WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed in her car by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, says the couple had stopped to support their neighbors on the day of the shooting and described the mother of three as leaving a legacy of kindness.

“We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Good said in a written statement Friday that was provided to Minnesota Public Radio.

The statement was her first public comment about the death of Renee Good, 37, who was killed Wednesday after three Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from the couple’s home. Video taken by bystanders show an officer approaching the SUV stopped across the middle of the road, demanding the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.

Trump administration officials have painted Renee Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to run over an officer with her vehicle. State and local officials in Minneapolis, as well as protesters, have rejected that characterization.

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    The armed people defending Drag Queens comes to mind.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This is a little old, 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff

    This COVID protest is more recent: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496514

    I think anyone to the left of Biden taking guns to protests is risking their life but armed right wing nutbags never seem to get beaten and killed at protests.

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    Show me any truly successful protest in the last decade. We're getting record attendance numbers but seeing no change because nobody cares to listen. We stopped succeeding when we stopped coming armed.

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    1811 German Coast slave uprising The Whiskey Rebellion John Brown and Harpers Ferry Billy the Kid vs the Regulators The Coal Miner Rebellion 1860 Abolistionists Black citizens of the South vs the KKK for decades The Black Panthers Leftists gun clubs guarding Drag Queen Story Hour at libraries

    The more you look, the more incidents you find.

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