Jimmy Kimmel reflected on the situation in Minneapolis following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent last week on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The host noted that instead of removing ICE from the city, Donald Trump has simply sent more agents in.
“We have Trump’s ongoing war Minneapolis, where his response to the intense outrage following the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent is to send in even more ICE agents,” Kimmel recounted. “Because when you’re trying to put out a grease fire, what do you do? You throw more grease on it, right?”
Kimmel explained that “thousands and thousands of patriotic Americans” protested Good’s murder over the weekend around the country. “In Minneapolis, they turned out in 16 degrees,” he noted. Despite the outage, Kristi Noem again claimed that Good was a “domestic terrorist.”
“This is what they want us to believe,” Kimmel said. “They need to paint anyone who protests as violent and dangerous, even a mom in a Honda. They need Antifa to be real so they can call in the military and cancel elections and declare martial law. And, ironically, while the White House is trying to squash the protests here, the Ly-ayatollah is said to be mulling over a military strike on Iran to support the protesters there.”
He added, “I have an idea: Send all those guys from ICE out of Minneapolis to Iran. They could help!”
Kimmel described what’s going on in Minnesota as “very dark stuff.” But he acknowledged there has been one bright aspect to the situation. “People on the street have been shooting videos of ICE agents slipping on ice,” he said. He then played a short compilation of the videos, which he dubbed the “ICE Ice Capades.”
Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot in the head by a masked ICE agent in Minneapolis last Wednesday. The tragedy occurred one day after thousands of federal agents were deployed to Minnesota for a 30-day immigration enforcement “surge.” The agent has since been identified as Jonathan Ross.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey did not mince words in his response. “There’s little I can say again that’ll make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city — and I have a message for ICE,” he said. “To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
After Frey’s press conference, Kimmel suggested making T-shirts of the phrase. “Get the fuck out of all of these cities,” the late-night host added.
