Whoopi Goldberg co-host of "The View," Department of Homeland Security Secretry Kristi Noem, Images via Screengrab.
The debate over the slaying of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week continues as President Donald Trump's administration defended the officer on the Sunday morning talk shows. After watching an interview by CNN's Jake Tapper with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the co-hosts of "The View" were baffled by the administration's defense.
Playing a clip of the interview, the women honed in on Noem's head-scratching statements.
"Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on," Noem told Tapper.
"And every single one of these investigations comes in the full context of the situation on the ground," Noem said after Tapper asked her about Jan. 6.
"I don't know what she just said," Whoopi Goldberg said .
"It was a world salad," said Sunny Hostin.
"Ok. Ok, it's so interesting to me. How can — I don't know there are — there are a zillion perspectives of this," Goldberg said about the videos that have been posted online of the incident. "And it's like that old joke, you know? A woman comes home, walks into her bedroom, hears noises happening, walks in and there's her husband having sex with somebody else and she goes, 'Oh, my, what are you doing? I can't believe you're doing this!' He said, 'What are you talking about?' She said, 'What are you doing, you're having sex with this woman.' He says, 'What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' That's what this is. You know what you saw."
"You know what you saw," Goldberg said into the camera. "Now, you can keep saying she was aggressively running people up — she — we know what we saw. So how can people — it's a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyway — watch the same footage and see things so differently?"
Former Trump administration aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said that watching the situation in those videos, it's clear "we've lost our collective humanity." She noted that she has family who have had run-ins with the law and called them lucky for encounters where officers knew to "de-escalate" instead of shooting.
