By John Weeks
On January 7, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during deportation operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Immediately, millions of Americans defaulted to their ideological heuristics to interpret Good’s death. Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton criticized this dynamic. He said in the aftermath:
“Look, the objective fact is that if you lean left, then the ICE cop murdered the lady, and if you lean right, then she had it coming. And that’s just how it works.”
Not really. I lean right and think the shootings weren't justified.
At the same time, I think there's plenty of blame to go around. Including one aspect which I think doesn't get enough attention which is that if local police, who are more trained to deal with the community, were more cooperative, this type of escalation may have been avoided
That's been a position I've heard quite a bit and it's probably true, but it's important that local police do not answer to the feds. That's a significant check on federal power.
I don't think they needed to coordinate operations with the feds necessarily, but when protesters' interactions with ICE are getting into the territory of blocking traffic, brawling in the streets, or stalking them, then I think local police should step in. I see that more as keeping the peace than helping ICE.
They were way more permissive of "protesters" during the BLM mostly peaceful protests than I would have wanted, too.
If that's how the city is governed consistently, maybe the people who live there generally prefer it.
Oh boy, that'd an interesting conversation. Especially where I live. Downtown Santa Monica still has not recovered from the BLM riots.
I feel like the national politics has subsumed local politics, though. The line of accountability from the voter to the local politician seems more tenuous than ever.
I don't know at what point to consider things like this known nuisances that people need to choose to move over vs things that no one should have to tolerate.
I left this in the wrong comment:
Yeah, the lack of nuance is frustrating.
It can be both true, that Goods shooting was probably an overreaction and unfortunately helps set precedent in future cases....as well as the predictable result of the horrible policies of the left in creating the entire situation.
Its going to be messy to try and deport 10M+ illegals who were intentionally encouraged to break the law for leftist ideological / vote fraud reasons. There is no real way to make this "easy or problem free"
Totally agree. Almost no one wants to acknowledge that she was being an idiot and that she shouldn't have been shot.
The easiest way to deal with it is cutting off all the federal funding to the states that won't cooperate with the feds. Then the people of those states can decide which is more important to them and the issue doesn't need to be pressed by an invasion of federal goons.
Also, this was the next line:
Yes. I would go a step further tho....cut off all funding for illegals to sanctuary cities / states but still offer same total amount as a "bounty" per illegal deported.
Basically "you can still have your money, but you are now hired deportation personnel". Watch how fast the media script flips....
I wonder when libertarians will stop being pussies?
never
at least you are sincere...
Most people of any label will be all talk
QED
Like many users on SN pretending to be bitcoiners...