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Vice President JD Vance said that those who denigrate law enforcement are encouraging “crazy people to go and commit violence,” after a shooter opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on Wednesday in Dallas.
“You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies. You don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies. But if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell,” Vance said Wednesday during a trip to North Carolina. “And you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.”
“If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo,” Vance said. “If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror. That’s the way that we stop political violence in this country.”
The FBI claimed it’s investigating the matter as a “targeted attack” against ICE, and the Department of Homeland Security said that it had identified shell casings with “anti-ICE” messages.
Three detainees were shot, and two have subsequently died while one is in critical condition, according to a statement from DHS. No ICE officers were harmed in the shooting, and authorities said that the shooter died from a self-inflicted gun wound.
“Look, just because we don’t support illegal aliens, we don’t want them to be executed by violent assassins engaged in political violence or either,” Vance said. “So we’re praying both for our Ice agents, but also for everybody who’s affected by this terrible attack.”
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
