Are You Sh**ting Me?' Smerconish Stunned By Viewer Saying If You Run From The Police' You'll Be Shot

"You are making it way too complicated. The rule should be, if you run from the police What? Are you s***ting me? He continued, If you run from the police, you'll be shot. That should be the standard? Surely Put that camera on me! Smerconish repeated the tweet again. Surely, you jest. Surely you If you run from the police, you'll be shot,' he said. That's the world in which you want to live?"

"By the way, I'm a shoplifter. I'm a I don't know a car thief, I'm a pickpocket artist, and the police happen upon the scene, and I run. And you want me shot without regard for any standard as to serious bodily harm or death being in play? No, that'sthere is a country for you and it's behind an iron curtain. It's probably a place where they would chop off your hand as well. That is nutty."

"Federal agents do not, in fact, have absolute immunity. They have what's called Supremacy Clause immunity that protects them from state criminal prosecution when they're carrying out their official duties, provided their actions are necessary and proper. It would be up to a court to determine whether ICE agent Jonathan Good's actions met this standard when he shot Good multiple as she moved her vehicle after being instructed to exit."

Michael Smerconish rejected a fan tweet asserting that anyone who runs from police should be shot, calling that stance nutty and comparing it to authoritarian punishment. He offered a hypothetical about being a shoplifter or pickpocket and argued against shooting without regard for an actual threat of serious bodily harm or death. Vice President JD Vance claimed a federal agent who killed Minneapolis mother Renee Good had absolute immunity. Federal agents actually have Supremacy Clause immunity, which can bar state criminal prosecution only if actions are necessary and proper. A court must decide whether ICE agent Jonathan Good met that standard after footage showed shots as she moved her vehicle and recorded her last words and on-scene reactions.

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