Imagine sitting in your car — unarmed, peaceful, and expressing your frustration at Trump’s goons the only safe way you could — and a federal agent walks up and shoots you in the face. No warning. No accountability. No questions asked. That is what happened to Renee Good, and it should chill every American who still believes in justice.
I was disturbed to read in The New York Times today that the ICE agent who killed Good will not have to answer a single question about his actions. Not one. Meanwhile, Good’s own family is being treated like suspects, as if she were the terrorist and not the victim of a government bullet.
This isn’t how a democracy behaves. This is how a dictatorship operates: power protects the executioner, interrogates the victims, and demands silence from anyone who dares to speak.
Yet here we are. A woman is dead for peacefully showing her disapproval, her family is scrutinized, and the man who pulled the trigger walks away untouched — defended by legal shields designed to keep federal agents immune from accountability.
But for much of the country? Life moves on. Have another cup of coffee. Turn on a football game. Pretend nothing happened — because that’s what those in power count on.
If we don’t demand answers for Renee Good, the message becomes unmistakable: the law no longer protects the people. The law now protects those who rule over them.
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