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To wonder if past trauma was a factor in the Renee Nicole Good murder and that, while not absolving agent, it shows ICE should select agents more carefully?

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Carla786 · 11/01/2026 20:58

Reading this from the BBC, I wonder if the agent was suffering from previous trauma. They had earlier been in the Iraq War and then had huge number of stitches after being dragged by a car while arresting apparently a 'child sex offender' illicit migrant last March.

Thus I wonder if, because Renee Good clipped them with the car earlier(as The Times indicates), shooting at her car as she drove past was less a rational decision borne from evil and more an instinctive reaction from recent trauma with cars on the job?

This is NOT an excuse. But I wonder if it also shows that ICE are selecting traumatised agents who are too dangerous, due to this, to be in that position?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4qd4d16no

Person wearing tactical vest leans toward a car with shattered rear window, broken glass visible, trees and houses in background.

ICE agent in Minnesota shooting was dragged by car in June

The officer was injured in a separate case that also involved a car pulling away during an investigation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4qd4d16no

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Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 12:32

Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 12:30

You've totally missed the point again, 'why' did Trump voters vote for him because he was a "businessman" or mainly because they had seen him on a reality TV programme. Were they just passive spectators when voting for him as they had watched him on TV or were they engaged in the democratic process? The philosophical and political fatigue is a manifestation of a culture that needs to be entertained and that results in politics that puts us all on edge, waiting for the next episode, like what is happening in Davos today, we are waiting to see what Trump says about Greenland and Tariffs. Policies looking at poverty, the environment, education etc. are boring in comparison, they are not 'entertaining'; so yes, it is important for the American voter to understand that fundamental shift away from civic virtue if politics as entertainment is to come to an end. It is critical for those discussions to be had without it been shouted down as 'xenephobia' which is really just extreme right wing shit stirring in disguise!

That should read, 'xenophobia' not that☝️

jannier · 21/01/2026 12:50

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 11:37

My 'eyes and ears are open' all the time not just once. I just have a different opinion to you. Which is allowed unless you want to live a dictatorship where we all must agree?

All these allegations of 'yeah but no but they're arresting illegals now but what next!! someone with the wrong name!!!!' are just scaremongering and preposterous.

Immigation officers have a job to do those trying to obstruct them shouldn't it's very simple.

I do think your election system is mad i know ours isnt great but when its so disproportionate to voters its way out of wack and all about money thats so wrong the poor dont stand any chance....but then society over there only seems to care about money.

RingoJuice · 21/01/2026 14:26

jannier · 21/01/2026 07:42

I also meant to ask ...
Why are Trumps deportation rates so much lower than both Biden and Obahma? Neither resorted to speanding huge amounts of money on a low trainer, uniformed army with no decipline who are unidentifiable....they managed it calmly and successfully even with the latest figures its not great in comparison. Sounds like it wasnt his priority dropped the ball and panicked when he realised prople were actually researching rather than blindly believing his lies.

Because Obama detained and deported at the border. They never left those ICE facilities as their asylum cases were being heard (and largely dismissed because few had any basis for asylum)

Biden instituted catch and release, which put millions of asylum seekers in communities around America. They are much harder to apprehend and deport, as you should well know.

RingoJuice · 21/01/2026 14:28

They deported within the law with correct paperwork and not using a body of ICE that was created by Trump

You really don’t understand much about ICE, which was established under Clinton (yes that long ago).

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 14:55

Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 12:30

You've totally missed the point again, 'why' did Trump voters vote for him because he was a "businessman" or mainly because they had seen him on a reality TV programme. Were they just passive spectators when voting for him as they had watched him on TV or were they engaged in the democratic process? The philosophical and political fatigue is a manifestation of a culture that needs to be entertained and that results in politics that puts us all on edge, waiting for the next episode, like what is happening in Davos today, we are waiting to see what Trump says about Greenland and Tariffs. Policies looking at poverty, the environment, education etc. are boring in comparison, they are not 'entertaining'; so yes, it is important for the American voter to understand that fundamental shift away from civic virtue if politics as entertainment is to come to an end. It is critical for those discussions to be had without it been shouted down as 'xenephobia' which is really just extreme right wing shit stirring in disguise!

I'm not in the US I can't tell you why people voted for him, I'm guessing after hopeless Biden and Harris making tits of themselves everytime they opened their mouths they wanted someone who spoke in sentences and was no nonsense. Illegal immigration has apparently massively reduced so he is doing something right.

You can't help wondering why the dems can't get a decent candidate running their show.

Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 15:01

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 14:55

I'm not in the US I can't tell you why people voted for him, I'm guessing after hopeless Biden and Harris making tits of themselves everytime they opened their mouths they wanted someone who spoke in sentences and was no nonsense. Illegal immigration has apparently massively reduced so he is doing something right.

You can't help wondering why the dems can't get a decent candidate running their show.

Yes, long rambling, tedious sentences. Maybe he's banking on his voters not having the concentration span.

GoodGriefCharlie · 21/01/2026 15:36

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 08:21

Oh i care I just couldn't imagine living with the amount of paranoia and hate that is being posted on this thread.

Illegal enforcement officers have a job to do. No, they aren't arresting everyone with a name they don't like they are arresting people who obstruct them, don't identify themselves and/or don't have the required visas to be in the US.

Carry on nazi scaremongering though offensive though it is for those who suffered at the hands of the nazis.

Ever thought you might be talking to somebody who’s Jewish? We’ve seen all this before. And we’ve seen people like you, before too.

jannier · 21/01/2026 15:53

RingoJuice · 21/01/2026 14:26

Because Obama detained and deported at the border. They never left those ICE facilities as their asylum cases were being heard (and largely dismissed because few had any basis for asylum)

Biden instituted catch and release, which put millions of asylum seekers in communities around America. They are much harder to apprehend and deport, as you should well know.

See this is an explanation rather than just Trump is perfect ....so can it be returned to how Obama had it?
Why does it need to be done with violence and guns? We dont use tear gas and guns.

jannier · 21/01/2026 15:57

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 14:55

I'm not in the US I can't tell you why people voted for him, I'm guessing after hopeless Biden and Harris making tits of themselves everytime they opened their mouths they wanted someone who spoke in sentences and was no nonsense. Illegal immigration has apparently massively reduced so he is doing something right.

You can't help wondering why the dems can't get a decent candidate running their show.

Spoke in sentences have you seen his ramblings about his childhood in the middle of a briefing?
So you are judging just by social media that shows you only the clips your algorithm thinks you will be interested in....far right it seems....do you read independently or is it just face book?

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 16:33

GoodGriefCharlie · 21/01/2026 15:36

Ever thought you might be talking to somebody who’s Jewish? We’ve seen all this before. And we’ve seen people like you, before too.

We all know Jewish people.

The fact that the nazis escalated from rounding up legal citizens to murdering them in their millions is not comparable to ICE removing those illegally in the US. It is appalling to keep making this comparison.

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 16:34

jannier · 21/01/2026 15:57

Spoke in sentences have you seen his ramblings about his childhood in the middle of a briefing?
So you are judging just by social media that shows you only the clips your algorithm thinks you will be interested in....far right it seems....do you read independently or is it just face book?

Speaking in sentences as opposed to Biden and Harris.

As I say the fault lies with the dems for their hopeless candidates.

RingoJuice · 21/01/2026 16:45

jannier · 21/01/2026 15:53

See this is an explanation rather than just Trump is perfect ....so can it be returned to how Obama had it?
Why does it need to be done with violence and guns? We dont use tear gas and guns.

It can’t be returned to how Obama did it, because there was nobody like Biden, who allowed 4-6 million illegal aliens to settle all
over America while waiting for their ‘asylum’ cases to be heard.

LlttledrummergirI · 21/01/2026 19:31

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 16:33

We all know Jewish people.

The fact that the nazis escalated from rounding up legal citizens to murdering them in their millions is not comparable to ICE removing those illegally in the US. It is appalling to keep making this comparison.

Youve missed the point spectacularly. The Nazis didn't consider Jewish people as German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws

Removing aliens, disappearing them off the street, terrorising the German population is exactly comparable.

People have disappeared and have been killed whilst in detention with ice.

You are denying the lessons of history.

Nuremberg Laws - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 20:05

LlttledrummergirI · 21/01/2026 19:31

Youve missed the point spectacularly. The Nazis didn't consider Jewish people as German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws

Removing aliens, disappearing them off the street, terrorising the German population is exactly comparable.

People have disappeared and have been killed whilst in detention with ice.

You are denying the lessons of history.

For the trillionth time ICE are removing people in the US illegally. If they ever start removing those in the US legally you can write speeches about the nazis until the cows come home.
However as it has no relevance it just comes across as hysteria and attempts to whip up hate again law enforcement officers.

LlttledrummergirI · 21/01/2026 20:15

Ice are removing people they've deemed illegal, those 1 signature away from a green card, following the rules to be in the country by going to court appointments etc.

You really are blinkered about the bully boy and his private army.

Tigerbalmshark · 21/01/2026 20:24

Playingvideogames · 11/01/2026 21:44

Some aren’t, most are. It’s not surprising people who call themselves very averse to violence/harsh punishment wouldn’t want the task of rounding up dangerous men to be deported. The left wing men I know are all like Kevin from Motherland or bookish types who cycle and argue for trans rights. They’re nothing like Che Guevara.

I think you know quite a narrow sphere of men then. Would you put John Prescott in the “cycling, bookish” camp? Or Mick Lynch?

(That type of man has obviously fallen out of favour with the Parliamentary Labour Party so not on the news so often, hence the examples, but they definitely still exist - most of the men in my family are working class socialists).

Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 20:54

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 20:05

For the trillionth time ICE are removing people in the US illegally. If they ever start removing those in the US legally you can write speeches about the nazis until the cows come home.
However as it has no relevance it just comes across as hysteria and attempts to whip up hate again law enforcement officers.

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"ICE are removing people in the US illegally", oops! Freudian slip there.

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 21:00

Goldenbear · 21/01/2026 20:54

"ICE are removing people in the US illegally", oops! Freudian slip there.

ICE are removing people who are in the US illegally. I know you're desperate but even so. No 'nazis!!!!!!!' comments this time?

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 21:03

'Would you put John Prescott in the “cycling, bookish” camp? Or Mick Lynch?'

Not aimed at me but I'd put Prescott in the cheating sleazeball camp and Mick who?

GoodGriefCharlie · 21/01/2026 21:23

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 21:00

ICE are removing people who are in the US illegally. I know you're desperate but even so. No 'nazis!!!!!!!' comments this time?

You’re right, I don’t think we need to use the term Nazi anymore.

We’ve been using Nazi as a way to describe what ICE is doing, and becoming, to explain how it looks in the context of the past and to warn of where it would lead.

But we don’t need this now, because they’ve reached a depth of depravity that the term Nazi helped us to describe. They’re not hiding who they are or what they’re doing. People can’t deny where it will lead because it is already here, in the full view of the world.

Anybody denying it at this stage is just admitting they are OK with it. Women being murdered, children being snatched off the streets, citizens being detained, and immigrants being treated illegally and inhumanely, including death.

We don’t need to say Nazi anymore, because we can just say ICE.

DdraigGoch · 21/01/2026 22:59

LlttledrummergirI · 20/01/2026 23:32

I get the New York Post on my Facebook feed. When I first followed it, I thought it was satire, along the lines of Southend News network. It took longer than it should to realise that it is supposedly a genuine newspaper. It's "reporting" is fucking dreadful, but the comments are something else

As I said, I thought it was satire, until I realised that the comments were genuine. I didn't realise that people that poorly educated and hard of thinking actually existed in the world. So full of their religious bollocks and righteousness and hatred for anything they don't understand (which seems to be most things). The Renee Good murder has been horrific.

They genuinely seem to believe that if they follow the rules, do as they are told quietly, then the ice gestapo will leave them alone. Comments about the elderly man dragged out in a blanket are full of the "ice said they had evidence of rapists living there, I don't live with rapists, it won't happen to me". Wake up sunshine, nor did this poor man.

The saying that there are none so blinkered as those who don't see seems particularly apt. Even when facism is right in front of them, they excuse it.

The tipping point is approaching and it's getting faster and nearer every day.

Would it surprise you to learn that the NYP is supposedly Donald Trump's favourite paper?

DdraigGoch · 21/01/2026 23:06

RingoJuice · 21/01/2026 14:26

Because Obama detained and deported at the border. They never left those ICE facilities as their asylum cases were being heard (and largely dismissed because few had any basis for asylum)

Biden instituted catch and release, which put millions of asylum seekers in communities around America. They are much harder to apprehend and deport, as you should well know.

Minnesota is a long way from the Mexican border, and there are consequently very few undocumented migrants.

So why have ICE chucked 10% of their entire manpower on this one state?

DdraigGoch · 21/01/2026 23:08

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 14:55

I'm not in the US I can't tell you why people voted for him, I'm guessing after hopeless Biden and Harris making tits of themselves everytime they opened their mouths they wanted someone who spoke in sentences and was no nonsense. Illegal immigration has apparently massively reduced so he is doing something right.

You can't help wondering why the dems can't get a decent candidate running their show.

Someone who spoke in sentences? Have you ever listened to one of Trump's speeches in full?

GoodGriefCharlie · 21/01/2026 23:12

DdraigGoch · 21/01/2026 23:08

Someone who spoke in sentences? Have you ever listened to one of Trump's speeches in full?

Honestly, it’s hilarious isn’t it. I suppose Trump does speak in full sentences, if you count a one hour and forty minute madcap, bilge-spewing ramble as a single sentence 😆

DdraigGoch · 21/01/2026 23:12

Gloriia · 21/01/2026 21:00

ICE are removing people who are in the US illegally. I know you're desperate but even so. No 'nazis!!!!!!!' comments this time?

ICE have been abducting citizens, green card holders, and those with valid visas. They don't care, they've got arrest quotas to fill.

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