Joe Rogan weighs in on Renee Nicole Good's fatal shooting and ICE raids with blunt statement
Topics: Donald Trump, Immigration, Joe Rogan, Politics, US News, Minnesota
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Topics: Donald Trump, Immigration, Joe Rogan, Politics, US News, Minnesota
Joe Rogan has weighed in on the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good and the ICE raids by issuing a blunt statement.
In a clip from his podcast shared to his YouTube channel, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan claimed that Americans now view Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Agents as 'murderous military people' and 'villains'.
Good, a 37-year-old American citizen and mother, was behind the wheel of her car when she was shot dead by ICE removal officer Jonathan Ross in Minnesota on January 7, sparking widespread protests throughout the country.
In the aftermath of the shooting, President Donald Trump responded that the ICE agent had killed Good in 'self-defense', as Good had 'run over' the officer. However, what the video actually shows has been contested by both sides.
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Speaking with Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, podcaster Rogan, 58, called the Minneapolis shooting 'horrific'.
He added: "After that woman was shot, unfortunately, I mean, everything's unfortunate about it. But one of the real problems is now, ICE are villains. And now people are looking at them like murderous, military people, that run the streets of our city. And they're masked up, which is also a problem, right, because if you get arrested by a cop, you're allowed to ask the cop, 'what is your name and badge number?' And you could film that cop.
"But if you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right, you're wearing a mask, they don't have to tell you s***. That's a problem, that's a problem on our city streets, right?"
Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, is known for not watering down his opinions and has previously displayed fury at the current administration's handling of the Epstein files.
He also expressed frustration with the handling of Good's death, telling Senator Rand Paul: "It's complicated, obviously, but it's also very ugly. To watch someone shoot a US citizen, especially a woman in the face.
"...It just looked horrific to me. When people say it's justifiable because the car hit him, it seemed like she was turning the car away."
He asked: "Is there no other way to handle this?"
Rogan said that while 'most people' believe police are 'necessary', they also believe that 'once somebody is here, they should be allowed to stay in this country, and ICE is operating illegally'. What's more, he claimed that ICE's anonymous identities could encourage further lawlessness if people 'pretend to be them'.
Following the tragedy, Good's mother Donna Ganger told the Minnesota Star Tribune that her daughter 'was one of the kindest people I've ever known'.
In contrast, Trump wrote on Truth Social: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch.
"The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense."
The shooting in Minneapolis was just one mile from the street where George Floyd was murdered by a city police officer in 2020.