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Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE "murdered" Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got left behind were the facts and a press corps that proved again it cannot be trusted.
On the day of Good's death, those who took ICE's side claimed Good hit the ICE agent with her car. Others denied it. Some insisted ICE agents were sending mixed signals, some telling her to drive off and others telling her to get out of her car. Democrat politicians insisted Good had just been dropping her son off at school. The New York Times compiled a compilation of the videos from the scene and concluded that Good had not hit the ICE officer.
Here is what we now know. Good had been harassing ICE agents much of the day. In one video filmed from a cell phone, Good continuously blared her car's horn for more than three minutes as she attempted to block ICE agents. Good had been involved in a progressive activist group called ICE Watch that encouraged not just........