Very good work Ethan, I hope it can break through the denial out there. Everything you are analyzing and reporting are things I have recognized for a very long time in my life. That life got in the way of my being able to vocalize it or turn it into written word. My eternal thanks for your ability to do this for this generation.
Per usual, Ethan, the dramatic way you analyze the real stuff happening is unique, profound , and a joy to see and read.
One opening statement I question: Ms Good, as reported in multiple outlets, was given TWO contradictory instructions: 1. Get out of your car; and stand here, quite possibly handcuffed. 2. Leave the street or something to that effect.
Regardless I believe she was clearly targeted. Why did the "officer" who killed het carry with him his weapon & phone? He's known for having bragged about his macho masked manhood about her and apparently other incidents.
This guy is the criminal to me. A murderer, who is likely to avoid investigation by the DOJ, who is denying the state and local law enforcement inclusion in the investigation.
Id like to know what law Renee Good broke? Ive read that ICE has no jurisdiction over citizens, how then is her attempting to leave the situation a violation?
You are asking the exact right question. This is the 'System Switch' in action.
Technically, during these 'Surge' operations, ICE/HSI agents are often cross-deputized or claim broad federal authority to stop vehicles they suspect are involved in federal crimes (drugs/trafficking). But you are right—Renee was a citizen, and this looked like a local traffic stop.
The trap is this: Even if the initial stop was shaky on jurisdiction, the moment an officer (federal or local) gives a command and you flee, the 'Violation' becomes the flight itself. They didn't shoot her for the traffic infraction; they shot her for 'Non-Compliance.' The System is designed so that resisting a questionable stop becomes a capital crime instantly.
There is no question that people have been manipulated. There is a difficulty with resisting the program though that manifests at a street level that is going to prove to be a defining test for Humanity. A threat remains a threat regardless of the vehicle it is contained in, actions over rule intentions in the theater of life. If we are to endorse having a society that is free of authoritarian rule, then people must be free to defend themselves from threats that endanger their existence. Maybe Good was a caring mother and caregiver, maybe she was a piece of human garbage doing a horrible job raising her kid. There is no way for me to confirm either in a way that aligns me with a judgement on that because I didn't know her. What I do know is that she chose to engage her enemy on their level and became a dead soldier on a field of battle. I know that the battlefield is engineered by a force larger than me, the cause and solution to an invasion of our society is being promoted by the same forces. The threat manifests regardless of the motivation or manipulation of the opposing groups which presents a street level problem that is difficult to mitigate. How can a society exist where everybody is on the same side when the fundamental differences in peoples life paths leads them to a place where there is an unavoidable threat to existence? I have lived in a state of passive resistance to my Governments invasion of my belief in my right to exist and self govern, I have faith that my morale code will keep me on a path that is true and righteous. What happens when the soldiers show up though to enforce their claim of ownership over me though?
Actually, that’s exactly what 'Officer-Created Jeopardy' is. He stepped into the path of a fleeing car to create the justification to shoot. Police policy experts (PERF) specifically ban this because it manufactures a 'self-defense' claim out of thin air. He wasn't trapped; he engaged.
It’s interesting that this regime is on the side of the protesters in Iran, while simultaneously using an immigration enforcement agency turned national police agency- where protesters are manhandled, disappeared, detained for a couple of hours, and now maimed and killed in public.
The othering of people here, to the point of categorically labelling anyone left of the right as public enemies and terror groups that need to be eliminated by any means necessary, has started to accelerate. Someone once asked me in late 2024, how do you know you’re in a dictatorship? My response was, when they kill you in public. That person ghosted me. Well?
I have found myself living in two dictatorships, not by choice, but as a by product of my studies. They both followed the same path, the same rhetoric, the same outcomes. In one case, a child bumped into an equivalent of ICE 🧊 accidentally - and peed on himself from sheer terror. He was told to go home. But in the other dictatorship, a child was killed for a lessor “offence”- walking on a street just two doors from his house.
In the US we have no idea, until recently, what it is to live in fear. But this country is so big, news of atrocities seems to barely register. Both sides of the same coin arguing whether it happened or not, who was who, without asking why it ended the way it did. Was a “move/drive, get out of the car” order justified with 3 point blank shots, followed by a “fucking bitch” comment from the shooter humane or not? She was dead, he walked away uninjured.
Is that what we are willing to take? Is that what will take, for us to hide or protest more? More have died at this agency’s hands. More have been irreparably maimed like the man who lost an eye because he was holding a bull horn to make his voice louder than the robocops in front of him. Shot point blank in the face, dragged by the collar many yards away, clearly bleeding from the eye that would be lost. The pregnant woman tackled then dragged. The woman turning on the street where the doctor she had an appointment with- window busted, seatbelt cut off, then dragged across the road. All documented video evidence.
And yet, many will say whatever they say to justify the agency’s response to no offence at all- those people shouldn’t have been there, well you know these agents are unpredictable, etc.
That and more happened in those two dictatorships I had to live and witness. Ask Venezuelans what has happened since the head of the current regime was taken in the middle of the night to another country. Death and destruction at a grander scale. Why not, it’s still the same regime. Only one snake from that Medusa’s head was “cut off”.
Or better yet ask the Iranians protesting. This country approves, while our people are attacked by the very regime that is systematically destroying our rights to protest and speak out.
And that “radical left, democrat terrorists”requiring extermination, who do “they”resemble on the world’s stage? You’ve seen this before.
What was written here, I have witnessed before, had to live before. I am scared my country cannot seem to shake off their internal compass that points in another direction.
Have you seen all the footage from every angle that was forensically? Take a look, starting from the point agent gets out of car (his phone filming), to the full circumvent of the car, the falling phone, while the “move, ride, get out the car” orders from another agent. Her last words, “it’s ok, I’m not mad at you”, a few seconds later she is shot three times, the car careens to the right across the road. Crime scene was contaminated, medical attention denied, ambulance 🚑 (called 911 by bystanders). Agent did not hand over his gun to superiors, give initial statement to the detective. Body was moved by the limbs to an ambulance at end of roadblock, they didn’t bring a stretcher. Agent calmly walks away with the words fucking bitch. Agent recorded until he got into a vehicle and was driven away.
Oddly enough I don’t believe executions are a deterrence. For exercising their constitutional rights no one should lose their life.
The issue is these moving compliance goalposts. The lack of training and their mind sets. The trigger happy ones (probably a lot of them), they may be our undoing as a nation. If only these 🧊 would behave- everyone would stay alive.
Would a larger context help? -comprising what Anthony Fauci population reduction, Alahandro Mayorkas population replacement, Joe Biden and his promotion of the corporate mandating of genetic editing shots to airline and military pilots , doctors , nurses, hospital staff employed at “all corporations of over 100 persons.” The anarchy started in 2020 and the treason started earlier than that. We did not get to this point by having one mom stand up to law enforcement. Don’t think you can drop this context by not mentioning it.
This “Domestic Terrorist” reminds me a lot of a movie I just watched last night, which I highly recommend. “I Was a Stranger” - the part about the Syrian regime accusing citizens of being terrorists if they don’t comply, and then using that as pretext to round up and execute citizens. Brutal.
The picture shown is not of the officer who was ahead of the car who we could only see for a fleeting moment in a different video. There were also other officers up ahead of the path of the car. We cannot, from the videos released, tell who actually fired the shot, if it was the officer ahead who can be seen being pushed aside (struck by the car} or if it was the officer next to the car. There was a statement provided that said an officer fired because, not only he, but the other officers ahead were in danger. There is no way to know to see more from the information provided, other then that there was an attempt to stop the car and there was a bullet hole in the windshield, and that she died - but as to if it was needed or not was a call that one officer had to make real time on the spot. If she had behaved herself she would not have died, so the cause of death was clearly bad behavior - that much we we do know and the rest may be up to a jury to decide, rightly or wrongly. This is like the George Floyd situation where the officer in question did not kill Floyd, contrary to the opinion of people who think and provoke violence, like this writer.
The people who provoke violence are people who refuse facts and push talking points. It creates a collapse of shared reality where friction is manufactured by those unwilling to face the truth.
Provoke violence? She said, “dude I’m not mad at you.” She wanted to leave. If you believe these poorly trained, trigger happy desperate for a $150,000 plus $50,000 dollar bonus fee are always right I hope and pray you are next.
Floyd was asphyxiated, but it was not solely on the officer. Floyd had an opioid in his system, which was and is the usually the cause of death with anyone cuffed that is under the influence of alcohol or other CNS depressants, and was left laying face down, with weight from above rested on the diaphragm, compressing the diaphragm, leaving it to not voluntarily contract and expand. He should (depending on policy and procedure) been placed in the “recovery position”.
You have written your sentence in such a way that eliminates the responsible party for how Floyd came to be in that position and where the weight on his diaphram came from. That party was Officer Derek Chauvin and that weight was his knee. Officer Chauvin murdered George Floyd quite deliberately and quibbling over toxicology reports doesnt change that.
Anyone seen the news lately…..don’t judge me…..JUDGE THE JUDGES IN THE AREA OF MILWAUKEE. Thanks for the coke and fenty Canada….Trudeau was chin deep in that shit!
We can argue all day about "if she had not been there" yada yada yada. Of course, goes without saying if she had not been there, everything would be different today. She'd be alive, her kids would have their mom.
The ICE agent didn't have to shoot. What really was at threat in the moment he chose to fire 3 or 4 rounds into the car. He could have jumped out of the way too and then apprehended her moments later, or 10 minutes later or whatever. Write her a ticket, arrest her for what she supposedly did wrong....but shooting her? Seriously!
Have I been trained in the use of deadly force, no, not exactly. But I've been in some classes and heard the protocols. So, does a woman, driving a vehicle with wheels turned away from the path of a LEO, warrant being shot at? She has no weapons pointed at the officer, no gun, no flame thrower, just a vehicle that he could have stepped aside from and (probably was at the moment) but he thinks she is a [bitch[ so he pulls the trigger on her. NO. IT'S CRUEL. IT'S UNCALLED FOR.
Trying to indict the entire apparatus surrounding HIM serves no purpose either. But what would be refreshing is to get some answers from people who can say something educational instead parroting a bunch of Bull crap, as they have done.
Blame for this can go to many recipients. There's not one side with a corner on the market for trying to capitalize on the entire Minneapolis situation.
Aside from running out of time to devote to this there is much more that can be said, but until some adults care to sort this out, prepare for more and more violence.
You've got a lot of style I must say, your novel approach to writing and designing a Substack is bar none very much fun. Some of it is beyond my orientation, but I drill into the substance you prepare to serve up and I'm enlightened. Some of your content is things I've heard or seen before in a different wrapper, some of it is completely new. You have the drilling rights to deep wells of information not available 35-45 years ago when I first became interested in drilling down on my own. Books, newspapers, libraries.....a lot of work. Some of those sources still exist but the cool thing is how the drilling for them in 2026 is faster and more complete because of our new tools in hand.
That said, the incident, the shooting....has burdened my heart since day one. But not because of the event itself, at first we didn't know much, but because of all the facts that have come out since.
I am thoroughly trampled by that car interior photo with the glove box....ouch. That stings. In fact, this whole incident sickens me unlike nothing I've witnessed before. Not pictures of war, suicides, mass murders, seeing death and destruction with my own eyes on scene....No, this one takes the cake. And subsequently, all the BS surrounding it folds in like egg whites into lemon meringe topping.
This section from above merits repeating. So, here it is:
PREFACE:
THE DISCLAIMER (READ THIS FIRST)
If you are reading this and thinking, “But she broke the law,” or “But she shouldn’t have run,” stop.
You are right.
She broke the law. She fled. She panicked.
We are not here to tell you she was perfect. We are not here to tell you that “blocking traffic” is legal. We are not asking you to suspend your judgment of her actions.
We are asking you to judge the State’s reaction.
We are asking you if the penalty for a traffic violation—even a panicked one—should be being shot and killed on-scene by armed federal agents without a trial. We are asking you if you are comfortable living in a country where “Compliance” is the only thing that separates you from a bullet.
This article is not a defense of a specific driver. It is an autopsy of a system that has granted itself the power to kill you for being “friction.” If they can do it to her, they can do it to you.
YES, THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU, ME.....WHOMEVER 'THEY' WISH.
AND who the fuck is THEY? Stick with me for the rest of the ride.
Who exactly is ‘they’?
“They’ve” been around for millennium. And they are here today still. This short piece is an entertaining portrayal of the infamous ‘they’ which comes from the 1969 feature film “The Wild Bunch” directed by Sam Peckinpah. A classic and ahead of its time in terms of production technique and editorial pioneering. Its marvelous. Saw it after senior year of high school and many times since. Its themes are probably even more relevant today (although I don’t advocate for or condone committing crimes like murder and robbery.) The ‘they’ factor is all around us, especially in Minnesota right now.
The Core Story behind The Wild Bunch:
Set in 1913, it follows Pike Bishop and his gang of aging outlaws trying to pull one last big score on the Texas–Mexico border as railroads, automobiles, and modern armies replace the old West. After a failed payroll robbery and a disastrous partnership with Mexican warlord Mapache, the gang ultimately chooses to die in a hopeless gun battle to avenge their betrayed comrade Angel.
The Setup: Harrigan's Trap
In the film's opening, Pike Bishop and his gang disguise themselves as U.S. Army soldiers and ride into the South Texas border town of San Rafael to rob a railroad payroll office. Unknown to them, corrupt railroad agent Pat Harrigan has learned of the robbery in advance and set a trap. He hires a ragtag posse of bounty hunters, led by Pike's former partner Deke Thornton, and positions them on rooftops around the office to ambush the gang.
The Bloody Ambush
A temperance union parade happens to be passing through the street just as Pike's men exit with what they believe is a haul of silver. Harrigan's bounty hunters open fire from above, and a horrific shootout erupts—gang members, bounty hunters, and many innocent bystanders are gunned down. Pike uses the chaos of the parade as cover, and he escapes with Dutch Engstrom, the Gorch brothers (Lyle and Tector), and Angel. A fifth man, blinded by buckshot, is mercy-killed by Pike.
The Worthless Haul
Once safely away from town, the survivors eagerly open the saddlebags expecting silver coin. Instead, they find nothing but steel washers—worthless decoys planted by Harrigan. Harrigan has outfoxed them completely.
The "Plain and Fancy They" Dialogue
The discovery triggers a bitter exchange:
Dutch Engstrom: " 'Silver rings,' your butt! Them's washers! Damn!"
Lyle Gorch: "Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!"
Pike Bishop: "They set it up."
Lyle Gorch: " 'They'? Who in the hell is 'they'?"
Sykes: " 'They'? Why, they is the plain and fancy 'they,' that's who 'they' is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is ‘they'?"
Old Sykes's rant mocks the gang's helplessness: the faceless "they"—Harrigan, the railroad, the bounty hunters—have manipulated them like puppets, and there is nothing the Bunch can do about it.
In that scene, they is the faceless network of people and powers who rig the game: the railroad, Harrigan, his hired bounty hunters, and the whole emerging modern order that can use men like the Bunch and discard them.
Who “they” were in 1913
In the world of The Wild Bunch, “they” can be unpacked as:
The railroad capitalists and their agents (Harrigan and the company men) who have the money, the information, and the legal cover to set traps with impunity.
The hired guns and ex‑outlaws like Deke Thornton’s posse, working for wages and amnesty—tools of a system that controls them as surely as it hunts Pike.
The broader impersonal forces of modernization: corporations, governments, and armies that are replacing individual gunfighters with organized violence and technology.
When Sykes says “they is the plain and fancy ‘they’,” he is naming the invisible class that always seems to be one step ahead, turning the Bunch into cannon fodder in a world they no longer understand.
Who “they” are in 2026
Today, the same archetype shows up in different clothing:
Institutional elites and the power elite: concentrated networks of political, corporate, military, and media leaders who shape major outcomes while remaining largely insulated from ordinary people.
Technocratic and financial systems: central banks, global finance, big tech platforms, and data‑driven governance that operate at scales and levels of complexity most citizens can’t see or influence.
Narrative‑shaping institutions: think tanks, foundations, PR firms, and major media that help define what “everyone knows,” often making decisions feel inevitable and obscuring who actually benefits.
In both eras, “they” names the experience of being acted upon by distant decision‑makers whose interests are not yours, and whose fingerprints rarely show on the trigger—even when you are the one bleeding in the street.
Yes, the distant decision makers whose interests are not yours or mine. They manage to wipe away their fingerprints no matter what it takes to accomplish.
Good stuff, I’m sure. But I really don’t care for the whole “layers of metaphor” that you seem to want to use in every post. This is real stuff, happening to real people. Frankly, it comes across (to me, at least) as “matrix-esque” and a bit disrespectful to the gravity of the topics you’re trying to address. Hope this feedback is helpful!
I hear you, Dax. But ask yourself: Why does 'standard' language feel more respectful to you? Standard language calls this an 'incident.' Standard language calls a killing 'officer-created jeopardy.'
I use 'Matrix-esque' metaphors not to be cool, but because normal language is designed to sanitize state violence. To see the glitch, we have to stop using the System's dictionary. It might feel jarring, but that’s the point. We are trying to break the conditioning, not comfort it.
This definition helps me a ton, to understand the 'anime' world that is the wrapper over your writing.
I am intrigued by your content, but the interior decorating sometimes is a bit much. I'm trying to understand the 'world' you're revealing along with it's color scheme.
For now I recommend reading my Lexicon article and the Living Storybook.
If you are on PC, the link to the Living Storybook will take you to the entire series so far. But it doesn't work on mobile, so I included the link to Episode 1 too.
It's a project, but I'm working on a book designed to help with that. Will make it available name your own price .pdf when I complete it. I would be surprised if I finish it by the end of February, but it's possible.
Wow. Okay, then, Will 😆 — sounds like you’re not at all interested in the feedback — only in knee-jerk responses and using words like a 12 year-old kid would in a schoolyard. Gimme a break, dude. ((or fine, I’ll dish it out too… GFY :)) 💪🏼 ☀️
Have a nice life — but hmm, on second thought, I can’t wish you that, either— as I suppose you think it’s a simulation. 🤖 Anyways, “sayonara” — as I’m not here for increased vitriol, bro. Get a clue, and grow the eff up. Geez. 🙄
Torrance, you are citing First Amendment exceptions (Speech) to justify a Fourth Amendment violation (Seizure/Use of Force).
You are correct: Fleeing and obstruction are not 'protected speech.' They are crimes.
But in a Constitutional Republic, the penalty for the crime of 'Obstruction' is a trial and prison time. It is not an immediate death sentence delivered on the street by an agent.
We agree she broke the law. The question is: Since when does breaking a traffic law justify a summary execution? If 'Obstructing' is now a capital offense, we are all in trouble.
Very good work Ethan, I hope it can break through the denial out there. Everything you are analyzing and reporting are things I have recognized for a very long time in my life. That life got in the way of my being able to vocalize it or turn it into written word. My eternal thanks for your ability to do this for this generation.
Thank you, Ethan, for showing us the blueprint to what actually occurred in Minneapolis!
Per usual, Ethan, the dramatic way you analyze the real stuff happening is unique, profound , and a joy to see and read.
One opening statement I question: Ms Good, as reported in multiple outlets, was given TWO contradictory instructions: 1. Get out of your car; and stand here, quite possibly handcuffed. 2. Leave the street or something to that effect.
Regardless I believe she was clearly targeted. Why did the "officer" who killed het carry with him his weapon & phone? He's known for having bragged about his macho masked manhood about her and apparently other incidents.
This guy is the criminal to me. A murderer, who is likely to avoid investigation by the DOJ, who is denying the state and local law enforcement inclusion in the investigation.
Id like to know what law Renee Good broke? Ive read that ICE has no jurisdiction over citizens, how then is her attempting to leave the situation a violation?
You are asking the exact right question. This is the 'System Switch' in action.
Technically, during these 'Surge' operations, ICE/HSI agents are often cross-deputized or claim broad federal authority to stop vehicles they suspect are involved in federal crimes (drugs/trafficking). But you are right—Renee was a citizen, and this looked like a local traffic stop.
The trap is this: Even if the initial stop was shaky on jurisdiction, the moment an officer (federal or local) gives a command and you flee, the 'Violation' becomes the flight itself. They didn't shoot her for the traffic infraction; they shot her for 'Non-Compliance.' The System is designed so that resisting a questionable stop becomes a capital crime instantly.
There is no question that people have been manipulated. There is a difficulty with resisting the program though that manifests at a street level that is going to prove to be a defining test for Humanity. A threat remains a threat regardless of the vehicle it is contained in, actions over rule intentions in the theater of life. If we are to endorse having a society that is free of authoritarian rule, then people must be free to defend themselves from threats that endanger their existence. Maybe Good was a caring mother and caregiver, maybe she was a piece of human garbage doing a horrible job raising her kid. There is no way for me to confirm either in a way that aligns me with a judgement on that because I didn't know her. What I do know is that she chose to engage her enemy on their level and became a dead soldier on a field of battle. I know that the battlefield is engineered by a force larger than me, the cause and solution to an invasion of our society is being promoted by the same forces. The threat manifests regardless of the motivation or manipulation of the opposing groups which presents a street level problem that is difficult to mitigate. How can a society exist where everybody is on the same side when the fundamental differences in peoples life paths leads them to a place where there is an unavoidable threat to existence? I have lived in a state of passive resistance to my Governments invasion of my belief in my right to exist and self govern, I have faith that my morale code will keep me on a path that is true and righteous. What happens when the soldiers show up though to enforce their claim of ownership over me though?
This is it. Well said.
Are you a Russian troll?
It wasn't that she was running. It was that she was running over the guy that shot her.
Actually, that’s exactly what 'Officer-Created Jeopardy' is. He stepped into the path of a fleeing car to create the justification to shoot. Police policy experts (PERF) specifically ban this because it manufactures a 'self-defense' claim out of thin air. He wasn't trapped; he engaged.
It’s interesting that this regime is on the side of the protesters in Iran, while simultaneously using an immigration enforcement agency turned national police agency- where protesters are manhandled, disappeared, detained for a couple of hours, and now maimed and killed in public.
The othering of people here, to the point of categorically labelling anyone left of the right as public enemies and terror groups that need to be eliminated by any means necessary, has started to accelerate. Someone once asked me in late 2024, how do you know you’re in a dictatorship? My response was, when they kill you in public. That person ghosted me. Well?
I have found myself living in two dictatorships, not by choice, but as a by product of my studies. They both followed the same path, the same rhetoric, the same outcomes. In one case, a child bumped into an equivalent of ICE 🧊 accidentally - and peed on himself from sheer terror. He was told to go home. But in the other dictatorship, a child was killed for a lessor “offence”- walking on a street just two doors from his house.
In the US we have no idea, until recently, what it is to live in fear. But this country is so big, news of atrocities seems to barely register. Both sides of the same coin arguing whether it happened or not, who was who, without asking why it ended the way it did. Was a “move/drive, get out of the car” order justified with 3 point blank shots, followed by a “fucking bitch” comment from the shooter humane or not? She was dead, he walked away uninjured.
Is that what we are willing to take? Is that what will take, for us to hide or protest more? More have died at this agency’s hands. More have been irreparably maimed like the man who lost an eye because he was holding a bull horn to make his voice louder than the robocops in front of him. Shot point blank in the face, dragged by the collar many yards away, clearly bleeding from the eye that would be lost. The pregnant woman tackled then dragged. The woman turning on the street where the doctor she had an appointment with- window busted, seatbelt cut off, then dragged across the road. All documented video evidence.
And yet, many will say whatever they say to justify the agency’s response to no offence at all- those people shouldn’t have been there, well you know these agents are unpredictable, etc.
That and more happened in those two dictatorships I had to live and witness. Ask Venezuelans what has happened since the head of the current regime was taken in the middle of the night to another country. Death and destruction at a grander scale. Why not, it’s still the same regime. Only one snake from that Medusa’s head was “cut off”.
Or better yet ask the Iranians protesting. This country approves, while our people are attacked by the very regime that is systematically destroying our rights to protest and speak out.
And that “radical left, democrat terrorists”requiring extermination, who do “they”resemble on the world’s stage? You’ve seen this before.
What was written here, I have witnessed before, had to live before. I am scared my country cannot seem to shake off their internal compass that points in another direction.
Nailed it.
This maniac wasn’t a protester. She interfered with a federal law enforcement operation and tried to run down a federal agent.
Have you seen all the footage from every angle that was forensically? Take a look, starting from the point agent gets out of car (his phone filming), to the full circumvent of the car, the falling phone, while the “move, ride, get out the car” orders from another agent. Her last words, “it’s ok, I’m not mad at you”, a few seconds later she is shot three times, the car careens to the right across the road. Crime scene was contaminated, medical attention denied, ambulance 🚑 (called 911 by bystanders). Agent did not hand over his gun to superiors, give initial statement to the detective. Body was moved by the limbs to an ambulance at end of roadblock, they didn’t bring a stretcher. Agent calmly walks away with the words fucking bitch. Agent recorded until he got into a vehicle and was driven away.
May she rest in peace.
The phrase that sticks in my back molar 🦷 is “if she had behaved”… dead or alive this is the phrase that never seems to go away in our society.
So “if he had behaved”…would she be alive?
This all boils down to whether or not you support execution as a consequence of non-compliance.
Oddly enough I don’t believe executions are a deterrence. For exercising their constitutional rights no one should lose their life.
The issue is these moving compliance goalposts. The lack of training and their mind sets. The trigger happy ones (probably a lot of them), they may be our undoing as a nation. If only these 🧊 would behave- everyone would stay alive.
Wishful thinking?
Would a larger context help? -comprising what Anthony Fauci population reduction, Alahandro Mayorkas population replacement, Joe Biden and his promotion of the corporate mandating of genetic editing shots to airline and military pilots , doctors , nurses, hospital staff employed at “all corporations of over 100 persons.” The anarchy started in 2020 and the treason started earlier than that. We did not get to this point by having one mom stand up to law enforcement. Don’t think you can drop this context by not mentioning it.
This “Domestic Terrorist” reminds me a lot of a movie I just watched last night, which I highly recommend. “I Was a Stranger” - the part about the Syrian regime accusing citizens of being terrorists if they don’t comply, and then using that as pretext to round up and execute citizens. Brutal.
The picture shown is not of the officer who was ahead of the car who we could only see for a fleeting moment in a different video. There were also other officers up ahead of the path of the car. We cannot, from the videos released, tell who actually fired the shot, if it was the officer ahead who can be seen being pushed aside (struck by the car} or if it was the officer next to the car. There was a statement provided that said an officer fired because, not only he, but the other officers ahead were in danger. There is no way to know to see more from the information provided, other then that there was an attempt to stop the car and there was a bullet hole in the windshield, and that she died - but as to if it was needed or not was a call that one officer had to make real time on the spot. If she had behaved herself she would not have died, so the cause of death was clearly bad behavior - that much we we do know and the rest may be up to a jury to decide, rightly or wrongly. This is like the George Floyd situation where the officer in question did not kill Floyd, contrary to the opinion of people who think and provoke violence, like this writer.
The people who provoke violence are people who refuse facts and push talking points. It creates a collapse of shared reality where friction is manufactured by those unwilling to face the truth.
Provoke violence? She said, “dude I’m not mad at you.” She wanted to leave. If you believe these poorly trained, trigger happy desperate for a $150,000 plus $50,000 dollar bonus fee are always right I hope and pray you are next.
The autopsy of George Floyd confirmed he suffocated. I'm not sure why you are spreading false information.
Floyd was asphyxiated, but it was not solely on the officer. Floyd had an opioid in his system, which was and is the usually the cause of death with anyone cuffed that is under the influence of alcohol or other CNS depressants, and was left laying face down, with weight from above rested on the diaphragm, compressing the diaphragm, leaving it to not voluntarily contract and expand. He should (depending on policy and procedure) been placed in the “recovery position”.
The officer simply guaranteed his death sentence.
Correct.
You have written your sentence in such a way that eliminates the responsible party for how Floyd came to be in that position and where the weight on his diaphram came from. That party was Officer Derek Chauvin and that weight was his knee. Officer Chauvin murdered George Floyd quite deliberately and quibbling over toxicology reports doesnt change that.
That’s how you “interpret” how I wrote the message. What I did was state the facts that should have been most IMPORTANT
He is standing behind the officer you see in the box. The image before is the correct officer. He moved closer to the vehicle, behind the other man.
Please fuck all the way off
who should be doing the fucking off? It's a random comment in the middle of these other comments. Sorry, I'm just not tracking your dismissal at all.
Anyone seen the news lately…..don’t judge me…..JUDGE THE JUDGES IN THE AREA OF MILWAUKEE. Thanks for the coke and fenty Canada….Trudeau was chin deep in that shit!
We can argue all day about "if she had not been there" yada yada yada. Of course, goes without saying if she had not been there, everything would be different today. She'd be alive, her kids would have their mom.
The ICE agent didn't have to shoot. What really was at threat in the moment he chose to fire 3 or 4 rounds into the car. He could have jumped out of the way too and then apprehended her moments later, or 10 minutes later or whatever. Write her a ticket, arrest her for what she supposedly did wrong....but shooting her? Seriously!
Have I been trained in the use of deadly force, no, not exactly. But I've been in some classes and heard the protocols. So, does a woman, driving a vehicle with wheels turned away from the path of a LEO, warrant being shot at? She has no weapons pointed at the officer, no gun, no flame thrower, just a vehicle that he could have stepped aside from and (probably was at the moment) but he thinks she is a [bitch[ so he pulls the trigger on her. NO. IT'S CRUEL. IT'S UNCALLED FOR.
Trying to indict the entire apparatus surrounding HIM serves no purpose either. But what would be refreshing is to get some answers from people who can say something educational instead parroting a bunch of Bull crap, as they have done.
Blame for this can go to many recipients. There's not one side with a corner on the market for trying to capitalize on the entire Minneapolis situation.
Aside from running out of time to devote to this there is much more that can be said, but until some adults care to sort this out, prepare for more and more violence.
Well, let’s have a real lawyer’s take.
https://youtu.be/7AQbhes-Ntw?si=Y20-Do59VdqWllrj
Ethan,
You've got a lot of style I must say, your novel approach to writing and designing a Substack is bar none very much fun. Some of it is beyond my orientation, but I drill into the substance you prepare to serve up and I'm enlightened. Some of your content is things I've heard or seen before in a different wrapper, some of it is completely new. You have the drilling rights to deep wells of information not available 35-45 years ago when I first became interested in drilling down on my own. Books, newspapers, libraries.....a lot of work. Some of those sources still exist but the cool thing is how the drilling for them in 2026 is faster and more complete because of our new tools in hand.
That said, the incident, the shooting....has burdened my heart since day one. But not because of the event itself, at first we didn't know much, but because of all the facts that have come out since.
I am thoroughly trampled by that car interior photo with the glove box....ouch. That stings. In fact, this whole incident sickens me unlike nothing I've witnessed before. Not pictures of war, suicides, mass murders, seeing death and destruction with my own eyes on scene....No, this one takes the cake. And subsequently, all the BS surrounding it folds in like egg whites into lemon meringe topping.
This section from above merits repeating. So, here it is:
PREFACE:
THE DISCLAIMER (READ THIS FIRST)
If you are reading this and thinking, “But she broke the law,” or “But she shouldn’t have run,” stop.
You are right.
She broke the law. She fled. She panicked.
We are not here to tell you she was perfect. We are not here to tell you that “blocking traffic” is legal. We are not asking you to suspend your judgment of her actions.
We are asking you to judge the State’s reaction.
We are asking you if the penalty for a traffic violation—even a panicked one—should be being shot and killed on-scene by armed federal agents without a trial. We are asking you if you are comfortable living in a country where “Compliance” is the only thing that separates you from a bullet.
This article is not a defense of a specific driver. It is an autopsy of a system that has granted itself the power to kill you for being “friction.” If they can do it to her, they can do it to you.
YES, THEY CAN DO IT TO YOU, ME.....WHOMEVER 'THEY' WISH.
AND who the fuck is THEY? Stick with me for the rest of the ride.
Who exactly is ‘they’?
“They’ve” been around for millennium. And they are here today still. This short piece is an entertaining portrayal of the infamous ‘they’ which comes from the 1969 feature film “The Wild Bunch” directed by Sam Peckinpah. A classic and ahead of its time in terms of production technique and editorial pioneering. Its marvelous. Saw it after senior year of high school and many times since. Its themes are probably even more relevant today (although I don’t advocate for or condone committing crimes like murder and robbery.) The ‘they’ factor is all around us, especially in Minnesota right now.
The Core Story behind The Wild Bunch:
Set in 1913, it follows Pike Bishop and his gang of aging outlaws trying to pull one last big score on the Texas–Mexico border as railroads, automobiles, and modern armies replace the old West. After a failed payroll robbery and a disastrous partnership with Mexican warlord Mapache, the gang ultimately chooses to die in a hopeless gun battle to avenge their betrayed comrade Angel.
The Setup: Harrigan's Trap
In the film's opening, Pike Bishop and his gang disguise themselves as U.S. Army soldiers and ride into the South Texas border town of San Rafael to rob a railroad payroll office. Unknown to them, corrupt railroad agent Pat Harrigan has learned of the robbery in advance and set a trap. He hires a ragtag posse of bounty hunters, led by Pike's former partner Deke Thornton, and positions them on rooftops around the office to ambush the gang.
The Bloody Ambush
A temperance union parade happens to be passing through the street just as Pike's men exit with what they believe is a haul of silver. Harrigan's bounty hunters open fire from above, and a horrific shootout erupts—gang members, bounty hunters, and many innocent bystanders are gunned down. Pike uses the chaos of the parade as cover, and he escapes with Dutch Engstrom, the Gorch brothers (Lyle and Tector), and Angel. A fifth man, blinded by buckshot, is mercy-killed by Pike.
The Worthless Haul
Once safely away from town, the survivors eagerly open the saddlebags expecting silver coin. Instead, they find nothing but steel washers—worthless decoys planted by Harrigan. Harrigan has outfoxed them completely.
The "Plain and Fancy They" Dialogue
The discovery triggers a bitter exchange:
Dutch Engstrom: " 'Silver rings,' your butt! Them's washers! Damn!"
Lyle Gorch: "Washers. Washers. We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!"
Pike Bishop: "They set it up."
Lyle Gorch: " 'They'? Who in the hell is 'they'?"
Sykes: " 'They'? Why, they is the plain and fancy 'they,' that's who 'they' is! Caught you, didn't they? Tied a tin can to your tail. Led you in and waltzed you out again. Oh my, what a bunch! Big tough ones, hunh? Here you are with a handful of holes, a thumb up your ass, and a big grin to pass the time of day with. They? Who the hell is ‘they'?"
Old Sykes's rant mocks the gang's helplessness: the faceless "they"—Harrigan, the railroad, the bounty hunters—have manipulated them like puppets, and there is nothing the Bunch can do about it.
In that scene, they is the faceless network of people and powers who rig the game: the railroad, Harrigan, his hired bounty hunters, and the whole emerging modern order that can use men like the Bunch and discard them.
Who “they” were in 1913
In the world of The Wild Bunch, “they” can be unpacked as:
The railroad capitalists and their agents (Harrigan and the company men) who have the money, the information, and the legal cover to set traps with impunity.
The hired guns and ex‑outlaws like Deke Thornton’s posse, working for wages and amnesty—tools of a system that controls them as surely as it hunts Pike.
The broader impersonal forces of modernization: corporations, governments, and armies that are replacing individual gunfighters with organized violence and technology.
When Sykes says “they is the plain and fancy ‘they’,” he is naming the invisible class that always seems to be one step ahead, turning the Bunch into cannon fodder in a world they no longer understand.
Who “they” are in 2026
Today, the same archetype shows up in different clothing:
Institutional elites and the power elite: concentrated networks of political, corporate, military, and media leaders who shape major outcomes while remaining largely insulated from ordinary people.
Technocratic and financial systems: central banks, global finance, big tech platforms, and data‑driven governance that operate at scales and levels of complexity most citizens can’t see or influence.
Narrative‑shaping institutions: think tanks, foundations, PR firms, and major media that help define what “everyone knows,” often making decisions feel inevitable and obscuring who actually benefits.
In both eras, “they” names the experience of being acted upon by distant decision‑makers whose interests are not yours, and whose fingerprints rarely show on the trigger—even when you are the one bleeding in the street.
Yes, the distant decision makers whose interests are not yours or mine. They manage to wipe away their fingerprints no matter what it takes to accomplish.
Now, back to you Ethan!
Yes. I am comfortable with an assault on federal agents being met with deadly force.
Assault? Lol
Good stuff, I’m sure. But I really don’t care for the whole “layers of metaphor” that you seem to want to use in every post. This is real stuff, happening to real people. Frankly, it comes across (to me, at least) as “matrix-esque” and a bit disrespectful to the gravity of the topics you’re trying to address. Hope this feedback is helpful!
I hear you, Dax. But ask yourself: Why does 'standard' language feel more respectful to you? Standard language calls this an 'incident.' Standard language calls a killing 'officer-created jeopardy.'
I use 'Matrix-esque' metaphors not to be cool, but because normal language is designed to sanitize state violence. To see the glitch, we have to stop using the System's dictionary. It might feel jarring, but that’s the point. We are trying to break the conditioning, not comfort it.
This definition helps me a ton, to understand the 'anime' world that is the wrapper over your writing.
I am intrigued by your content, but the interior decorating sometimes is a bit much. I'm trying to understand the 'world' you're revealing along with it's color scheme.
For now I recommend reading my Lexicon article and the Living Storybook.
If you are on PC, the link to the Living Storybook will take you to the entire series so far. But it doesn't work on mobile, so I included the link to Episode 1 too.
https://constructamiracle.com/p/the-lexicon-of-our-rebellion-a-foundational?utm_source=publication-search
https://constructamiracle.com/t/livingstory
https://constructamiracle.com/p/the-living-storybook-part-1-a-hundred
Thanks Ethan. I’m using a Mac does that matter?
That is good!
It's a project, but I'm working on a book designed to help with that. Will make it available name your own price .pdf when I complete it. I would be surprised if I finish it by the end of February, but it's possible.
Lmao Will. Thanks but omg no need to attack
Wow. Okay, then, Will 😆 — sounds like you’re not at all interested in the feedback — only in knee-jerk responses and using words like a 12 year-old kid would in a schoolyard. Gimme a break, dude. ((or fine, I’ll dish it out too… GFY :)) 💪🏼 ☀️
Have a nice life — but hmm, on second thought, I can’t wish you that, either— as I suppose you think it’s a simulation. 🤖 Anyways, “sayonara” — as I’m not here for increased vitriol, bro. Get a clue, and grow the eff up. Geez. 🙄
Look in the mirror. Buh-Bye… child.✌️
Torrance, you are citing First Amendment exceptions (Speech) to justify a Fourth Amendment violation (Seizure/Use of Force).
You are correct: Fleeing and obstruction are not 'protected speech.' They are crimes.
But in a Constitutional Republic, the penalty for the crime of 'Obstruction' is a trial and prison time. It is not an immediate death sentence delivered on the street by an agent.
We agree she broke the law. The question is: Since when does breaking a traffic law justify a summary execution? If 'Obstructing' is now a capital offense, we are all in trouble.