"As a Black man who's had his fair share of scary police run-ins, I'm not shocked that the American SS shot Good in cold blood in front of her child, nor that Pretti was killed for holding a camera. I'm not even shocked that these white victims have overshadowed the earlier ICE murder of Black man (Keith Porter) and the six PoC who died in ICE custody (Parady La, Heber Sanchez Domínguez, Víctor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nuñez Cácerez, and Geraldo Lunas Campos)."
"Last week, there was a Guardian article that used the interview quote "2020 never ended" as its title. A lot of us have been saying that for years. Not just those of trying our damnedest to stay health during this very-not-over pandemic (now on Year 7), but also we who knew that George Floyd wasn't the first to be murder by a bastard in a badge - nor would he be the last."
"Alex Pretti's murder sickens me in how it reminds me of the 2020 death that affected me even more than Floyd's: Breonna Taylor's. Pretti was a nurse, Taylor was an EMT; Pretti was attacked by ICE without cause; cops burst into Taylor's residence with a no-knock warrant; right-wingers hung onto Pretti's gun-ownership the way they clung to Taylor's boyfriend shooting back at intruders he thought were burglars."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed amid ongoing patterns of police and ICE violence that disproportionately harm people of color. A Black man with traumatic police encounters reports feeling hurt and furious but not surprised by these deaths. Pretti's death draws direct parallels to Breonna Taylor's case in profession, aggressive enforcement, and politicized defense narratives centered on guns. Many observers describe 2020 as persisting, with pandemic effects continuing, BLM murals removed, corporate DEI promises abandoned, and public health decline undermining hopes for sustained systemic reform.
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