Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went after Vice President JD Vance on Friday, claiming he believes Americans should be gunned down on the street. The New York Democrat was responding to Vance backing the ICE agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis woman during an immigration enforcement operation Wednesday.
Ocasio-Cortez told reporters on Capitol Hill that Vance apparently thinks shooting a young mother of three in the face is acceptable. She said she does not share that view.
The woman killed, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, had confronted ICE agents from inside her car while they were carrying out an operation in Minneapolis. Cellphone footage went viral within hours. Protests erupted across the city that same night.
Good was not a random passerby. Federal sources confirmed to Fox News that she worked as a Minneapolis immigration activist and belonged to ICE Watch, a group that tracks federal immigration enforcement and sometimes intervenes during arrests. DHS verified the connection on Friday.
Vance had gone to bat for the agent a day earlier during a White House briefing. He called the incident an attack on law enforcement and on law and order. He said Good was there specifically to interfere with a lawful operation, adding that she had been brainwashed and was connected to what he called a broader left-wing network.
His office punched back hard at Ocasio-Cortez. A Vance spokesperson told Fox News Digital that on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, AOC had made clear she thinks radical leftists should be free to mow down ICE officials in broad daylight. The spokesperson added that the vice president stands with the men and women of law enforcement, and so do the American people.
The spat is part of a wider Democratic push against the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, called DHS Secretary Kristi Noem a stone-cold liar at a Thursday press conference. Chuck Schumer stood beside him and said the administration cannot be trusted to investigate the shooting.
Jeffries went further. He called the killing an abomination and placed blame directly on administration officials pushing what he described as extreme policies unrelated to removing violent criminals.
One House Democrat has already floated cutting DHS funding in response.
Attorney General Pam Bondi warned protesters still gathered near the Minneapolis ICE facility to stand down. She told them not to test the administration.
Trump himself watched video of the shooting alongside New York Times reporters and defended the agent. The White House position is that Good confronted agents during a lawful operation and the officer fired in self-defense.
Good left behind three kids. She was 37 years old.
