Dave Matthews condemns “thugs” ICE after Minnesota shooting
Dave Matthews has joined a long list of celebrities who have called out ICE after a woman was fatally shot by a federal agent in Minnesota.
The singer-songwriter posted a near seven minute video to his social media, in which he touched on a range of topics. Matthews grew impassioned as he referenced the fatal shooting.
Matthews referenced the death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, who was killed in her vehicle by an ICE officer in Minnesota. The musician shared, “We should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn’t be, you know, throwing people to the ground.”
The Dave Matthews Band frontman went on, “Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good. Murdered in front of her fellow citizens in Minneapolis, murdered in the streets. And no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos.”
He added, “Maybe if they show you one and they slow it down and they tell you where to look, you might think, maybe there’s a chance, maybe there’s a chance. That the gunman was felt threatened. But from most angles, near and far, it looks like she was trying to get away, and he shot her three times in the head, murdered in cold blood.”
As such, Matthews said, he doesn’t want “my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart.”
He turned his attention to the Trump administration, continuing, “This administration, these people who are trying to tell us not to believe what we see. It is so horrific. I don’t understand how you can claim that [Good] was ramming their cars, or that she was attacking them. There’s nothing to suggest that. And it’s mind-boggling and it’s deeply upsetting. To me and to so many people, and we can’t just let it slide.”
The Housemaid actor Amanda Seyfried had shared a similar sentiment on her social media, referencing a quote from George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, in relation to the shooting: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Plenty of other famous faces, such as Stranger Things actor Djo, Marvel actor Simu Liu, Mark Hamill, and Mark Ruffalo, have shared similar sentiments in reaction to the news coming out of Minnesota.
In comparison, Trump deemed Good “very disorderly, obstructing and resisting,” and insisted she was “shot in self-defense” on Truth Social.
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