Renee Good was one of at least nine people whom immigration officers have shot since September. These incidents, as my colleague Noah Lanard writes, share one significant theme: Everyone was in a vehicle at the time of the shooting. From Noah:
For decades, cops have been trained not to shoot at moving vehicles. New York City’s police department banned firing at unarmed drivers in 1972. After it did so, police shootings plummeted in the city. All of the country’s largest 25 cities generally prohibit firing at vehicles as well, a New York Times investigation found in 2021.
Instead of shooting, law enforcement officers are taught to do something much safer for everybody involved: Get out of the way. But the federal agents enforcing President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign seem not to be following this rule and are taking a far more dangerous path.
This is key context, particularly as the Trump administration keeps pushing the false, unfathomably cruel narrative that Good somehow deserved her death because she was carrying out “domestic terrorism”—again, a bogus accusation—with her vehicle.
So, how are cops supposed to decide whether to use force against drivers? What could Good’s killing reveal about how ICE agents are getting trained under the Trump administration? I encourage you to read Noah’s conversation with Seth Stoughton, a former Florida police officer who is now a professor of law and criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, for more.
—Inae Oh
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