On Friday morning, cellphone footage originating from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross showing the murder of Minneapolis mother and wife Renee Nicole Good was leaked to right-wing media. The new footage conclusively demonstrates that Ross deliberately positioned himself in front of Good’s vehicle to justify murdering her.
I’m starting to think their weird mishandling of evidence and making these blatant lies about what happened are purposely being made to create rage and incite riots. Why else would they release his video? It’s obvious from the first few videos that he was a murderer, other than to piss off the people, why would you lie AND release more evidence against him?
Agreed 100%, same with the invasion of Venezuela, releasing ~1% of the Epstein files, and beefing up threats to invade Greenland amongst myriad known and unknown horrors and violations.
They want us mad enough to give them reason to cancel the midterms via a declaration of martial law that will last until those of us that oppose them either step in line or die by their hands. Obviously this will run far past when those of us left standing recall, ‘Today would have been Election Day.’ … ‘Wasn’t he only supposed to be president for four years?’ And that’s to assume we have the luxury to track what day and year it is since we’ll be too busy fighting and dying for it to matter much.
I would really like to believe that I’m going overboard in my conceptualization of our future, but I can’t afford to anymore.
I think they think it doesn’t matter. In a few days we’ll be onto the next tragedy, and they’ll be able to just point at nothing in particular and say there’s proof she was a terrorist.
So one thing that I learned from Timothy Snyder is that one of the critical things that leads to political violence is humiliation. This is something that the trump regime is really doubling down on, especially lately, through multiple different channels. They’ve already made clear, explicitly, that they want to cancel the midterm elections. Inciting violence is the means to that end. They’re celebrating her death and flaunting power, ratcheting up violence and amplifying instances of violent outcomes in media. They’ve even fixed their own agent in hopes that someone will try something stupid.
In this sense, Good’s shooting or something like that was inevitable, they’re seizing this opportunity for all it’s worth. They were expecting this and were ready to act. They engineered the situation.
They’ve been pissed about vehicle blocking at ICE raids, the Puppy Killer talked about it on detail in her rationalization speech.
If we could properly investigate this, we would find out that the agents were told to watch for vehicle blocking, and make an example, and send a message. That’s why they obviously deliberately escalated the situation, and unhesitatingly shot her. They were under orders.
So who sent those orders? Puppy Killer? PeeWee Himmler? Trump himself?
Thanks for the additional context, and yeah, it seems clear that the murder was actively working to orchestrate such a situation.
From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can’t see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It’s damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it’s a lot less clear.
And they also see it as proof that these were “agitators” obstructing “law enforcement” based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.
Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn’t matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it’s still murder. But these aren’t moral, rational people and they aren’t trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.
They want to chip away at the support bit by bit, targeting different messages to try to overcome the natural sympathy people that center right people might have for a pretty white mother with toys stuffed in her glovebox. So they show her wife a lowly lesbian “feeemale” being uppity to a white male authority figure, “justifying” his response.
I’ve also seen attacks on her fitness as a mother (“her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children” as if simply being at a protest is not a place for anyone with a family) and deliberately using less attractive photos or photos that emphasize her queerness to cut away at those biases.
They can expand this even further to try to discourage people from being active. Anything to keep protests down. She was doing what she thought was best for the future, for her daughter (and other children), and she was being what American should mean.
Don’t let any of the personal attacks or questions on motives detract from the blatant murder.
Yeah jeez, she’s protesting to keep her children safe AND everyone else’s (even the right). Seems like a damn good mother to me