Ex-FBI Deputy Director Slams DHS Claims About Latest ICE Shooting | EUROtoday

Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says President Donald Trump and his administration “have no credibility” concerning particulars of the taking pictures Wednesday in Minnesota by a federal immigration agent — as a result of they “deliberately” mischaracterized Renee Good after she was killed final week.

The senior legislation enforcement analyst on Thursday joined CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown to debate Trump’s risk of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 ought to protesters in Minnesota proceed, within the president’s phrases, “attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.” there.

Tensions in Minneapolis elevated Wednesday after a federal officer shot an individual within the leg in purported self-defense. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security mentioned two different folks had attacked the officer whereas he was making an attempt to make an arrest.

When requested if the taking pictures was “justified,” McCabe torched the DHS as untrustworthy.

“They have no credibility in terms of the way that they are talking about and characterizing the people involved in these events,” mentioned McCabe. “They absolutely mischaracterized, deliberately mischaracterized Ms. Good and her partner as terrorists.”

The analyst famous that neither Good nor her widow had dedicated “any act of terrorism.”

Footage from final week’s incident in Minnesota confirmed Good partially blocking a street together with her automotive and making an attempt to drive off when ICE officer Jonathan Ross fired a number of pictures, killing her.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had dedicated “an act of terrorism.” Trump additionally blamed Good for the taking pictures, and his Justice Department has since reportedly requested that her widow be investigated “for possible federal charges.”

“So, we know that we can’t trust what the government is saying about what’s happening on the ground,” McCabe mentioned Thursday. “So now you think about what happened last night, and we essentially know nothing at this point, so it’s really hard to evaluate that.”

Brown famous earlier within the present that the Insurrection Act permits the president to make use of army pressure in opposition to American residents — and defined that it will probably solely be legally invoked if there’s an precise riot or clear-cut interference with state or federal legislation.

In an early-morning social media submit Thursday, Trump warned he would possibly make use of the act.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

McCabe informed Blitzer and Brown that there have been a sequence of “unfortunately violent protests” throughout the nation in recent times and that “not one of them” prompted some other president to invoke the Insurrection Act and wield the U.S. army in opposition to residents.

He warned: “We cannot accept what the government is telling us whole cloth.”