'Murderers!' Americans Protest ICE's Shooting of Renee Good
The shooting of an unarmed mother whom video evidence proves was posing no threat to law enforcement could be a real turning point for the history of the Trump regime.
“I feel like we’re at a turning point,” a protester told Reuters.
The fatal shooting of an unarmed mother whom video evidence proves was posing no threat to law enforcement could be a real turning point for the history of the Trump regime, as all around the country Americans are protesting ICE’s actions.
Suggesting lawless violence is a feature, not a bug, border patrol federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon on Thursday afternoon.
The White House is gaslighting the public and lying about the incident to the point that even Donald Trump could not keep up his egregious fabrications in the face of being forced to watch the video with New York Times reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office.
Pressed on what he’d just seen, the reporters said that Trump pivoted to attack the immigration policies of his predecessors.
If Donald Trump has a doctrine, it’s the whiny backseat baby doctrine. The brother always blaming his sibling doctrine. The juvenile doctrine, if you will.
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Even the Trump-appeasing media is not having it. But what’s really important here is that Americans are not having it.
Turning Point
“I feel like we’re at a turning point,” a protester told Reuters.
She is not wrong.
Historical turning points involving federal violence or intervention have profoundly shaped protest movements, often by generating public sympathy.
“Across 150 years of American history, the pattern is unmistakable. When presidents use federal troops to protect lives and property amid chaos, public opinion is often forgiving — even supportive. But when those same troops are used to disrupt protests over wages, inequality or democratic rights, the public recoils,” Politico Magazine reported in 2025. They pointed out that the huge issue is the framing, “The distinction lies in intent and framing. In 1877 and 1932, Hayes and Hoover deployed the military against their own citizens as adversaries. In 1968 and 1992, Johnson and Bush deployed them as protectors…. That distinction may be the difference between a presidency that survives a crisis — or one that is defined and doomed by it.”
Just two examples of federal violence causing outrage and sympathy for a cause come from the famous Selma to Montgomery marches known as “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, when during the Civil Rights Movement around 600 peaceful demonstrators marching for voting rights were violently attacked by state troopers and local police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The media coverage of the violence generated widespread national outrage and public sympathy, which eventually pressured then President Lyndon B. Johnson to federalize the Alabama National Guard to protect the marchers and pushed Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 less than five months later.
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