Overview
- Ice-T said the onstage change from 'Cop Killer' to 'ICE Killer' happened spontaneously during a July Warped Tour show in Los Angeles and was intended as protest, not a call to violence.
- In a TMZ interview, he urged Minneapolis demonstrators to stay safe, warning, "Stand strong and stay out the way. These cats will kill you."
- On The Breakfast Club, he cautioned the U.S. is heading toward "very ugly terrain" and warned that any shooting of an ICE agent would rapidly escalate the crisis.
- The debate intensified after the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, as administration and DHS claims—labeling Pretti a "domestic terrorist"—clashed with witness video and initial DHS documents reported by multiple outlets.
- Some outlets reported that ICE has begun to scale back its presence in Minnesota as protests continue and investigations proceed.