On Friday morning, cellphone footage originating from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross showing the murder of Minneapolis mother and wife Renee Nicole Good was leaked to right-wing media. The new footage conclusively demonstrates that Ross deliberately positioned himself in front of Good’s vehicle to justify murdering her.

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[–] 262 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Sanewashing: the old videos clearly showed the murder was in cold blood. I strongly oppose this capitulation to the right's framing that there was any ambiguity to begin with.

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  • [–] 82 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    100%. Same for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago. The guy tried driving away from an illegal stop and they executed him.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Somewhat unrelated, but

    That whole thing (person getting stopped and in his case EXECUTED for simply being of the "wrong" race) reminds me of this episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. While it was nothing new to the black community in the US (or anyone with their eyes open I guess), I think for a lot of people sheltered from these issues it would've been eye opening. Personally I grew up in a very white country, in a small town, so by my teenage years I'd probably SEEN a few black people in real life, but never talked to one. Discovered Fresh Prince when I was about 13 or 14 so it might actually have been one of the first pieces of media I'd seen that actually kinda showed the systemic racism issue to me. Later of course I saw all kinds of news articles and discussion online.

    One would think that in the span of 35 years (that's how long ago this episode aired, it was Oct 1990), things get better, society gets more educated and tolerant... But it's worse now. Way worse. I'm gonna have to blame Murdoch media and the complete disembowelment of the American education system for this one.

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago

    People are suddenly acting like the old videos don't even exist. I had to watch them because people refuse to be honest and you have to see shit for yourself.

    I'm now pissed that I was made to watch those videos and pissed that they're gaslighting that they suddenly don't exist and/or matter.

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    [–] 143 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    I'm starting to think their weird mishandling of evidence and making these blatant lies about what happened are purposely being made to create rage and incite riots. Why else would they release his video? It's obvious from the first few videos that he was a murderer, other than to piss off the people, why would you lie AND release more evidence against him?

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  • [–] 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can't see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It's damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it's a lot less clear.

    And they also see it as proof that these were "agitators" obstructing "law enforcement" based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.

    Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn't matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it's still murder. But these aren't moral, rational people and they aren't trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They want to chip away at the support bit by bit, targeting different messages to try to overcome the natural sympathy people that center right people might have for a pretty white mother with toys stuffed in her glovebox. So they show her wife a lowly lesbian "feeemale" being uppity to a white male authority figure, "justifying" his response.

    I've also seen attacks on her fitness as a mother ("her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children" as if simply being at a protest is not a place for anyone with a family) and deliberately using less attractive photos or photos that emphasize her queerness to cut away at those biases.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    her responsibility was keeping herself safe for her children

    They can expand this even further to try to discourage people from being active. Anything to keep protests down. She was doing what she thought was best for the future, for her daughter (and other children), and she was being what American should mean.

    Don't let any of the personal attacks or questions on motives detract from the blatant murder.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago

    Maybe they are just really arrogant and want to see how far they can go? They can literally say anything, despite what video evidence shows and people are still believing them.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    So one thing that I learned from Timothy Snyder is that one of the critical things that leads to political violence is humiliation. This is something that the trump regime is really doubling down on, especially lately, through multiple different channels. They've already made clear, explicitly, that they want to cancel the midterm elections. Inciting violence is the means to that end. They're celebrating her death and flaunting power, ratcheting up violence and amplifying instances of violent outcomes in media. They've even fixed their own agent in hopes that someone will try something stupid.

    In this sense, Good's shooting or something like that was inevitable, they're seizing this opportunity for all it's worth. They were expecting this and were ready to act. They engineered the situation.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They've been pissed about vehicle blocking at ICE raids, the Puppy Killer talked about it on detail in her rationalization speech.

    If we could properly investigate this, we would find out that the agents were told to watch for vehicle blocking, and make an example, and send a message. That's why they obviously deliberately escalated the situation, and unhesitatingly shot her. They were under orders.

    So who sent those orders? Puppy Killer? PeeWee Himmler? Trump himself?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Agreed 100%, same with the invasion of Venezuela, releasing ~1% of the Epstein files, and beefing up threats to invade Greenland amongst myriad known and unknown horrors and violations.

    They want us mad enough to give them reason to cancel the midterms via a declaration of martial law that will last until those of us that oppose them either step in line or die by their hands. Obviously this will run far past when those of us left standing recall, ‘Today would have been Election Day.’ … ‘Wasn’t he only supposed to be president for four years?’ And that’s to assume we have the luxury to track what day and year it is since we’ll be too busy fighting and dying for it to matter much.

    I would really like to believe that I’m going overboard in my conceptualization of our future, but I can’t afford to anymore.

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    [–] 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    So the video clearly shows her trying to drive away and the ICE agent intentionally going from the back of her car to the front as she is trying to get out of there.

    IMO, if someone intentionally walks in front of a car trying to drive away safely, your in the wrong and it shouldn’t even be considered manslaughter if you get run over.

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  • [–] 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not only that but there are training documents from 04-07 proving that officers were using standing in front of a moving vehicle as an escalation tactic and they have been deliberately training law enforcement officers to stand clear of vehicles. Well guess whose career stretches back to when that was a common escalation tactic?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Not only that but there are training documents from 04-07 proving that officers were using standing in front of a moving vehicle as an escalation tactic

    Which means if they want to escalate until they get to shoot someone like they want to, they know what to do.

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  • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (27 children)

    He shot her through the driver side window. He essentially put the gun through the open window and pulled the final shot. I'm no expert but cars don't move sideways at 0.1 mph.

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    [–] 37 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The very first video confirmed it.

    You aren't gonna convince these boot licking fascist cunts with any evidence. That's not the point.

    They want to kill

    They want to kill racial minorities

    They want to kill gender and sexual minorities

    They want to kill women

    And they want to kill anyone outside of their cult.

    Every single MAGA fuckwitt is hostile or want someone to be hostile on their behalf.

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  • [–] 89 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Of course not. They drive around in unmarked vans and refuse to show ID, why would they wear body cams?

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I’m not surprised, but I thought body cams was mandatory in the US.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's a state by state requirement. There's no federal body cam requirement.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    ICE are required by DHS policy released in 2023 to wear body cams. Whether they actually are or not is anyone's guess.

    https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/policy/19010.2.pdf

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Body cam footage is hard to tamper with. Cellphones and GoPro videos however can be easily deleted. I wouldn't be surprised if, despite policy, DHS agents are being unofficially discouraged from using body cams. Just like the administration is using Signal rather than their oversight-friendly official apps.

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    [–] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If ICE agent Jonathan Ross was really struck by a 4,000 lbs vehicle his ass would be on the ground. That dude kept his balance, grabbed his gun before the car started to move, and murdered that woman on video.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The only thing that will happen is, ICE will double down on violence. We're not far off from machine-gunning protesters.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is going to sound weird... I actually had a 'vision' of this over a year ago.

    It was at a parade or celebration. In a large park with short trees. 4th of July maybe. There were cannons. Flags. Picnics. Families.

    When in the back of the massive crowd the maga uncovered the weapons and opened fire. Mowing down thousands.

    I then saw streets become hills and valleys of corpses.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    so did the old videos

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago*

    Everyone else is saying it. If you watched the first video, you know it's murder. It's not a matter of if it's murder or not; it's about holding fascists accountable for their actions. Thank you for posting this. It sucks but we need to keep up. We're all in this together.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    The STATE needs to bring charges. Trump cannot pardon those. Let's be honest, the dirty pig could have been sitting inside a donut shop, accidentally discharged his weapon and it hit her across the street in her car, and they would be framing it as self defense. I don't even talk to or care what a Trump supporter thinks of all this. They are free to suit up in ICE garb. They have already picked their side the just mostly lack the balls to do anything about it. Not that these ICE agents have big stones. $$ is a great motivator. I hope it affords a bunch of fancy prison cells at the very best.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Trump (a convicted felon) has shown time and again the only law that matters is whatever he wants.
    A para-military group is committing murder, as well as other illegal actions, funded by his decree.

    All muricans saying violent protest will only make matters worse, we'll beat them at the next election, we shouldn't do illegal stuff are either trolls or just in denial. There won't be an election, you're delaying the inevitable.

    And other like-minded governments elsewhere are taking notes.

    0x0

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