Milwaukee Bucks head coach Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers on January 9, 2026 (Image: Screengrab via Milwaukee Bucks / YouTube)
Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers, who is the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise, spent several minutes from a recent post-game press conference to denounce the killing of Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Renee Good at the hands of federal agents.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Rivers — whose team defeated the Los Angeles Lakers by a score of 105-101 on Friday — called Good's killing "morally wrong" while speaking to reporters after the game. The 2008 NBA champion head coach stated that he viewed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) fatal shooting of the U.S. citizen and mother as "straight-up murder."
"It's awful. This lady was probably trying to go home and she didn't make it home and that's really sad," he said. "The whole ICE thing is a travesty."
Rivers went on to accuse President Donald Trump's administration of "attacking Brown people," and noted that while he is a person of color, that it shouldn't just be people of color calling out what he viewed as racist federal policy.
"I don't care what side of this thing you're on politically," he said. "What's going on in our country is absolutely wrong as far as the race stuff. The politics I'm not going to get into, the race stuff I will. And it's just wrong, and we have to do something. But the only thing we can do right now is keep speaking up. Because it doesn't seem like they care. And that's troublesome."
The Bucks head coach told reporters that he felt the president was serving as a poor "role model" for young Americans to emulate, and accused Trump of governing as a "bully."
"I keep thinking about kids," he said. "And when I grew up, the president was always the role model. And I think about that, and the effect of being a bully, lying, how is that good for our kids? and that worries me for our future."
Watch the video of Rivers' remarks below:
