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CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – You can’t understand a news story without context. Events don’t make sense unless you know what led up to them.
The anti-ICE crowd in Minneapolis doesn’t want to talk about context. If they did, the narrative that ICE agents shot and killed a woman in cold blood falls apart.
How about some context about what Renee Nicole Good was doing that led up to an ICE agent fatally shooting her through the windshield of her car yesterday? She was part of a group of protesters who were using their vehicles to try to block an ICE raid.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said she was out in the streets “protecting her neighbors.” That is a lie. She was out in the streets to interfere with law enforcement. Her car didn’t happen to get in the way. She was there on purpose. One ICE agent ordered her to get out of the middle of the road. Her car sped forward towards an agent. He drew his service weapon and fired three shots; one of them killed her.
Minneapolis Mayor Jabob Frey, who showed off his fancy vocabulary at a news conference yesterday, disputes that the agent fired in self-defense. Anyone who is intellectually honest cannot agree with him. Using vehicles to block, encircle, or ram ICE agents is a regularity when protesters try to disrupt enforcement operations. Mayor Frey says ICE should “get the f— out of Minneapolis; you’re not wanted here.” That’s not true either. ICE is enforcing federal law. This isn’t a local police action to clean up the red light district. There are many, many people around the country who want the inexcusable fraud and corruption in the Twin Cities cleaned up. That state and local leaders allowed this to fester is an outrage. People in other parts of the country don’t want to know that their tax dollars were funnelled through fake daycare and foodshare programs to profit those who are in the country illegally. Other taxpayers, in Nebraska, and Iowa, and Kansas, and me – here in Wisconsin – want that ended. If ICE enforcement is what it takes, so be it.
Governor Walz calls for protests to remain peaceful. He’s a clown. How about telling people not to interfere with legitimate law enforcement operations?
Chris Conley
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