The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, has stated that the ICE agent who killed a woman in Minneapolis (Minnesota) this Wednesday “is protected by absolute immunity” and has defended his actions. “He was doing his duty,” he said.
“We have the case of a woman who drove her car toward a police officer and stepped on the accelerator. Nobody disputes it. I can consider her death a tragedy and, at the same time, recognize that it is a tragedy of her own making,” Vance insisted.
The North American vice president has also explained that the ICE agent who opened fire on the victim “almost lost his life six months ago, dragged by a car, and received 33 stitches in his leg.” “Do you think he might be a little sensitive to the idea of someone hitting him with a car?” he asked.
In the same line as President Donald Trump hours after the event, Vance accused the victim this Thursday of being an activist “victim of left-wing ideology”, something that people around him have denied.
The victim, Renee Nicole Good, was a 37-year-old housewife with three children. Previously he had worked in a dental clinic and in a credit institution. As explained by those around him, he was heading back home after taking his youngest son to school when he encountered ICE agents carrying out the operation.
His death is the fifth to take place during immigration operations under the Trump Administration and occurs in the same city where the death of George Floyd occurred five years ago.
In the hours after the event, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, was very critical of the work of the ICE agents and asked them to leave the city. This Thursday, eight people were arrested in the second day of protests over Good’s death.
