Summary
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman identified as Renee Good on the first day of immigration raids in Minneapolis. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem called Good’s actions – driving a car away from ICE agents as seen in footage captured by bystanders – an act of “domestic terrorism” while Donald Trump called Good a “professional agitator”. Minnesota elected officials, including governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey called the Trump administration’s response “propaganda’ and called for ICE to leave the city. Thousands of demonstrators gathered at vigils and protests in Minneapolis, New York City and Chicago in memory of Good this evening.
Trump has proposed a massive increase to the defense department’s budget to a record $1.5tn for 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times”. The proposal would mark a 66% increase over the $900bn the Pentagon was authorized to spend this fiscal year.
Trump declared that Venezuela will send the US between 30m and 50m barrels of oil, which will then be sold, with the president controlling the proceeds, which could be more than $2bn. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration is “in close correspondence” with the interim authorities in Venezuela, and that sanctioned oil that had been “just sitting in barrels, sitting on ships” will be arriving in the US “very soon”.
The US European Command confirmed the seizure of a Russian-flagged, Venezuela-linked oil tanker after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic.
Donald Trump and his advisers are looking into “a range of options” in an effort to acquire Greenland, noting in a White House statement on Tuesday that using the US military to do so is “always an option”. After receiving a rare rebuke from European allies, Trump took to Truth Social to state that Nato was dependent on the US to survive.
The Trump administration froze more than $10bn in federal childcare and family assistance funds to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, citing what it called concerns about fraud and misuse.
Vance endorses Trump's claim that woman tried 'to run over' officer before being shot
Writing on social media, the vice-president, JD Vance, just echoed Donald Trump’s claim that video recorded from a distance, and slowed down by a rightwing podcaster, suggests that the woman who was fatally shot at point-blank range by a federal officer in Minneapolis during an ICE raid on Wednesday, Renee Good, had tried to “run over” the officer.
In reference to the slowed down clip Trump had highlighted earlier in the day, Vance wrote: “You can accept that this woman’s death is a tragedy while acknowledging it’s a tragedy of her own making. Don’t illegally interfere in federal law enforcement operations and try to run over our officers with your car. It’s really that simple.”
In fact, viewed at normal speed, the video, which was obtained and posted online by the ABC affiliate KSTP, appears to show that the officer was so slightly brushed by the slowly moving car that he had no trouble retaining his balance and firing multiple shots at the driver. This angle also seems to show that the woman driving the vehicle accelerated only after being shot, which is not unusual.
Like Trump, Vance ignored the other videos recorded at close range which seem to show clearly that the officer was not in any danger.
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