Bloomberg Discovers ICE Shoots People, Calls it 'Heightened Divisions'
Bloomberg's report on thousands protesting an ICE shooting in Minneapolis frames the incident as merely 'heightening political divisions around the Trump administration’s immigrant crackdown'. The article notes Renée Nicole Good was shot and killed by a federal agent during a 'confrontation'. What the corporate press conveniently glosses over is that these 'divisions' are often a direct result of
state-sanctioned violence, mirroring a long history of aggressive enforcement against marginalized communities that predates any single administration. (It’s almost as if 'immigrant crackdown' is a perpetually rebranded program.) Instead of addressing the lethal force employed by federal agents, the narrative pivots to 'political divisions' – as if state agents killing people is a debatable policy
choice rather than a potentially criminal act. One might wonder if Bloomberg would describe a bank shooting as merely 'heightening divisions' over financial policy. Or perhaps, the value of life diminishes when the victim is 'othered' by official policy. Funny how that works.