Americans who remember how an incident in Minneapolis six years ago plunged the whole country into a summer of rioting — then years of elevated criminal violence — should think carefully about where the protests over the death of Renee Good are leading.

Like the killing of George Floyd, Good’s tragedy is being exploited for a political purpose, with the radical activists who then called for defunding the police now demanding an end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — not only the agency, ICE, but the enforcement of the nation’s democratically enacted immigration laws.

It’s the protesters’ veto, an assertion by activists of a right to cancel laws they don’t like.

And it’s already cost lives, including Renee Good’s.

She was shot and killed by an ICE officer when she drove her car toward him.

Why was she having any interaction with ICE at all?

She wasn’t a bystander-she and her wife were activists trying to prevent ICE from doing its job.

“We had whistles, they had guns,” Good’s widow said in a statement that reveals more than she intended.

Law-enforcement officers are supposed to have guns, after all — they risk their lives when they confront criminals.

But the whistles?

Their purpose is toalert the criminals that law enforcement is approaching.

The Goods had whistles to help illegal immigrants evade officers of the law.

According to ICE spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, the Goods were “stalking” ICE.

The organizations that train activists to thwart law-enforcement know the risks.

The political movement that gained momentum from George Floyd’s death in 2020 didn’t make America safer for people who looked like Floyd.

Voters nationwide had several opportunities to register their feelings about that, culminating in the 2024 presidential election, which put Donald Trump back in office with a mandate to enforce the law, especially immigration law.

But what’s the use of an election if activists can negate laws simply by hassling and endangering those charged with enforcing them?

For all the liberals’ talk about dangers to democracy and the rule of law, they’re remarkably complacent about this danger, not only to the law and the democratic process but to people’s very lives.

Not police but criminals are obviously the greatest threat to Americans’ well-being.

Activism that abets law-breaking is the moral equivalent of racketeering, and it might meet the legal definition, too.

The only way to prevent more deaths like Renee Good’s — and more mayhem like that unleashed by the exploitation of George Floyd’s killing — is to stop giving in to activists who think they have a right to resist and obstruct law enforcement.