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 from people is if he came here to calm things down, what he did didn't do a damn thing towards that effort," Sidner said. "People here, I think, will be calm because of what is happening above us. The weather. Things are going to get so, so cold. We're in the negative degrees as we speak now, and it's only going to get worse.
Sidner reported that protests appear to be organized regardless of the weather.
"There is a planned protest that will happen tomorrow, which is not out in the streets," she said. "It's actually to do nothing to not go shopping, to not engage, to stay away from helping the economy, for example, to stop and to make their voices heard in the most quiet way possible. By not engaging in anything."
