The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.

In social media accounts, Macklin Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis,” displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.

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    Ugh. Watch the video and make up your own mind. The ice agent took a shot to maim and kill the driver, not to incapicate the vehicle. Noem called her a terrorist and accused her of ‘weaponizing her vehicle’. Fuck every one of them, and everyone that allowed the orange rapist into office.

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      That’s yet another bit I hadn’t even thought about. The end result of his action was that the car continued, with no conscious driver and its accelerator held, directly into a parked car. Imagine if there had been other people standing there.

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          The Republicans were just the larval stage that finally transformed into their final form: MAGA. They are all the same, no matter how much they deny it. That includes conservatives. They’re all MAGA.

          “I voted for Mr. Hitler because he was good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff, you can’t blame that on me.” - German citizen, 1946

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        At the 21st Century version of the Nuremburg Trials, we will have to justify depriving them of their First Amendment Rights in order to prohibit them from existing. Just about the ONLY justification that could fly would be if they could be proven to be serious National Security Threats to the Sovereignty of The United States.

        A political party that has literally committed treason and sedition on countless occasions and even committed a violent Insurrection on the Capitol of our nation to grab dictatorial power, can OBJECTIVELY be labeled as a SERIOUS National Security Threat, and that is without the discussion about the massive graft that has exploded in the MAGAsphere.

        As a Serious National Security Threat, and their long record of exploiting our government and our citizens, they can be prohibited access to our nation in any way.

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          The problem is, the other party seems content to sit mired in beuracracy and precedent, instead of doing somethihg to prevent it from happening in the future.

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      Even the MAGA asshole I asked about this said “I don’t know why they didn’t just shoot the tires out”.

      For the record, that’s fucking insane as well. Why destroy someone’s property? But no… The situation is that they fucking killed a woman by shooting her in the fucking face after stepping in front of her fucking car, and after threatening her, and surrounding her, and after telling her to leave. So she left… And died. And that was the solution that wanted. Her, the MAGA people, and everyone that supports ICE. I’m not misleading you… This is how they feel.

      That same person I asked said they thought she deserved it. They said they saw a video (not the videos), and they thought she tried to kill the ice agent. That’s how they all feel. All of them. The people that made flags all over America go half mask for a month over a Nazi think this woman deserved it.

      AND WE are this woman… She’s us.

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      Shooting the driver of a vehicle doesn’t stop the vehicle. There is literally never a reason to kill a driver, especially in a populated area where the vehicle becomes a deadly projectile.

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      Everything about the State’s attempt to rewrite the entire narrative is a lie. The worst you could say is she was being a nuisance to ICE agents. Last I checked, that didn’t carry a death sentence.

      This needs to be a wake up call to all of you (US citizens living in the US).

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      Puppy Killer took the time to point out instances of people blocking ICE cars, and it was clearly pissing her off. They want to end that practice, because it works, and gives targets a chance to escape.

      So I wouldn’t be surprised that they were ordered that if anyone blocks an ICE vehicle, to leap in front of it, and kill the driver, and send a message. So that guy got out of his car, drawing his weapon, and as she looked at him, he put two bullets in her face.

      Minnesota should arrest the ICE Jackal for First Degree murder, all the rest as accessories, and everyone in the chain of command who created the order, and passed it down, for murder as well.

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        He was more worried about filming her then moving out of the way. What a fucking joke.

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          If he had enough time to unholster his gun, he was absolutely planning on murder.

          “Self defense” my ass

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      Trump won (twice) because Bernie was going to raise taxes.

      The shitbird neoliberals and conservatives that got us into this mess only care about money.