Stephen Colbert opened his monologue with a far more somber tone than usual, addressing ICE’s fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good that took place in Minneapolis on Wednesday — and the Trump administration’s reaction to it.
“By now we’ve all seen the video,” says Colbert. “In it, as reported by the New York Times, Good ‘appears to be turning away from a federal officer’, and, as reported by the Washington Post, ‘the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of the three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him.’ It sure looks like a federal agent gunned down an American citizen without cause in front of witnesses on a city street. But the administration is telling you that you didn’t see that. They’re saying you saw him respond to an act of domestic terrorism. They’re telling you to believe them and not your eyes.”
Colbert goes on to say that this should be an alarm bell for the entire country, regardless of whether you live in a red or blue state.
“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,” says the host. “So peacefully, and non-violently, let your leaders know you don’t want that.”
Elsewhere, Jimmy Kimmel and The Daily Show‘s Ronny Chieng have also reacted to the shooting.
