"The day after the shooting, Vance announced a new administration effort to prosecute welfare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere. Vance's message started hot and got hotter. He blamed immigrants in general-and Somali immigrants in particular-for cheating taxpayers and raising the cost of child care for Americans. Then he launched into a denunciation of Renee Nicole Good, the woman shot dead in Minneapolis. He accused her of intentionally attacking a federal agent with her car."
"The vice president next took to X, first to promote a video from the shooter's point of view, then to mix it up with a journalist about that video ("He is allowed to discharge his weapon in self-defense"). He did not have to do any of that. He could have expressed support for law enforcement more generally. He did not have to malign the victim. He did not have to champion the shooter."
J. D. Vance positioned himself as the lead defender of a fatal shooting in Minneapolis, announcing an administration effort to prosecute welfare fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere. He blamed immigrants generally and Somali immigrants specifically for cheating taxpayers and raising child-care costs, denounced Renee Nicole Good as intentionally attacking a federal agent with her car, and alleged she belonged to a network of activists plotting "to attack, to dox, to assault" federal law enforcement. He criticized media coverage of the shooter as unsympathetic. The vice president promoted a shooter's point-of-view video and defended the shooter’s right to self-defense. Vance acted without apparent compassion and before facts were established as public sentiment has shifted against ICE’s forceful methods.
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