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The killing of Renee Good was avoidable. She should still be here today. But this violence against civilians is not isolated, or even unpredictable. Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and ICE agents across the country has been wreaking havoc on immigrant communities, rolling out armed intimidation against his political opposition, and promising impunity from lawless actions. The dangerous combination of armed extremists and zero consequences has made violence nothing less than inevitable.
The United States is already an outlier when it comes to civilians harmed in the name of enforcement – but the new era of ICE is more dangerous than ever before. The Department of Homeland Security is intentionally recruiting far-right, racist, Second Amendment extremists and teaching them the gun lobby’s “shoot-first” tactic.
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