Renee Good Was A ‘Legal Observer’ — Here’s The Leftist Group That Weaponized The Term
An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota. Local and federal officials as well as former…
An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota.
Local and federalofficials as well as formeracquaintances attested that Good was in a Minneapolis neighborhood to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity during the fatal altercation on Wednesday, labeling her a “legal observer,” according to multiple reports. The leftist National Lawyers Guild (NLG) mainstreamed the term through its “Legal Observer Program” in 1968, designed to appoint members to observe police responses to leftist Columbia University protests. These supposed legal documentarians have since become a fixture in American activism, including in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots of 2020, and other leftist groups use the label colloquially.
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