{"id":528244,"date":"2026-01-11T00:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528244\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:44:12","slug":"minneapolis-ice-shooting-was-straight-up-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/528244\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis ICE shooting was &#8216;straight-up murder&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers minced no words on Friday night, calling the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis \u201cstraight-up murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Milwaukee\u2019s 105-101 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, Rivers was asked how he felt about athletes being asked about and participating in politics. He took it as an opportunity to reference the Wednesday incident in which Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in Minnesota was a straight-up murder, in my opinion,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=neZXbohSMeo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivers said<\/a>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s awful. This lady was probably trying to go home, and she didn\u2019t make it home, and that\u2019s really sad. The whole ICE thing is, it\u2019s a travesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump administration officials claim that Good was impeding an ICE operation and drove her car towards the agent, who acted in self-defense. Various videos of the incident appear to show one agent trying to open her SUV door and another stepping in front of the vehicle.\u00a0An agent shot Good after she attempted to drive away.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, who previously spoke out against ICE when they deployed in his hometown of Chicago, denounced them once again on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear, to me, we\u2019re attacking Brown people, and I just happen to be Brown,\u201d Rivers said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think it should just be Brown people who are upset at this. I think we all have to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care what side of this thing you are on politically. What\u2019s going on in our country right now is absolutely wrong, as far as the race stuff. The politics, I\u2019m not gonna get into. The race stuff, I will. And it\u2019s just wrong, and we have to do something, but the only thing we can do right now is keep speaking up because it doesn\u2019t seem like they care, and that\u2019s troublesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivers comments echo those of <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/steve-kerr-shameful-government-ice-shooting.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">echoed those of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad that the Timberwolves recognized [Good\u2019s] life and the tragic nature of her death,\u201d Kerr said at his presser. \u201cIt\u2019s shameful, really, that in our country we can have law enforcement officers who commit murder and seemingly get away with it. It\u2019s shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there\u2019s video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying. So, very demoralizing, devastating to lose anyone\u2019s life, especially in that manner. So it\u2019s terrible, terribly sad for her family, and for her, and that city, and I\u2019m glad the Timberwolves came out and expressed that sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers minced no words on Friday night, calling the shooting of Renee Nicole Good&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,2660,4431,102,121,3871,6,73037],"class_list":["post-528244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-bucks","tag-basketball","tag-bucks","tag-doc-rivers","tag-ice","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-milwaukeebucks","tag-nba","tag-renee-nicole-good"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115873701171552099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}