Popular podcaster Joe Rogan slammed Immigrations and Customs Enforcement over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good and called them “villains.” He also said that now people are looking at them like murderous military people.The podcaster told Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, that masked ICE agents were “a problem on our city streets” during an episode of his show released Tuesday.
Rogan made the remarks while discussing scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigration agencies over heavy-handed tactics, including aggressive enforcement actions and a January 7 incident in Minneapolis in which ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot resident Renee Nicole Good.Good was fatally shot in her car, sparking protests in the city and debate over the circumstances surrounding her death. President Donald Trump’s administration claimed that the ICE agent involved, Jonathan Ross, acted in self-defense, while local officials maintained Good posed no threat.In the episode released on Tuesday, Rogan told Paul: “After that woman [Good] was shot, unfortunately—everything is unfortunate about it, one of the real problems now is that ICE are villains and now people are looking at them like murderous military people that are on the streets of our city, and they’re masked up, which is also a problem, right? “Because if you get arrested by a cop you, you’re allowed to ask the cop, ‘What is your name and badge number?’ And you could film that cop,” contrasting it to federal immigration officials, saying, “If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. They’re wearing a mask, they don’t have to tell you s***. That’s a problem. That’s a problem on our city streets.”Rogan also warned that people pretended or impersonated ICE agents, adding to some of the public’s distrust of the agents.Paul responded that it was easier to make the argument for masking when agents were “working right along the border or at night with large groups that there’s a lawlessness to the cartels,” adding that it did not hold up as well in a courthouse elevator. He noted that local police “don’t wear masks.”Rogan said there was a clear difference between the police and ICE, noting federal agents came into new communities and only came in on a specific federal mission rather than being called upon by individuals to support or help fight crimes.“You’re not going to be able to get people to do the job unless you allow them to be anonymous,” he said, “and then again, allowing them to be anonymous creates a whole host of problems.”Rogan was critical of the Trump administration’s immigration policies at times, including recently calling out federal agents for targeting people he described as the “easiest pickings” in order to get quota numbers up instead of looking for “criminals and cartel members.”Federal law enforcement agents repeatedly faced criticism for wearing masks, hiding their identities, and arriving in unmarked vehicles. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem repeatedly said that officers were wearing masks because of assaults against them and doxxing, Newsweek reported.Earlier in the episode, Rogan called Good’s death a “terrible tragedy,” saying that it “seemed all kinds of wrong to me.” Go to Source
