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i don’t think the intention of noting the victim’s citizenship is to imply that one life is more valuable, but rather to shake anyone out of complacency and apathy if they assumed their passport would shield them from the violence and brutality of their own government

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I agree with you. People think ICE is only after immigrants. No. They started with immigrants. Now everyone is a target. They are Trump’s personal paramilitary. What they lack in training, they make up for an idiotic worship of Trump.

Agreed. In this case of Renee Nicole Good she is white. That is important only because she is the demographic that this administration's narrative is supposedly saving from immigration. Its unmistakable evidence that this isn't about anything other than power through brutality with impunity.

There was always going to be a “straw that broke the camel” situation that would be the spark that lights this powder keg. It sucks that it wasn’t the first victim of the Gestapo, but apparently the murder of a white woman fleeing from angry armed men is more inflammatory.

It's also evidence that the strategy is not just ethnic cleansing, but to make us fearful to exercise our right to bear witness and to protest and to provoke a reaction which they will use to justify imposing martial law. That, they will argue, entails, among other things, cancelling elections.

Also it is to wake people up to the fact that immigration enforcement was the fig leaf on the real goal of terrorizing everyone, and creating a Gestapo network across the US to persecute dissenters to the regime and terrorize communities.

Exactly this. But honestly, had we taken to the streets by the mega-millions when Breonna Taylor was murdered in cold blood in her VERY OWN HOME WHERE SHE WAS MINDING HER VERY OWN BUSINESS, and again when Trump began to profess vicious lies about immigrants, we would not be here right now.

Agree. My brother is comfortably White, lives in a diverse & tolerant community near Chicago. He has the orange whistle, used it at least (maybe only) once. But. He's a Libertarian (=selfish), & while he does not like oppression, I doubt he's putting it all on the line for others. 1/2

1. They'll just claim it's fake. 2. How can people prove their citizenship? A birth certificate is meaningless - no connection to you, physically. And who carries that? I.e., they can do whatever they want to anyone they want.

True. Minneapolis incident is one of those “lessons” meant to strike fear. No reason a single woman, white, middle age American citizen should have ever been targeted if the goal is to round up immigrant criminals.

Well said as some folks miss the overall point being made as Trump and his murderers are clear about that if you're not exactly like them or fully support them destroying our Democracy, you dont matter and subject to be destroyed by them.

I don't see much logic at the street level in these ICE agent's actions, their behavior is on a more primal level. Certainly there is planning from above, a systematic intention to terrorize and inflict as much harm as possible, typical malignant narcissist behavior.

We really should have known. The Govt has never paid $150K+ $50K signing bonus to kill black, brown folks, or immigrants. They've always paid far less than that to cops, soldiers, border patrol, so they won't start now. No, that big $$ is for them to start including the white citizens, too.

Work with the fulcrums the timeline provides. But its definitely society-scale cringe that it took it happening to a 'White, US Citizen, Mom' for folks to get fired up, while theyve been doing the same shit to brown people for a year, and black folks for decades.

White US born US citizens have more power to defeat Trump Regime. My Jewish US born American cousins said they need to fight against Zionists & Pro-Israel lunatics because Trump Regime cannot do anything to them. They should become the walls to protect other free-Palestine protesters.

This 2016 era outrage that “yall didn’t care till it happened to a white lady!” is pointless and counterproductive. Is it fucked up some people didn’t care until a white woman was killed? Yes. Is it helpful to attack people who started standing up only after it happened to a white lady? No

Agreed. Being undocumented is not a capital offense. Sadly, immigrants (my Mom was an immigrant and green card holder her entire adult life) have fewer protections than US citizens. We have more rights when interacting with police. They are expanding their criminality. This is another line crossed.

Under the ordinary circumstances, US permanent residents have the same rights as US citizens except voting rights by the US laws. That’s why many people decide not to become US citizen. What I couldn’t imagine was Little Marco thinks he can cancel it using bogus excuses. 😳

My Mom was one of those who did not want to become a US citizen even though she lived much longer in the US than her native country. When she was alive, having a green card and being married to a US citizen meant she never gave her immigration status a thought.

US citizens have more power, & they must use it now, while they still have it. Trump is talking about denaturalizing citizens based on his own prerogative. (No legal basis) Also, he wants to change the US Constitution by stripping out birthright citizenship, which can go back generations.

I would bet anything that ICE agents have been told to take the gloves off when dealing protesters. I have seen dozens of examples of them assaulting peaceful protesters unprovoked. Local law enforcement needs to protect the citizens from these lawless thugs.

Local enforcement are helping ICE in some instances, even protecting them from protesters. Also, there are plenty of videos over the years of local law enforcement brutalizing people, so why would we think they're going to protect us against ICE?

Shit like Renee Good’s murder is going to force LEOs to take sides. This is an inflection point. It’s hard to pick the side of ICE right now. This is why it’s time to make a big push right now. These protests aren’t just for show We are networking, organizing and turning outrage into action

Ppl capturing interactions on video is the only thing allowing the truth to be known The admin has been caught lying by courts many times. Observer video has caught them disobeying court orders There are a bunch of things working thru the courts Sadly the courts process is slow and easy to delay