"The White House press corps hit a stunning new low by allowing Vice President JD Vance to rant and rave virtually unchallenged, justifying a woman's death like a wild-eyed carnival barker at a briefing on Thursday. As a community reels after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Vance had an opportunity to cool temperatures and divisions with a sobering, healing message from the White House podium."
"During Thursday's briefing, Vance claimed Good was part of a broader left-wing network to attack and to doxx and to assault and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their jobs. Vance's claims were echoed by reporting in Friday's New York Post, which branded Good a Warrior' of the Left on its cover. Good's ex-husband and her own mother, however, claim the 37-year-old was not an activist and had never attended an ICE protest."
"Debate over whether or not Good intended to hit the ICE agent with her car depends on which side of the political aisle you fall, but should one of America's top leaders be implying that a mom of three, who had just dropped off her 6-year-old child at school, got what was coming to her? It is up to the journalists in the White House briefing room to hold the administration accountable for what they say, but for reasons unknown, Vance was given free rein to go on and on, earning him the distinction of a moral stain by the National Catholic Reporter."
Vice President JD Vance used a White House briefing to assert that Renee Nicole Good belonged to a broader left-wing network that targeted ICE officers, citing doxxing, assaults, and bricks. The assertions were presented despite a formal investigation barely beginning and despite family members saying Good was not an activist and had not attended ICE protests. A New York Post cover echoed the framing by calling Good a "Warrior' of the Left." Journalists in the briefing room largely did not press Vance on his claims, with only one AFP correspondent directly challenging his interpretation of the video evidence.
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