US Vice President JD Vance didn’t hold back, labeling mainstream media’s spin on a deadly ICE encounter in Minneapolis as ‘utterly shameful’ and a direct threat to officer safety. At the heart: an agent’s fatal shooting of a woman meddling in an official immigration action.
Vance zeroed in on CNN’s alarmist banner, decrying its failure to mention the officer’s past ordeal—yanked by a vehicle, leg mangled with 33 stitches. ‘Facing that again? You’d be alert too,’ he snapped, reclassifying the episode as an ‘attack’ on law, order, and citizens.
Challenging ongoing investigation excuses, Vance demanded facts over fiction: ‘You’re truth-tellers, not radicals complicating enforcement.’ On the woman’s role: clear interference in legit ops. Intent debates? Fair game. But ‘innocent victim vs. murderer’? Unacceptable lies.
Spare the boots-on-ground heroes, Vance urged—bash politicians instead. He pinned rising tensions on media malpractice, hailing this as peak distortion. With violent crimes down 20%, empowered policing works. ‘We need honest media,’ he wrapped, cautioning against self-defense smears.