On 25 May 2020, America witnessed a stunning act of police brutality when a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered George Floyd. The killer, Derek Chauvin, apparently confident that he would be immune to accountability, did his deed in the open, with other officers standing by and in front of a crowd of onlookers.

The video of Floyd’s murder shocked the nation.

Fast forward to 7 January 2026, and barely a mile from the spot where Chauvin killed Floyd, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three. She had no criminal record and had just dropped one of her children at school.

Good, who described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom” had only recently moved to Minneapolis from Kansas City, Missouri. The Associated Press reports that her ex-husband said “she was no activist and that he had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind. He described her as a devoted Christian who took part in youth mission trips to Northern Ireland when she was younger.”

What could be more American?

Her “crime” was her refusal to meekly submit to ICE’s desire to rule the streets of her city.

Again, the killing was done out in the open, with other ICE agents also on the scene. Again, it was done in front of a crowd of onlookers who were stunned by the brutality of what they witnessed.........

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