Democrats and particular curiosity teams proceed to inflame tensions across the Minnesota ICE capturing for political functions, placing police and federal immigration brokers in jeopardy.
Reasonably than firming down their rhetoric and ready for the capturing investigation to conclude, some lawmakers and different teams are already calling the demise of Renee Nicole Good “homicide” and inspiring protests aimed toward ICE.
In Waltham, about 500 protestors gathered to sentence ICE and in Boston one other 200 demonstrated on the State Home, chanting in anger and criticizing federal immigration officers. Far left teams just like the Massachusetts Academics Affiliation that had nothing to do with the capturing additionally piled on.
“Such a tragedy was inevitable beneath the Trump administration’s agenda to make use of masked, secret police approved to terrorize and threaten communities closely populated by immigrants,” the MTA stated in a press release.
Simply hours after Good’s demise, Sen. Elizabeth Warren went as far as to say that Good was only a passerby and there’s “no indication that she is a protester” – ignoring widespread proof that Good was protesting and blocking ICE brokers and that her accomplice was videoing the encounter.
“There’s nothing that – not less than you possibly can see on the video, and subsequently nothing that the officers on the bottom might see – that establish her as somebody who’s got down to attempt to do hurt to an ICE officer,” Warren stated Wednesday on MS Now, previously MSNBC.
A variety of Democrats known as on authorized motion to be taken towards the ICE officer who shot Good.
Massachusetts congresswoman Ayanna Pressley used the capturing – which she known as a “homicide” – to name for the abolishment of ICE.
“What occurred…is a despicable consequence of Donald Trump’s marketing campaign of terror, worry and demonization of susceptible communities and we can not enable it to be normalized in America,” Pressley stated.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu blamed the capturing on the “merciless and cruel agenda” of the Trump administration.
Even earlier than quite a lot of the movies of the capturing had come out, Sen. Ed Markey – who’s being challenged this yr by Rep. Seth Moulton – concluded it was “homicide” and blamed Trump.
“This isn’t self-defense,” Markey stated. “That is what occurs when a corrupt federal administration floods a metropolis with masked ICE thugs and treats American cities like occupied territory.”
To not be outdone, Moulton additionally, inside hours of the capturing, stated “After I have a look at that video, I see homicide.”
Gov. Maura Healey, who got here beneath withering criticism for her feedback after the police capturing of George Floyd and the ensuing riots, wasted no time this week demanding that two airways cease chartering ICE flights out of Hanscom Discipline in Bedford.
“Irrespective of how the Trump administration spins this, all of us noticed it,” Healey stated in a put up on X. “Renee Good was a mom and an American citizen…ICE’s harmful, aggressive techniques don’t make us safer. Simply the other. This has to cease.”
Eight days after Floyd’s demise in 2020, Healey gave a speech to the Better Boston Chamber of Commerce seemingly giving the inexperienced gentle to the violent rioting occurring in Boston and different cities.
“Sure, America is burning, however that’s how forests develop,” she stated.
Two years later, in an effort to stem the political harm her feedback triggered, Healey was compelled to stroll them again.
“It was a poor phrase alternative, a poor phrase alternative,” stated Healey, who’s up for reelection this yr and is being challenged by three Republican opponents.
