Vice President JD Vance excused an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who killed a 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by noting the officer was "sensitive" because he had been dragged by a car months before.
During a White House briefing on Thursday, Vance pointed to a CNN headline: "Outrage after ICE officer kills U.S. citizen in Minneapolis."
"That's one way to put it, and that is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours," he complained. "And I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement, this was an attack on law and order, this was an attack on the American people. The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day."
"What that headline leaves out is the fact that that very ICE officer nearly had his life ended, dragged by a car six months ago, 33 stitches in his legs," he continued. "So you think maybe he's a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile?"
"If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth that a group of left-wing radicals have been working, tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the President of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is enforce our immigration laws."
Vance insisted that the officer "defended himself" and that "everybody who's been repeating the lie that this is some innocent woman who was out for a drive in Minneapolis when a law enforcement officer shot at her, you should be ashamed of yourselves."
"Every single one of you!" he exclaimed.
