JD Vance is facing backlash for claiming an ICE agent involved in a fatal shooting is protected by “absolute immunity”—an assertion experts say is particularly bizarre since the vice president went to law school.
Elliot Williams, formerly a deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department for the Obama administration, spoke out on CNN after the vice president defended the actions of the officer who shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Vance declared that the ICE agent was engaging in “federal law enforcement action” at the time of the shooting and claimed he therefore was shielded from any legal blowback, echoing the Department of Homeland Security’s narrative that the fatal shooting was an act of “self-defense.”
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