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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,783 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:26 PM Jan 13

Poll: Only 27% of Americans think Minneapolis ICE shooting was 'justified'

In the days since Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, federal officials have argued that Good’s death was “a tragedy of her own making,” as Vice President JD Vance put it.

"The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting,” President Trump claimed on social media. “Then [she] violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.”

But most Americans disagree, according to a new Yahoo/YouGov poll.

The survey of 1,709 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Jan. 8 to Jan. 12, finds that only slightly more than a quarter (27%) think last week’s shooting was “justified.” Nearly twice as many Americans — a 52% majority — say the shooting was not justified.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/poll-only-27-of-americans-think-minneapolis-ice-shooting-was-justified-142831951.html

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Poll: Only 27% of Americans think Minneapolis ICE shooting was 'justified' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 13 OP
The same 27% that thinks their grocery prices are lower. GoodRaisin Jan 13 #1
BREAKING: 27% of Americans are complete imbeciles flvegan Jan 13 #2
That 27%.. albacore Jan 13 #3
Who are those 27%? Fox News hosts? Billionaires? Initech Jan 13 #4
And that 27% are ignorant freaks choie Jan 13 #5
That sucks 27% live in the Matrix RANDYWILDMAN Jan 13 #6
I wonder who the 21% is, that doesn't know, Ars Longa Jan 13 #7
Looks like 27% of Americans are abject sociopaths. Dave Bowman Jan 13 #8
That's lower than I would have expected given how it's so closely aligned with Trump EdmondDantes_ Jan 13 #9

albacore

(2,747 posts)
3. That 27%..
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:36 PM
Jan 13

..is who's killing the country.
They believe that 6 January was an FBI setup.. that trump was framed by NY..that immigrants are criminals flooding in to take our jobs...that trump won the 2020 election..etc...etc.....

Initech

(107,897 posts)
4. Who are those 27%? Fox News hosts? Billionaires?
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:38 PM
Jan 13

The tens of people who still support Temussolini?

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,135 posts)
6. That sucks 27% live in the Matrix
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 01:54 PM
Jan 13

People who can’t feel or think for themselves. People who don’t know empathy from a whole in their rear end. Uh frustrating that every 3rd person you meet has turned off their brain.

Ars Longa

(492 posts)
7. I wonder who the 21% is, that doesn't know,
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:02 PM
Jan 13

or is undecided?
I would like to think that most of that 21%, are leaning
towards the 52%(not justified).

EdmondDantes_

(1,497 posts)
9. That's lower than I would have expected given how it's so closely aligned with Trump
Tue Jan 13, 2026, 02:05 PM
Jan 13

While obviously the murder wasn't justified, the Trump administration trying to sell this and coming in below Trump's approval rating shows they aren't getting people to buy it. That's a good thing coming out of an awful tragedy.

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