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A political debate has been raging for days over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in Minneapolis last week, with many leftists accusing the officer who discharged his weapon of committing “murder” or carrying out an “execution.” Some of these same critics initially amplified misinformation that the woman who was killed was not an activist, but rather a coincidental bystander who was merely in the vicinity to drop her child off. Wrong place, wrong time. Eyewitness testimony and video evidence quickly dispelled this lie, clearly proving that she was, in fact, a trained radical activist who’d spent a significant portion of that day stalking, harassing, and obstructing federal officers. While interfering with law enforcement operations is a crime, it is certainly not an on-the-spot capital offense, so the relevant question about her death is whether the officer who shot her was justified in doing so. I’ll ultimately defer to the results of the active investigation on that subject, as well as to the analyses of legal and law enforcement experts.