A Disturbing Pattern Has Emerged In Trump's Second Term — And It's Playing Out With Renee Good
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“How else do you justify shooting a stay-at-home mom with stuffed animals in her car?” the attorney for one woman who survived a federal agent’s gunfire told HuffPost.
Marimar Martinez was on her way to donate clothing last October when she noticed federal immigration agents in Brighton Park, a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago. They were there as part of “Operation Midway Blitz,” which had terrorized the city with raids. When Martinez saw them, she and others started following them in their vehicles, honking and shouting “la migra,” warning others they were immigration agents. Moments later, her vehicle and that of a Border Patrol officer briefly made contact. He got out of his car and opened fire, shooting her five times.
The Department of Homeland Security called Martinez a “domestic terrorist” and laid out their version of events: The officer, Charles Exum, acted in self-defense after he was “rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. Martinez, who had supposedly appeared in an intelligence bulletin the week prior “for doxing agents” and posting threats online, was accused of threatening the officer with a “semi-automatic weapon.”
She was charged with assaulting, impeding and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.
Martinez survived, unlike Renee Good, who died after she was shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis this week. Good “was harassing and impeding law enforcement operations” before trying to “run them over,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “It was an act of domestic terrorism,” she added. President Donald Trump called Good a “professional agitator” and claimed she “viciously ran over the ICE officer.”
Good’s death is part of a larger pattern in Trump’s second term: Federal agents shoot, then the government begins a campaign of lies and propaganda.
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