MS NOW host Jen Psaki on Friday referred to as out President Donald Trump and his administration over the “disgusting and ridiculous” declare that Renee Nicole Good, who was killed by an immigration agent in Minnesota earlier this week, was a “home terrorist.”
Psaki confirmed footage of the incident allegedly captured by the shooter himself, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross, on his telephone. She mentioned “the correct” has seized on this video to say it “someway vindicates” Ross.
“They declare that as a result of the shooter seems to fumble his digital camera, and since you’ll be able to hear a loud noise, that this video have to be proof that Renee Good ran over or hit the agent along with her automotive,” said Psaki. “That’s what they’ve been blasting all over the place.”
She continued, “However if you happen to take a look at all the proof we’ve got seen to this point, that doesn’t seem like the case. As a result of so many individuals have been filming this incident when it occurred, we’ve got a number of footage that captured the scene from very totally different angles.”
Within the video, Ross approaches Good’s automobile, which was partially blocking a street. Good tells him, “That’s nice, dude, I’m not mad at you.” As Good’s spouse, who’s out of the automotive, confronts him, he circles the automobile and finally stands in entrance of it.
Good might be seen turning the wheel to the correct earlier than pulling ahead barely, apparently making an attempt to depart. Because the automotive pulls ahead, the agent drops the digital camera and a voice is heard saying “whoa!” earlier than a number of pictures are fired.
“Fucking bitch,” somebody is heard saying after Good was fatally shot.
Psaki famous that the sizable ICE presence on the scene was as a result of one in every of their automobiles getting caught within the snow, prompting quite a few locals to blow their whistles to inform residents of their presence — and start filming.
“They’re claiming that that video vindicates the agent for firing these pictures, however if you happen to sync up that video with the opposite angle of that very same second, you’ll be able to see that the automotive doesn’t seem to run the agent over. The truth is, the agent’s ft are positioned away from the automotive,” Psaki mentioned. “And as I discussed, the automotive is already headed in the wrong way.”
The MS NOW host additionally famous that “it’s laborious to say what we’re really listening to” within the moments the place Ross fumbled his digital camera, admitting she’s not a criminal offense scene professional, but in addition argued that federal brokers wouldn’t use their telephones whereas “dealing with a life-threatening scenario.”
Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post that Trump’s White Home has given the communications sector of ICE “autonomy to create content material that’s successfully reaching the American public.”
Ross himself walked away from the scene after killing Good.
“Renee Nicole Good informed these officers, ‘I’m not mad at you,’” Psaki mentioned Friday “That’s the girl the Trump administration referred to as a home terrorist. That’s the girl whose killing Vice President JD Vance referred to as ‘a tragedy of her personal making.’”
She continued, “And all this new video does is clarify that these claims are simply as disgusting and ridiculous as they have been earlier than we noticed this new video. She mentioned, ‘I’m not mad at you.’ And 25 seconds after she uttered these phrases, she was shot.”
