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When folks are talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, you know things are serious. The 37-year-old woman was fatally shot by an ICE agent, and sports commentator Stephen A. Smith is already weighing in with his legal takes. He predicts no prosecution for the agent, yet calls the shooting “totally unnecessary.”
Here’s the rundown: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good while she was in her car during federal operations. The wild part? Renee Nicole Good wasn’t even under investigation, nor was she a target of any law enforcement. She had no known criminal ties to the operation unfolding that day.
DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin claimed Good was allegedly “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” before the fatal shots were fired. But hold up – footage of the incident quickly dropped, and it had city leaders and social media users alike seriously questioning DHS and ICE’s version of events.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey didn’t mince words, stating publicly that the raw footage simply didn’t line up with the federal government’s story. He called it “an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying — getting killed.” Mayor Frey then went all the way in, telling ICE directly to “Get the f**k out of Minneapolis.” He even admitted, “We’ve dreaded this moment since the early stages of this ICE presence in Minneapolis.”
Donald Trump Gives His Two Cents on the Minneapolis ICE Shooting, Calls it Self-Defense
After the dust settled, former President Donald Trump jumped on Truth Social to give his take, claiming the incident was self-defense. Here’s what Trump had to say:
“I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense.
Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! – PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP”
Stephen A. Smith Breaks Down the Minneapolis ICE Shooting: ‘Justified, But Totally Unnecessary’
On his SiriusXM show, ‘Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,’ Smith laid out his frank legal analysis, stating:
“I saw the video on numerous occasions. And seeing what transpired from a lawful perspective, as it pertains to a law enforcement official, don’t expect him to be prosecuted. He was completely justified.
From a humanitarian perspective, however, why did you have to do that? If you could move out the way, that means you could have shot the tires. That means you could have got her a few feet away after you shot the tires. And if you were unsuccessful in doing that, you could have got her down the road. You didn’t have to do that.
She wasn’t driving down the road coming at you 90 miles an hour. She was parked in the middle of the street, and rather than get out the car, she wrongfully tried to drive off and wrongfully disregarded a law enforcement official, which is exactly what ICE is, and as a result lost her life because of it.”
Smith didn’t stop there, continuing to emphasize his point:
“At some point in time, you got to ask yourself, what damn country do you want to live in? At some point in time, we’re going to have to ask ourselves that question. And I think the time is sooner than later. Because again, from a legal perspective, don’t expect this ICE officer to be prosecuted. I’m telling you right now. She was in the car, Renee Nicole Goode, 37 years of age, protesting, blocking off the streets. ICE wanted her to move, an officer got in front of the car, another officer got to the side of the car, and then she tried to take off.
And in their eyes — the Kristi Noem‘s of the world for the Department of Homeland Security, and other folks on the right — they are saying, oh, they consider it an act of domestic terrorism because she tried to run over an ICE officer. He’s not going to be prosecuted. My point is, let’s not focus on that for a second, okay? She was wrong to drive off. She should not have done that. Or she should have asked the officer, I’m pulling over, could you move out the way, please? Instead of trying to disregard him totally to the point where you’re going to take off and potentially hit him, and he moves out the way and draws his gun and shoots through the front windshield and took her out.
But it wasn’t necessary. You could have arrested her. You could have spared the woman’s life. You didn’t have to do that. You didn’t have to kill her. We’ve seen plenty of incidences throughout the United States of America, historically and frequently, and recently, where people who committed crimes or people whose behavior weren’t indicative of law-abiding citizens who were simply obeying law enforcement officials, we’ve seen them walk away alive. We’ve seen them walk away cuffed, but they walked away alive.
So, even though the law, from a literal perspective, might be on his side, the reality is that your humanity comes into question because you didn’t have to kill her. She didn’t have to die. But that’s the country we’re living in now. We’re living in a country where some people, more often than not, are becoming lawless, and law enforcement officials are not just about enforcing the law while serving and protecting, but they’re also taking lives. At least in this case, that was the case. I believe it was totally unnecessary.”
This whole situation raises some serious questions about how law enforcement operates and what justice truly looks like. #Socialites, be sure to check out the post below, then leave us your thoughts in a comment after!
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