A 2014 CBP Use-of-Force Report that Puts the MN ICE Shooting if Renee Good in a Whole New Light(?)

Came across this late last night, and it immediately did a lot to change my view of the shooting. The most relevant part:

The dishonesty from the MSM on this has been...well...par for the course actually, so I'm not sure why I even bring it up. Oh, right: but: even ignoring all the dishonest descriptions of the orientation of the front wheels and so on...the ICE officer does seem like he's placing himself in front of her car. Right in front of the car. And, as a friend pointed out to me last night: he switches his phone to his left hand. Now...of course that could be a standard thing for an officer to do if he fears violence is a threat. In fact I suppose I'd be surprised if it weren't. It could also be: preparing to do something you already planned to do. Draw your firearm, not to put too fine a point on it. ... After she hits him, he seems to say "fucking bitch--which the Daily Beast eyerollingly refers to as "a vile slur"...jeez, you can't even make this stuff up. Now, if somebody hit me with his/her car I'd likely call him/her a fucking bitch...and much worse. As should you. So I took that to be a natural reaction, especially under the charged circumstances. LEO aren't obligated to be nice in their narrative asides. But, the same friend pointed out: it could also indicate pre-existing animosity.

   Now, Ms. Good's wife was taking trash before the incident. She was trying to provoke a reaction. But that's just what these people do. And the things she was saying were bush league I've heard so much worse from these lunatics (I've probably watched 20 hours of video of anti-ICE rioters/"activists"). "Go get some lunch big boy" is a Midwest mom version of the things these lunatics say to officers. And, of course, it's part of the job to ignore even the really vile stuff...though in some cases I think it maybe should count as a mitigating circumstance. But certainly not in this one. The woman's attitude is gross. She knows (or at least is certain) that she's safe. So she can talk big at no cost. But, again, nothing compared to other things I've heard from such folk. Entry-level moonbat trashtalk.

   Again, as Friend pointed out: it's clear neither of these women were hardened criminals. I'd add: they're suburban moms doing Civil Rights movement reenactment theater. OTOH, a vehicle is a weapon, and it really did plausibly look like that's how she was going to use it...but...it wasn't obviously how she was going to use it... And if the officer weren't standing right up on the bumper, he wouldn't have gotten hit and might have been able to evade. So one important question--which neither I nor anyone I've read even imagined might be necessary to ask--is: was he standing where he was in order to have an excuse for shooting the driver?

   Furthermore: he drew his gun fast. Fast enough that, the first time I saw the video I thought: Damn, that was fast. Now, again, there's more than one explanation of that.

   Also: the officer was recently got 30 stitches after being dragged 300' by an illegal alien resisting arrest--and basically using his car as a weapon. That raises a lot of questions itself. It may well be an excuse for being on high alert (e.g. switching the phone to the left hand)...but..if the incident goes to his mental state: shouldn't he have been, say, at a desk until he had psychologically recovered? Isn't the worst possible situation that the actions of an illegal alien causes an American LEO to shoot an American protestor??

   And if he did intentionally put himself in front of the car as an excuse, this seems to indicate vindictiveness rather than fear. Not fear, anyway.

   Counterpoint: I think I'd rather be 1' in front of a threatening vehicle than, say, 10' or 20' in front of it. At 1' I'd expect to be knocked out of the way or to be able to jump onto the hood...at 15'...maybe run down or two broken legs... But here we need some expert judgment, not dumbass bloggy speculation.

   Bottom line: my needle was previously moving a bit more toward Defensible Shooting. Now it's moving significantly toward Indefensible Shooting.

   It's a tragedy. I'm sad that Ms. Good is dead. She thought she was doing the right thing. She was brainwashed by the demented left--a movement that cloaks its insanity in weepy, weaponized emotion and loony literary-theory gobbledygook. And this is exactly what the Movement left wanted: a martyr. They don't care about Good, the person. They wanted to manufacture another George Floyd. One of their main goals is and has long been to train their useful idiot followers into martyring themselves. This is ideal for the left (or it would be if only Good hadn't been white. That's a small suboptimality).

   As for the officer; there are good and bad LEOs. This guy may be a bad one--one of those guys attracted to law enforcement for the wrong reasons.  Or not. We don't know. Mostly, these guys are normal people like you and me: different mixes of good and bad on different days. Rational. Irrational. Calm. Angry. All the things. The officer in question does a hard job--a job that has to be done if the nation is to survive--and he has been seriously injured in the line of duty in exactly this kind of situation. These guys are demonized by the left, including that part of the left that buys ink by the barrel. Part of the left's strategy is to say and do insane, infuriating, repulsive things to LEOs, putting as much psychological pressure on them as they can--one reason being: to make them snap.

   So, well, maybe it worked this time.

   Or maybe not.

   I don't know.