Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha suggested that legacy media’s coverage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting reflects “rhetoric from the Left.”
Concha appeared on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First Tuesday following an episode of ABC News’s The View where host Whoopi Goldberg suggested Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are “criminals.”
“You said you were going after the bad guys. That’s what you said. Violent criminals. What does it turn out? Violent criminals seem to be in the agency,” Goldberg said during a segment.
Goldberg’s comments follow an ICE-officer involved shooting where 37-year-old Renee Good was killed by an ICE officer after allegedly “weaponizing” her vehicle and driving into the officer. In new footage released by DHS on Sunday, she is seen blocking federal vehicles and traffic where ICE was operating before officers approached her vehicle in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“Before folks gather around and say she’s accusing all of the folks at ICE of being criminals, that is not what I’m doing,” Goldberg added after a commercial break, appearing to walk back her previous comments.
Concha suggested that “ABC’s legal team” convinced Goldberg to take back her statement.
“When [Goldberg] walks back these statements, it’s basically the broadcast version of a hostage video. You can tell she did not want to do it, but she had to do it because ABC’s been sued before by President Trump, by the Trump administration, and they’ve had to settle to the tune of millions of dollars,” Concha said.
“The main point is that crazy town has only been expanded, in terms of rhetoric from the Left. ICE is putting away, as we know, and deporting violent criminals. We’re talking about sex offenders. We’re talking about child traffickers. We’re talking about murderers and rapists,” Concha added.
“Every mayor where they’re carrying out their operations should be thankful for making them look better and making their cities safer for everyone.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stated that ICE officers have been in Minneapolis “for years,” on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. Roughly 2,000 ICE officers arrived in Minneapolis last week, in addition to ICE officers who had already been in the city for a month before.
Noem said she sent more ICE officers this week to protect the officers already there and ensure immigration operations continue unimpeded.