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- Gavin Newsom of California used a high-profile speech to target President Donald Trump over "citizens shot" and what the likely Democratic presidential contender claimed was "using American cities as training grounds for the United States military." Newsom's comments on Thursday, in his final State of the State address as governor of the nation's most populous state, came in the wake of the shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, after she confronted ICE agents from inside her car in Minneapolis. Video of the incident has gone viral, and while Democrats have heavily criticized the shooting, the Trump administration is vocally defending the actions of the ICE agent.
- "The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self-defense," Trump said in a social media post.’ CLICK HERE FOR LIVE FOX NEWS UPDATES ON THE ICE SHOOTING IN MINNESOTA A Border Patrol Tactical Unit agent sprays pepper spray into the face of a protester attempting to block an immigration officer’s vehicle in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan.
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- (Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune via ) And the president argued that "the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis."Vice President JD Vance, at a Thursday White House briefing, claimed Good was "brainwashed" and suggested that she was tied to a "broader, left-wing network." Hours after the incident, Newsom charged it was "state-sponsored terrorism."PHOTOS RELEASED OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD, THE US CITIZEN KILLED BY ICE IN MINNESOTA And a day later, in his address to the California legislature, the governor took aim at the president and his unprecedented moves during his first year back in the White House.
- "The president believes that might makes right, that the courts are simply speed bumps, not stops.
