Renee Nicole Good, 37, was an organizer of anti-ICE convoys explicitly aimed at disrupting federal immigration enforcement. In Minneapolis on Tuesday, that effort escalated into violence when Good drove her vehicle directly into ICE agents. One responded by opening fire, killing her. The shooting was justified. Multiple camera angles show Good ramming at least one agent with her vehicle. Even setting aside motive, using a car against law enforcement is a clear act of assault—and a potentially lethal one.
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Amy Swearer, a Senior Legal Fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, examined the video footage and concluded that the use of deadly force was justified:
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She notes:
I’ve now watched the Minneapolis ICE shooting from three different angles, and there’s no real question — it was quite obviously a legally justified use of deadly force by a law enforcement officer. That officer faced an unknown subject who, while ignoring lawful commands, pointed a 3000+ lbs. car at him and evidenced an intent to continue driving that car. He shot the driver (1) after the driver made physical contact with his body and (2) through the front windshield.
You can slow down the video all you want and spend minutes analyzing micro-seconds to make after-the-fact assessments of the likelihood the driver actually intended to use the car as a lethal weapon. In reality, during those micro-seconds in real time, it’s reasonable to presume that a driver ignoring your commands to stop is about to floor the gas peddle, turn the wheel into you, and run you over. It’s no different than the reasonable presumption that the suspect who ignores your commands to keep their hands up and reaches for the gun in their waistband intends to use it against you rather than toss it away.
We’ll wait for the official findings to be released, but before anyone had a chance to analyze the video footage, the Left quickly jumped to conclusions about murder.
