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Renee Nicole Good, as recorded by her killer moments before he fired his gun.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” ― Margaret Atwood

It may seem weird that the regime thinks the ICE goon's own phone video somehow proves him innocent, when, in fact, it supports his guilt. But remember that their defense of him includes the assertion that the murder was actually self defense because he "felt threatened". He probably did feel something.

All throughout the most recent election campaign, It was Republicans who repeatedly told us, "Fuck your feelings" and reiterated, "Facts don't care about your feelings." Apparently their feelings are now considered facts.

A pleasant lady smiled and said she wasn't mad at him, and that drove him into a red-hot rage. How dare a woman - a woman! - not fear him and not take him as seriously as he took himself and his violent, authoritarian role-playing? Oh, yes, she was a threat - not to his physical safety, but to his fragile sense of self, his belief in his own importance, and to his and this regime's requirement that women must be subservient to male authority.

His snarled curse, after he wiped out her life, says it all -- "Fucking bitch." This is what the domestic abuser says about the woman who disobeys, who tries to escape. This is what the disgruntled male employee says about a female supervisor. This is what the sex-pest says about a woman who doesn't want him to buy her a drink, who rebuffs his demand for her time and attention.

The regime's presentation of this video as exoneration tells you what their position is. The woman who doesn't appear submissive, who doesn't instantly comply with screamed demands, the woman who cannot be controlled, whoexpects to go about her own business (as she has every right to do) -- that woman is a threat, and if she gets away with it, his very existence will implode. So of course, he had to kill her.

They want us to agree that any woman who isn't adequately humble and subservient deserves an instant death penalty.