MS NOW Host Calls Out ‘Ridiculous’ Claims About Video Of Fatal ICE Shooting | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Jen Psaki on Friday known as out President Donald Trump and his administration over the “disgusting and ridiculous” declare that Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an immigration agent in Minnesota earlier this week, was a “domestic terrorist.”

Psaki confirmed footage of the incident allegedly captured by the shooter himself, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, on his cellphone. She mentioned “the right” has seized on this video to say it “somehow vindicates” Ross.

“They claim that because the shooter appears to fumble his camera, and because you can hear a loud noise, that this video must be evidence that Renee Good ran over or hit the agent with her car,” mentioned Psaki. “That is what they have been blasting everywhere.”

She continued, “But if you look at all of the evidence we have seen so far, that does not appear to be the case. Because so many people were filming this incident when it happened, we have a lot of footage that captured the scene from very different angles.”

In the video, Ross approaches Good’s automobile, which was partially blocking a street. Good tells him, “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.” As Good’s spouse, who’s out of the automotive, confronts him, he circles the automobile and ultimately stands in entrance of it.

Good will be seen turning the wheel to the best earlier than pulling ahead barely, apparently trying to go away. As the automotive pulls ahead, the agent drops the digital camera and a voice is heard saying “whoa!” earlier than a number of pictures are fired.

“Fucking bitch,” somebody is heard saying after Good was fatally shot.

Psaki famous that the sizable ICE presence on the scene was attributable to certainly one of their autos getting caught within the snow, prompting quite a few locals to blow their whistles to inform residents of their presence — and begin filming.

“They are claiming that that video vindicates the agent for firing those shots, but if you sync up that video with the other angle of that same moment, you can see that the car does not appear to run the agent over. In fact, the agent’s feet are positioned away from the car,” Psaki mentioned. “And as I mentioned, the car is already headed in the opposite direction.”

The MS NOW host additionally famous that “it’s hard to say what we’re actually hearing” within the moments the place Ross fumbled his digital camera, admitting she’s not a criminal offense scene skilled, but additionally argued that federal brokers wouldn’t use their telephones whereas “facing a life-threatening situation.”

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin informed The Washington Post that Trump’s White House has given the communications sector of ICE “autonomy to create content that is effectively reaching the American public.”

Ross himself walked away from the scene after killing Good.

“Renee Nicole Good told those officers, ‘I’m not mad at you,’” Psaki mentioned Friday “That’s the woman the Trump administration called a domestic terrorist. That’s the woman whose killing Vice President JD Vance called ‘a tragedy of her own making.’”

She continued, “And all this new video does is make clear that those claims are just as disgusting and ridiculous as they were before we saw this new video. She said, ‘I’m not mad at you.’ And 25 seconds after she uttered those words, she was shot.”

Watch the complete section of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki” right here.