Tragedy in Minnesota: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Minnesota shot and killed a 37-year-old woman, Renee Nicole Goode, in her car yesterday. Footage of the incident is rather unclear. President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and top officials at ICE say the officer had been acting in self-defense as Goode attempted to use her car as a lethal weapon, trying to run over law enforcement; Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called this "bullshit."
"We've dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis," added Frey. It's true: Whenever a bunch of armed agents of the state enter your city, it's not crazy to expect that at some point they abuse their power, that a vague situation ends in bloodshed, that they misread a threat, or that a threat is legitimately directed toward them and they react, resulting in a death. It's very hard to tell what exactly happened here.
