No Money Back Guarantees

Tom Darby, Commentary

Let me be clear right out of the gate: I am not, and will never be, someone who celebrates the death of another human being. Ever.

Three kids lost their mother, and no amount of internet hot takes, hashtags, or righteous outrage changes how devastating that is. That kind of loss leaves a crater that never fills in.

Her name was Renee Good, 37, and she was a mom of three.

But here’s the part some folk are avoiding entirely, because it’s uncomfortable. Actions have consequences.

Not in a smug, heartless way, but in a cold, real-world way. The kind that doesn’t care about intentions once things spiral out of control.

When you attack, resist, or charge at ICE agents or any law enforcement officers, the situation doesn’t stay calm. Nor does it slow down.

It explodes. The officers train to interpret sudden aggression as a deadly threat because that’s how officers get killed.

They don’t get the luxury of assuming the best. They get milliseconds to decide whether they’re going home to their families.

Online, people love to pretend that “just resisting” or “just charging” isn’t a big deal. But the internet doesn’t bleed, yet the real world does.

It didn’t have to happen, and that’s the most painful truth of all.

There were moments when a different choice could have changed everything, but once escalation began, there was no stopping it. The ending wrote itself, and as usual, it wasn’t a good one.

And if there’s any lesson here, any at all, it’s don’t escalate, don’t attack law enforcement officers, and don’t gamble with your life, because some choices don’t come with a money-back guarantee.

The outcome is always tragic. Full stop.