Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned Vice President JD Vance for his defense of an ICE agent’s actions in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old American citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Speaking to reporters outside Capitol Hill, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I understand that Vice President Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not.”
“That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street. ICE specifically has a mandate that has nothing to do with going after US citizens,” she continued.
Ocasio-Cortez urged people to view the footage of the incident independently. “Watch the video for yourself. You don’t have to worry about the politics with me or what I’m going to say or what anyone else is going to say,” she said.
“Watch that video for yourself,” she repeated, “and you will see a woman trying to back up her vehicle and leave a volatile scene and she was met with three bullets to the face.”
“You tell me and any law enforcement officer in the country worth their salt can tell you that that is not how you handle that situation,” Ocasio-Cortez added.
She linked the event to broader issues, stating, “And so the fact that ICE receives less training… this started with the Patriot Act post 911 violation of American civil liberties and it continues in that stream.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s comments followed Vance’s remarks at a White House Press Briefing, where he described the shooting as “A tragedy of the making of the Far Left. They have radicalized a very small segment of the population… What our ICE officers are doing is deporting the millions of CRIMINAL ALIENS that were let in during the Biden Admin.”
The shooting prompted widespread outrage, with calls criticizing ICE for the death of a civilian. Trump issued a statement saying, “..seems to have shot her in self defense”. The FBI is now investigating the matter.
