat…

      My palms got kinda sweaty, and I started thinking about how I would react if that happened to my loved ones.

      Then I remembered that I have much more immediate concerns to be worrying about, like getting stopped by ICE for being non-white (despite my citizenship) and getting shot in the face by someone with zero training.

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    What’s wild is rightoids, by and large, love this shit. They’re literally celebrating it and unironically being like “THATS FOR KIRK!” So much of their political philosophy is “look what you made me do to you!”

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      And then get all butt hurt when one of their own faces any slight criticism. Not the sane or smart we are dealing with here, act accordingly.

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    It seems like your choices when confronted by ICE are:

    1. Try to run away. You may get get murdered during your attempt.
    2. Identify yourself, possibly be incorrectly identified as “not a citizen,” possibly die in a concentration camp.
    3. Exercise the second amendment. Get shot and die.
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    We are absolutely living under a dictatorship that is run by a demented pedofile who is owned by Israel and in Putins pocket. This Turd Reich Gestapo will only get worse and more violent

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    Ugh. Watch the video and make up your own mind. The ice agent took a shot to maim and kill the driver, not to incapicate the vehicle. Noem called her a terrorist and accused her of ‘weaponizing her vehicle’. Fuck every one of them, and everyone that allowed the orange rapist into office.

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      Even the MAGA asshole I asked about this said “I don’t know why they didn’t just shoot the tires out”.

      For the record, that’s fucking insane as well. Why destroy someone’s property? But no… The situation is that they fucking killed a woman by shooting her in the fucking face after stepping in front of her fucking car, and after threatening her, and surrounding her, and after telling her to leave. So she left… And died. And that was the solution that wanted. Her, the MAGA people, and everyone that supports ICE. I’m not misleading you… This is how they feel.

      That same person I asked said they thought she deserved it. They said they saw a video (not the videos), and they thought she tried to kill the ice agent. That’s how they all feel. All of them. The people that made flags all over America go half mask for a month over a Nazi think this woman deserved it.

      AND WE are this woman… She’s us.

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      Shooting the driver of a vehicle doesn’t stop the vehicle. There is literally never a reason to kill a driver, especially in a populated area where the vehicle becomes a deadly projectile.

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      Puppy Killer took the time to point out instances of people blocking ICE cars, and it was clearly pissing her off. They want to end that practice, because it works, and gives targets a chance to escape.

      So I wouldn’t be surprised that they were ordered that if anyone blocks an ICE vehicle, to leap in front of it, and kill the driver, and send a message. So that guy got out of his car, drawing his weapon, and as she looked at him, he put two bullets in her face.

      Minnesota should arrest the ICE Jackal for First Degree murder, all the rest as accessories, and everyone in the chain of command who created the order, and passed it down, for murder as well.

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          The Republicans were just the larval stage that finally transformed into their final form: MAGA. They are all the same, no matter how much they deny it. That includes conservatives. They’re all MAGA.

          “I voted for Mr. Hitler because he was good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff, you can’t blame that on me.” - German citizen, 1946

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        At the 21st Century version of the Nuremburg Trials, we will have to justify depriving them of their First Amendment Rights in order to prohibit them from existing. Just about the ONLY justification that could fly would be if they could be proven to be serious National Security Threats to the Sovereignty of The United States.

        A political party that has literally committed treason and sedition on countless occasions and even committed a violent Insurrection on the Capitol of our nation to grab dictatorial power, can OBJECTIVELY be labeled as a SERIOUS National Security Threat, and that is without the discussion about the massive graft that has exploded in the MAGAsphere.

        As a Serious National Security Threat, and their long record of exploiting our government and our citizens, they can be prohibited access to our nation in any way.

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        He was more worried about filming her then moving out of the way. What a fucking joke.

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          If he had enough time to unholster his gun, he was absolutely planning on murder.

          “Self defense” my ass

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      Trump won (twice) because Bernie was going to raise taxes.

      The shitbird neoliberals and conservatives that got us into this mess only care about money.

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    When is the 2A crowd gonna live out their fantasy of saving the US from a corrupt government?

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      They think that’s what they’re doing. They are feral ignorant morons, driven by their most base instincts, and they’ve never even heard of the concept of Critical Thinking Skills. That makes them remarkably susceptible to the most stupid sort of flat-earth level propaganda.

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        I do. I’ve joined a collective of armed leftists. I was legit surprised that they existed.

        If you own a gun, and you conceal carry, consider finding your local group and get involved.

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          And stay quiet. They all think that only they have the guns, and they think we’re all going to just get on our knees, and politely take the bullet in the brain. And frankly, a lot will.

          But a lot of us are also going to fight back, and that will be a big surprise to them. An even bigger surprise is that when it kicks off, they will discover that the lefty shooters are MUCH better shots than MAGAs, who only own guns to convince others that they don’t have a micropenis.

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          You guys need more of you. I know many of the left are armed down there and not showing off their “stashes” but the great majority I have seen do not seem left leaning (red hats, snake flags, etc, seem to often be present in the pictures). Hoping you guys get this under control

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            I’ve said this in other comments but bares repeating: we have a lot of people willing to fight for democracy, but very few people willing to die for it.

            I won’t share anything specific on what the group does (or doesn’t do) but the biggest thing that anyone within the US can do right now is to get politically involved, especially if you are white and cis.

            • Find immigration attorneys and volunteer your time and talents with them
            • Find LGBT+ groups and be their ally
            • Volunteer at local homeless shelters, legal aid centers, etc.

            You can do all of those things anonymously if you fear for your own safety. But get involved. I’ve done all of those things I listed above and I can tell you that the needs are huge. The more you make yourself known, the more people will trust you and you will be come part of the resistance.

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      Feels like the loudest “2nd amendment people” were only interested in protecting corrupt governments.

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    They’re going to claim that people are trying to kill them anyway. Might as well stop them from lying and create some real consequences for these Nazis. I’ve seen so many videos of them surrounded by crowds, it wouldn’t take much.

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    mother (leader) of 3 (gang of domestic terrorists), poet (writer of terroristic propaganda) and new to the city (targeted the ICE deployment)

    -Ice Barbie