New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claimed that the death of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent was the result of a “year of cruelty” from the Trump administration — as he doubled down on his incendiary declaration that it was a “murder.”
Mamdani pushed back on Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s claim that the federal immigration officer was doing as he was trained when he fatally shot Good in her car after she hit him in Minneapolis on Wednesday, instead blaming Trump’s aggressive deployment of ICE agents across the country for her death.
“We can all see that video and come to our own conclusions that that ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis and it is a glimpse in what has been a year full of cruelty,” the Democratic Socialist told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday night.
Mamdani said he believes New Yorkers, 3 million of which are immigrants, woke up yesterday feeling “a heightened sense of anxiety” and fearful of leaving their homes.
The mayor said he’s shared his concerns with President Trump about ICE’s “inhumane” operations.
“It is clear to myself and to so many across the country, as I’ve shared with the president directly, that these ICE raids are cruel and inhumane and they do nothing to further the cause or the interest of public safety,” he said.
Collins then pressed Mamdani on why he once again chose to describe the fatal shooting a “murder,” something that even Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — who furiously told ICE to “get the f—k out” of his city — has refrained from saying.
“That was the conclusion I came to just in watching that video, and I think that’s the conclusion many Americans came to that same conclusion no matter how many times this is mischaracterized by others,” Hizzoner responded.
