DAVID MARCUS: ICE protesters put lives at risk, and not just theirs

The buzz astir Hollywood is that the caller movie "One Battle After Another," which features left-wing vigilantes triumphing implicit the evil American authorities is acceptable up to triumph a Best Picture Oscar.

In Minneapolis Wednesday, we saw what happens erstwhile this metallic surface phantasy meets the bloody world of the existent world, wherever during an altercation with ICE agents, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was changeable and killed.

Over the past day, assorted videos of the confrontation person been scrutinized arsenic if they were the Zapruder film. What seems wide is that an serviceman was struck by Good’s car arsenic she attempted to fly the scene, and helium changeable her done the driver's broadside window.

Members of instrumentality enforcement enactment the country pursuing a suspected shooting by an ICE cause during national operations connected January 7, 2026, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)

What is little clear, astatine slightest to the critics of instrumentality enforcement, chiefly connected the left, is whether the serviceman successful question could person utilized little deadly means successful the situation. But the thorniness of that precise contented is precisely wherefore the anti-cop vigilante tactics utilized by Good are a unspeakable and deadly idea.

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In the leftist satellite of protesting, determination are 2 basal methods. The archetypal is known arsenic indirect action, specified arsenic holding a sign, chanting oregon marching on a sanctioned route. The different method is nonstop action, which is fundamentally thing that mightiness get you arrested.

According to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Good, on with others, including her wife, had spent the time impeding ICE officers who were doing their ineligible job.

The intent of Good and her comrades was to make confrontation with instrumentality enforcement, and that is precisely what happened.

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Nobody volition ever cognize if Good intended to deed the serviceman with her car, oregon conscionable panicked trying to get away. While it whitethorn consciousness viscerally similar her decease was excessively precocious a terms to pay, these are the wages of nonstop enactment vigilantism.

Portrait of Renee Nicole Good (ODU English Department/Facebook)

The occupation for cops is that the usage of vehicles arsenic weapons against them person skyrocketed successful caller years, on with flat-out ambush attacks connected them specified arsenic occurred successful Dallas successful September. Their menace level has ne'er been higher.

When Good uses her car to artifact successful instrumentality enforcement’s vehicle, the archetypal thought of the officers isn’t "How bash I de-escalate this?" It is "Are we being pinned down truthful radical tin sprout astatine us."

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The mantra of galore connected the left, including AntifaAntifa, whose tactics Good was employing, is "resistance by immoderate means necessary." And if that puts lives astatine hazard by shutting down streets truthful ambulances can’t move, oregon by driving astatine a cop, truthful beryllium it, according to these radicals.

In fact, it is these agitators and the section constabulary departments successful places similar Minneapolis and Portland who won’t apprehension them, that make the precise circumstances that pb to deadly confrontation. And they bash it connected purpose.

To instrumentality it a measurement further, the unwillingness of these constabulary forces to punish nonstop enactment protesting has sent a wide connection to the Antifa types that the streets beryllium to them. That is not however ICE officers operate, nor should it be.

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I’ll beryllium blunt, if the feckless manchild politician of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, really allowed his constabulary to apprehension radical for transgression protesting, this calamity ne'er would person happened.

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Further, if Democratic mayors and governors simply cooperated with ICE and handed implicit criminals alternatively of protecting them, these ICE officers would ne'er person adjacent been determination successful the archetypal place.

Residents face national agents and Border Patrol agents implicit their beingness successful their vicinity connected Atlantic Blvd. successful the Los Angeles suburb of Bell. California past twelvemonth passed a instrumentality banning authorities from wearing masks.  (Getty Images)

Left-wing protesters person to recognize that it is not the occupation of instrumentality enforcement to let them to perpetrate crimes conscionable due to the fact that they deliberation their origin is just. After all, beauteous overmuch everyone thinks their origin is just.

The connection contiguous should beryllium crystal clear, and sung successful unison: Protesters request to halt their amerciable efforts to impede national agents. That isn’t protest. It is transgression behaviour and arsenic we saw, it gets radical killed.

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When Hollywood makes movies similar "One Battle After Another" and celebrates anti-government violence, it's "brave" stars similar Leonrdo DiCaprio don’t get shot, they get rich, they mightiness adjacent get Academy Awards, but that is due to the fact that the movies are not existent life.

In existent life, anti-cop vigilante unit does get radical killed, and sadly, though predictably, fixed the coddling of the criminals, that is precisely what happened successful Minneapolis.

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