MAGA Is Already Rewriting the ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Trump medication officials and MAGA satellite are attempting to rewrite the shooting successful Minneapolis.

The shooting took spot connected Wednesday greeting erstwhile respective masked agents—later identified by Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin arsenic members of the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency—approached a vehicle. Video footage shared connected societal media appears to amusement a masked cause inquire the operator to get retired of the conveyance earlier grabbing the doorway handle. At this point, the operator appears to reverse, earlier driving guardant and turning. A 3rd masked national officer, lasting adjacent the beforehand of the vehicle, pulls retired a weapon and fires astatine the vehicle, sidesplitting Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman.

The masked serviceman who fired astatine the conveyance was identified by the Minnesota Star Tribune arsenic ICE cause Jonathan Ross. McLaughlin did not instantly respond to an email asking if DHS could corroborate the Star Tribune’s reporting.

Almost immediately, national authorities officials portrayed Good arsenic the perpetrator. Homeland Security caput Kristi Noem called Good’s actions an enactment of “domestic terrorism,” adding that the unfortunate had “weaponized her vehicle” and that the cause progressive had simply “followed his training.” Later connected Wednesday successful a Truth Social post, president Donald Trump wrote that Good had “viciously” tally implicit the cause portion blaming the “radical left.” In a property league connected Thursday morning, Noem doubled down, erstwhile again calling Good a “domestic terrorist,” portion falsely claiming the agents progressive were “surrounded and assaulted and blocked successful by protesters.” On Thursday, vice president JD Vance claimed Good was “a unfortunate of left-wing ideology” and that she had “[thrown] their car successful beforehand of ICE officers,” adding, “You've got to beryllium a small brainwashed."

The administration’s effort to instantly rotation the narrative, and deflect the blasted from the agents Trump has empowered to people communities crossed the country, is thing the existent medication has done repeatedly. This case, however, is arguably 1 of the much egregious examples frankincense far, fixed however wildly the sanctioned authorities communicative diverts from the world shown successful video footage of the incidental shared online.

MAGA satellite influencers precise rapidly fell successful line. Trump’s determination to blasted the “radical left” was echoed by his loudest supporters online, immoderate of whom predicted wide unit from the near arsenic a effect of the incident.

“She was trying to signifier an amerciable blockade of the roadworthy to interfere with ICE agents and past rammed her car into 1 of them erstwhile they attempted to apprehend her,” podcaster Matt Walsh wrote connected X, successful a station viewed astir 700,000 times. “This isn’t adjacent a adjacent call. Entirely justified. She is 100 percent to blasted for her ain death.”

Video footage of the incidental appears to straight contradict Walsh’s assertion that Good “rammed her car” into the cause who changeable her done the windshield and the driver’s window. Local politicians besides disputed this claim: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the administration’s mentation of events “bullshit” and a "garbage narrative.” Frey besides said ICE should “get the fuck retired of Minneapolis.” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz besides rejected the government’s narrative, alternatively blaming Trump’s policies which, helium said, are “designed to make fear, headlines, and struggle … Today that recklessness outgo idiosyncratic their life."

That didn’t deter different influencers and contented creators, however. “The Minneapolis ICE shooting tin present beryllium 100% confirmed to beryllium aforesaid defence from this caller video,” Robby Starbuck, a visiting chap with the hugely-influential Heritage Foundation, wrote connected X. “The deceased anti-ICE operator intelligibly HIT the ICE cause that opened occurrence with her car. This is textbook aforesaid defense.”