JD Vance blames Renee Nicole Good for her killing by ICE agent in Minneapolis

Vance, in his tweet replying to Younes, said, “This is preposterous.”

“This defense attorney is drawing a meaningless distinction between an ICE officer and a ‘real police officer,'” Vance wrote.

“Again, you’re not allowed to interrupt a lawful enforcement operation, which is exactly what this woman was doing.

“The officer didn’t discharge his weapon to prevent her from fleeing,” Vance wrote. “When he discharged his weapon, she had pointed the vehicle at him and pressed the gas. He discharged his weapon in self defense, and other angles of the video show the woman *clearly* hit the officer with her car while accelerating.”

The Democratic National Committee’s X account, in a reply to Vance, said, “We all know what we saw.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, at a press conference on Thursday morning, reportedly said, “The killing of Renee Nicole Good was an abomination, a disgrace, and blood is clearly on the hands of those individuals within the administration who have been pushing an extreme policy that has nothing to do with immigration enforcement connected to removing violent felons from this country.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, said that in watching the video of Good being shot, “You felt like your stomach was being punched.”

“Looking at the video, there seemed no justification for what these agents did,” Schumer said at a press conference with Jeffries, according to NBC News.

“There needs to be a full investigation at the federal level, although I have little faith in the FBI of doing a fair investigation or DHS, but at the local level as well.”

Meanwhile, a GoFundMe set up to support Good’s wife and son had reached nearly $540,000 in donations by 11 a.m. ET Thursday.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/vance-renee-nicole-good-ice-minneapolis-shooting.html