
Last paragraph is especially important and what I’ve been trying to tell people too. If you’re gonna be an activist, it’s VERY important that you are a well and CORRECTLY informed activist, otherwise your words and actions only serve to fuel whatever you’re seeking to make a change in. I’ve seen so many people who are like “watch the full clip, she’s innocent!” so I watched the clip, and no, by law, she is not. Right before the fatal shots occur, she gives up a clear escape path she had
-by backing up, turns her wheels in the direction of the guy who is now in front of her car instead of to the side because she backed up for whatever reason, who knows but her I guess, and then accelerates forwards with her wheels spinning because she was flooring it. That’s all visible from the back angle. From the front angle, you can see the front left headlight literally hit the dude right before he takes the first shot. Like mentioned in that screenshot, that’s how he was trained to act
Yeah I just mentioned the escape route because that’s the main excuse people are trying to make and the main point they try to use to say it was illegal to shoot. If she truly did use that escape route then yeah they shouldn’t shoot, but she didn’t and instead redirected into the ICE guy with a gun
I’ve seen a lot of screenshots of that one line that says they cannot shoot at a fleeing vehicle or use deadly force unless she was using the vehicle plus another source of deadly force, but all these people have to do is look at literally any court case EVER to see that once the vehicle starts moving towards someone, that vehicle itself or its speed becomes the additional deadly force that justifies using equally deadly force in return. Idk how these people have never seen that concept before
Had someone tell me that it “doesn’t matter because she was trying to get out after entering the scene and some blocking stuff happened with other cars” ok but why did she enter an active scene in a car as a civilian and continue to move her car around while being ordered to get out? That alone is such a stupid decision that’s gonna create a bad outcome before she ever decided to drive at one of the guys with a gun
Anyway done with the rant, and I’m not arguing with anyone who responds to this unless they can give me a case example and the badge number/name of an officer who was in a similar situation and made the same decision because imo that’s the very minimum, basic knowledge you should have before being able to form an opinion on this, especially about the legality
Second, yes she was trying to flee. She was fleeing because she felt unsafe by the officers grabbing her car and trying to open her door. She was not doing anything wrong by simply being there. She lived nearby. She was not evading arrest, because again, she had not committed a crime. She was just leaving a potentially harmful situation. (Cont.)
Third, the officer was not “struck.” Good made a 3 point turn to evade the officers, hence why she reversed before she moved forward. Her tires were pointed away from the officer with the gun. Also, there was no attempt from the officer to simply move out of the way of the vehicle. His first response was pulling out his gun. After the first shot, he continues to walk with the vehicle and shoot 2 more times.
I will also add that after the incident the officer did not attempt to request or render any sort of medical aid to Renee Good. Which is unlawful. It took 15 minutes for paramedics to arrive, after which she was already dead. I implore you to look at the policy of use of force on justice.gov. Please have empathy