Vance Says Woman’s Fatal Shooting by an ICE Agent Was a ‘Tragedy of Her Own Making’

The vice president said the Trump administration would continue to push to root out groups he says are funding and encouraging political violence.

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a briefing at the White House.

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Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that a Minneapolis woman who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Wednesday was responsible for her own death as part of a “larger, sinister left-wing movement that has spread across our country” — and said the Trump administration would redouble its crackdown on the left in response.

“I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making and a tragedy of the far left who has marshaled an entire movement, a lunatic fringe, against our law-enforcement officers,” Vance said of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.

He also echoed rhetoric from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who accused Good of “domestic terrorism.” Vance said she was part of a trend of “left-wing radicals … sometimes using domestic-terror techniques” to block immigration agents from deportation efforts.