Late night shows from Jimmy Kimmel Live! to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers have responded to the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, and the Trump administration’s attempts to justify (read: spin) it in defence of the ICE agent.
The Daily Show‘s Ronny Chieng addressed repeated claims by Donald Trump and secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem about the shooting, ICE’s recruitment campaign tactics, and ICE’s brutal raids over the last year.
“If you’re thinking they don’t need to enforce the law this violently, you’re correct,” says Chieng in the clip above. “They don’t need to be this violent. The violence and showing the violence is the point. This is why just breaking down these videos frame by frame doesn’t tell the whole story of what happened here.
“People keep saying this ICE agent feared for his safety? Maybe so. But we also have to acknowledge that this woman probably feared for her safety too, and for good reason,” Chieng continued. “And telling someone to just comply with law enforcement isn’t helpful when ICE has spent the past year acting less like law enforcement and more like a lawless militia.
“So unfortunately we can keep expecting this to happen, not because ICE is going into dangerous situations, but because they keep going into safe situations and then making them more dangerous than they need to be.”
