The callous and cynical politics that led to Renee Good's death

Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting — then years of elevated criminal violence — should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading.

Like the killing of George Floyd, Good's tragedy is being exploited for political purposes, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation's democratically enacted immigration laws.

It's the protesters' veto, an assertion by activists of a right to cancel laws they don't like.