Roaming Charges: What a Fool Believes |
A federal immigration officer drags Rummler across the pavement after shooting him in the face and blinding his left eye. Screengrab from video posted to X by OC Hawk.
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian
Every pedestrian in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland has come closer to being run over by a car than that ICE agent in Mpls. None of them would have been legally justified in shooting the motorist.
Even here in our small neighborhood, on the rim of a canyon, nearly once a month in the pre-dawn darkness of our morning walks, Lola and I will have a close encounter with a speeding Amazon driver, blowing through all intersections to meet their hourly quotas, with their eyes focused on their digital map not the road, trying to locate the right house amid the tangle of Doug-firs and hemlocks to deliver some must-have-now parcel of deodorant, nail clippers and light bulbs. Corporate vehicular terrorism has suddenly become a daily hazard of American life that we are told we must endure under the merciless dictates of late capitalism. No shooting back will be tolerated. And if you get run down, it’ll be your fault for inconveniencing the speedy circulation of commodities. We’re all externalities of the profit motive: pedestrians, dogs and the stressed-out drivers themselves.
Meagan Day: “If Renee Good’s car posed an actual threat to Jonathan Ross’s life, he would be dead. We know this because shooting her in the face had no effect on the immediate course of the car.”
Kristi Noem: Renee Good had been harassing ICE “all day.” (Renee Good was murdered at 9:37 AM, shortly after dropping off her 6-year-old at school.)
It’s revolting, but hardly surprising, that a woman (Kristi Noem) who thought bragging about the time she shot her puppy in the head for disobeying a command and dumped its body in a gravel quarry would advance her political career, also thinks it’s entirely justified to shoot a mother of three in the head for “disobeying” confusing commands from her ICE agents.
Jake Tapper: You said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying. Does your rhetoric need to change?
Jacob Frey, Mayor of Minneapolis: “I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying, because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I mean, am I biased in this? Of course. And I’m biased because I got two eyes.”
Mike Fox: “The Minneapolis shooting shares characteristics with others the Wall Street Journal reviewed: Agents box in a vehicle, try to remove an individual, block attempts to flee, then fire.”
Noah Levy is a Minneapolis-based drummer, plays in the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Zeppo…
How to tell if you’re living in a police state: there are currently more than TWICE as many federal agents (3000) in Minneapolis as there are city cops, county sheriff’s deputies and state police (1400).
Trump has sent 13.6% of all ICE agents to Minneapolis, a city that represents .13% of the population of the United States.
A big reason CBP issued policies instructing officers not to stand in front of vehicles is that internal reports showed that CBP officers were deliberately doing so to have an excuse to open fire.
Pablo Maniquez: “REMINDER that no ICE agent has EVER been killed in the line of duty OR been convicted of a crime for shooting someone … meaning their victimhood narrative is a hoax, as is any public accountability for agents.”
Rep. Angie Craig, on being denied entry along with Ilhan Omar, into ICE’s Minneapolis detention center: “We were told because this facility is being funded by the ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That’s complete nonsense … I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn’t care.”
When an exasperated Adam Tooze said this about the Democrats, he wasn’t referring to this insipid statement from Tim Walz, but he might as well have been…
You people are a bunch of sentimental schmucks who don’t understand that you lost. If you had any self-respect, you would not be on any podium again, ever, sounding off about anything. Because, comrades, if we were in the 30s, I would have taken you out and shot you. You fail like this, you don’t get to come back and show off your wounds.
ICE agents in Minnesota have been offering protesters they’ve arrested cash in exchange for providing the names of protest organizers and undocumented people.
So the Trump/Bondi Department of Vindictive Prosecutions is going after Renee Good’s widow, a move that prompted six seasoned federal prosecutors in the office to resign in protest. What next, will Kristi “the Puppy Killer” Noem order one of her ICE agents to shoot Good’s dog?
For the first time, a poll (The Economist) shows a plurality of Americans support abolishing ICE…
46% support abolishing ICE
43% oppose........