Overview
- Niall Stanage of The Hill questioned Karoline Leavitt about ICE’s conduct after Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7 in Minneapolis.
- After Leavitt asked for his view of the shooting, Stanage said an ICE agent acted recklessly and unjustifiably, prompting Leavitt to call him a biased activist and “not a reporter.”
- Clips of the briefing spread widely on X, with a White House Rapid Response post topping 1.5 million views, according to Newsweek.
- Leavitt defended ICE and accused the media of bias, citing cases in which U.S. citizens were killed by undocumented immigrants and challenging Stanage’s references to deaths in ICE custody and wrongful detentions.
- BreakingNews.ie reported that protests have continued in Minnesota and other cities, and that President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act.