While we’ve lived through these types of incidents before —the George Floyd murder happened just four blocks away — yesterday’s shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent feels like a turning point.
Almost immediately after the shooting, two completely opposite narratives about the tragedy emerged. Homeland Security Chief Kristi Noem claimed it was an act of self-defense in the face of domestic terrorism, while the city’s mayor called that “bullshit” and described an innocent victim gunned down by the federal agent as she was attempting to leave the scene.
The Trump Administration’s massive crackdown on undocumented immigrants is leading to confrontations like these in cities across the country. Wednesday’s tragedy is a result of that crackdown. The reason that two opposing narratives emerged is because that is our political reality in Trump’s America.
Meanwhile, ICE agents are being deployed all over the country to round up our colleagues, neighbors and friends. They are armed and dangerous. Sometimes they kill people, like the mother of three who sang and loved poetry who had just dropped her six-year-old at school.
There are two opposing versions of what happened yesterday. Which one prevails portends the future of American democracy.
HEADLINES:
Mother of 3 who loved to sing and write poetry shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis (CNN)
Minnesota Officials Dispute Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting (NYT)
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