The trio of PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, and New York Times columnist David Brooks assembled on Friday to discuss the situation in Minneapolis. While Bennett failed in his moderating duties to mention new evidence that would seem to justify the ICE agent acting in self-defense, Capehart was still certain that he was in the wrong. Brooks, meanwhile, claimed he did not wish to pass judgement before an investigation but nevertheless agreed that ICE has been “acting like thugs.”
Not only did Bennett not discuss the new video—PBS did play it earlier in the show before the Brooks and Capehart segment—but he didn’t even mention the word “car” when he asked Capehart, “So, Jonathan, this week marked a grim turning point, as an ICE agent, as you both well know, shot and killed a U.S. citizen during an enforcement operation as part of President Trump's expanded immigration raids. Your reaction to all that's unfolded?”
Capehart declared, “It's a tragedy that's been unfolding in other communities around the country. I think Governor Walz, Minnesota Governor Walz, was correct when he said to the president, you know, these federal agents, these ICE agents, they're not making us safer. You are making the community, our citizens, more afraid.”
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