An ICE Murder in Minneapolis and its Horrific Aftermath
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The fascist Trump Gestapo murder of the 37-year-old legal observer, poet, and mother Renee Nicole Good two days ago is horrific almost beyond words: three or four point-blank head shots from an ICE officer as Ms. Good was trying to move her vehicle away from the Homeland Security gendarmes who were conducting a giant racist immigration raid in Minneapolis.
(Here is a useful breakdown of the video of the police state murder by Brenna Perez)
It was a cold-blooded murder, as anyone can see with their own eyes.
Also horrific was the aftermath of the atrocity. The Atlantic reported this: “A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot.”
ICE Gestapo agents were filmed brutally and chemically attacking outraged witnesses to the murder.
An ICE agent kicked away candles placed on a vigil memorial to Ms. Good, telling an activist that he didn’t “give a fuck” about the incident.
And then there was the fascistic murder of truth regarding the murder on the part of the Trump fascist regime. Within minutes of the ICE homicide, Trump praised the shooter as a “hero,” absurdly claiming that the victim was a “radical Leftist” trying to kill one of his officers. Trump would later preposterously claim that he saw Ms. Good “run over the ICE agent,” putting the agent in a hospital!
There’s the standard authoritarian lies and then there’s the batshit crazy fascist lies, like that one and like Trump’s deranged Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s claim that ICE officers were trying to “push their vehicle out of the snow” (the streets were clear) when they were attacked by “terrorists” and compelled to defend themselves with lethal force.
Nobody should be surprised by the murder and its aftermath including the deranged lies.
Listen to the world view recently articulated by the supreme Republi-Nazi Stephen “We are the Storm” Miller, Trump’s top political operative and the leading advocate and architect of the regime’s Amerikaner-fascist ethnic cleansing program. Explaining to CNN why the Trump regime will in his view rightly seize the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland, Miller said this: “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else But we live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.”
That is the language of Joseph Goebbels and Adolph Hitler, trumping the rule of law with the rule of violent men – pure force and lethality over decency and legality. That was the mindset of the masked thug who murdered Ms. Good yesterday and of the ICE gendarmes who sprayed poison gas at the murder’s outraged witnesses.
ICE is the Gestapo of the Trump fascist regime. It is a vast racist terror machine ready, willing, and able to kill not just brown-skinned folks but white people who get in the way of its white supremacist and xenophobic nationalist rendition, detention, and deportation program.
More than thirty people have died in ICE’s concentration camps so far. It was just a matter of time until Trump’s Gestapo murdered a US citizen resisting the regime’s fascist fugitive slave-catching operation.
Lies? Of course. Like other fascist regimes, the Trump order is built on and all about rampant and mind-boggling untruthfulness, the constant insidious inversion of reality. A chilling example is the terrifying White House webpage the regime put up one day before the murder in Minneapolis to honor the fascist thugs of January 6, who tried to cancel an election outcome at the behest of their Dear Leader Mein Trumpf. It is a monument to the brazen and blatant reversal of objective historical reality. Making Orwell blush with upside-down falsification of the past, it:
+ Says that the overwhelmingly accurate claim that January 6 was an attempted right-wing insurrection is a radical left “lie” and the that pro-Trump folks in and around the US Capitol that day were “peaceful protesters.”
+ Claims “the Democrats staged the real insurrection.”
+ Accuses Capitol Police of violently attacking “crowds of peaceful protesters, injuring many and deliberately escalating tensions.”
+ Claims that Capitol Police “inexplicably remov[ed] barricades, opening Capitol doors, and even waving attendees inside the building—actions that facilitated entry—while simultaneously deploying violent force against others.”
+ Insanely depicts Trump as an agent of calm who “repeatedly call[ed] for peace” on J6.
+ Blames then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the assault on the Capitol.
+ Depicts the violent fascist putschist Ashli Babbitt as an innocent victim of “cold-blooded murder.”
+ Claims that three other J6 protesters were killed by Capitol Police and denies that any Capitol Police officers died.
+ Says that Mike Pence failed to honor his constitutional duty to block the Congressional Electoral College count.
+ Repeats multiply, legally, and exhaustively disproven Trump claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
+ Portrays January 6 as an “FBI entrapment operation.”
+ Calls the brilliant US House January 6 Committee report on January 6 nothing more than an exercise in the partisan “demonization” of Trump.
+ Claims that Trump won a “landslide” victory in 2024.
+ Attributes the pretend “landslide” to “Patriotic Americans” and “God’s unmistakable grace.”
All of this is completely and insanely false. War is Peace, Black is White, Love is Hate and 2+2=5 because Big Brother says so!
Please see and spread the two following videos I put up yesterday on why this fascist murder in Minneapolis needs to become the spark for a mass sustained popular movement calling for the removal of the Trump fascist regime:
The Trump Gestapo Outrage in Minneapolis Needs to Spark a Mass Sustained Uprising from Coast to Coast https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/the-trump-gestapo-outrage-in-minneapolis
How ’bout We Get Serious about What We’re Up Against? https://paulstreet.substack.com/p/how-bout-we-get-serious-about-what
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