"Have Ya'll Not Learned?" ICE Agents Are Using Renee Good To Coerce Compliance
Videos showing agents using Good's killing are flooding the internet as agents are told they have immunity
The first video showed an unmasked officer approach a woman observing ICE agents in the Minnesota suburb of St. Louis Park. The agent walks up to the woman as she says, “Shame on you.”
“Listen,” he says. “Have y’all not learned from the past couple of days? Have y’all not learned?” The agent seems to imply that an ICE agent killing Renee Good and the rampant escalation of aggression from ICE agents was a lesson to be learned.
A second video shows a man blowing a whistle at a group of ICE agents on a snowy street in a Minnesota neighborhood, alerting neighbors to their presence.
"You guys think this is a game? That’s why that lady got hurt the other day,” a masked agent can be heard saying, all but admitting that Good wasn’t killed for allegedly trying to hit an ICE agent, but for irritating him.
The third was a quote to Minnesota Public Radio from a woman who was stopped by ICE.
“The ICE agent who had pepper-sprayed into the vents of my car said, ‘You guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.’”
It is not illegal to follow ICE or be agents at a safe distance, including inside a vehicle during operations.
Incidents just like these have begun to circulate on social media, showing ICE agents using Good’s death not as a cautionary tale of what happens when a veteran federal agent decides to break protocol, put himself in harm’s way by standing in front of a vehicle, then ignoring protocol, DHS guidance, and Supreme Court rulings by firing into a fleeing vehicle.
Instead, it’s being used as a tool to force compliance from bystanders and detainees as ICE continues its crackdown in Minneapolis.
