HOT TAKES! - Officer Michael Fanone Says the ICE Minneapolis Shooting Was Murder!

Former officer Michael Fanone states that DHS and MPD policy dictates officers do not fire into a moving vehicle unless it poses an imminent threat to life. Crucially, an officer cannot intentionally place themselves in the vehicle's path to then declare it a threat and open fire. The agent in Minneapolis deliberately positioned himself to create the perceived threat, negating any claim of self-defense.

Fanone's direct observation of the video: 'You can't go stand in front of the vehicle and then declare that it's now a threat to you and then fire into the vehicle, which is what that officer clearly did.' He also notes the agent 'meandering around this car' rather than making a split-second decision.

Police use-of-force policy requires officers to justify each and every round fired from their weapon individually, not as a series. While the first shot might be twisted for justification, Fanone argues the subsequent two shots were entirely unjustified as no one was in the vehicle's path or in danger after the initial shot.

Fanone states, 'a police officer has to justify each and every round that they fire from the weapon singularly, not in concert... it is clear that no one poses a threat to any of those agents or anyone else for that matter after that first shot is fired.'

Within hours of the incident, President Trump and Kristi Noem publicly declared the deceased woman a 'domestic terrorist' and falsely claimed she 'violently and viciously ran over an ICE agent.' This narrative was immediately contradicted by widely available video evidence showing the agent was not hit. Fanone asserts these statements are 'clearly a lie' and part of a 'cover up of what essentially was plain and simple murder.'

Fanone: 'the president of the United States and Christy Gnome within a mere hours of this incident happening before the investigation has even begun declared this woman a domestic terrorist and said that she violently and willfully and viciously ran over an ICE agent, which we all can see clearly with our own eyes, never occurred.'

Fanone characterizes ICE as a 'lawless, unaccountable agency' that makes communities less safe. He attributes this culture to the Trump administration's rhetoric, which encourages aggressive tactics by telling officers, 'If they hit or if they spit, we hit and the gloves are off. Go out there and do whatever you want to do.' He describes ICE operations as 'ridiculous show of force' involving hundreds of heavily armed agents profiling individuals.

Fanone: 'This agency is a lawless unaccountable agency. Every community that they go into, they make that community less safe.' He also states, 'the president and Christy Gnome have created this culture... You have lawless lawless agencies filled with armed thugs who are going out and they are assassinating American citizens with no justification or cause.'