From Behind Enemy Lines – ICE Shooting

Yeah, I know, we’re all tired of hearing it. But I want to throw out my two cents, as someone who was only recently liberated from the Left.

When I try to evaluate situations that are politicized (and this situation definitely has been), I attempt to re-set the incident in a non-politicized setting and see if I’m still angry/upset/whatever. So let’s look at this entire situation between ICE and Ms. Good from another angle.

Let’s pretend this was not ICE. Let’s pretend this was a random person walking on the roadway (not illegal, but some might consider it stupid). He didn’t have a gun. He didn’t have a method of defending himself. Another person approaches Ms. Good at her car window and orders her out of the vehicle. She doesn’t comply (whether that’s legal when ordered by ICE or not doesn’t matter for this scenario). Instead, she backs up to leave, inadvertently aims her car at the random person walking, and then shifts into drive and hits the gas.

The end result is similar: the person walking or standing is hit. The difference is that, being unarmed, the person who was hit is actually damaged, and possibly killed. How do we know this? Well, cars weigh a lot, and when you gun an engine that way, you move fast (especially when shooting forward off an ice patch as Ms. Good was doing). Even at slow speeds, a car or van can do a ton of damage to a human body, and bumpers are placed right where kneecaps are.

In my pretend scenario, Ms. Good’s intent would only come into play for one reason: to determine the length and breadth of her punishment. The fact that she would be punished (whether it be for manslaughter, murder, or intended murder) does not change. Only the severity of it. There is no excuse on the book that allows someone in a vehicle to hit someone not in a vehicle.

Period.

It’s so easy to armchair quarterback this stuff. We can slow down the videos, watch it frame by frame, pick it apart. We can talk about all the various parts and pieces of what happened between the ICE agent and Ms. Good. It’s easy. Know what’s not easy? The less than two seconds that the ICE agent had to make all the various decisions that would affect the rest of his life. Watch the video at full speed. It’s an entirely different thing.

The question that our ICE agent is going to have to face is, would another officer in the same situation make a similar decision to his, to shoot Ms. Good? And the answer is going to be yes. No matter what Ms. Good’s intent was, the fact was that her car was going straight at him at a high rate of speed, and if he did nothing, he was going to be hurt or possibly killed.

So many people have said, what would have happened if he’d just let her go? He could have just let her go, jumped out of the way and been done with it.

But it isn’t that simple. The ICE agents had made it clear that Ms. Good was being detained. To let her go after saying she was being detained is to belittle their authority. It should be noted that obstructing an ICE officer performing their official duties (obstructing includes physically blocking, as Good was doing, as well as misdirecting and assaulting) is a FELONY. It isn’t a minor crime, it’s a big one. It’s likely Good would have been taken back to wherever, fingerprinted and told to show up on a date to court, and then released. She hadn’t, up until that point, done anything that went over the line that the ICE agents had drawn at that place. By using her vehicle as a weapon (purposefully or not), she upped the ante.

None of that matters, though. Resisting arrest is only a misdemeanor, and up until she hit the gas, that’s what they were dealing with. She would have been detained while they figured out if she was “just resisting” or if she had obstructed, but at the end of the day, she’d have gone home.

Instead, she chose to hit the gas.

All of the blow-by-blow stuff, while fascinating, really doesn’t matter. None of it. She was given an order, she disobeyed, and at the moment she attempted to flee the scene she made herself a felon. By ramming the ICE agent, she made herself a dead felon.

I watched a dozen or more views, including the overhead ones from the drone, and I really don’t think she intended to hit the guy in front of her. I think she was still, in her head, interacting with the guy at her window. When she hit the gas, they all started yelling, she looked forward, and in that split second it was too late to do anything else. She’d already FUBAR’d. Her intent doesn’t matter; only her actions matter at this particular point. Intent only matters at court, when they’re charging you officially.

This whole unfortunate mess was not wrought solely by Ms. Good, however.

She was whipped up into a terrified and angry froth by gaslighting terrorist trainers. “Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.” (NY Post)

This death, which was ridiculously pointless, lays at the feet of the loony Left, as some are calling them. Walz is flirting with the idea of declaring actual Civil War. “I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training prepared to be deployed if necessary,” stated Walz. (American Family News) While he’s recently backed down from his original threats, he continues to push back against ICE agents arresting people.

It’s awful. I feel for everyone involved (even the family of Good).