Liberals are up in arms. A protestor tried to make her point by running over an ICE agent. It didn’t end well for her. The ICE agent iced her. An added dimension to the tragedy is that there were four empty seats in her vehicle and her Honda did not explode on impact. Well, at least her dog wasn’t hurt.

In liberal speak up is down, black is white and bad is good. Trump was buddies with Maduro and that is bad. Trump engineers the arrest of Maduro and that ought to be good. Nope, bad, Trump did it. Liberals support wetbacks, dictators, drug dealers, rapists and murders. Middle Americans victimized by those same thugs, nothing more than anecdotal numbers. They don’t count. It’s the concept don’t you know. Not the reality.

I thought I’d level the playing field, for purposes of discussion. Here are some definitions that serve as a starting point. Begin at the beginning. Here is a definition of a “peaceful protest”. Not my definition. It came from a civil rights advocacy group.

The Right to Peaceful Protest and Its Legal Limits – LegalClarity

A peaceful protest includes many expressive activities that are legally protected and intended to convey a message without violence or illegal conduct. Common forms of protected protest include:

Legal Clarity

Notice a couple of keywords in that definition: “without violence or illegal conduct.” Yeah, so? Maybe Black’s law dictionary will offer clarification, again not my definition. Here is what Black’s says about breach of the peace.

Breach of the peace. A violation of the public tranquility and order. The offense of breaking or disturbing the public peace by any riotous, forcible, or unlawful proceeding. 4 Bl. Comm. 142, et seq.; People v. Bartz, 53 Mich. 493, 19 N. W. 161; State v. White, 18 R. I. 473, 28 Atl. 968; People v. Wallace, 85 App. Div. 170, 83 N. Y. Supp. 130; Scougale v. Sweet, 124 Mich. 311, 82 N. W. 106L A constructive breach of the peace is an unlawful act which, though wanting the elements of actual violence or injury to any person, is yet inconsistent with the peaceable and orderly conduct of society. Various kinds of misdemeanors are included in this general designation, such as sending challenges to fight, going armed in public without lawful reason and in a threatening manner, etc. An apprehended breach of the peace is caused by the conduct of a man who threatens another with violence or physical injury, or who goes about in public with dangerous and unusual weapons in a threatening or alarming manner, or who publishes an aggravated libel upon another, etc.

Black’s Law dictionary

weapon

An instrument of offensive or defensive combat, or anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, threatening, or injuring a person. The term is chiefly used, in law, in the statutes prohibiting the carrying or using of “concealed” or “deadly” weapons.

Black’s Law Dictionary

Yeah, but the Feds had guns. Some of them were carrying assault weapons. The dearly departed dyke was unarmed. Yeah, no. Back to Black’s. Here is their definition of a weapon. Some keywords: “designed to be used.” There it is! A gun! The cops had guns the dead dyke didn’t. Not so fast douche-breath you missed what preceded “designed”. “Anything used”

This calls for an explanation. When is a weapon a weapon? There are a couple of different routes to take, but they end up at the same destination. First, we can look at cause and effect. Did the offender wield an object in such a manner so as to cause death or serious bodily injury? Did the death or injury occur? If yes, then the object be it a lead pipe or a salami meets the criteria to be classed as a weapon.

Secondly, it is important to look at the overall circumstances. A salami coupled with cheese and bread is called lunch. A ten-pound salami wielded to bash somebody’s brains out is called a weapon. A Honda SUV is called a mom wagon, useful to ferry kids, and the dog around town. It takes on a whole other aura when mom tries to park it on an ICE officer’s chest. It isn’t necessary that she succeed in the parking job. The attempt crosses the line by a sufficient margin.

Not a week goes by. I’m being generous, it’s probably a daily occurrence when a person with bad intent tries to use a motor vehicle to alter the medical records of a person that attracted their ire. Just the attempt to run somebody over is enough for any reasonable person to conclude that the vehicle is being used as a weapon.

With those definitions in hand let’s look at the Minneapolis shooting. ICE agents are engaged in an enforcement operation rounding up wetbacks. The future dead dyke and her significant other show up with the family dog to protest the enforcement action. Did anybody get the dog’s name? Where’s PETA? Shouldn’t the dog have representation? Is the dog part of the conspiracy? Based on the actions of the LGBQRSTUV and 25 other nonsensical letters it is likely the dog is the brains of the outfit. Back to the action…

The soon to be dearly departed pulls across the roadway and blocks the street. This is a traffic infraction, at least and more likely a misdemeanor (blocking a roadway). An ICE officer orders her to move her vehicle and when she doesn’t comply, he orders to exit. She refuses both requests. The illegality on her part escalates. She is now interfering with law enforcement. As the officer tries to remove her from the vehicle, she first backs up and then pulls forward. This could be resisting arrest, more escalation on her part. As she attempts to drive away, she struck the ICE agent standing in front of the vehicle. I suspect her last word was “Oh!” One must imply the completed thought “SHIT”. A bullet to the head tends to interfere with one’s thoughts.

At one time or another, every cop has stood in front of an occupied running vehicle. It is a risky move. Where the ICE agent fucked up was in believing that the driver was a rational being capable of coherent thought. Had the dog been driving he could have got away with that move. “Stay! That’s a good boy!”

Keeping the definitions in mind the following statements apply. The dearly departed arrived at the location of what turned out to be her swan song with the intent to participate in a protest that was not peaceful and engage in a confrontation with ICE officers. Once she got their intention, she tried to avoid responsibility for her actions by fleeing the scene. As a result, she used a deadly weapon (her mom wagon) to assault an ICE officer. Fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow agents and anybody else in the immediate vicinity he shot her and ended her escape and continued assault. The dog was not injured.

I don’t expect that my analysis will end the discussion. But I will assert without fear of contradiction the following point. Had the late Ms. Good stayed barefoot, and, in the kitchen, she would be alive today.