CNN host laughs at MAGA's 'nutty' defense of Minneapolis shooting

Author, attorney and CNN host Michael Smerconish couldn't help but laugh when reading one MAGA supporter's take on this week's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

During a Saturday segment on his show "Smerconish," the CNN host read social media reactions to the death of 37 year-old mother Renee Good at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. One supporter of President Donald Trump wrote: "You are making it way to[sic] complicated. The rule should be 'if you run from the police - you'll be shot.' Your analysis is pure gobblygook[sic]."

"What? Are you s—— me? If you run from the police, you'll be shot? That should be the standard?" Smerconish asked incredulously. "Surely you jest. If you run from the police you'll be shot. That's the world in which you want to live?"

Smerconish then offered a hypothetical situation that he was a lawbreaker who committed a minor infraction and ran away from law enforcement, and thus faced summary execution under the social media user's proposed rule.

"By the way, I'm a shoplifter. I'm a car thief. I'm a pickpocket artist. And the police happen upon the scene, and I run, and you want me shot? Without regard for any standard as to serious bodily harm or death being in play? No," Smerconish said.

"There's a country for you, and it's behind an iron curtain," he added. "And it's probably a place where they chop off your hand as well. That is nutty."

New video emerged on Friday of the shooting of Renee Good, which was recorded by Ross just moments before he fired the fatal shots. Good can be seen turning her steering wheel all the way to the right before driving away, which undermines the Trump administration's claim that she was intent on running over Ross.

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