-‘The View’ co-hosts weigh in after an ICE agent shot and killed an American citizen and mom of three as DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defends the shooting.
-Whoopi commented on the incident calling it “disturbing, awful, tragic, [and] horrendous” and then playing footage of Noem’s statements. “This is not the first time Kristi Noem has lied to the American people,” Goldberg said. “She’s continuously repeated the lie that ICE didn’t sweep up U.S. citizens in their raids; she lied about whether military vets were deported; and in December, an Illinois Congresswoman called out Noem for lying to Congress on the border and continuously violating court orders.”
–The white house/doj keep talking about an “investigation” while already stating that ICE Agents are immune from prosecution, did no wrong, and blaming the death on Renee Good, labeling her a ‘domestic terrorist’
-Sara Haines stated “It is basic law enforcement training to not step in front of a vehicle that can move, because it creates an opportunity for that vehicle to become a death threat and therefore unnecessary shootings like this. So, although we don’t know who this agent is or many details about him, we do know there was an increased goal last year to double the amount of ICE agents and to hit that number. What they did was they removed all age requirements and cut the training program to less than half of what it had been, while also recruiting people using visuals… that are warlike images,”
-With Alyssa chiming in “A key point to me that you said [is] in America, the punishment for evading law enforcement in a vehicle or on foot is not death. It simply is not. That is not how our system works… DOJ has specific guidelines that specifically say firearms may not be discharged solely to disable moving vehicles. DHS’s are a bit more nuanced, but it talks about de-escalation. They’re supposed to get de-escalation training in these situations.”
-Joy added “Are we in the middle of fascist America? Because in just this last week, I’m just going to give you a summary of what we’ve been through, one week: Pete Hegseth started an illegal war for oil in Venezuela; Stephen Miller threatened a military takeover of Greenland; RFK Jr. slashed childhood vaccine recommendations; and ICE shot and killed a United States citizen in Minneapolis. That sort of adds up to me like a dictatorship in the making, that we are now in it. We are in it now. And American people, I think, have to wake up to this a little bit more than we are.”
-Hostin then reiterated Noem’s leadership of ICE, saying, “They cut training for ICE agents in half. It used to be about 13 weeks, and now it’s six weeks.” She also called the shooting of Good an “unlawful killing” and said the “propaganda” from Noem and others about the incident was “Orwellian.” “You must believe what your eyes see, people,”
