Trump defends ICE, seeks to define shooting before facts are established
Source: Washington Post
President Donald Trump said the 37-year-old woman killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the agent who shot her in self-defense, making the claim within hours of the shooting, before investigators had completed their work.
“The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis,” he said in a social media post. “They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE
Trump’s analysis was based on video of the fatal shooting, he said on Truth Social, where he shared distant footage of the incident that shows the woman’s car moving toward the ICE agent who shot her. Clips circulating online do not show the minutes leading up to the encounter, establish the woman’s intent or offer evidence of a coordinated operation.
His response underscored how quickly he moves to frame violent encounters through images and video, often ahead of official findings. Like millions of Americans, the president relied on piecemeal footage from witnesses in southern Minneapolis — a phenomenon that has become the basis of how fatal police encounters are understood and contested in real time.
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Keep on talking Donny. You're your own worst enemy.
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