ICE, Trump and Minneapolis
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Smith also cast doubt on the federal government’s ability to conduct a legitimate probe of the shooting, as administration officials blame rhetoric by Democrats for the violence. “I don’t see how we can trust the outcome of this probe when they are blocking out state investigators and when the people that are in charge,
President Donald Trump claimed that the woman shot and killed by an ICE officer in south Minneapolis Wednesday "viciously ran over the ICE Officer" prior to her death, though the video evidence he shared showed no sign of an officer being run over in the incident.
As the Trump administration increases the presence of federal agents in U.S. cities, a local group identifying as part of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has become more active in Philadelphia.
On Thursday night, as ICE protesters took to the streets for a second consecutive evening, late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng ripped into ICE over the killing of Good. They criticized Trump for asserting unproven claims about the incident.
The former WWE wrestler also hinted at a future run for governor in comments made at his former high school in Minneapolis.
Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed conservatives for seeking narratives to "back the jersey that they wear" following the deadly shooting in Minneapolis.
The move comes after protests against immigration enforcement have been held across the US after a woman was shot by an ICE agent.
Hundreds of additional federal agents are bound for Minneapolis after the killing of a woman in the Midwestern city by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer prompted mass protests, a top Trump administration official said Sunday.