Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday offered a scathing assessment of the media’s coverage of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer, accusing outlets of outright lying about the incident.
“This was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order,” Mr. Vance said at the White House press briefing. “This was an attack on the American people. 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.”
Mr. Vance also issued a fierce condemnation of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman who had been using her vehicle to block ICE agents from moving down a city street.
“That woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that that woman is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox and assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job,” he said.
“That officer [who shot her] had every reason to think he was under very serious threat or injury, or in fact his life,” Mr. Vance said. “What I’m certain of is that she accelerated in a way where she ran into him. I don’t know what was in her heart, and what was in her head, but I know that she violated the law.”
