Renee Good’s death while trying to run over an ICE officer was another tool for boosting the recruitment of ‘soccer moms’ into radical activism like BLM or No Kings. Up until Good’s death, ‘car convoys’ blocking ICE were sold as a risk-free protest technique that they could get into. Good’s death might reduce the willingness of some to participate, but others will be drawn to the drama.
For the Left, this is a win-win scenario. Either they get martyrs, scenes of ICE officers dragging white middle class women out of their $40K SUVs after they drop off their kids or the process of arresting and deporting illegal alien criminals slows even more.
Arrests and criminal prosecutions of useful idiots like Good , if she were still alive, are likely to be of limited use. ICE’s most difficult operations happen in blue cities like LA or Minneapolis where the odds of a jury conviction woke activists is poor.
However the federal government should move to confiscating those massive $40K monster SUVs as being used in the commission of a crime. And hitting them with serious financial penalties. Those same people eager to Facebook Live themselves cursing ICE officers will be much less prone to viewing it as good virtue signaling trouble if their credit is shot, their transportation is gone and their daily lives are suddenly a mess. Those can be much more useful examples than a Renee Good.
Freeze their bank accounts, their credit cards and put them through an extended process with no convenient jury trial in sight, but one that requires them to sue the government, and they’ll be less likely to play the stupid games that won them these stupid prizes.
