The feds can't be trusted after agents shoot
In the Marimar Martinez incident in Chicago and again today with the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, witnesses and video contradict DHS's story
Many sorts of police forces can have an incident in which a rogue or badly trained officer shoots someone wrongfully. But when higher-ups instantly put out untruths to portray the victim as the attacker, it's not just a so-called bad shoot, it's policy.
That’s what happened last fall when a Border Patrol agent in Chicago shot Marimar Martinez seven times. DHS immediately portrayed her as having tried to drive into agents, but its story soon collapsed and the government withdrew charges against her and a second defendant. She survived.
On word of today’s shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good, 37, on the streets of Minneapolis by a federal agent, DHS again put out a story that the driver had been trying to run down border officers and that when one of them shot her (three times, point blank, fatally) it was in self-defense.
That’s not what local witnesses at the scene said. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune quotes two of them:
“’She was trying to get away,’ said Emily Heller, a neighbor who stepped outside to observe the situation....
“’They’re whitewashing it; that’s absolutely not what happened,’ said local resident Aiden Perzana, a data engineer for the state of Minnesota. ‘Somebody was trying to pull her out of her car. She was just trying to get away. There’s no way she was aiming for anybody. It’s just absurd.’
“Three agents surrounded her vehicle at the time it began moving, Perzana said, but there was ‘plenty of room’ for her to get through.”
Watch the videos. Look at the still photos. Check out the witness accounts. And don’t take DHS’s word for anything.
Proper procedure would have ICE and DHS officials decline comment on what happened on the incident pending full investigation. Immediately releasing a story of what happened without investigation--and conflicting witness, video, and photographic evidence--is a cover-up orchestrated at the highest levels of the Trump administration. And that, in turn, means the administration is sanctioning government agents to murder Americans who criticize the regime. This is tyranny.
Look at the front windshield. If the shooting was in self-defense, the bullet would have gone through the front windshield. It went through the side window.