[PJM] Jack Dunphy, excellent as usual
It’s been a challenge to keep up with the shifting narratives in the death of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week.
We were first told she was just a young mom who was not involved in any organized effort to impede ICE operations, and that she was merely trying to make a U-turn when she was senselessly murdered by an ICE agent (a curious claim given that Portland Avenue, where the shooting occurred, is a one-way street). This gave way to the admission that she was indeed actively harassing ICE agents before she was killed, but the shooting was nonetheless unwarranted because Good’s Honda Pilot had not struck the agent who shot her. Then, as additional videos emerged showing the Pilot striking the agent, the narrative changed yet again. Okay, we were told, the Pilot hit him, but not that hard, and it was his own fault because he shouldn’t have been standing there in the first place.
More information has come to light since I wrote about the case last week, the accumulation of which has served to put the lie to claims that Good was “murdered” and that the shooting was utterly without legal justification. CNN has assembled a timeline of the shooting using the videos available thus far, and though I would quibble with some of CNN reporter Kyung Lah’s narration, the videos offer a fairly complete look at how the event unfolded.
In debating the shooting with a friend on X this week, I said I didn’t think I would have fired at Good because I would not have been standing in the path of her car. But now that the agent’s cellphone video and that of bystanders and nearby security cameras have been made public, we can see that the agent was to the right of Good’s car until she backed up and changed directions, thereby putting him in front of it. To repeat a passage from the U.S. Supreme Court case of Graham v. Connor, which I cited in my last column, “The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments – in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving – about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.” In a matter of a second or two, the agent went from being safely out Good’s path to being directly in it.
I can recall several moments in my police career in which I found myself in tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving circumstances, in the aftermath of which and upon calm reflection I realized I had not been standing in the most advantageous and tactically sound positions. It happens, and I am fortunate to have avoided being killed or killing someone else.
Today we know that, contrary to Kristi Noem’s assertion, Renee Good was not a “domestic terrorist,” but was instead merely doing her best to be an annoyance to the ICE agents in Minneapolis that day.
Trained by a local Black Bloc group to witness and harass, if she is not to be counted as an Antifa cadre then she must be a voluntary useful idiot. Which means she had full agency for what was essentially suicide by cop,
One must wonder how bereft of meaning a person’s life must be that they seek it in such endeavors. No matter how long may grow the list of dangerous illegal aliens apprehended by ICE, there seems to be no shortage of lost and deluded souls who see their purpose in life as trying to protect them from arrest and deportation.
In her zeal to defend illegal aliens, Good willfully committed the misdemeanor crime of impeding federal officers, and in her desire to flee from arrest, she then committed the felony crime of assault on a federal officer. Note that the latter is a “general intent” crime, meaning that while Good may not have had the intention of running down the agent, her actions nonetheless instilled in him a “reasonable apprehension of harm.” Had she not been killed, she surely would have been prosecuted.
Yes, we all wish the agent had moved out of the way and held his fire, but consider the environment he and his colleagues were working in, with politicians in sanctuary cities and states calling their mission illegitimate and tacitly encouraging people to resist their efforts. Couple this with the many online postings explicitly calling for violence against ICE agents and it’s hardly a surprise that threats and attacks on ICE agents have increased to an alarming level.
And while we may argue about which way the front wheels of Good’s Pilot were turned or where the agent’s feet were at the time of the shooting, there remains the fact that under current law, these details don’t matter. In a 2004 per curiam decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and ruled that a Washington state sheriff’s deputy was entitled to qualified immunity after shooting and wounding a man who was fleeing from arrest in a vehicle. It’s worth noting that in this case, Brosseau v. Haugen, the recognized danger was not to the deputy herself, who was on the driver’s side of the car and not in danger of being run over when she fired, but rather to other police officers and bystanders in the area who might have been harmed by the fleeing driver.
No police officer wants to be the next Derek Chauvin, who was sent to prison for killing George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. Chauvin’s trial was a pathetic mockery of the law, as any honest observer of the justice system would acknowledge. The case was brimming with reasonable doubt as to Chauvin’s guilt, beginning with the most central fact of any homicide investigation, the cause of death. (I wrote about the case for National Review Online in June 2020, and nothing I’ve learned since then has altered my opinion.)
But while no police officer wants to be the next Derek Chauvin, neither do they want to be the next Amy Caprio, the Baltimore County police officer run over and killed by a fleeing burglary suspect in 2018. The critical events in the Renee Good shooting took place over a mere seven seconds, and the three shots were fired in less than one. It often takes just that much time – or even less – for a police encounter to go from “ho-hum” to “oh, s**t.”
President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem have all expressed their view that the agent is not guilty of a crime, an opinion I share but nonetheless wish they had kept to themselves. If the Justice Department does clear the agent, it will be perceived by many as a bow to the administration. Whatever decision is reached, the Justice Department owes the public a thorough accounting of the investigation and the legal grounds for its decision. Recall that when Ashil Babbitt was killed by a Capitol police officer on Jan. 6, 2020, as unlawful a police shooting as can be named, the involved officer was cleared with only the briefest of DOJ memos released to the public.
Whatever fate awaits the involved agent, there are clear lessons to be drawn from the death of Renee Good. For those who are tempted to insert themselves into police operations, there is a genuine risk of an unpleasant outcome. And if you engage in this hobby to the point that you violate the law, when a police officer tells you to stop and get out of your car, the only prudent choice is to comply. When a police officer tells you you’re under arrest, you are going to jail. The only question left to be answered at that point is if you will make an intermediate stop at a hospital. These are, quite literally, words to live by
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Whatever fate awaits the involved agent, there are clear lessons to be drawn from the death of Renee Good.
Most people have 'learned those lessons' by age seven.
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Most people men have 'learned those lessons' by age seven.
FIFY. Too many little girls get princess treatment which imbues a unrealistic sense of entitlement and privilege. 'Adulthood' doesn't dispel that attitude on too many women - see AWFL
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As Dunphy notes, a suspect fleeing in a vehicle poses danger to anybody who might be on or near the road.
For example, a few years ago on Interstate 5 in northern San Diego County, a suspect who was fleeing from Oceanside police turned south onto the freeway's northbound lanes in a pickup truck. The cops in cars stopped following at that point but a helicopter continued following.
The suspect and a northbound marine from Camp Pendleton both died in a high speed head on collision in Carlsbad. A passenger in the pickup was seriously injured and went to a hospital.
I don't know if Oceanside police ever had a clear shot at the bad guy but if they did they should have taken it. The bad guy would have died and the cops would have certainly taken some flak for it but at least that young marine would still be with us.
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[Quotulatiousness] Slick Willie was a pudgy marching band dork who learned some Game. The 1990s were the worst decade in human history for a lot of reasons, and I typically say "because that’s when the Jonesers really came into their own", but that’s not accurate. It’s when the AWFL — that’s "affluent White female liberal", and it’s redundant at least 2x, but I didn’t coin it — realized that she ruled the Evil Empire. We called them "soccer moms" back then, "Karen" now, but the concept is the same (though the former weren’t quite as obnoxious, it was a difference of degree, not kind).
Most men I knew, even most Boomer and Generation Jones men, were put off by Bill Clinton. We all instinctively knew he was a weasel, even if we couldn’t quite articulate why. But oh how the soccer moms loved him! He was the pudgy marching band dork they’d actually settled for, carrying on like the Alpha Chad they still knew, in their secret hearts, they were hot enough to snag. What appeared to men (and what actually was) narcissism and braggadocio, looked like caddish swagger to soccer moms. But in actual fact he was just a nerd who’d learned Game ahead of its time, and that’s how he governed ...
[Funny how none of the "Game" gurus recognized this. I guess I can’t blame them, since I just now realized it myself, but then again I don’t pimp myself out as some kind of Master Pickup Artist. Instead of aping Tom Cruise and Daniel Craig and those guys, the "Game" crowd should’ve been studying Bill Clinton. That’s what Game can do for you, boys, and yeah, I know you’ve got your sights set a little higher than Monica, but for pete’s sake, the man was President of the United States. He cigar-banged the entire electorate. That’s some serious Game].
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Of course Bill was a pick up artist but there pick up artists way, way, way before Bill.
for fun, here are few hypotheticals from long ago
"Are you the goddess Venus? Because every time I'm near you, I feel like I'm in a mythological love story."
"Did it hurt when you fell from Mount Olympus? Because only a god or goddess could look that divine."
"Are you an amphora? Because I can't handle you."
"Did it hurt when you fell from Mount Olympus?"
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Clinton is a sleazoid sociopath, a very smooth liar who was far more interested in his own sexual gratification than in governing.
Yes, he had a way with women. I'd compare him to Gavin Newsom. And if we can't convince our women just how crooked Newsom is, we're liable to suffer like we did in the 1990's or probably even worse.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The US sovereign debt crisis continues to worsen: government interest payments reached a record $1.47 trillion in a year. Federal interest payments increased by 5% year-on-year to $1.2 trillion, an all-time high.
Federal interest expenses have doubled over the past four years. Meanwhile, interest payments received by states and local governments fell by 3% year-on-year to $270 billion, the lowest level since early 2023. However, this amount is still $80 billion higher than the 2007 level, before the 2008 financial crisis.
As a result, interest expenses at all levels of government – federal, state, and local – as a percentage of GDP have risen to 4.7%, close to a 27-year high. The sovereign debt crisis is no longer just a threat, but a reality.
This explains Trump's battle with the Fed leadership (they are trying to oust Fed Chairman Powell through a criminal investigation into the overspending on the Fed building's renovations). Trump wants to install his own people there and rev up the printing press.
The globalists are digging in their heels and refusing to give up control of the Fed. Robbing neighboring countries and extorting them through tariff wars is also part of an attempt to solve the growing problems of the national debt. Musk himself has openly stated that the policy of further increasing government spending against the backdrop of a colossal debt and rising interest payments will lead the US economy to disaster.
But in the end, instead of the promised spending cuts (for which, among other things, Musk's department for cutting government spending was created), Trump has actually increased government spending, and next year he plans to increase the Pentagon budget from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion. All this is essentially on credit. As a result, the bubble continues to inflate, and everyone understands that the US has no intention of repaying it.
As the DC Swamp and other US State governments reach the point of no longer paying out what is owed, or not getting Federal $$$$, things will get very nasty quickly.
The DC Swamp needs to seriously look at AMERICA FIRST and start balancing the budget.
Otherwise, in 2030 we are looking $46+ Trillion national debt.
Which is about 7 x's annual collected Tax revenues.
ie. No more Taxpayer funded foreign governments that just turn on us and bite us. (eg. Somilia), no more Taxpayer raised single parent families for votes.
Blame of how they got us here, can be shared all around.
But here is a A Visual Chart showing the growth of the national debt since 1970 and the president/admin involved.
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We call it 'inflation' when its the old debasing of the currency. The value of items remain relative to each other, outside a technological leap or new resource availability. Its the worth of the paper used as a value transfer that suffers devaluation.
[PJ] If you’re an active user on the X platform, one of the ways you can tell if the U.S. is over the target, figuratively, is when you post something and an army of paid trolls and others come out of the woodwork attacking you. This is called a "social media storm." It is never organic and always intentional. As often as not, these sorts of swarm attacks happen as a result of some benign posts.
That brings me to this little ditty from Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, who doesn’t want to dissolve his country’s arranged, subservient marriage to Denmark.
My response to the anti-Trump X account was, "Without the U.S. you definitely don't have NATO, and you likely don't have the EU when you lose NATO."
Since on X, there is little room for nuance, I get that I might have skipped past a good deal of detail and "constructive dialogue," but my point was what it was. NATO is a paper tiger without the U.S., and Denmark needs NATO, as does the rest of the EU.
I’ve posted things like this a thousand times and not gotten any engagement. This time, however, a lot of anonymous accounts with zero or just a few followers pushed back on me pretty quickly. This is usually the first sign your post caught the attention of a social media bot farm or troll factory. Someone was paying at least a few people to monitor the Greenland story and jump on anyone who would support the Trump administration’s interest in the country.
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So much more going on behind the scenes people don't realize. Just to point out...
KING FREDERICK X IS BLACK NOBILITY BLOODLINE
Greenland is within the monarchy of the Kingdom of Denmark, in which King Frederick X is the head of state.
King Frederik X is part of the Danish royal family, which belongs to the House of Glücksburg a branch connected to the wider Oldenburg dynasty, one of Europe’s most intertwined royal bloodlines.
He attends WEF and Davos gatherings
He’s connected to EU/NATO/global governance networks
He supports climate policies, global warming, etc which are merely depopulation agendas.
Taking Greenland is a massive move against the Royal Bloodlines. Of course this isn't the only reason but in my humble opinion, it is a KEY reason.
Grok3 on the house: https://x.com/i/grok/share/69e15d13b1294a3caa075353c431d47e
Wikipedia list of members of the house: (note even russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Oldenburg
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What is a Black Nobility Bloodline, and why does it matter? And given that Denmark is a constitutional monarchy, so the Danish king, like Britain’s, is entirely ceremonial — reigning, not ruling. Nothing he does politically matters, unlike a strong executive, like the presidents of America, France, and Turkey.
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Purely ceremonial, well there's ceremony and then there's ceremony. For King Frederick ceremony can include race meets, polo games, driven hunts at palatial 'lodges', and of course around the clock security, in-house chefs and, um, staff.
There is, I believe an applicable scene in Giuseppe Di Lampedusa's great novel, The Leopard. The Prince is remonstrated for associating with class inferiors. He comes back that his family has been noble for centuries but the ground is never entirely stable under them. That even a suggestion of survival for another century is preferable to salvation itself.
So, does His Majesty believe in all the trendiest Euro-trash, globalist nonsense? Maybe. But Denmark is closer to Brussels than DC, and any hard headed recognition of larger realities along the lines of our president might be counter productive for him.
As in the locks changed on the family castle, no champagne for you! Or as the author observed 70 years ago, 'things will have to change if they're going to stay the same'.
Great book and I don't think Burt Lancaster was ever better on film.
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He supports climate policies, global warming, etc which are merely depopulation agendas.
Then why does he add Middle Eastern and African moslems to Denmark's population? Maybe he just doesn't like white, European populations. But how does that make any sense?
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I wouldn't underestimate kings like Frederik and Charles. The way things are now, their prime ministers are far more powerful. But things could change. If the parliamentary government was ever destabilized, people would have a king around whom they could rally if nobody else was able to fill the void. They have a voice, a platform, and the power that goes with it. Churchill obvsiously felt that King Edward VIII, even after his abdication, had enough power that he had to be banished to the Bahamas.
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Then why does he add Middle Eastern and African moslems to Denmark's population?
He doesn’t have any say, Abu Uluque. His prime minister has the power; all the king can do is choose which colour ink he uses to sign where the PM tells him.
Active Clubs are a fast growing network of white supremacists that focus on martial arts and fitness as tools for recruiting and building community. They are less an organization, and more a carefully crafted sub culture of young white men who following strict identity guidelines. Their ideology is explicitly nationalist and racist, with documented ties to violent extremist movements.
Martial arts as a tool is critical to the white nationalist movement. It’s also an affront on the values those of us in the martial arts community wish to teach. Values regarding mutual welfare and benefit, building each other up, and protecting those that are weak. When those values are attacked within martial arts it damages the value of our teaching.
Islamofascist groups use martial arts training in the same way.
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That circle with the notches in it is a Nazi symbol, one of the SS divisions I believe. That weird spiky looking thing is the black sun, another white supremacist symbol. You never saw these until a few years ago and suddenly they were everywhere.
Probably Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood at the root of it all doing the funding, we'd know if we had a functioning FBI but we don't.
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