It\u2019s very possible that Renee Nicole Good reasoned, as I would\u2019ve, that her whiteness would protect her when she put her Honda Pilot, dog in tow, in the path of ICE vehicles on a Minneapolis street less than a mile from where George Floyd\u2019s last words were, just six years before, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe.\u201d Unfortunately for Renee\u2014a poet, wife, and mother of three\u2014neither the historically privileged color of her skin nor her citizenship were sufficient to shield her from three shots fired at point blank range by an ICE officer after a brief and startling confrontation. The officer was briefly hospitalized and released the same day.<\/p>\n
Ordinary Americans can add this outrageous bloodshed to a growing list of Orwellian events prompted by the Trump administration, which includes both the killing itself and subsequent state-propagated lies seeking to style Good as a \u2018domestic terrorist\u2019 and \u2018professional agitator.<\/a><\/span>\u2019 Today, I woke to news of a flurry of resignations from top prosecutors<\/a><\/span>: four senior leaders in the division that investigates police killings have resigned in protest, and six federal prosecutors in Minnesota have jumped ship, not to mention the FBI denying local MN authorities any access to their investigation.<\/p>\n David Langwallner’s recalls encountering judgments of monumental absurdity, involving ill-informed credibility assessments in the Irish refugee tribunal system.https:\/\/t.co\/ISmEN7H5xe<\/a><\/p>\n\n