JD Vance 'didn't do a damn thing':  to calm tensions in Minneapolis with speech: reporter

A CNN reporter revealed on Thursday that the vice president's speech in Minneapolis "didn't do a damn thing" to calm tensions in the city after a high-profile killing by an immigration officer.

Sara Sidner, CNN's senior national correspondent, reported on Vice President JD Vance's speech from Minneapolis, where he spoke to the community as he was surrounded by police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The speech happened at a time when tensions are high in Minneapolis after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother who was leaving the scene of an ICE raid in her car.

During the speech, Vance called on protesters to stop "assaulting federal officers." He also blamed local law enforcement for not helping federal agents perform immigration raids.

Sidner's sources told her that Vance's speech seemed to escalate tensions in the city.

"What you're also hearing frompeople is if he came here tocalm things down, what he diddidn't do a damn thing towards thateffort," Sidner said. "People here, I think,will be calm because of what ishappening above us. The weather.Things are going to get so, socold. We're in the negativedegrees as we speak now, andit's only going to get worse.

Sidner reported that protests appear to be organized regardless of the weather.

"There is a planned protestthat will happen tomorrow, whichis not out in the streets," she said. "It'sactually to do nothing to not goshopping, to not engage, to stayaway from helping the economy,for example, to stop and to maketheir voices heard in the mostquiet way possible. By notengaging in anything."