Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement there was “no basis” for an investigation. The statement comes as new polling shows over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
Justice Department officials said on Jan. 13 there is “no basis” for an investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, the mother of three whose fatal shooting by an immigration enforcement agent sparked protests across the country.
“There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement referring to Good.
The 37-year-old was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, when she moved her car forward near the ICE agent. Her death has inspired widespread protests against the Trump administration’s militarized use of the Department of Homeland Security.
Every protestor should be openly armed. At their core, ICE agents are just slightly older school bullies - cowards in other words. If they knew that the protestors would respond in kind there’s no way they would risk shooting anyone.
Most corrupt DOJ in American history. And that’s saying a lot.
They want a reason to invoke Martial Law. You know what I just realized? You can’t insult them, they feed on it. The same way they feed on violence. Ya know what did work on them?
WEIRD
They had no rebuke to being called weird. It started to work as they fought to make a sensible retort. Everything they tried made them sound even sillier. It was working!
We should do the physical version of that. Turn a mirror on them and embarrass them. Think Mark Rober style of traps. If every porch they smashed had a chance to unleash fart spray on their clothes and equipment, for instance, they might hesitate. Meeting such a thing, especially if automated and filmed, might just make some of that shame seep in.
I have always thought a political party based entirely on the impotence of its members was weird.
Just pointing and laughing loudly infuriates the more than anything, they want a tough guy confrontation
If Americans against Trump don’t seriously rise up over this - woman shot in the face x3 for nothing, ICE Gestapo acting as judge, jury and executioner - the US is over. There’s no difference between her state sanctioned murder and being disappeared in any Banana Republic.
I keep being surprised at people thinking it’s almost there, that line, when it’s far back in the rearview.
Since when does the DoJ base their decisions on how to enforce the law on public opinion? What the ever loving f**k kind of law is that? Oh, the fake kind they make up as they go along.
over half of Americans say the shooting was unjustified.
That’s a low bar to pass if I’ve ever seen one.
Seems like someone needs to “investigate” the DOJ then. It likely won’t be the democrats, will it be the people?
You spelled guillotine incorrectly there…
Somebody go get the French to show us what to do next.
This is pretty much what I expected from this scum administration.
The real depressing news is in the linked article, where a survey showed only 53% of respondents thought the shooting was unjustified (35% thought it was justified, rest gave no opinion). I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion unless you’re just being actively partisan.
Key here is respondents, I never respond, I don’t know anyone who takes these surveys, the only people who pick up and agree to surveys are on landlines and usually old, hardly a real representation of the feeling of the majority
Same, I get tons and tons of survey request texts for some reason. I report them as spam, block, and move on. Too big a risk that it’s a data harvesting front looking for targets or something, since the uptick in number of texts and groups sending them in the last two-ish years has been massive…
I always get frustrated and roll my eyes when a article says after we did a massive survey 80 percent think the sky red in America! And they don’t tell you what that survey is or the questions are or the sample size, usually when they do you find out the questions are misleading to get the numbers whoever is doing it wants, like fox News surveys poll certain states and the questions will be stuff like “if a ice agent is getting run over by a car is it justified for them to shoot” and a more left leaning poll would be " can ice agents kill anyone that is running away from them no questions asked". Obviously these aren’t best examples but I’m sure the point is clear that survey says is bullshit, it’s like the IASIP episode of family feed, surveys mean nothing
I don’t understand how you see that video and come away with any other conclusion
You understand completely, most of those folks didn’t watch the video(s) and if they’ve seen any footage of the incident it’s shortened clips that are edited to be disingenuous at best and downright lies at worst.
I don’t know what it is about people that make them think any law enforcement officer, ever, should be putting themselves in front of a vehicle when there is no danger to the community or bystanders if the person just left. It 100% is on that officer, that man should be locked up in prison.
It’s despicable, disgusting, and frankly un-American what is going on and sadly it’s going to keep going on until more blood is spilled.
There are many people who don’t care about anything, until calamity is on their doorstep.
Unfortunately, the people that voted for Trump either can’t admit that their vote is responsible for death and destruction or they simply don’t even care.
As for the former, they would let the world burn and their children die before they admit they were wrong. It’s that bone headed demographic that we’re talking about.
So the stats (public opinion) won’t budge much further beyond what we see now.
unless you’re just being actively partisan.
Actively propagandised.
At this point, we should form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation (similar to Molossia or Austenasia). Seriously!
No, vote for people with brains and good intentions.
What about UBI (universal basic income)?
I think the blue states should just secede. The red states aren’t defending us from anything anymore. The federal government is executing people in the streets with impunity.
The difference between a blue state and red state is often times just a few percentage points of voting. This is not a good idea. Also there are so many amazing Democrats who have no choice but to live in red states. Moving is really expensive. Will you be willing to pay everyone’s moving expenses? How will we afford a home or apartment in another state? Will we all have jobs? You will hurt a countless number of people if this happens.
I’d be happy to pay your moving expenses with the tax money we’re currently paying red states. Countless people are already being hurt; that’s what has prompted this conversation.
I am smack dab in a red state because of all the rural counties… The blue areas around major cities isn’t enough to FL blue.
All I can do is write and call my reps and vote… But there aren’t enough of us
I’m very grateful you do that! It does all add up. Hopefully Democrats can start having real conversations with other people, I don’t mean trying to change the most die-hard MAGA-type person but there are lots of people who don’t think much about politics, are undecided or independent. If we can reach those people in masses I think it could start causing a shift from red to blue and hopefully it’s enough to save our country.
The Department of Justice is instead moving to investigate Good’s widow
Jesus fucking Christ, the nerve of these people
These people saw The Handmaid’s Tale as a “How-to” guide.
the cruelty is the point
This is the ‘Flood the Zone’ strategy used by Russia and promoted by Bannon in the last Trump admin.
It doesn’t matter if it is bullshit, in fact it is always bullshit that drives outrage. They keep doing it enough so that the news is clogged up reporting on bullshit and the algorithms are recommending bullshit instead of covering important stories in depth.
Don’t accept this answer. There must be an investigation as the public demands it. These jokers just don’t get it.
Oh they get it. They do not care because the person that was harmed was not one of them. Even then…the number of faces eaten by leopards is staggering
I agree with you. It is unbelievable that they took a mother away from her children and the next moment they are talking about going after the other parent. To try to take both parents away is truly evil.
We used to wonder how the Nazis came to power. Somewhere far in the future, during a time of peace somewhere within the United Countries of Eurasia, a child will ask a teacher in the classroom, how was it possible for the MAGA to come to power?
First-past-the-post voting.
Unfortunately, the time for posting electoral reform videos has passed. Feel free to look some up yourself.
Definitely helped. Ranked choice seems the fairest.
No one’s going to make them. The entire regime is shit from top to bottom.
Wtf are state investigators, how is there not already a warrant out
State investigators are still looking into it. It’s not impossible, and it looks like the political will in the Minnesota AG office to prosecute is there, but it does face some hurdles. NYT did a pretty thorough look into it today. From the article:
Minneapolis’s top prosecutor, Mary Moriarty, said in an interview on Wednesday that lack of access to the federal investigation was “not a complete barrier” to prosecution. “This isn’t a whodunit,” she said, adding that she was exploring ways to compel the F.B.I. to share the evidence. A thorough investigation likely would take months and require a detailed analysis of the episode . . .
Can the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Be Prosecuted?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/renee-good-ice-shooting-prosecution.htmlArchive link, same article:
https://archive.ph/4sPiZI’d like to add that a good prosecution takes time. Take a hint from Jack Smith and don’t judge them for not moving at a snail’s pace here.
What in the world else is there to look into
How to get around the federal blockade of the investigation, for one. How to get access to critical evidence like the gun and the autopsy report. How to get past the multiple claims of immunity the defense will try to exercise. How to build a strong case even without key evidence in spite of federal efforts to shut it down at every level, at every step.
This is not a once and done. There is no statute of limitations for murder, even as public consent to the excesses of this regime is obviously past its sell-by date. In both respects, the MN AG has all the time in the world, and is wise to use it.
It has leaked that ICE agents are terrified of blowback from this murder: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/immigration-agents-terrified-by-ice
Yeah of course they’re cowards. Keep the pressure on, don’t let them sleep at night.
There are a lot more of us than the are of them.
I honestly think they are reporting like that to get ICE even more on edge and getting ready to justify them having to go full murder mode.
This is the shit they do with cops. Make sure they are scared and sure everyone is out to get then to make sure they are willing and happy to pull a rifle to an Innocent’s head and pull the trigger.
I’m reminded of how justice is served on the ice in a hockey game. If a player executes an illegal, dangerous hit on another player, especially if the victim is the goalie or a star player, and the refs don’t call shit, then that guy is about to get his ass beat.
There will be consequences, even if the DoJ refuses to act. The heat is rising on this cold civil war. When trump crowns himself head of the fed and slashes interest rates, and when the dollar crashes soon thereafter, shit’s gonna get crazy.
I’m also predicting that somebody high up in this administration refers to America as an “empire” and then a “realm” and possibly just straight up a “reich” within this year.
That seems to be the thing the administration fails to understand, accountability through apparent investigations and prosecutions mollify the anger. Even if consequences are by any reasonable measure are mild, people are still mollified at an acknowledgement of wrong doing. Deny them this, and the anger rises…
Similarly, being able to lose an election has similar value. Your opponents “won” they don’t need to extract more out of you. Deny them that and again people are going to potentially break.
Anecdotally, I know of a few people that seem shockingly close to violent uprising that I never would have guessed. I can’t imagine the volume of people closer to extreme views and when they will snap…
Turn up the heat, melt the ICE
Amereicha?
Propaganda.
If the family members of a couple of them disappeared maybe they’d be scared. Eye for an eye and all that.
But, I’m not evil like them so.
These people are cowards. They fear more for themselves than their family. I’m not kidding, I know people like this.
With a mortar launcher
There is no longer any justice in America.
Yeah…
But that’s been true for a long time.
We tried convincing “moderates” that back when Biden was in office and we could fix shit.
But Biden wouldn’t, and now that shit is bad for suburban white moms too, suddenly it’s a brand new issue.
Like, great you finally realized it, but it would have been best if you didn’t ignore everyone telling you that your entire life.
Because then you could have helped us fix shit before it was bad for you personally
At the very least, learn that lesson moving forward:
I love how a white mom being killed is “the final straw” that shows how there is no justice and not the last year of gestapo disappearing people for not being white enough.
It kinda makes you think how fucked is the country.
Rodney King was 35 years ago…
And if you keep going back further, shit keeps getting worse.
To be clear tho, the problem was the moderate wing controlling the party, and that’s already been solved with the last DNC chair election. And if a nonbiased primary gets us a progressive, they get to name the DNC chair the next four years.
Shit was real bad during the great depression, but that’s what it took to get “moderate” voters onboard with progress. It’s why incremental improvement never works, once it’s “good enough” for one person, they stop fighting for what others want, even tho it took those other people to get “good enough” for the people who abandon them.
It’s one of the biggest reasons for our shitty cyclic history, people unwilling to finish the fight once personally appeased.
Is milquetoast moderate fail policy really solved with “leaders” like Schumer and Jeffries still ramming their heads up corporate asses?
100% agree with you on gradual incrementalism being a false hope. To quote MLK, this is no time for the tranquilizing drug of gradualism, but for the urgency of now.
Buddy, Biden couldn’t because Dems had no real power the entire administration. Let’s not pretend republican obstructionism hasn’t kneecapped every Democratic effort on the last twenty years, literally requiring a supermajority to pass any meaningful legislation.
Dems had no real power the entire administration
Really?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress
50/50 senate and a house majority for two years…
That wasn’t enough for the guy who campaigned as the “Senate whisperer” who could get Republicans on board for compromise long before we dreamed of a 50/50 split?
Are you telling me that asking Biden to get something thru a 50/50 Senate was impossible?
Then why the fuck did he lie so much about what he could do, and why aren’t you upset with him?
Like, logically you’re still saying it’s his fault.
Also, somebody should mention the fact that 50 votes in the Senate plus a VP tiebreaker vote was all that was needed to just throw out the filibuster
Amazing how people who accuse progressives of not knowing how stuff works or whatever always forget that little detail
Amazing how people who accuse progressives of not knowing how stuff works or whatever always forget that little detail
The sad part is, Ive explained it to them before.
I didn’t recognize them at first, but I blocked them at least once under that same user name from a different instance.
Like, they were just following me around calling me a commie for a while:
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=14783121
Looks like when they got banned from lemmy.ml, they suddenly wanted to make a new account for unrelated reasons.
It always starts out semi-rational, but when you respond rationally and calmly they immediately start making maga level insults. It’s probably why they have to keep making so many accounts.
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Yes, a Democrat getting something through a 50/50 Senate is fucking impossible and has been for nearly two decades.
Then why did Biden say he could get the dem platform thru a Republican majority Senate if he was elected?
Like, let’s get that part cleared up, if it’s impossible as you say then Biden was either lying his ass off, or he was already so far gone mentally he really believed it.
In either case, how are you still insisting he is blameless?
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From 12/25/20
President-elect Joe Biden expressed optimism that he will be able to work with Republicans because of his years working alongside them, despite a sharply divided Congress.
“My leverage is, every senior Republican knows I’ve never once, ever, misled them,” Biden said on a telephone call Wednesday with several columnists, according to The New York Times. “I’ll never publicly embarrass them.”
Even into 2022
Speaking at a White House news conference, Biden vowed to work with Republicans and said he understood voters are frustrated despite Democrats’ surprisingly competitive campaign.
“The American people have made clear, I think, that they expect Republicans to be prepared to work with me as well,” Biden said. He also reiterated his intention to run for re-election in 2024 and said he would make a final decision early next year.
A White House official said Biden spoke by phone on Wednesday with Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, who would be the leading candidate for House speaker if Republicans win a majority.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-look-curb-losses-republicans-us-congress-2022-11-09/
If it’s so obvious, why didn’t Biden notice?
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Biden absolutely could have made a massive difference, but of course he wouldn’t - his entire career was built on being a DINO and helping Repugs get what they want. Red lining, no bankruptcy for student loan borrowers, removing the public option before negotiations even began on Romney’s old healthcare bill, teaming up with Hillary to steal the nom from Bernie twice, refusing to ask Merrick Garland to do anything about Trump’s J6 insurrection until 2023, and Israel First policy.
I could go on but hopefully you get the point. Yes Repugs are notorious obstructionists, but Dems are all too eager to do nothing or worse when they get power and it shows with our rapid decline into a fascist authoritarian state.
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Y’all re-elected a former president who attempted to overturn an election through a violent and deadly mob and an invasion on your Capitol Building.
Then during the four years of the next administration you all refused to actually hold him accountable for his actions, afraid of it being “too political”.
There hasn’t been justice in America for a long time now.
It was always imperfect, but now we’re not even trying. There’s no point in maintaining a façade. They’re happy to just tell you to get fucked what are you gonna do about it?
Isn’t that the entire purpose of the Second Amendment?
No, that’s the stated purpose of the 2nd amendment. The real purpose is for emotional support rifles.
The ones fat white guys carry to buy donuts?
That’s fair
There hasn’t been justice in America since the Civil War. But glad you’re awake now
“All men are created equal”
We had slaves…
this country was build on Indigenous genocide and Black enslavement. from its founding and even before, the US’s principles of justice have always been a cruel farce.
Fascists Choose Not To Investigate Themselves
