Mothers Against Police Brutality stands with the Family of Renee Nicole Good; demands that ICE withdraw from Minneapolis; and denounces the New American Police State.
Today, our hearts are heavy,
Less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was killed my ICE agents during a sweeping fereal enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Video of the shooting indicates Ms. Good was in her car slowly driving away from ICE agents when she was shot to death. We grieve for this woman, for her family, and for a community once again forced to bear the weight of state violence. This extrajudicial killing did not happen in isolation. It unfolded amid what officials have described as the largest federal immigration crackdown in history.
“It should be clear to all Americans that this country cannot deport thousands upon thousands of immigrants without becoming a police state,” said John Fullinwider, co-founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality, a national organization based in Dallas, Texas.
At Mothers Against Police Brutality, we recognize the painful parallels. George Floyd’s murder exposed how unchecked power, dehumanization, and a culture of impunity turns routine enforcement into a deadly encounter.
Since the day in 2014 that Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, on average more than 1,000 people have been shot to death each year by local police. Families grieving for the lives of their loved ones, stolen by official gunfire, suffer still from this police state that exists parallel to and within American democracy. Others, whose main contacts with police are traffic tickets or waiting for an officer to arrive after a home burglary, may have had the luxury to be unaware of police brutality.
“None of us has that luxury today when masked, armed ICE agents roam the streets of our cities, brutalizing immigrants and citizens alike,” said Fullinwider. “ICE is President Trump’s national police force, operating in a Constitution-Free Zone that was once the world’s leading democracy.”
We stand in solidarity with Minneapolis and with all communities demanding justice, respect for human rights, and recognition of the humanity in every person. We rededicate ourselves to our work to make human rights the cornerstone of policing. We reaffirm our unwavering belief that no authority is above the value of human life.
Today, our hearts are heavy – but our opposition to ICE raids and police brutality remains strong.
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Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB)
Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB) is a Dallas-based multi-generational, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic coalition uniting people nationally, to hold law enforcement agencies more accountable. Collette Flanagan founded MAPB in 2013 after her son, Clinton Allen, an unarmed young Black man in custody, was shot to death by a Dallas police officer. Transforming grief into determination, Flanagan and MAPB are leading the charge to change deadly force policy in Dallas and throughout the U.S.; to lifting up families who have lost loved ones to police violence; and to reimagining public safety, divesting from police departments and investing in the health, housing, household incomes, human rights, creative arts, and overall well-being of our communities. www.mothersagainstpolicebrutality.org
