On Thursday, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel backed Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey's profanity-laced response to the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel backed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's profanity-laced tirade against ICE after a woman was shot and killed by one of the agency's officers on Wednesday.
During Wednesday's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," he voiced his support for the Democratic mayor's response to the shooting and held up a shirt referencing the mayor's call for ICE to "get the f--- out" of Minneapolis.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was fatally shot on Wednesday during an ICE operation in south Minneapolis Wednesday. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), agents were attempting to make arrests when Good tried to use her vehicle as a weapon against officers, prompting a federal agent to fire in self-defense.
Hours after the shooting, Frey spoke at a press conference, where he told ICE to leave the city and called the DHS statement that the shooting happened in self-defense "garbage."
Kimmel played a clip from the mayor's address that ended with Frey's message to ICE, prompting thunderous applause and cheers from the audience.
Holding the shirt, Kimmel said, "To ICE, get the f--- out of Minneapolis. Get the f--- out of all these cities."
Earlier in the show, Kimmel slammed ICE for carrying out their mission "under the guise of protecting us," before lambasting President Donald Trump's response to the shooting.
"And of course, our president weighed in with compassion,"
he quipped before reading Trump's response to the audience.
In a Wednesday Truth Social post, Trump said that Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over" the ICE agent who "seems to have shot her in self defense."
Reacting to Trump's statement, Kimmel weighed in on how he felt the shooting transpired.
"Now, I saw this video. It didn't look anybody got run over to me,"
he told the audience.
"It looked to me like a woman got scared, tried to drive away, and they shot her. That'll be for the court to decide."
During a press conference on Thursday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that Good was "using a vehicle to try to kill an officer and his colleagues," and called her actions an "act of domestic terrorism."