The Death of Renee Nicole Good: Why the Democrats Will Fail Step Three in the George Floyd Script
Over its entire four years, the Biden regime imported millions of illegal aliens and gave them generous government benefits with the unstated but obvious purpose of building a bought-and-paid-for political super majority that would guarantee a permanent Democrat-controlled electoral dominance. It was intended to be the capstone of Barack Obama’s pledge to fundamentally transform America.
But now President Trump has called a halt to this transformation and is in the process of deconstructing this illegally imported voter base through ICE raids, arrests, and deportations.
So it is that desperate Democrat officials and operatives in so-called sanctuary cities and states are using every device at their disposal to slow and block the destruction of their grand plan to replace, overwhelm, and subjugate their political opponents and the rest of the non-aligned population of the United States. (RELATED: The Media Are Agents of Propaganda)
Among their tactics is the use of rent-a-mobs and so-called social justice warriors to impede ICE agents from rounding up and deporting illegals.
Which brings us to the late Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent as she hit him with her SUV on a street in Minneapolis. Despite the best efforts of the potty-mouthed child mayor of that city and other Democrats, the facts are not in dispute. The video evidence is clear and unambiguous. After harassing and impeding ICE agents for hours, she then blocked the street with her SUV to prevent them from going forward. (RELATED: White Girl George Floyd Isn’t Working)
When agents ordered her to exit the vehicle, she backed up, placed her car in drive, and then floored the accelerator despite the fact that an agent was directly in front of and but a few feet away from her SUV. (RELATED: Was the Minnesota ICE Shooting Justified?)
In the face of Good’s sudden and deadly assault, that agent had but a split second to decide how to defend himself.
He drew his sidearm and fired.
The first shot left a hole in the windshield as Good’s SUV struck the agent and knocked him to the ground. He suffered wounds that required a reported 20 stitches to close. All of this comprises indisputable and insurmountable forensic evidence that the agent fired as Good’s SUV was coming directly at him and that he reasonably believed that he faced an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury.
The facts aren’t close. The agent’s use of deadly force was justified self-defense.
Nevertheless, Good’s death has become a rallying cry for all those Democrats and radicals who want to preserve what’s left of their imported illegal alien voting scheme. And they are not about to let the inconvenient facts of Good’s justifiable death get in the way of impeding the dismantling of that political base by federal immigration officers. (RELATED: Who Gets Canonized — And Who Gets Condemned?)
Which is why I anticipate that the thoroughly corrupt Minnesota authorities will charge the agent for killing Good.
Which is why I anticipate that the thoroughly corrupt Minnesota authorities will charge the agent for killing Good. After all, with Minnesota officialdom on the verge of legal and political obliteration for their ludicrously semi-comatose oversight and possible direct involvement in the looting of billions of taxpayer dollars by their Somali political allies, they need some way to shift attention from their perfidy. Moreover, given their legal lynching of the police officers who arrested the fatally drug-overdosed-deadman-walking George Floyd, these officials may well hope for a similarly diverting legal spectacle. (RELATED: When Law Enforcement Becomes Political)
And what better way to harass, discourage, and impede federal law enforcement than by arresting the agent who justifiably defended himself?
But if state criminal charges are brought against the agent, the prosecutors will find themselves in a decidedly different legal arena than the Hennepin County court that presided over the shameful George Floyd case.
Instead, the state prosecutors will be up against well-established federal law that protects federal agents for their official actions.
While federal agents can be prosecuted under state criminal law for actions taken in the course of their official duties, such prosecutions are subject to significant legal limitations and procedural hurdles. For example, states do not have the authority to prosecute federal officials whose actions are protected by the Supremacy Clause immunity, which applies if the conduct (a) is authorized by federal law, (b) is within the scope of official duties, and (c) is necessary, proper, and reasonable under the circumstances for fulfilling those duties.
This immunity derives from the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, which prevents states from interfering with lawful federal operations.
If a state attempts to prosecute a federal agent in state court, the case can be removed to federal court if it involves actions under color of federal office and there is a colorable federal defense, such as Supremacy Clause immunity. In federal court, the judge evaluates the immunity claim and, if the claim is granted, the case will be dismissed. On the other hand, if the immunity claim is denied, the charges will remain in federal court, where state prosecutors can try the case.
But a denial of Supremacy Clause immunity by a federal district judge is immediately appealable to a U.S. Court of Appeals for a de novo evaluation of whether the agent’s actions were authorized by federal law and necessary, proper, and reasonable under the circumstances. If the appellate court reverses the district court’s denial of immunity, the case is dismissed. If the appellate court affirms the denial, the case will be remanded to the district court for trial before a federal judge and jury.
In short, until the issue of the Supremacy Clause immunity is resolved, a federal agent will not be subjected to trial.
There is no question that the agent who shot Good is entitled to Supremacy Clause immunity. Consequently, any criminal charge by the Minnesota authorities would be legally futile.
But don’t expect this reality to dissuade the Minnesota crooks from doing all in their power — legal or otherwise — to preserve, protect, and defend their illegal alien voting bloc from being dismantled and deported.
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George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor. As chief of the Police Misconduct Unit in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, he conducted and supervised numerous investigations and prosecutions of illegal use of force by police officers. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net.
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