'Obey or die': Stephen Colbert denounces ICE Minneapolis shooting and rages at Trump
Stephen Colbert has denounced the recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis and says Donald Trump's administration are operating on "obey or die" rules.
Speaking during the opening monologue of The Late Show, Colbert criticised the response to the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot and killed by an ICE agent. ICE raids have surged as Donald Trump's administration ordered more than 2,000 federal immigration officers into the city following reports of welfare fraud committed by the local Somali community.
Colbert said, "The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth, and when their forces come to your city, obey or die, and if you die, you clearly didn't obey."
"This should be an alarm bell for the entire country, whether you're in a red state or a blue state, because, if we let this go on, regardless of who your state voted for, one day, you'll have unaccountable, armed, government agents acting with impunity in your town."
Colbert went on to call for people to "peacefully and non-violently let your leaders know you don't want that." His comments on the government and their response to the shooting of Renee Good join that of fellow talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and ex-GOP representative Adam Kinzinger.
Kimmel was horrified by the rhetoric of Kristi Noem in particular, with her statement dubbed "an insult to Renee Good".
He said, ""Our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, said it was an act of domestic terrorism, which is just flat out- this unarmed mom, a devout Christian by the way, who had no criminal record, driving a Honda Pilot, trying to get away from armed men in masks, masked men were screaming at her."
"We're to believe this woman was a terrorist, committing a terrorist act? And the fact that ICE shot through her windshield three times, that was her fault? The ICE officer was, as Kristi Noem put it, 'following his training'."
"How stupid do you think we are? That's not just an insult to Renee Good, that's an insult to every law enforcement everywhere. They're not trained to do that."