Alex Wagner
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As most of the country now knows, last week an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, prize-winning poet, hobby guitarist, wife, and mother of three.
Fallout has been massive.
People across the country are stunned by what happened in Minneapolis and what continues to unfold in the state.
They have been perhaps equally shocked by the reaction from the White House.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem declared that Goode was a domestic terrorist.
Vance said ICE agents should have absolute immunity.
And the Justice Department is now pushing to investigate Goode's widow, Rebecca Goode, instead of the ICE officer who killed Renee Nicole Goode.
A decision that's resulted in the resignation of six career prosecutors from the U.S.
Attorney's Office in the state, including the acting U.S.
attorney for Minnesota himself, Joseph Thompson, who, by the way, was a Trump appointee.
The problem with the administration's attempt to offer its own politically convenient reality here is that Rene Good's killing was caught on video.
It has now been seen by millions of people, and their verdict seems pretty clear.
most Americans reject the idea that Good was a domestic terrorist.
A CNN poll found that registered voters called the incident inappropriate by a two-to-one margin, 56% to just 26%.
Meanwhile, people in Minnesota have taken to the streets to protest what is literally a 3,000-agent ICE invasion into their state.
That response has only escalated tensions.
Federal agents have been filming protesters and pulling them from their cars and slamming them to the ground.