Vance chastised the media for their portrayal of an ICE agent shooting Renee Nicole Macklin Good. As an example, he said that he was sent a photo of a CNN headline titled “Outrage after ICE Officer Kills U.S. Citizen in Minneapolis.”
“That is the way that many people in the corporate media have put this attack over the last 24 hours, and I say attack very, very intentionally because this was an attack on federal law enforcement. This was an attack on law and order,” said Vance in a clip from C-Span. “The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace, and it puts out law enforcement officers at risk every single day.”
According to Associated Press, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the incident an “act of domestic terrorism” against ICE officers. Furthermore, she said that the driver “attempted to run them over and rammed them with her vehicle” and that the officer “acted quickly and defensively, shot, to protect himself and the people around him.”
Curtis Houck, managing editor of Media Research Center’s NewsBusters. He saw the press briefing and points out that Vance "made it very clear that he wasn't talking about everyone" in the room.
"But he did say that those who are getting the story wrong or leaving out parts of the story, about either the ICE officer's history or the facts of what numerous videos of the incident have shown, are absolutely disgraceful and that those who are doing that are agents of propaganda," states Houck.
Houck adds that it "does nothing to help turn down the temperature in the seemingly perpetually volatile state of Minnesota" to cast dispersions on what took place Wednesday or the motivations of ICE writ large.
"The vice president, I think, was very frustrated with what the mayor and the governor have been doing, and so, he felt the need to respond in such a way,” says Houck. “The fact that he even came to the podium and, for about 31 minutes, took questions from reporters bolsters what the administration has said from day one would be the most transparent administration in history, especially compared to the previous one."
