I’m not going to write about whether the shooting was justified, as we have seen the videos and this will be investigated. Renee Good was restricting ICE operations and therefore was ordered out of her car. She refused to get out, despite an ICE agent’s arm inside her vehicle and she gunned her vehicle forward towards another ICE agent. In what appears to be self-defense, the agent fires at Good.
This whole situation is tragic all the way around, but the hyperbolic reaction against ICE goes well beyond this shooting. Immediately after the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frey, who oversaw the ignition of the 2020 Antifa/BLM rioting, not only called the ICE agent a murderer, but told ICE to “get the f..ck out of Minneapolis”.
Governor Tim Walz, who is up to his neck with financial fraud investigations, used similar words and even claimed he didn’t have faith in the FBI investigation of the shooting. The key thing to understand is that Democrats see what’s happening with ICE as a threat to their power base and want it stopped. ICE must not stop enforcement in Minneapolis.
Around a decade ago, Joe Biden was following a common Democrat theme when he spoke about immigration: (it should be) “an unrelenting stream of immigration, nonstop, nonstop… Folks like me who are Caucasian, of European descent, for the first time in 2017 we’ll be an absolute minority in the United States of America, absolute minority… and that’s a good thing” (Fox News, Dec. 12, 2020)