The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai

The fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent has made terrifying family memories feel too close to reality​


Last fall, I visited a train platform in Zbaszyn, Poland, where my father saw his parents for the last time.

There, he and his brother boarded a Kindertransport to seek refuge in England in 1940. They survived the Holocaust; my grandparents and my aunt were murdered by Nazis. The years before that separation were marked by profound betrayals by the German government, which lied to them, their neighbors and the rest of the world about the violence being enacted against them, and what their future held.

I recalled that visit early Thursday morning, as I stood in front of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, less than a mile from Bdote — the unceded land, sacred to Minnesota’s Dakota people, where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet.

That land is where Minnesota’s earliest white settlers displaced, brutalized and killed the Dakota before building Fort Snelling, one of the first United States military outposts in the American West. Later, in 1862, the federal government set up a concentration camp in the same area. Some 1,600 Dakota were sent there, and hundreds died from disease and the harsh conditions.

Now, the thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents sent by our federal government to terrorize Minneapolis gather and stage at the Whipple Building. And yesterday, an ICE agent named Jonathan Ross left that building, traveled a couple of miles west to South Minneapolis, and murdered Renée Nicole Good.


Good, 37, was a beloved community member. I didn’t know her, but I have friends who did. Their grief is devastating.

Renée was a treasured wife, they tell me. A mom to three children. A poet, an artist, and a community caretaker.

Her unjust death is horrific. And the resonances between federal government’s bad faith response to it, and the kinds of stories I grew up hearing about the authoritarian government under which my father was raised, are terrifying.

Within hours of Good’s killing, President Donald Trump was spreading false claims about how it happened, claiming that Good ran over the ICE agent who shot her. ...................


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The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father's American dream

The fatal shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent has made the daughter of a Holocaust survivor see the U.S. differently.
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Like many American Jews, I was raised to believe in the American dream, and in a government that was here to represent me, care for me, and be a force for good in the world. And as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I always knew how fragile principles of liberty and equality can be.


I have known for a long time that the U.S. government has never equally defended the lives and rights of all people — and that it has too often, as in the case of the Dakota and other Indigenous Americans, actively destroyed those lives. But amid the Trump administration’s campaign against immigrant communities, it’s the tragedy of Good’s death that has most completely shattered the vision of what my Holocaust survivor father had taught me to hope for in the U.S.

Our current federal government lies to us, and lies about us. They blur the line between fact and fiction. They gaslight. They have specifically tried to foment discord within the Jewish community, and between us and our allies. They try to divide us because they’re afraid of the strength and power that we have when we rise up as one.

That is why we gathered at the Whipple Federal Building today to honor Good’s memory, and to protest ICE’s ongoing assault on our fellow Minnesotans. This is the place where some of our neighbors go to be detained, and never come back. Instead, they are deported — sometimes to countries where they have never before set foot — and ripped from those they love, just as my father was ripped from his parents.

As Jews, we remember our family histories not to make us fearful or to isolate ourselves, but rather to prepare us for moments just like this one. Our history is not meant to be forgotten. It is not meant to sit neatly on museum shelves or be tucked away in old family albums. We are meant to carry it. We are meant to learn from it. And we are meant to act because of it.
 
anonymoose said:
What’s his obsession with all that joo stuff?
It has nothing, zero to do with enforcing existing immigration laws.
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Its the LW way........try to pull on a persons heart strings even if one thing has nothing to do with the other. They could care less about actual reality.
 
Its like the Travon Martin shooting. How they try and pump out a false narrative and pull at peoples heart strings. They kept showing pictures of him when he was in 7th grade instead of current pictures. I was sure any minute they were going to resort to showing baby pictures....LOL Then they labeled Zimmerman a WHITE Hispanic! LOL That one took the cake. Oh, and then for the big grand finale the media literally took a current picture of Zimmerman and used filters on it to make him look as white as snow when clearly that was not how he looked. When dealing with lefties EVERYTHING begins and ends with a lie. Its who they are.
 
TOP said:
It was?
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Perhaps not. This is the AI account:

In the Minneapolis ICE shooting incident involving Renee Good, video evidence and expert analysis indicate that the
gun was drawn just as or immediately after the car began to move forward.

A frame-by-frame breakdown and multiple videos of the incident provide the following sequence of events:

  • The officer who fired the shots was standing in front of Good's stopped SUV, near the driver-side headlight.
  • As the car began to move forward (after initially reversing slightly), the officer unholstered and aimed his gun.
  • The first shot was fired through the windshield as the car started to gain forward traction and turn its wheels to the right, in an apparent attempt to drive away from the agents.
  • The officer then sidestepped away from the vehicle's path while continuing to shoot through the driver's side window as it passed him. (Emphasis supplied)
 
martin said:
Perhaps not. This is the AI account:

In the Minneapolis ICE shooting incident involving Renee Good, video evidence and expert analysis indicate that the
gun was drawn just as or immediately after the car began to move forward.

A frame-by-frame breakdown and multiple videos of the incident provide the following sequence of events:

  • The officer who fired the shots was standing in front of Good's stopped SUV, near the driver-side headlight.
  • As the car began to move forward (after initially reversing slightly), the officer unholstered and aimed his gun.
  • The first shot was fired through the windshield as the car started to gain forward traction and turn its wheels to the right, in an apparent attempt to drive away from the agents.
  • The officer then sidestepped away from the vehicle's path while continuing to shoot through the driver's side window as it passed him. (Emphasis supplied)
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Ross murdered her because he was pissed.

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Guno צְבִי said:

The fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent has made terrifying family memories feel too close to reality​


Last fall, I visited a train platform in Zbaszyn, Poland, where my father saw his parents for the last time.

There, he and his brother boarded a Kindertransport to seek refuge in England in 1940. They survived the Holocaust; my grandparents and my aunt were murdered by Nazis. The years before that separation were marked by profound betrayals by the German government, which lied to them, their neighbors and the rest of the world about the violence being enacted against them, and what their future held.

I recalled that visit early Thursday morning, as I stood in front of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, less than a mile from Bdote — the unceded land, sacred to Minnesota’s Dakota people, where the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers meet.

That land is where Minnesota’s earliest white settlers displaced, brutalized and killed the Dakota before building Fort Snelling, one of the first United States military outposts in the American West. Later, in 1862, the federal government set up a concentration camp in the same area. Some 1,600 Dakota were sent there, and hundreds died from disease and the harsh conditions.

Now, the thousands of ICE and Border Patrol agents sent by our federal government to terrorize Minneapolis gather and stage at the Whipple Building. And yesterday, an ICE agent named Jonathan Ross left that building, traveled a couple of miles west to South Minneapolis, and murdered Renée Nicole Good.


Good, 37, was a beloved community member. I didn’t know her, but I have friends who did. Their grief is devastating.

Renée was a treasured wife, they tell me. A mom to three children. A poet, an artist, and a community caretaker.

Her unjust death is horrific. And the resonances between federal government’s bad faith response to it, and the kinds of stories I grew up hearing about the authoritarian government under which my father was raised, are terrifying.

Within hours of Good’s killing, President Donald Trump was spreading false claims about how it happened, claiming that Good ran over the ICE agent who shot her. ...................


forward.com

The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father's American dream

The fatal shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis by an ICE agent has made the daughter of a Holocaust survivor see the U.S. differently.
forward.com forward.com
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Tears were welling up as I read this touching story and then it happened, I cried uncontrollably for hours. I realized that enforcing our immigration is destroying the American dream and I must join the fight with the libtards to end this law enforcement effort for the good of our great republic.

NOT. This Jew hating libtard drone is suddenly pretending to give a shit about the 'American Dream'?? To this scumbag, the American dream is everyone wearing towels on their heads, throwing gays of the rooftops, beating women that dare show their faces, and kill everyone that isn't mentally ill like this dumbass. Nice try loser, this is pathetic.
 
Ignore the poor fool immediately above. Doesn't know better.

What will the autopsy show? Was she shot in the front her head, in the side of her head, or both. The hole in the windshield is at the far right side, suggesting that first shot may have missed her. The shots fired through the side window were point blank.

But the question remains: why was the gun drawn in the first place?
 
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