I watched the video of a mother being gunned down in her car by federal agents on a residential Minneapolis street and was told by my government to believe she was a domestic terrorist.
Her name was Renee Nicole Good, and she was not, in any way, a domestic terrorist. According to The Associated Press, Good had three children, was a devout Christian and her ex-husband “had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.”
She was a 37-year-old mom born in Colorado – a poet, a daughter, a citizen keeping watch over our government’s actions – with a glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals. She was, as her mother told The Minnesota Star Tribune, “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
I watched a video of the Jan. 7 incident unfold, saw Good’s obvious attempt to leave a chaotic scene involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, heard the sound of an agent’s gun firing and saw no reason for it. None.
I read an evaluation of the video by an expert on police use of force quoted in The New York Times. Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina said: “The way you evaluate this is you look to see what’s the imminent threat to life, and there is none. She’s leaving.”
