JD Vance blames Renee Nicole Good for her killing by ICE agent in Minneapolis

Vice President JD Vance connected Thursday blamed Renee Nicole Good for her fatal shooting by an ICE cause successful Minneapolis, adjacent arsenic the sidesplitting remains nether probe by national and authorities authorities.

"A tragedy? Absolutely. But a calamity that falls connected this pistillate and each of the radicals who thatch radical that migration is the 1 benignant of instrumentality that rioters are allowed to interfere with," Vance wrote successful a tweet.

The vice president was responding to a civilian liberties lawyer who had said video showed that migration officers instigated the confrontation with Good.

"The gaslighting is disconnected the charts and I'm having nary of it. This feline was doing his job," Vance wrote. "She tried to halt him from doing his job. When helium approached her car, she tried to deed him."

Good, 37, was changeable connected Wednesday arsenic she began driving distant from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents connected a residential thoroughfare aft agents told her to get retired of her SUV, which had been blocking the roadworthy they were driving down.

An cause who positioned himself successful beforehand of her car conscionable earlier she moved changeable astatine her respective times arsenic the SUV moved toward him.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that Good, who has a young son, was engaged successful "domestic terrorism," and that she was intentionally trying to mow down ICE agents.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey person scoffed astatine that claim, saying it was contradicted by video evidence.

Frey called DHS' claims "bulls---" and "a garbage narrative."

Jenin Younes, the nationalist ineligible manager of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, in a tweet connected X, said, "Video shows her steering instrumentality is turned to the right, intelligibly an effort to permission WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer wide of the serviceman lasting towards the beforehand of her car."

"That serviceman had clip to measurement to the side, which is wherever helium was erstwhile helium changeable her," Younes wrote. "Even a existent constabulary serviceman would not person the close to sprout astatine her for trying to flee. This is well-established successful the lawsuit law; deadly unit whitethorn not beryllium utilized simply to forestall idiosyncratic from getting away."

Vance, successful his tweet replying to Younes, said, "This is preposterous."

"This defence lawyer is drafting a meaningless favoritism betwixt an ICE serviceman and a 'real constabulary officer,' " Vance wrote.

"Again, you're not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is precisely what this pistillate was doing."

"The serviceman didn't discharge his limb to forestall her from fleeing," Vance wrote. "When helium discharged his weapon, she had pointed the conveyance astatine him and pressed the gas. He discharged his limb successful aforesaid defense, and different angles of the video amusement the pistillate *clearly* deed the serviceman with her car portion accelerating."

The Democratic National Committee's X account, successful a reply to Vance, said, "We each cognize what we saw."

House Minorty Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, astatine a property league connected Thursday morning, reportedly said, "The sidesplitting of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and humor is intelligibly connected the hands of those individuals wrong the medication who person been pushing an utmost argumentation that has thing to bash with migration enforcement connected to removing convulsive felons from this country."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that successful watching the video of Good being shot, "You felt similar your tummy was being punched."

"Looking astatine the video, determination seemed nary justification for what these agents did," Schumer said astatine a property league with Jeffries, according to NBC News.

"There needs to beryllium a afloat probe astatine the national level, though I person small religion successful the FBI of doing a just probe oregon DHS, but astatine the section level arsenic well."

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe acceptable up to enactment Good's woman and lad had reached astir $540,000 successful donations by 11 a.m. ET Thursday.