CNN’s Audie Cornish condemned Vice President JD Vance’s ugly smears against a woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer near a raid in Minneapolis.
The vice president blamed 37-year-old Renee Good for her own death by claiming with no evidence that she was part of a far-left “lunatic fringe” intent of harming immigration agents, and the “CNN This Morning” host uncharacteristically weighed in on the topic before giving her guests a chance to speak.
“There is a conversation emerging that she somehow deserved it, that she had somehow put herself in that place,” Cornish said. “Can you talk about that conversation? Because, like, her child just got orphaned and I am sort of shocked at the way the vice president came out literally swinging.”
The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey agreed with the vice president but using slightly softer language.
“Well, I don’t think anybody deserves to to die, particularly in a situation like this, and I mourn for her and her family and pray for them,” Bluey said. “I think that the vice president was right to call it a tragedy and I also think he was right to point out that some of the rhetoric from people like Gov. Tim Walz may have contributed to those who have flocked to Minnesota and other cities to attack law enforcement. I mean, we’ve seen the attacks on law enforcement go up significantly under President Trump’s watch.”
“I mean, they are not even deporting immigrants at the level that President Trump promised during the campaign,” Bluey added, “and so if this is only going to increase, if the administration is only planning to increase its enforcement activity, I suspect that this is probably only going to be a situation that gets worse, and what I’d like to see, hopefully, in this is people like Tim Walz toning down some of his rhetoric.”
The Argument’s Jerusalem Demsas asked to weigh in and asked why civilians were being held to a higher standard than law enforcement in their encounters.
“There’s just a question here always of of who holds, who’s held to a high standard, and I think there’s this problem where constantly civilians are being told you need to have a level of decorum and calm in the face of an emergency higher than law enforcement,” Demsas said. “But a law enforcement agent can be afraid and concerned and shoot someone, but a civilian can’t be afraid and act a little bit confusing in a situation that is new to them.”
“That is, to me, the bigger conversation here of, like, what is happening to the professionalization of the law enforcement of ICE when they shoot someone, they all just kind of mill about for a solid minute,” Demsas added. “I’m watching this video. No one runs to administer aid immediately. They block a physician from administering aid. They don’t have the ability to de-escalate the groups that are around in the immediate vicinity. Her wife is on the scene, and all of this is happening while a conversation immediately erupts from people within the administration blaming the woman before we have any information.”
Cornish contrasted the lack of professionalism by federal law enforcement agents with claims by the administration that protesters were paid by far-left organizations to interfere with their operations.
“One of the things I’m hearing a lot about is the professionalization of the left, the radical left, and it somehow feels like there is no such thing as a backlash to the administration,” Cornish said. “There’s only somehow professional agitators, and everyone else at home is loving it and had voted for it.”
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