CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel lamented that the Justice Department is “investigating the victims” of the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross. However, neither host provided their audience with the key detail that Good’s wife, Rebecca, told her to “drive, baby, drive” after Good herself was told to get out of the car.
Colbert certainly wasn’t interested in narratively inconvenient facts when he huffed, “Now, it’s not just a surge of goons. In order to justify the unjustifiable gunning down of an American citizen in her car, the Trump administration is trying to smear Renee Good's family now. Reportedly, senior Justice Department officials have pressed for a criminal investigation into Good's widow, which today prompted both six federal prosecutors in Minnesota to resign and the resignation of five senior prosecutors in the criminal section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.”
As the audience applauded the resignations, Colbert mourned, “Good for them. But this story is so awful that even their principled stand doesn't make me feel better. And I'm not sure if there's anything that could.”
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. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
. steve malzberg
