Mounting evidence suggests that radical activists on the left are determined to recreate the chaos and political leverage of 2020, regardless of the cost or the facts on the ground.
Their reaction to the fatal shooting of anti-ICE agitator Renee Good in Minneapolis illustrates how little they have learned and how unwilling they are to moderate their rhetoric, according to Western Journal. In a clip posted to X, a Black Lives Matter activist speaking in a manner many viewers found nearly incomprehensible denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as a demon and not human beings.
That outburst followed Wednesdays shooting, in which Good was killed after she used her vehicle to block ICE agents, then attempted to flee and nearly ran over one of them, prompting the agent to fire in what appears to be clear self-defense.
Despite video evidence that undercuts any narrative of an unprovoked execution, prominent Democrats have rushed to cast Good as a new George Floyd-style martyr. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have leaned into inflammatory language and symbolism, signaling once again their willingness to stoke grievance politics rather than calm tensions.
Floyd, a career criminal, died in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020, an event that triggered nationwide riots, the rise of BLM as a political force, and a wave of radical policy experiments that devastated public safety in many American cities. The political left appears eager to replay that script, even as the public has grown far more skeptical of their claims.
The unnamed BLM activist in the recent video ranted about the need to make the city pay, a phrase that in the context of 2020 can only be understood as a threat of boycotts, street chaos, and pressure campaigns against local businesses and institutions. The implication is familiar: reward the activists and punish the community until political leaders capitulate.
Yet her delivery was so muddled that Brendan Dilley, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump on X, chose to answer with biting humor rather than outrage. My God that was beautiful. Was she quoting James Joyce or Mark Twain? Dilley wrote, underscoring how unserious and incoherent much of the radical rhetoric has become.
Still, branding federal law enforcement officers as subhuman demons is no trivial matter in a country already grappling with rising political violence and deep mistrust of institutions. For families of ICE agents men and women tasked with enforcing immigration laws that Congress itself passed such dehumanizing language is not a punchline but a direct threat.
The lefts demonization campaign against police and immigration officers has real-world consequences, from recruitment crises to increased danger on the job. Yet activists and their political allies continue to indulge this language, apparently convinced that it serves their broader ideological aims.
Even so, the conditions that allowed the George Floyd narrative to metastasize into a nationwide upheaval no longer exist in the same way. This is not 2020, and the information landscape has shifted dramatically. Free speech advocate Elon Musk now owns X, meaning independent journalists and citizen reporters can challenge establishment storylines in real time rather than waiting for legacy media to filter the facts.
The public, burned by years of selective editing, withheld footage, and partisan spin, is far more inclined to demand full context before accepting claims of systemic oppression.
Moreover, many Americans now recognize how thoroughly Democrats and their media allies distorted the Floyd saga to advance a broader ideological project. The defund the police movement, lionized in 2020, has since been discredited by surging crime and public backlash, and voters have begun rejecting the very regime that rode the BLM summer of madness into power. Having witnessed the economic damage, social fragmentation, and erosion of public order that followed, citizens are far more alert to attempts to manufacture a sequel nearly six years later. The appetite for another round of riots and moral blackmail appears limited outside the activist echo chamber.
Most importantly, the Good shooting comes with immediate, compelling evidence that undercuts the martyrdom narrative. On Friday afternoon, Alpha News posted what it described on X as cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis.
The video shows Good smiling and leaning out of her car window as an agent circles her vehicle, saying, Thats fine, dude, and, Im not mad at you. Her demeanor and positioning make it clear she intentionally placed her car to obstruct the ICE operation, not as an innocent bystander caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Moments later, after another liberal activist can be heard harassing the agents, one officer orders Good to exit the vehicle. Instead of complying, she attempts to drive away, nearly striking the agent who is recording, at which point he fires his weapon. The footage, which comes with a warning for violence and foul language, offers a perspective that was conspicuously absent in many early media accounts that rushed to frame the incident as another example of federal brutality.
For Americans willing to look at the facts rather than the slogans, the narrative of an unarmed, compliant victim collapses under the weight of the video record.
Nonetheless, unhinged voices on the left show no sign of moderating their language or tactics. They did so following the assassination of conservative Christian icon Charlie Kirk, and they will do so after Goods death. They want violent conflict. Or at least they think they do. The pattern is familiar: escalate rhetoric, deny the humanity of political opponents, and then feign shock when tensions boil over.
Peaceable Americans who value order, truth, and the rule of law have every reason to reject this script. They can examine the evidence for themselves, recall the devastation unleashed in 2020, and refuse to be manipulated into another BLM-driven media hoax designed to undermine law enforcement and advance a radical agenda.
The stakes are not merely partisan; they concern whether the United States remains a nation governed by facts and laws or one perpetually held hostage by mobs and manufactured outrage.
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