Renee Good

 Two observations: 

1) When the steering wheel of a car in motion is turned sharply to the right, the tail end shifts away from that direction to the left, especially with a long car. The agent, the one who did the shooting, was very close, videoing with his phone. Too close, and he got bumped. 

2) Why was he so close?  He was part of a coordinated effort to arrest Renee Good, on the pretense of the vital need to move her vehicle. They were rushing her, for the arrest, and he was documenting it.  It was somewhat planned, improvised, but incomplete due to her pulling out suddenly with the car--something I would say was not expected by the cops, as she was basically surrounded.  They expected her to surrender, not put it in gear and flee.

I would put the actual incident in the broad category of "killed while fleeing arrest", something that happens all too often, but with some very special characteristics in this case.  

First was the lack of any presumption of innocence.  It seems there may have been some bad blood building between her (and her partner) and the ICE force, though that hardly excuses what happened. 

Second, there is the unusual nature of the victim.  "Killed while fleeing arrest", in the US, is generally associated with a black male (who is presumed guilty, of course).  This was clearly a recognizably white, middle-class woman with a friendly demeanor. That was unusual in the extreme.  I'm not saying it's that different in nature from the more common form of killing the suspect who is trying to flee from arrest.  The message, it's clear, was that there was no mercy for irritating white women, either. 

Third, it was ICE killing people on the street.  Their nature as an organization seems to be more to capture and then let them rot  rather than summary execution. This comes down to ICE agents being armed and authorized to use lethal force (under limited circumstances).  In the case of the shooter,  he had been being trained to do so, though I suspect that level of skill might be rare in their force these days.*   What I think he had learned from the training was that he could use the pretext of his bump from the car to claim self-defense.

I mourn her unnecessary death and for her survivors.  

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, HHS Secretary Noem stated that the shooter, who was in danger of his life and firing in self-defense, had done everything right.  If so, and I seriously doubt it, that means the training is seriously wrong-headed--people try to escape arrest in many different situations, and the instinctive response to shoot, if you can, must be suppressed.  There needs to be more presumption that contacts with civilians avoid casualties at all costs, just as there should be such limitations with potential deportees, too.   Better yet, get ICE off the streets of our cities, out of schools and public places, and reduce their numbers.