Trump repeats baseless claim that Renee Good was part of ‘leftwing network’ of paid agitators

Key Highlights

• Shame!
• Shame!’ She was a[n] agitator, probably a paid agitator, but in my opinion she was an agitator, a very high-level agitator, so professional.
• She wouldn’t stop screaming.”It was unclear whether the person who screamed “shame” at the ICE officers at least 10 times during the incident was the person who recorded the video, or someone standing near her.
• But the president’s assertion that only a paid agitator would scream at ICE agents carrying out immigration raids on the streets of American cities is contradicted by hundreds of recorded incidents over the past year. The video did capture a witness to the killing of Good screaming “shame” at the agents at two different points.
• First, the person screamed the word twice as the agents attempted to pull Good from her vehicle and then opened fire. A short time later, as the person recording the incident approached the agent who killed Good, their voice, or that of someone behind them, could be heard shouting the admonition at him eight more times as he walked away from the scene. The president also complained that the person’s horrified screams had made it difficult for him to watch the video of the killing on television.“The news sort of turned her down, turned her off because you’re trying to watch - she was so loud and so crazy and just not normal,” he said.“When somebody sees something like that,” he said, referring to the point-blank shooting of a neighbor, “they don’t go screaming and screaming, and the same words.