There’s nothing funny about what ICE has been doing in Minneapolis, whether this past weekend or for the weeks preceding it. Opening his show last night, Jimmy Kimmel really didn’t even try to make jokes about the shameful episode. “I spent the weekend like probably a lot of you did: staring at my phone and just feeling shock and sick about what is happening in Minneapolis. One video after another, just screaming people being torn from their families. Americans—people who were born in the United States, being pulled out of their cars for the crime of having an accent. Small children, babies, being tear-gassed, taken into custody, separated from their parents,” Kimmel said last night. “Just one atrocity after another, being committed by this gang of poorly-trained, shamefully-led, mask-wearing goons. And that is what they are—they’re goons committing vile, heartless and even criminal acts. And it’s sickening to watch. It’s frustrating to watch. It’s like we’re all being forced to play a game that has no rules. They just make up the rules as they go along.”
As most likely already know, ICE in Minneapolis executed another protester who had been filming their actions on Saturday. “They won’t even admit that that was a mistake,” said Kimmel. “They fired ten times on an ICU nurse, they’re telling us, ‘Oh, it was justified.’ Is that the law and order that you voted for, if you voted for this? Every day is a nightmare now. My wife and I have family in Minneapolis—they’re afraid to take their kids to school. They’re afraid to go to work. And I can only imagine how people who aren’t white feel about this. How does this end? What’s the plan here? Is the plan to just keep doing this in every city that didn’t vote for Donald Trump? Does anyone on any side believe this is good leadership? We keep saying we need to find subjects that we can agree on—can we agree that peaceful protestors, including moms driving SUVs on their way back after dropping their six year-old off at school and a nurse, who stepped in to protect a woman from harm, don’t deserve to be shot dead in the street by the people we are paying to protect us. Can we agree on that? I mean, can we agree that when we see a person murdered in cold blood, that there should at least be an investigation of that?” The audience was clearly on his side, applauding at this last point.
“Where are the reasonable voices on the right? We don’t have to agree on everything, but come on,” he continued. “If that was a group of trans swimmers shooting a guy, for making a cellphone video, you’d be heating up the electric chairs right now. Admit it, you would. Let’s cut the bullshit already,” said Kimmel before a montage of clips from Fox News twisting the events. “If that was ISIS instead of ICE, we’d be firing missiles at somebody and pleading allegiance to the flag all together right now. Watch that video, watch every angle, as upsetting as it might be, and decide for yourself if that’s making America great.” You can watch Kimmel’s whole segment below.
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