Irish rock band U2 invoked Renee Nicole Good – the anti-ICE agitator gunned down by federal brokers in Minnesota final month – of their new tune “American Obituary,” whereas calling for a “rise in opposition to the folks of the lie.”
The Grammy award-winning band’s controversial jam is the primary monitor on their EP “Days of Ash,” printed Wednesday, honoring the Minneapolis mom of three who was killed whereas impeding immigration officers.
“Renee Good born to die free
American mom of three
Seventh day January
A bullet for еach little one, you see”
The tune states the time, 9:30 a.m., because the approximate time Good was shot thrice on a Minneapolis road.
“The colour of her eyе
930 Minneapolis
To desecrate home bliss
Three bullet blasts, three infants kissed
Renee the home terrorist”
Trump administration officers, together with Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem, described Good as a “home terrorist” after the capturing.
The “anti-ICE warrior” had been accused of “stalking and harassing” ICE brokers earlier within the day earlier than she was caught on video blocking a road for a number of minutes earlier than federal brokers pulled up the street.
One of many officers acquired out and ordered Good to maneuver her automotive. She refused orders earlier than the agent walked across the automotive.
Graphic footage from the scene captured the second Good appeared to plow into the officer simply seconds earlier than a number of photographs have been fired via her window.
4 photographs have been fired at good together with three that struck her within the chest, arm, and head. The fourth bullet grazed her.
“What you possibly can’t kill can’t die
America will rise
In opposition to the folks of the lie
I really like you extra
Than hate loves struggle
I really like you extra
Than hate loves struggle”
Within the tune, the band claims immigration operations allegedly focused locations of worship, faculties and streets the place kids have been round.
“Within the streets with kids enjoying
Within the church buildings the place they’re praying
Faculty lecturers are explaining
America, America
The facility of the folks!”
“Days of Ash” was a shock mission from the band was launched on Ash Wednesday, the primary day of the Lenten season for Christianity, marked by fasting, prayer and ashes positioned on the foreheads of worshippers within the form of a cross.
The launched by the legendary group – consisting of Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. – joined dozens of different musicians in releasing songs protesting the Trump administration’s unlawful immigration crackdown, together with the operation in Minnesota.
Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Dangerous Bunny and the Dropkick Murphys have all been vocal in opposition to Trump and federal immigration officers.
Springsteen’s new tune “Streets of Minneapolis” depicts how “a metropolis aflame fought hearth and ice ’neath an occupier’s boots,” which Springsteen calls “King Trump’s personal military.”
The Boss says he wrote the tune a day after Alex Pretti, one other anti-ICE protester, was fatally shot by US Customs and Border Brokers in Minneapolis on Jan. 24.
“It’s devoted to the folks of Minneapolis, our harmless immigrant neighbors and in reminiscence of Alex Pretti and Renee Good,” he wrote, naming the 2 victims.
Billie Eilish shouted “F–okay ICE” and claimed “nobody is illegitimate on stolen land” throughout her acceptance speech for Music of the 12 months on the 68th annual Grammy Awards.
