Based on how members of the Trump administration rushed to describe Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman who was shot and killed in her minivan while protesting ICE, as a “domestic terrorist,” a “professional agitator,” and an “anti-ICE rioter” behind the wheel of a “thousand-pound missile,” here is how they might describe her dropping off her son at school just before she was killed.
The terrorist drove a 4,000-pound guided missile to deliver her small associate to the rendezvous point. She pulled up to where dozens of others just like her were also making their sinister deliveries at “School.” (An ominously short, unpatriotic name for any building. Where is the “Trump”?) Their tiny accomplices climbed out of the rolling weapons, carrying bags on their backs full of scribbled writings—Codes, perhaps? Or manifestos?—in crayon and pencil and Magic Marker. Some of them were armed with Uncrustables, suspicious, round, sandwich-like objects full of jelly and peanut butter. (Deadly biohazards!) Others had juice boxes.
Despite the snow on the roads, these terrorists were out in force in their four-wheeled missiles. The missiles were garnished, in some cases, with stickers. (Stickers that have slogans on them, religious icons that almost seem to spell out COEXIST—a threat, to be certain.)
Some of them were wearing hats but no makeup. (The mark of a mind disturbed.) Some of these women had a husband at home, and some had a wife. (Could this be part of the hostility toward “traditional American views on family” that is listed in the Justice Department’s new definition of domestic terror?) All of them were up to no good.
More investigation would show their true motives: Who had been funding them? Who had filled their vehicles with such dangerous and costly equipment? You could see the other weapons they carried: stuffed animals (plush, scale models of deadly threats to human life), insufficiently deferential smiles, a disrespectful attitude toward law enforcement—carried openly, in the car, where a child could see them. Who would allow such a thing around a child, knowing its potency! A disrespectful attitude—the kind of weapon that would justify any response, however violent.
Some of the terrorists walked their little cronies into the building, kissing the top of their head and whispering secret codes: “I love you.” “Be kind.” (A terrible thing, to indoctrinate a child.) “See you at pickup.” (A terrible thing, to lie to a child.)
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