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"After Renée Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis, the case moved through the familiar machinery of accountability—warrants, evidence, civil-rights review. Then Washington intervened. Investigators were told to stop. Prosecutors resigned. The inquiry was quietly rerouted."
~ Brian Daitzman
#ReneeGood #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minneapolis #murder #Trump
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-shooting-death-of-renee-good
"What followed was not a scandal, but something colder: a demonstration of how investigations can be interrupted, institutions thinned, and accountability reshaped without changing the law—only the order in which it is allowed to operate. ...
In American civic life, this is a small moment with a long shadow. It marks the point at which a process designed to discover facts was asked to conform to a narrative already declared."
#ReneeGood #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Minneapolis #murder #Trump
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"Late last week, there was reporting on a tremendously important story, one that should be topping every news cycle, but doesn’t seem to be. On this administration’s watch, a DHS agent shot and killed an American citizen living in Texas during a traffic stop last March."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #shooting #RubenRayMartinez #coverup
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"According to the report, released as part of a FOIA request, 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez is now the earliest known shooting by federal agents associated with the Trump administration’s mass deportation policy. We’re only finding out about it now."
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #shooting #RubenRayMartinez #coverup
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"One problem when the government consistently lies is that it’s hard to know when (if) it might be telling the truth. And the fact that this report was concealed for so long doesn’t do anything to calm suspicion. There was reporting of his death at the time it happened, but federal and state officials failed to disclose that ICE agents were involved."
#Trump #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #Texas #shooting #RubenRayMartinez #coverup
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