ICE killing pushes America toward Orwellian nightmare

"Orwellian" is a word that gets chucked around far too much, but there is surely something quite sinister in the official response to the shooting of a civilian, Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

- Sean O’Grady, The Independent

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Obviously, in such circumstances, there's always some room for argument about what happened and why, but not about the more obvious facts, backed up by videos and eyewitness accounts.

The ultimate boss of ICE, the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, declared that Good was involved in an act of “domestic terrorism,” as if she were an Isis operative — and with zero evidence to back up that extreme claim, and little sign that Good was deliberately using her vehicle as a weapon. Donald Trump, who is responsible for militarising Democrat-run cities for his own reasons, even claimed - having viewed a video - that she had “viciously run over” the ICE agent, even though the agent in question can apparently be seen walking away from the incident towards an ICE vehicle and has since been released from hospital.