I'm paraphrasing this from The Weekly Sift. Let's say you're watching a football game, and the referee makes a call that doesn't make sense based on the play you observed. Then, you see the same play from a different angle, and now the referee's call is obvious.
No one would say "eh, I'll ignore the second video because I think the referee's a jerk and the first video proves it." Everyone adjusts their conclusion based on the new information.
I've held off on commenting on the ICE agent shooting Renee Good because I wasn't sure exactly what happened. Predictably, the MAGA crowd went along with the official explanation, that she was a "terrorist" who was trying to run over the agent, while the liberal position was that the agent murdered her in cold blood. I've noticed that people tend to go along with their tribal affiliation before they have enough information to make an informed decision, so the above wasn't surprising. And I can guarantee, if Good had shot and killed the agent instead, liberals would be calling her a hero and conservatives would be outraged, even if it turned out that she shot him to save her own life.
Well, now we have yet another camera angle which clearly shows that Good was attempting to drive away from the agent. You can see her car veering to the right, away from the agents in this photo, with the agent shooting her as she drove away from him. Unfortunately, I can't embed the video as I couldn't find it on YouTube, so you'll have to cut and paste the link to the New York Times article if you want to see it.
If you don't want to do that, here's a frame clearly showing Good's front wheels turned to the right, away from the agent.
The car's motion is more obvious in the video, so I urge everyone to look at it.
It's clear what happened here. Regardless of Good's motives, or her history, she was attempting to get out of the way when the agent cold-bloodedly shot her, not because he or anyone else was in any danger, but because he was mad. And even assuming for the sake of argument that Good was trying to run him or the other agent over, shooting her didn't make a difference because the car continued forward, so if anyone had been in front of it, they would have been run over after Good was already shot and possibly dead.
From a public relations standpoint, the administration should have thrown the agent under the bus and issued a statement that this kind of behavior from ICE agents isn't tolerated. Instead, they've told us "don't believe what you see, believe us" while restricting the investigation to the FBI. Even if someone is still ambivalent, it's starting to look like the Epstein files, where a reasonable person will wonder what they're hiding. Like Watergate, the coverup was worse than the crime.
Already, there have been reports of ICE agents saying things to people like "back off if you don't want to end up like that woman in Minnesota." ICE is also sending more agents to Minneapolis, adding to an already tense situation. If this is intended to distract the public from the Epstein files and Venezuela, it's working.
When AI images and videos first became available, many people wondered if this would lead to fake news stories based on things that never happened. As it turns out, people are pretty good at identifying AI. And AI isn't even necessary when we all see the same real videos and come to the opposite conclusions. I'm sure there will be people commenting that the New York Times video is no good and the other ones suggesting that Good was trying to run over the agent is the one you should pay attention to.
Even the murderer's own video proves he was never in danger of getting hit, and for that matter, other agents or the general public. All videos also debunk the narrative the ICE SUVs were stuck in the snow.
Trump studied under Roy Cohen, and he schooled or picked people fully Cohen credentialed. They are denying, denying, denying and attacking with an alternative, logic defying narrative.
Those of us with brains have already seen what happened. The MAGAs will refuse to see something from the New York Times. End of story.
Hopefully independents will wake up and realize it's game over if they don't act soon.
