ESPN's Stephen A Smith calls Minnesota ICE shooting 'completely justified' from a 'lawful perspective'

ESPN big Stephen A. Smith delivered his verdict astir Wednesday's shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE cause successful Minnesota. 

During an quality connected his podcast, Smith called the shooting "completely justified" from a ineligible perspective, but helium besides believes the cause could person changeable the tires of the woman's conveyance instead. 

"I saw the video connected galore occasions and seeing what transpired from a lawful position arsenic it pertains to a instrumentality enforcement official, don’t expect him to beryllium prosecuted. He was wholly justified," Smith said.

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Renee Nicole Good (ODU English Department/Facebook)

"From a humanitarian perspective, however, wherefore did you person to bash that? If you could determination retired the way, that means you could person changeable the tires. That means you could person got a fewer feet distant aft you changeable the tires. And if you were unsuccessful successful doing that, you could person got her down the road. 

"You didn’t person to bash that. She wasn’t driving down the roadworthy coming astatine you 90 miles an hour. She was parked successful the mediate of the street, and alternatively than get retired the car, she wrongfully tried to thrust disconnected and wrongfully disregarded a instrumentality enforcement official, which is precisely what ICE is, and, arsenic a result, mislaid her beingness due to the fact that of it."

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Good was operating a conveyance astatine the clip of her death. Agents ordered her to exit the vehicle, and she refused and "attempted to tally them implicit and ram them with her vehicle," according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. 

"It was an enactment of home terrorism," Noem said. "An serviceman of ours acted rapidly and defensively, changeable to support himself and the radical astir him."

Federal authorities said Good tried to tally implicit ICE agents who were portion of a 2,000-member squad sent to the Twin Cities to circular up and deport amerciable migrant criminals.

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Members of the Minneapolis City Council confirmed Good’s individuality successful a associated connection Wednesday, calling her "a subordinate of our community" and demanding that ICE permission the city.

The Department of Homeland Security reported successful December that assaults and convulsive attacks against ICE instrumentality enforcement officers person surged much than 1,150% compared to attacks nether the Biden administration. It recovered determination were 238 assaults connected ICE officers betwixt Jan. 21, 2025, to Nov. 21, 2025, up from conscionable 19 during the aforesaid timeframe successful 2024. 

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