Angered Vance vigorously defends ICE agent and doubles down on ‘car ramming’ declare | EUROtoday

A visibly irate Vice President JD Vance lashed out at reporters at a White House press briefing on Thursday as he defended the Trump administration’s protection of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed a girl in Minneapolis in the future earlier regardless of an ongoing investigation into the taking pictures by federal investigators.

Vance’s look within the White House briefing room was ostensibly to announce the creation of a brand new Associate Attorney General place charged with investigating fraudulent abuse of federal advantages of the sort that has rocked the Minnesota state authorities in current weeks and compelled Governor Tim Walz to drop his bid for a 3rd time period.

But the vice chairman rapidly pivoted to complaining about press protection of yesterday’s taking pictures of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother-of-three, after her car blocked a avenue throughout an energetic ICE operation.

Vance started grousing about how media studies during the last 24 hours had quoted outstanding Democrats — together with Walz and Frey — who described the taking pictures as “murder” or questioned whether or not the taking pictures was justified by displaying or analyzing video footage calling into query whether or not Good had accelerated her automobile on the ICE officer who fired the deadly photographs into her.

“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,” he stated.

The deadly taking pictures occurred on a avenue in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, the place quite a few immigration officers had been current following a current inflow of federal brokers to town. Video of the incident reveals an ICE officer confronting Good in her automobile earlier than firing a number of photographs into the car because it began to maneuver.

Officials from the Trump administration described the taking pictures as an act of self-defense and alleged that the Good had engaged in “domestic terrorism.” In distinction, Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey condemned the agent’s actions as reckless and known as on federal immigration authorities to withdraw from town.

But Trump administration officers — together with and as much as the president himself — have blamed Good for her personal dying by accusing her of getting intentionally making an attempt to run the officer over together with her Honda Pilot.

Vance went additional than that by accusing the deceased — with out providing proof — of being in Minneapolis “to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America” and calling her a part of what he described as “a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.”

“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 stated.

He continued, shouting, as he accused “you people in the media” of “lying about this attack” whereas once more stating that Good had been “trying to ram” the officer who shot her.

“He shot back. He defended himself. He’s already been seriously wounded in law enforcement operations before, and everybody who has 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,” he stated.

Vance didn’t supply any proof to help his assertions that Good was a part of the “left-wing network” he accused her of taking part in and when pressed by reporters to again up his claims he stated the identities of these in that alleged “network” had been “one of the things we’re going to have to figure out.”

At the identical time, he continued to counsel that the protests which have sprung up across the administration’s heavy-handed immigration enforcement operations aren’t natural and are as a substitute organized by a nebulous group that gives miscreants with the means to commit violence.

He requested: “When somebody throws a brick at an ice agent, or somebody tries to run over an ICE agent, who paid for the brick — and who told protesters to show up and engage in violent activity against our law enforcement officers?”

Vance’s rhetorical query gave the impression to be based mostly on a years-old and debunked right-wing conspiracy concept which sprang up throughout protests in Minneapolis and different cities following the homicide of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020.

At the time, pro-Trump social media personalities claimed that pallets of bricks discovered on streets had been bought by unknown events and positioned for rioters to throw at legislation enforcement, however a number of fact-checking organizations discovered on the time that the bricks had been bought for close by development initiatives and staged there to be used by employees.

When requested particularly whether or not the administration had any proof in-hand to help his declare that Good was a part of an organized community of leftists geared toward undermining or harming ICE operations, Vance stated each DHS and the FBI had been within the technique of investigating the taking pictures itself however instantly resumed providing his personal conclusions that Good “was trying to obstruct a legitimate law enforcement operation” and “aimed her car at a law enforcement officer and pressed on the accelerator.”

“I can believe that her death is a tragedy while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far-left who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe, against our law enforcement officers. I think what is clearly happening here,” he stated.

Despite the vice chairman’s assertions, video footage from bystanders on the scene don’t help the allegation that Good was making an attempt to hit the agent, in accordance with an evaluation by The New York Times.

Good’s ex-husband additionally instructed the Associated Press that she was within the space the place ICE had been working whereas driving house after dropping her six-year-old son off in school earlier within the day.