A familiar tragedy

The front page story of the brutal killing of an unarmed Minnesota mother of three (Renee Good) by an ICE agent shooting her with three shots to the head and then walking away as his fellow agents denied her medical treatment for 15 minutes while she bled out. The president, vice president and director of Homeland Security replied almost within the hour using terms like “terrorist,” “using her vehicle as a lethal weapon,” “trying to kill an ICE officer,” etc.

The story was almost verbatim of the December story out of Chicago where an ICE agent shot a lady four times, confiscated her vehicle and formal charges were filed, only to be withdrawn in the following weeks as the facts of the case showed the ICE charges to be outright lies.

The only differences in the two tragedies was that in Minneapolis, the case was captured on multiple videos and Good was killed.

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Jack Halpin

Arlington Heights