MS NOW’s Ali Velshi and historian Heather Cox Richardson joined forces on Saturday to hurl what might be the most incendiary and stupid hot take on the situation in Minneapolis to date. According to Richardson, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Nicole Good because she was a woman trying to de-escalate the situation.
What made Richardson’s comments even dumber is that Velshi wanted to present this segment as one that was dedicated to facts, which was something he also failed at. Velshi led Richardson with a truncated version of new footage of the incident, “Let's just go through this together. This is, we see a picture of a big dog in the back. We see her saying, ‘it's fine, I'm not mad at you.’ We see an interaction after that with Renee Good's wife. This is the same person that was described as a domestic terrorist, far-left lunatic, and someone who was attempting to kill an ICE officer. What do you do when all the evidence says something that's not the case?”
While Velshi focused on the dog, he omitted Good being told to get out of the car after her wife, Rebecca, became combative and that Rebecca responded by urging her to “drive, baby, drive.” It is also ironic that Velshi would claim to care so much about facts while interviewing Richardson, who has not suffered any professional or reputational harm on the left for falsely claiming Charlie Kirk was murdered by a right-winger.
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