Rep. Jasmine Crockett\u00a0(D-Texas)\u00a0has\u00a0put to words\u00a0what so many people are feeling: frustration, grief and disbelief about the\u00a0tragic death of Renee Good.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIt is so hard to sit here\u00a0sometimes. Because\u00a0I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0come to\u00a0Congress\u00a0to write laws or do things that are hurting people.\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0just asking if\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0any decency or heart or courage on that side of the aisle.\u201dShe\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0performing. She\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0posturing. She was pleading. And she kept going.\u201cA woman was killed. She was shot in her head,\u00a0and\u00a0y\u2019all\u00a0are\u00a0pretending like nothing happened. I remember when Charlie Kirk was killed. Do you? Do you remember what our response was? Our response\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0to sit there and pretend like it\u00a0was\u00a0OK.\u00a0Is it\u00a0OK\u00a0because you have a badge?\u201dHere\u2019s\u00a0more:\u00a0\u201cCan\u00a0y\u2019all\u00a0not just have a little bit of courage and humanity? A child has lost her mom and\u00a0y\u2019all\u00a0want to pretend that it is\u00a0OK.\u201dIt\u2019s\u00a0not\u00a0OK. None of this is.Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old American mother of three \u2014 kids ages\u00a015, 12 and 6 \u2014\u00a0children\u00a0who are now growing up without their mother. According to her ex-husband, who is also the father of her two oldest children, Renee was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Jan.\u00a07 while returning from dropping her 6-year-old off at school.Like so many of you, I watched the video. I watched a mother be gunned down in her car on a residential Minneapolis street. And before any investigation could happen, the public was told, by our own government, to believe she was a domestic terrorist. There is no evidence of that. None. We\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know what\u00a0led up\u00a0to the encounter. We\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know what was said before shots were fired. What we do know is that labels\u00a0came\u00a0faster than facts.A witness, Caitlin\u00a0Callenson, told NPR that Renee was given conflicting orders: one agent told her to drive away while another told her to get out of the vehicle. And an expert on police use of force, Geoffrey Alpert of the University of South Carolina, reviewed the video and told The New York Times,\u00a0\u201cThe way you evaluate this is you look to see\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0the imminent threat to life, and there is none.\u00a0She\u2019s\u00a0leaving.\u201dThat matters.Especially when Minnesota officials say\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0being blocked from accessing evidence. Gov. Tim Walz\u00a0addressed that concern directly.\u201cIt feels now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it\u00a0feels very\u00a0very\u00a0difficult that we will get a fair\u00a0outcome,\u00a0and I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgement. From the president to the vice president to Kristi Noem, they\u2019ve stood and told you things that are verifiably false.\u201dHere\u2019s\u00a0what we can see with our own eyes: the video shows Renee\u2019s tires pointed away from the agent.\u00a0By all appearances, she posed no significant physical threat to the officer, let alone a mortal one. Yet her life is now over,\u00a0one of her kids whose father previously passed away is now an\u00a0orphan,\u00a0and the other two are motherless.This is frightening. Because if federal agents can kill U.S. citizens on\u00a0camera,\u00a0and political leaders rush to justify it, then the most basic liberties Americans depend on are at risk.What makes this even harder to ignore is that this\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0always the tone. After George Floyd was killed in 2020, President Trump\u00a0said this:\u201cAll Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd. My administration is fully\u00a0committed\u00a0that, for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.\u201dBack then,\u00a0I guess \u201claw and order\u201d\u00a0still left room for accountability. For\u00a0restraint. For the idea that a badge does not mean immunity.Now, that obligation\u00a0seems to be\u00a0gone. We\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0normalize that.Lindsey Granger is a NewsNation contributor and co-host of The Hill\u2019s commentary show \u201cRising.\u201d This column is an edited transcription of her on-air commentary.Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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