By Michael Woyton
It seems the United States does indeed have a domestic terrorism problem.
However, the problem is that the domestic terrorists are being paid by the U.S. under the auspices of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.
The ICE military force has been given free rein once dropped into American cities to create discomfort and panic by indiscriminately detaining people, going door to door without warrants and, yes, raising the stakes by shooting residents, including 37-year-old Renee Good of Minneapolis.
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What is the determining factor for an individual ICE agent to take someone’s life?
The person must be considered a “threat” to the agent.
And that “threat” could be as simple as a determination of “disrespect” toward the agent.
The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who sits in the Oval Office said that Sunday to reporters on Air Force One.
“When asked whether the use of deadly force was necessary, Trump replied: ‘It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement, the woman and her friend were highly disrespectful. You saw that’,” The New Republic reported.
“So, in Trump’s America, being disrespectful toward law enforcement is enough to get you killed,” TNR’s Edith Olmsted wrote.
It seems that ICE, having felt the blood lust that Good’s murder brought about, has upped the ante.
There have been reports of agents smashing the car windows of a special education teacher pulling into her school’s parking lot, deploying chemical irritants at people filming agents and entering businesses without warrants, such as Target, to arrest employees who are U.S. citizens — to name a few incidents.
Minnesota State Representative Michael Howard said in a statement that, since Good’s death, “instead of toning down the rhetoric or calling back the 2,000 federal agents deploying into Minnesota’s streets, the Trump administration has double down on their efforts to terrorize our community and heighten tensions.”
Good’s fatal shooting has put a spotlight on the so-far 13 instances of immigration officers firing at or into vehicles occupied by civilians since July, Time magazine reported.
The shootings resulted in eight people being shot, with two killed, including Good. An investigation by the Wall Street Journal found that at least five of those shot were U.S. citizens.
There is one thing of which I am certain: The truth about the killing of Renee Good will not come from this administration.
Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent ID’d as Good’s shooter, was allowed to stroll away from the scene, something that doesn’t usually happen when law enforcement is involved in shooting a civilian.
Now — a week later — it is being reported that Ross “suffered internal bleeding when he was hit” by Good’s car.
Early on, the FBI decided it will not work with state or local law enforcement in investigating the shooting.
Top administration officials, including the president and DHS Secretary Kristi “Ice Ice Barbie” Noem, have already exonerated Ross.
And don’t worry, the likes of Stephen “Temu Goebbels” Miller, Trump’s adviser, said on video that ICE officers “need no fear charges from state officials while doing their job due to ‘federal immunity’” and that anyone stopping them or obstructing them is committing a felony.
Talk about your get out of jail card. Talk about stoking the flames.
This is a lawless administration for sure, and it is likely only to get worse.
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Speaking of the Epstein files:
Where are they?
Oh right, Bondi and her Department of “Justice” are too busy prosecuting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for some made up bull.
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