The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota.

She was a U.S. citizen born in Colorado and appears to never have been charged with anything involving law enforcement beyond a traffic ticket.

In social media accounts, Macklin Good described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom.” She said she was currently “experiencing Minneapolis,” displaying a pride flag emoji on her Instagram account. A profile picture posted to Pinterest shows her smiling and holding a young child against her cheek, along with posts about tattoos, hairstyles and home decorating.

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    Ugh. Watch the video and make up your own mind. The ice agent took a shot to maim and kill the driver, not to incapicate the vehicle. Noem called her a terrorist and accused her of ‘weaponizing her vehicle’. Fuck every one of them, and everyone that allowed the orange rapist into office.

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      Shooting the driver of a vehicle doesn’t stop the vehicle. There is literally never a reason to kill a driver, especially in a populated area where the vehicle becomes a deadly projectile.

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      Trump won (twice) because Bernie was going to raise taxes.

      The shitbird neoliberals and conservatives that got us into this mess only care about money.

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      Even the MAGA asshole I asked about this said “I don’t know why they didn’t just shoot the tires out”.

      For the record, that’s fucking insane as well. Why destroy someone’s property? But no… The situation is that they fucking killed a woman by shooting her in the fucking face after stepping in front of her fucking car, and after threatening her, and surrounding her, and after telling her to leave. So she left… And died. And that was the solution that wanted. Her, the MAGA people, and everyone that supports ICE. I’m not misleading you… This is how they feel.

      That same person I asked said they thought she deserved it. They said they saw a video (not the videos), and they thought she tried to kill the ice agent. That’s how they all feel. All of them. The people that made flags all over America go half mask for a month over a Nazi think this woman deserved it.

      AND WE are this woman… She’s us.

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      That’s yet another bit I hadn’t even thought about. The end result of his action was that the car continued, with no conscious driver and its accelerator held, directly into a parked car. Imagine if there had been other people standing there.

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    ICE is a bunch of rabid dogs. They should be put down, it’s the humane thing to do. I hope that this specific agent burns alive ☺️👍🏻

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    mother (leader) of 3 (gang of domestic terrorists), poet (writer of terroristic propaganda) and new to the city (targeted the ICE deployment)

    -Ice Barbie

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    It seems like your choices when confronted by ICE are:

    1. Try to run away. You may get get murdered during your attempt.
    2. Identify yourself, possibly be incorrectly identified as “not a citizen,” possibly die in a concentration camp.
    3. Exercise the second amendment. Get shot and die.
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    They’re going to claim that people are trying to kill them anyway. Might as well stop them from lying and create some real consequences for these Nazis. I’ve seen so many videos of them surrounded by crowds, it wouldn’t take much.

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      If they were actually getting hurt and killed they would not be out there. Cowards run in the face of fear.

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    We are absolutely living under a dictatorship that is run by a demented pedofile who is owned by Israel and in Putins pocket. This Turd Reich Gestapo will only get worse and more violent

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    I’m a little pissed off that so many people only became outraged after it was a middle class white woman that was affected.

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      You should direct your anger at media organizations that didn’t cover those other cases adequately or at all. You’re pissed at an imaginary group of people right now: those who would care about such a murder, but only conditional to white people.

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      Remember the whole BLM protest thing over George Floyd? Was that not enough outrage for you? Or are you just looking for some made up racism here where it doesn’t exist?

      This was the pinnacle of wrongness. There was no probable cause. Zero. No threat - other than the one the officer deliberately created by placing himself in front of the car. No history, no weapon, no altercation, no dispatch to a suspected threat, nothing. The protesters in Portland did far more inflammatory things and nobody got a (non-rubber) lethal bullet to the head.

      The ICE shooter went from zero to murder in seconds.

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        Considering this has happened to black ppl since the end of slavery, THERES NEVER BEEN ENOUGH OUTRAGE. If there was something would’ve actually changed by now. Thats the entire point.

        Im in my mid 30s and my mom was born the same year as Emmett Till. Shes seem the Alabama Church Bombing, MLK assassination, Fred Hampton murder, Rodney King, and George Flyod. Why are you all so confused how we respond to shit? HISTORICALLY nothing is a problem until it affects white ppl

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          Nobody here is confused.

          I‘d say you‘re doing this event a serious disservice. This is a human killed by the authorities, the same authorities that kill minorities. You should be riding the wave of outrage and not calling people out in some fit of misplaced prejudice that because this woman is white we should not care (or are somehow stupid because we’re outraged now, this time?) because there wasn‘t sufficient outrage to met your metric regarding all the other abuses against minorities.

          We‘re on your side. Our outrage is just as ineffective as yours. Don‘t think for a second that we‘ve skipped all the rest; there‘s blinded, maimed, and people were killed in the Floyd protests. Nobody‘s done that for this lady‘s murder.

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            No the issue is, NO ONE CARES UNTIL THE VICTIM IS WHITE. If ppl actually gave a damn that minority ppl have been unjustly killed (EXACTLY LIKE THIS) since the dawn of this country then Trump would’ve never been elected.

            You’re not on our side if you only show up when it affects you. You literally did skip all the rest. If you didnt skip it there wouldnt be a Wikipedia article completely devoted to law enforcement shooting unarmed black ppl. If you didnt, qualified immunity wouldn’t exist. If you didnt most cops would be charged let alone convicted. What exactly has changed since George Floyd?

            I guarantee you the vast majority of black and brown households are all thinking/saying the exact same thing. Well she’s white so maybe something will actually happen.

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      Down vote this comment all you like. To see a US citizen and mother of 3 shot down by a government employee is deplorable, reprehensible and absolutely disgusting.

      I’m not from the USA, and with that I’m in no way accountable for the current administration and it’s insane far right policies.

      So my question remains, what does it take for a population to actually do something about it?