Heather Cox Richardson notes that after someone leaked to a right-wing outlet the video from ICE officer Jonathan Ross of the final words exchanged between Renee Good and Ross before he shot her dead, JD Vance reposted it. Then DHS reposted Vance's posting with the video.
#ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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The video shows anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear what happened: Good's final words to Ross — the last words she ever spoke — are “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.” And then she repeats: “I’m not mad at you.”
She tries then to drive the car out of the way, turning the wheel away from Ross, and he shoots her in the head. He shoots three times. Then he walks away muttering, “F*cking bitch!”
#ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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Heather says:
"What is truly astonishing is that the administration thought this video would exonerate Ross and support the administration’s insistence that he was under attack from a domestic terrorist trying to ram him with her car."
Vance reposted it because he thought we'd all agree that Good deserved to be shot in the head, murdered, by Ross.
#ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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But:
"As senior editor of Lawfare Media Eric Columbus commented: 'Do Vance and DHS think we can’t actually watch the video?' Multiple social media users noted that Good’s last words to Ross were 'That’s fine. I’m not mad at you,” while his to her, after he shot her in the face, were 'F*cking b*tch!'"
#ReneeGood #AhmaudArbery #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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Richardson says this parallels what happened when three white thugs chased Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, and shot him to death near Brunswick, Georgia, in February 2020. One of the men videotaped this obscene chase and murder. The district attorney claimed the video exonerated the murderers and declined to prosecute.
#ReneeGood #AhmaudArbery #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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But because the murderers and their attorney thought everyone would agree that the video exonerated them as the story refused to go away, they gave it to a local station to air. This resulted in their arrest within two days, and then they were convicted by a jury and are now in prison, two for life with no possibility of parole, the other up for parole in 30 years when he's 82.
#ReneeGood #AhmaudArbery #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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Why did these men assume that a video which clearly showed they murdered Arbery in cold blood would exonerate them? Why do Vance and Trump and DHS assume we'll watch the video of Ross shooting Good in the head and calling her a f*cking b*tch after she has told him she's not mad at him will exonerate Ross —
#ReneeGood #AhmaudArbery #JonathanRoss #JDVance #KristiNoem #ICE #DHS #MAGA #murder
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