Spin Cycle: In Wake Of ICE Shooting, The Gaslights Are On — But Is Anyone Home?

A shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and an anti-ICE activist Renee Good left the former injured and the latter dead. Despite evidence to the contrary provided in multiple videos — from several different angles — media outlets were quick to assist Democrats in their claims that the ICE agents were nothing more than aggressors, carrying out the whims of President Donald Trump.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

Even after videos emerged showing Good intentionally blocking federal agents with her car and taunting them — and then accelerating and striking the agent before he began firing his weapon — Democrats and the legacy media persisted in pushing several distinct narratives. While their coverage varied, the common thread was a simple one: the ICE agents had done something wrong.

ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz brought in Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) to discuss the situation, and Smith complained that the Department of Homeland Security had referred to Good’s behavior as “domestic terrorism” before details had been released. Of course, by the time Smith joined the broadcast, it had become apparent that Good was part of an anti-ICE activist group and had been trained to obstruct federal agents as they worked to enforce immigration law.

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith criticizes the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer: “They were calling her a domestic terrorist before they even knew what her name was.” https://t.co/kfto0xsFHL pic.twitter.com/EFdfteguUD

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Smith claimed the ICE agents suddenly snapped after a friendly exchange with protesters, arguing that better training would have prevented the incident.

“No professional law enforcement would exchange words or banter with somebody who is engaged in their legal right to protest and then lose control, which looks to me like what happened here,” she said.

Sen. Smith reacts to the new video of the moments leading to the shooting of Renee Good: “No professional law enforcement would exchange words or banter with somebody who is engaged in their legal right to protest and then lose control, which looks to me like what happened here.” pic.twitter.com/Q9UTCVAASj

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Raddatz also spoke with former acting ICE Director John Sandweg about the shooting, asking how the landscape had changed in recent years. Marching straight through the door Raddatz had opened for him, Sandweg said that ICE had adopted new “tactics” — and that those tactics were the real reason agents were facing dramatic increases in assaults against them as well as confrontations that ended in violence.

“This is a new environment for ICE and it’s not one that’s part of their core mission,” he said, suggesting with no pushback from Raddatz that the ICE agents stepping outside of their “core mission” was the root cause of the problem.

Former acting ICE Director John Sandweg on how the shooting of Renee Good compares to what he has seen historically: “This is a new environment for ICE and it’s not one that’s part of their core mission.” https://t.co/zeciQhyQ95 pic.twitter.com/5SKI8qfw7Q

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On CBS News, “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan spoke with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about the shooting — and she too made the claim that the ICE agent in question had not been properly trained.

“Renee Nicole Good, as you hear her say, she’s not mad, she’s sitting in her car, peacefully waving cars to get by,” Omar said, leaving out the fact that Good had positioned her vehicle so that it created a choke point that would only let one car, moving slowly, to get around her. She then immediately identified the ICE officer as the aggressor, describing his actions as wholly unnecessary and suggesting that Good was attempting to flee the scene because he’d scared her.

“And then you see the other officer, who can clearly see the car is moving, move toward the front of the car, which if they are saying that he has ten years on service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn’t be trying to get in front of a moving car,” Omar claimed, despite multiple video angles that show the officer standing in front of the vehicle prior to Good’s acceleration.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tells @FaceTheNation it is “not acceptable” for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump and Vice President Vance to make judgements about the moments surrounding the shooting of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis “without there being a… pic.twitter.com/neMjx6SoET

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Although Brennan offered no challenge to Omar’s narrative — despite the video evidence that contradicted it — she did push back slightly when she asked whether it was reasonable to have citizens effectively stalking federal agents while they were attempting to do their jobs.

Omar insisted that it was “very important” for Americans to record ICE agents while they work “to create the level of accountability and transparency,” adding, “I think it is fair for citizens to document what law enforcement is doing in their communities.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), speaking to @FaceTheNation, says “it is really important for Americans to record” ICE agents “to create the level of accountability and transparency.”

Asked to clarify further, as the Trump administration claims its ICE officers are being stalked and… pic.twitter.com/ahi8gEa0Jy

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On CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who claimed that the ICE presence in his city was not doing anything to help people.

“ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making [Minneapolis] far less safe,” he said, despite the growing list of violent offenders who have been apprehended in his city since the surge began.

“That was some wild and crazy stuff.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responds to Jake Tapper’s interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that, “ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making [Minneapolis] far less safe.” pic.twitter.com/4d8vLWxpZY

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Frey took things a bit further, also attempting to spin Renee Good’s clearly intentional blockage of traffic as her simply not being very good at turning around. “(Renee Good) was doing a three or a four or five-point turn… if doing a three point turn or a four point turn is a domestic terrorist and my wife is a criminal every single day,” he said.

MAYOR JACOB FREY: “(Renee Good) was doing a three or a four or five-point turn… if doing a three point turn or a four point turn is a domestic terrorist and my wife is a criminal every single day,”

Mayor Frey doesn’t know what a three-point turn is.
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