Three Good Videos
Not that I want to write a third-in-a-row article about the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, but it's a galling story that won't go away. And in some way gets worse, as MAGOPs are twisting themselves in Gordian knots to defend the indefensible, to defend shooting someone because the police wanted to.
Just the other day, VP "JD Vance" posted a video that he insisted proved murdering Renee Good was justified -- which is a ghoulish concept from anyone, but most especially from the U.S. vice president -- yet worse, the video showed that everything he was saying was wrong! In clear, easy-to-see video. Footage that, if this video was ever shown in court, would likely get the ICE agent sentenced to prison. And MAGA supporters keep insisting that being an "activist" (never mind that there's no evidence that Renee Good was an "activist, and even if she was, being an "activist" is not actually a crime...let alone even wrong!) made murder justifiable.
But rather than write another long article, I thought I'd turn today's column over to three short videos from eminent speakers, and let them make compelling statements.
The first if from Tim Miller of The Bulwark, and a regular expert analyst on MS NOW, who breaks down that video from "JD Vance," and shreds it with video reality.
Next we have Jon Favreau, former director of speechwriting for President Barack Obama and co-host of Pod Save America, who in one minute explains why no one, even ICE agents, get to shoot someone they think is against them.
And finally, we have Jason Kander, the former Secretary of State of Missouri, who I've written about periodically here, him being the nephew of my friend John Kander (who is not the Broadway composer of Cabaret and Chicago, but his nephew). He reads a response from a friend of his, a police officer, about his reaction to the shooting, from the perspective of a person experience that was significantly worse. It's a damning story.
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