| If Ross was prepared to shoot her, he should have shown his gun. |
Standing in front of the vehicle to manufacture personal jeopardy is also not lawful. |
They weren’t in the course of official business. They should have stayed in their cars and driven around. |
That's fine, but what if she just happens to be in a place where ICE rolls in? There is no telling where these days. |
I would follow all their directives and teach my kids the same. Don't antagonize. Don't taunt. Don't make waves. |
Because the lesson learned is that ICE may murder you. |
She didn't "gun" the engine, and yes, he certainly should have been looking at either the wheels or the steering wheel. I do that every time I'm in the grocery store parking lot. |
All the other cars were able to simply drive around. |
Exactly. Look for trouble, you may find it. Avoid putting yourself deliberately in a position of conflict with those whose capacity to impose their will on you exceeds your ability to resist them and live happily ever after. |
none of which disobeyed law enforcement instructions. Surprise! They all went on their merry way unharmed. |
Below are Youtubes taken the same day Renee was murdered by the Gestapo. ICE steps onto school grounds in Minneapolis at dismissal, and proceeds to terrorize the kids leaving school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD0fs6Hm8qE The following video shows a kid half hearted tossing a snowball at the Gestapo. They respond by chasing the boy into a crowd of shocked kids, and sprays all of them with a huge cloud of something. Meanwhile, a teacher is yelling to the kids not to provoke the thugs, saying they just killed a woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwhoLYREvYw |
She should have moved… |
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I think people are realizing that protesting is often dangerous business. We have forgotten those who died of the cause of Civil Rights. We have forgotten that overthrowing tyranny is rarely free of blood. We have seen it many times since, the blood, the beatings, but they have been in other places to other people. We have forgotten that the seed of our nation was watered with the blood of not yet Americans.
Too many people have bought into this Disneyfied version of humanity and have forgotten that it is always the meeting of human humans and all that they are capable of when each is locked into the “rightness” of their ideas. Renee is a victim of her own blindness, culture, white privilege and good intentions and the ICE agent a victim of the same. All the shoulds and coulds and woulds won’t bring her back to life. One should consider that this is serious business. This is not Tik Tok or Hollywood. The blood is real. The threat is real. Renees death should make people angry but it should also serve as a reminder that there are few bloodless revolutions and before taking part, one should consider this and conduct and prepare themselves accordingly. |
And what happens if they don't do what you taught them? Would that make it ok for ICE to kill your kids? |
She did. And they shot her for it. |