The shooting of Renee Good has set a dangerous pattern in motion according to a political commentator.
Sabrina Haake warned the shooting in Minneapolis could lead the way to similar incidents in future with ICE agents. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement team came under fire from political commentators earlier this year, but Haake has since warned the government department is on a slippery slope to authoritarian use.
Writing in her Substack newsletter, Haake suggested, "ICE agent [Jonathan] Ross who shot Renee Good three times should, and likely will, be tried for murder. If he is not, ICE will become Trump’s paramilitary force, moving us a giant step backward towards Trump/Vance/Miller’s Neanderthalic rule by club, and Good’s murder will surely become precedent for more."
Haake went on to say Trump officials who are claiming ICE agents have immunity from the law are "lying". She explained, "Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine created by the U.S. Supreme Court that protects immigration officers from civil liability, but not when they knowingly violate the law."
"Most importantly, it does not protect federal agents from prosecution under criminal laws. In Renee Good’s case, a car slowly rolling away does not pose imminent danger to anyone."
"[Jonathan] Ross didn’t move out of the way, and even continued filming the encounter with his cellphone in one hand while he shot Good with his other."
"If he’d really “feared for his” life he’d have dropped the damned phone. Calling her a 'f**king b***h' immediately after also suggests anger, rather than fear, was the motivator.
Haake has since claimed the administration are being flagrant with their rhetoric around Good's death. Explaining her "rule by club" comment, the political commentator suggested the Trump administration were operating with a stone age mentality.
She wrote, "The Trump administration is trying to take the world back, not just to the Dark Ages when people were tortured to death for their beliefs, but to the stone age when Neanderthals with the heaviest clubs held the most power."
"Neanderthals commandeered rare earth minerals fecund hunting grounds from weaker neighbors because they could. But when they came up against more organized, ordered, and civilized Homo Sapiens, they became extinct."