The only question is whether the charge should be voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.
Videos of the Day
The videos are 100% clear. The woman who was killed was no threat to ICE agents.
She dis not try to run anyone over.
Pronouns
“Mom” and “Wife”
Help Not Allowed
Flabbergasted
I cannot possibly explain how angry I am over this unjustified homicide.
Asinine Administration Spin Makes Me Sick
Trump’s Lie of the Day
Damning Evidence
Untrained Gestapo
“Real professional. Other ice officer almost taken out by bullet ricochet , A car slamming into a sidewalk & other parked cars. No fucking thought of safety for the community”
Not On Purpose, But Purposeful Conditions
This section is from an email by Jack Hopkins
The way ICE is being deployed creates conditions where lethal outcomes become dramatically more likely…regardless of intent…policy justifications…or individual officer behavior.
Not because every agent is malicious.
Not because every operation is illegal.
But because the structure itself amplifies fear…misinterpretation…escalation…and irreversible decisions.ICE agents often operate
- In unmarked vehicles
- In plain clothes or tactical gear without clear identification
- In residential neighborhoods
- During early morning or high-confusion hours
To a civilian…this can look indistinguishable from:
- Kidnapping
- Criminal impersonation
- Vigilante action
When civilians cannot immediately identify who is confronting them…or why…their stress response spikes.
But here’s the catch:
Tactics meant to induce compliance also induce panic.And panic does not produce rational behavior. It produces:
- Flight responses
- Misinterpretation of commands
- Sudden movements
- Attempts to escape
Only a Matter of Time
It was only a matter of time before Trump’s Gestapo Goons did something like this.
I suspect Trump is happy about it. If there are protests he will send in the National Guard.
OK, the woman should not have tried to run away. However, she should not have died for acting out of fear.
But please step back for a moment.
Q: Why was she targeted in the first place?
A: Because she looked Hispanic.
ICE made the first and last mistake.
I support manslaughter charges against the ICE officer.
Addendum
It would help is readers could think. It would help even more if they could read.
Reader: The agent that fired a weapon is NOT who you show in the video. another officer in FRONT of the vehicle is hit after the images you show here. Goodness gracious. At least get the video footage all across the internet showing the third officer, who is in the path of the car.
Mish: That bullet hole is on the far left side of the vehicle. If the officer who shot it was in front it would not have hit the driver in the head. Many pictures show this.
There is no justification for shooting. And there was no justification for stopping this person in the first place!
It was racial profiling based on looks.
Addendum II – Reuters Description
Reuters Link: Videos of the shooting posted on social media and verified by Reuters raised doubts about the government’s account. One widely shared video showed a maroon Honda SUV partially blocking the road. As the clip begins, the driver inches forward before stopping to let another car pass.
The driver, with the window down, then appears to gesture to an approaching pickup truck to go ahead as well. Instead, the truck stops, and two officers exit and approach the car on foot.
As one of the officers orders the driver out of the SUV and grabs at the door handle, the vehicle reverses briefly, and a third agent moves to the front of the car from the passenger side.
The driver then advances, steering to the right in what appears to be an effort to drive away from the officers. The agent in front of the car pulls his weapon, steps back and fires as the moving car’s left front bumper comes close to his legs.
He fires three shots, with at least one shot after the car’s front bumper had passed him. It was not clear from the video whether the car made contact with the officer, who stayed on his feet throughout the encounter.
That matches the videos I watched. The bullet in the front window is clearly from the side, not directly in front.
The image of the woman appears to me to be Hispanic. But that was my guess. It may be incorrect.
Regardless, this is unwarranted manslaughter. No videos show any officer in need of treatment.
Addendum III – Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Link: President Donald Trump offered a statement on his social media website, Truth Social, describing the driver of the car as “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, viciously, and willfully ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.”
Trump’s description is directly contradicted by the video of the incident, which appears to show the ICE agent hopping backward out of the path of the car, then walking toward the car after the shooting.
Again, there are no videos that show an attempt by Good to use her car as a weapon.
The wheels, bullet hole, etc. all clearly show attempt to flee. No car was ever aimed at ICE.
Addendum IV – Slow Motion Video
I thought I posted that video in my original set. However, I did see the video before I did my post.
This confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt the ICE agent who fired the weapon was not in jeopardy. And after the car had turned, two more shots fired.
And Contradictory Instructions
The only thing I may have had wrong was racial profiling, in this instance. But without a doubt, in general, ICE is doing illegal racial profiling.
Addendum V – Reader Comment from Felony State Prosecutor
I was a felony State prosecutor for 9 years- in both New Orleans and Dallas. I’ve seen a lot. I saw the best video of this shooting (there are several) many times, including a slow motion analysis. It thoroughly disgusted me. It cannot be excused as self defense-no way.
Keep in mind, I am a conservative. I believe Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers got a raw deal in the George Floyd case. They should have been terminated, given probation at worst, if not acquitted. The Capitol Hill police officer who killed Ashleigh Babbit committed murder IMHO.
The ICE officer who killed this lady committed cold blooded murder. I see no justification for excusing this ICE Officer for the murder of this lady, regardless of whether she was justified or not in her own foolish actions. As a law enforcement officer with a gun, if you are so cowardly and afraid that you believe you can kill a person in cold blood, because of whatever slight and unjustified reason that you feel you might possibly get hurt, you do not belong in law enforcement. The officer should be prosecuted. Maybe not be put in prison for decades like Chauvin, but he should pay for killing this young lady. I hope the family sues and gets paid a fortune from the federal government for this tragedy.
Suing the Federal Government will get you nowhere.
But a state prosecution could and should get that ICE agent convicted.
Addendum VI
A reader responder with a typical Whataboutism comment. I am surprised it took so long.
But polls show the public does not support these tactic. Unfortunately, the hard liners in the Administration won out.
I discussed a far more sensible Trump on several occasions.
Please consider Trump’s Inconsistent Positions on Deport them All, What Should He Do?
The Softer Side of Trump
On November, 11. 2024, the Wall Street Journal discussed Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise
Speaking Monday on Fox News, Mr. Homan said the priority will be “public-safety threats and national-security threats,” as well as migrants who “had due process” and “their federal judge said ‘you must go home,’ and they didn’t.”
Good to hear, and add what Mr. Homan told “60 Minutes” last month. “It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods,” he said. “It’s not going to be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.”
Instead he said Mr. Trump’s plan would involve “targeted arrests,” and eventually “worksite enforcement operations.” If officers making an arrest also find an undocumented grandma in the house, will they detain her? “It depends,” Mr. Homan said. “Let the judge decide.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, including Mr. Miller, have talked about mass deportation in sweeping terms. But enforcement priorities are up to the President, and Mr. Trump has suggested he isn’t interested in illegal grandmothers.
Mr. Trump can do much on immigration by executive action, but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart.
A Sensible Plan
A sensible plan is to deport the criminals, shut the border, improve the legal process, give priority to parents and spouses of US citizens, give priority to those here the longest, and give priority to those working.
A Watered Down Deportation Effort?
On December 15, the Wall Street Journal reported Trump Allies Fear Watered Down Deportation Efforts
In the weeks since the election, and even in some rally speeches toward the end of the campaign, Trump and his incoming advisers have alluded to a mass removal effort of immigrants with a criminal record, a far narrower set of people than the 15 million to 20 million Trump pledged to deport earlier in the year. Tom Homan, the president-elect’s incoming border czar, has said Trump’s team isn’t planning to perform mass raids in immigrant enclaves—the worst fear of immigrants-rights activists.
“This isn’t going to be neighborhood sweeps and military vehicles going through the city,” Homan said in an interview with Dr. Phil McGraw on Thursday after meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams. “I told him, you know, President Trump and myself have committed that this is going to be a targeted enforcement operation.”
The president-elect’s allies also are concerned by the Trump team’s willingness to exclude some categories of migrants. Trump said in a recent interview with NBC, for example, that he wanted to work with Democrats to come up with legislation to protect Dreamers, immigrants in the U.S. illegally who were brought as children, from deportation.
Trump Says Dreamers Should Stay!
On December 9, 2024, I noted On Meet the Press, Trump Said He “Wants the Illegal Dreamers to Stay”
Trump’s interview on Meet the Press sounds exactly like the deportation strategy I proposed.
Partial Interview Transcript (Emphasis Mine)
Kristen Welker:
What about dreamers, sir? Dreamers, who were brought to this country illegally as children. You said once back in 2017 they, quote, “Shouldn’t be very worried about being deported.” Should they be worried now?President-Elect Trump:
The dreamers are going to come later, and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age. And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the dreamers. And —Kristen Welker:
What does that mean? What are you going to do?President-Elect Trump:
I will work with the Democrats on a plan. And if we can come up with a plan, but the Democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything. Republicans are very open to the dreamers. The dreamers, we’re talking many years ago they were brought into this country. Many years ago. Some of them are no longer young people. And in many cases, they’ve become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses. And we’re going to have to do something with them.Kristen Welker:
You want them to be able to stay, that’s what you’re saying?President-Elect Trump:
I do. I want to be able to work something out, and it should’ve been able to be worked out over the last three or four years and it never got worked out.
“Should we deport everyone here illegally, even if they have been here five years, have a job, have citizen children, and have no criminal background, at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, resulting in labor shortages and huge inflation?”
Only confirmed bigots would answer yes.
But that’s where we are. And it shows up in the polls.
Growing shares say the Trump administration is doing ‘too much’ to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally
On December 15, PEW reported Growing shares say the Trump administration is doing ‘too much’ to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally
53% of Americans say it is doing “too much” when it comes to deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally. That share is up from 44% in March.
At the same time, a large majority continue to say at least some of these immigrants should be deported, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted Oct. 6-16, 2025.
We could have a sensible policy that would unite most of the nation (except the hard core bigots and economic illiterates), but we don’t.
That is likely my longest addendum ever.
