Editor’s note: This op-ed is adapted from an essay that appeared on Down from DC, a Substack that addresses how the decisions made in Washington affect North Carolinians:
In the weeks after Renee Nicole Good was shot to death in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, I poured over videos from that scene, and I’m now doing the same with the videos of Alex Pretti being shot to death this weekend.
I’m still processing the horror of it all, trying to understand how it unfolded. I’ve spent these weeks wondering what I would have done in Good’s place and now in Pretti’s…