""That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you," Renee Nicole Macklin Good told ICE agent Jonathan Ross, seconds before he shot and killed her in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Good's last words are memorialized in newly released video footage seemingly taken by Ross on a cell phone as he circled her car. So are the last words Ross-or possibly another ICE officer-spoke to her as she lay dead or dying: "Fucking bitch.""
"The video clearly portrays Good as a calm presence and ICE as a menacing one, which means it does not make good on the narrative conservatives have been spinning about Good's death, claiming that she hit Ross over with her car and he killed her in self-defense. And yet, the leaked video was published by Alpha News, a right-wing media company based in Minnesota that previously produced a falsehood-ridden documentary downplaying police culpability in George Floyd's murder."
"In the days since Good's death, the right has been trying to paint her as an agitator, a radical, a violent domestic terrorist. Though she certainly does not come off as such in the video, the footage does make clear that she was on that street to protest ICE. To many on the right, this makes her a disposable casualty in Trump's war on immigrants."
Renee Nicole Macklin Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis after confronting ICE officers. Newly released video, seemingly taken by Ross on a cell phone, captures Good saying, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you," seconds before she was shot. The footage shows Good as calm and ICE officers as menacing, undermining conservative claims that Good struck Ross with her car and that he acted in self-defense. A right-wing outlet, Alpha News, published the leaked video despite previously minimizing police culpability in George Floyd's murder. Conservatives portray Good as an agitator, framing her protest activity as justification for lethal force.
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