Late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers have condemned the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis. Colbert opened his show describing the incident as a 'senseless yet entirely predictable tragedy'.
Colbert referenced witness videos showing Good's car turning away from the officer before shots were fired into the side of her vehicle. He criticised the Trump administration for immediately claiming the shooting was a response to 'domestic terrorism', despite video evidence to the contrary. 'They're telling you to believe them and not your eyes,' he said.
Meyers connected the shooting to what he called broken promises on immigration from President Trump. He noted that the administration had said it would focus on violent criminals but instead had 'blanketed the country with federal agents', disrupting neighbourhoods and schools. He pointed out that most detained migrants had no criminal record and that over 170 US citizens had been caught up in ICE operations.
Both hosts expressed alarm at the lack of accountability. Colbert warned that if unaccountable armed government agents act with impunity, it should be a warning for the entire country. Meyers highlighted that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had called Good's driving 'an act of domestic terrorism', a claim he called a 'blatant lie' contradicted by video evidence.
