When the American State Becomes the Executioner: ICE, Police Violence and the Collapse of Accountability!
.... Renée Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter are recent victims of unjustified ICE violence.
By Norris R. McDonald
When the American state kills its own citizens and residents with impunity, justice becomes performance art. Accountability dissolves. Fear replaces public safety. The deaths of Renée Nicole Good, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, and Keith Porter expose a policing system—especially federal immigration enforcement—that now mistakes cruelty for strength and violence for authority.
This is not law enforcement.
It is spectacle.Enforcement, Not Protection
Renée Nicole Good was a mother, a poet, and a U.S. citizen. She was shot and killed during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis. Within hours, authorities rushed to justify her death, deploying the well-worn language of “self-defence” before independent facts could emerge. This reflex—protect the institution first, scrutinize the victim later—has become standard procedure in cases of state violence.
Renée was not an activist or a public figure. She posed no public threat. Shot at close range, her life ended in seconds—an ordinary woman caught in an enforcement dragnet that increasingly treats human presence itself as provocation.
ICE was created as a civil immigration agency. Today, it functions as a paramilitary force. Armored raids, tactical gear, and overwhelming force are deployed in residential neighborhoods with minimal transparency, oversight, or local accountability. Language has evolved to match the violence: people become “targets,” communities become “operational zones,” and deaths are reduced to collateral outcomes.
Over the years, ICE has been linked to dozens of deaths in detention, alongside persistent reports of physical abuse, medical neglect, and psychological trauma. These are not isolated failures. They are the predictable result of a policing model designed to intimidate rather than protect.
Enforcement, Not Protection
This erosion of accountability did not occur in a vacuum. It accelerated under Donald Trump’s brand of “tough man” politics—a performative masculinity that reframed cruelty as leadership. Under this ideology, domination replaced restraint, and intimidation eclipsed the rule of law. Enforcement agencies were encouraged to act first, explain later, and rarely face consequences.
Alex Pretti and Keith Porter, like Renée Good, were casualties of a system that prioritizes control over human life. Their deaths are reminders that American policing—local and federal—has drifted dangerously far from its stated purpose.
A state that kills without consequence does not govern through justice. It governs through fear. And when fear becomes policy, democracy itself becomes fragile.
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| There is no justice under the sun from U.S. Government state sanctioned violence. Now, Alex Porter, Renee Good and Alex Pretti lives have been suddenly cut short by unjustified ICE violence unleashed on the American cities and people. |
This is not about rogue officers or tragic mistakes.
It is about a state that has normalized lethal force, buried accountability under procedure, and turned justice into performance art.
This is empire at home — and it is killing its own.
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