ICE "Background Checks"

  

After protestor Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed yesterday - without due process of law - I started looking at the qualifications for ICE agents.

It may or may not surprise you to learn that although there is a background check, all criminal charges are "adjudicated" - meaning if it comes back with criminal charges, a decision is made regarding fitness for duty.

(The link above is directly from ICE.gov.)

We don't know what that means - for all we know, it could actually mean the more aggressive you are, the better fit you are for the role. 

I mean, ICE's leader, Kristi Noem, admittedly shot a puppy she considered untrainable, for God's sake!

Also, we don't know anything at all about the training, how much or what kind, but apparently, it's not a long process.

What I hope for is that some investigative journalist will be brave enough to go undercover and expose this for us. 

For now, all I can say what happened to Renee was not only heartbreaking, it's frightening for the direction this country is headed in.

I don't care what justification Trump and Republicans are giving, every person in this country has the right to due process of law and Renee was unarmed and she wasn't destroying property.

As I've said before, it wouldn't be long before we'd have another Kent State-style      shooting on our hands and here we are.

And with the justifications given for it, I can see it won't be the last.

Wake up, Republicans - this is exactly what you feared this country would become.

But it's okay when it's YOU doing it?