Instead, Renee—alongside her wife—stood with other observers and protestors. Surrounded, boxed in, her final words were, “That's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you.” offering even the agents who trapped her a wish for peace. Her courage, her insistence on truth, her commitment to her immigrant white, Brown, and Black neighbors shook something awake in my sister, in me, and in millions around the world.
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