I watched the video of a mother being gunned down in her car by federal agents on a residential Minneapolis street and was told by my government to believe she was a domestic terrorist.

Her name was Renee Nicole Good, and she was not, in any way, a domestic terrorist. According to The Associated Press, Good had three children, was a devout Christian and her ex-husband “had never known her to participate in a protest of any kind.”

She was a 37-year-old mom born in Colorado – a poet, a daughter, a citizen keeping watch over our government’s actions – with a glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals. She was, as her mother told The Minnesota Star Tribune, “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”

I watched a video of the Jan. 7 incident unfold, saw Good’s obvious attempt to leave a chaotic scene involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, heard the sound of an agent’s gun firing and saw no reason for it. None.

I read an evaluation of the video by an expert on police use of force quoted in The New York Times. Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina said: “The way you evaluate this is you look to see what’s the imminent threat to life, and there is none. She’s leaving.”

If that agent kept his gun holstered, nothing bad was going to happen. Three children would still have their mother,........

© USA TODAY