Fox News’ Jesse Watters Slammed For ICE Shooting Victim Segment | EUROtoday

Fox News host Jesse Watters is drawing outrage on-line after providing a reductive on-air description of the Minneapolis lady shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Wednesday.

The sufferer within the taking pictures has been recognized as Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Twin Cities resident and mom who lived along with her associate in the identical neighborhood the place she was killed.

On Wednesday’s installment of “Jesse Watters Primetime,” nevertheless, the host made some extent to emphasise Good’s sexuality and social media presence whereas commenting on her dying.

“The woman who lost her life was a self-proclaimed poet from Colorado with pronouns in her bio. A 37-year-old white woman named Renee Good,” he mentioned. “The Daily Mail says she leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage.”

He added, “She was a disruptor, though she considered herself a legal observer. But there’s no evidence she had a law degree.”

A clip of Watters’ remarks, shared on X by journalist Aaron Rupar, was broadly condemned by numerous public figures.

“Pronouns in her bio? A POET?!?!!” actor and comic Patton Oswalt wrote. “Why didn’t that brave ICE agent empty his full clip?”

California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) echoed these sentiments, writing: “In the pantheon of psychopaths, Jesse Watters is an apex predator.”

Meanwhile, podcaster Halle Kiefer instructed Watters had an ulterior motive in describing Good, who leaves behind a 6-year-old son, so dismissively.

“She’s white, so he has to emphasize that she’s queer, so his viewers understands her death is acceptable,” she wrote on X. “The Fox News audience should begin asking themselves, ‘What about me will Jesse Watters use to rationalize MY being killed, so that Fox News fans know not to be concerned?’”

Watters additionally got here below fireplace Wednesday after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accused him of utilizing “sexually exploitative rhetoric” whereas declining an invitation from one among his producers to seem on his Fox News present.

President Donald Trump and members of his administration have tried to border Good’s dying as an act of self-defense, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem describing Good’s habits previous to the taking pictures as an act of “domestic terrorism.”

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, nevertheless, has vehemently disputed that characterization, calling it “bullshit.”

“This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying,” Frey mentioned at a Wednesday information convention.“I have a message for ICE. To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”