Vice President JD Vance on Thursday addressed whether he had any doubt that the victim, Renee Nicole Good, deliberately tried to ram the ICE agent who shot and killed her in Minneapolis.
“Look, I don’t know what is in a person’s heart or in a person’s head. And obviously, we’re not going to get the chance to ask this woman what was going on,” Vance said.
“What I am certain of is that she violated the law. What I am certain of is that the officer had every reason to think that he was under very serious threat for injury, or in fact, his life. What I’m certain of [is] that she accelerated in a way where she ran into the guy.
“I don’t know what was in her heart and what was in her head, but I know that she violated the law, and I know that officer was acting in self-defense.
“That raises an interesting point, though. Look, if people want to say that we should have a legitimate debate about, you know, what was she really doing, right? Was she panicking when she drove into this officer? Or was she actually trying to ram him? That’s a — that’s a reasonable conversation.
“What’s not reasonable is for so many of you to plaster all over the media that this was an innocent woman and that the ICE agent committed murder, which is what many of you have said explicitly, and some of you have said implicitly. That’s what I have an objection to. The idea that this was not justified is absurd and I think everybody knows it in their heart.”
