Somebody named Todd Alcott explained it this way on Facebook, in the context of why they released that video from Jonathan Ross’s cell phone, which in the eyes of all normal people who aren’t going to hell when they die fully exonerated Renee Good. Why did that exonerate him, for them?

[B]ecause the victim mocked him, mocked his authority, didn’t take his fascist cosplay seriously. So he shot her in the face, three times. That’ll teach her. He saw that she was queer, he saw her wife, he couldn’t stand to be mocked by someone so inferior to himself, so he shot her in the face, three times, then called her a “fuckin’ bitch” as he walked away from the vehicle now careening down the street with a dead woman at the wheel.

That’s what I mean about ICE being Trump’s fist against the citizenry he despises. One of the key underpinnings of the fascist Christian movement is that women know their place, respect their husbands, don’t talk back and don’t meddle in the affairs of men. That is the message DHS sent by releasing the video, and it’s why they have doubled down, repeatedly, on the “he was threatened” narrative: because to them, he WAS threatened, because there was a woman in front of him who didn’t need a man, didn’t want a man, didn’t respect him as a man, and mocked his authority as a man.

For Trump and his thugs, this is the perfect wedge murder, an opportunity to demonstrate their core principles, and their approach to the law: the man is right, the woman is wrong, and the penalty for talking back is death. They released the video to tell all American women that this is what you get for disrespecting the natural order of the universe.

It’s the famous Margaret Atwood quote that’s going around so much right now: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.