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Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner was mocked Wednesday after declaring that “dismantling ICE” is a “average” place after federal immigration authorities shot and killed a Minneapolis girl who allegedly offered a risk to them as they tried to conduct enforcement operations.
“Once you ship armed, under-trained amateurs into American communities with imprecise orders and no accountability, that is inevitable,” Maine Democrat Platner stated on X with an accompanying video. “ICE have to be dismantled.”
“Dismantling ICE is the average place. Unmask these thugs, arrest them, and make them reply for these horrors,” he stated in one other X publish.
The girl fatally shot Wednesday morning by an ICE agent in Minneapolis was recognized by Minneapolis Metropolis Council members as Twin Cities resident Renee Nicole Good, 37. Good was shot by an ICE agent after blocking a street that regulation enforcement officers had been touring down throughout an operation and showing to “weaponize her automobile” to hit regulation enforcement officers, prompting DHS to name it an “act of home terrorism.”
FORMER DHS CHIEF DECRIES MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR’S ‘UNHINGED’ ICE RHETORIC AFTER DEADLY SHOOTING
Members of regulation enforcement work the scene following a suspected capturing by an ICE agent throughout federal operations on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty)
Council members known as the incident an “assault,” demanding ICE “instantly depart our metropolis so we will eliminate their chaos and violence that ended the lifetime of one among our neighbors as we speak.” That sentiment was echoed by progressive Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, who advised immigration authorities to “get the f— out” of his metropolis.
“This man does not know average,” stated the Media Analysis Middle’s Tim Graham.
“The person with a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest appears like he’s calling for violence at most towards ICE, however completely is asking for the weaponization of the justice system towards ICE at minimal,” added Brianna Lyman, an elections correspondent at The Federalist.
“We must always all love one thing as a lot as Dems love open borders,” GOP advisor Luke Thompson wrote on X.
“The identical liberals who wished to defund the police wish to dismantle ICE,” Alabama Senate candidate Morgan Murphy wrote on X. “Completely not: stand with ICE. Stand with regulation enforcement.
Platner has come below fireplace previously for a tattoo on his chest that critics have claimed resembles a “Totenkopf,” Nazi “dying’s head” image, however he has denied the claims that’s what it represents and stated he has made his stance on Nazism very clear.
SENATE DEM CANDIDATE WHO WROTE HE ‘BECAME A COMMUNIST’ NOW SAYS HE WAS JOKING
Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, factors to a lined tattoo that had beforehand been a picture acknowledged as a Nazi image, throughout an interview on Wednesday in Portland, Me. (WGME by way of AP)
A progressive Democrat, Platner additionally got here below fireplace just lately for calling himself a “communist” in now-deleted Reddit posts. In one of many posts, he wrote, “I received older and have become a communist,” however he subsequently claimed it was merely “web s—posting.”
Following the capturing in Minneapolis involving ICE, protesters took to the streets, together with in entrance of a Minneapolis Courthouse the place they may very well be seen on video banging on glass doorways and home windows demanding “ICE Out Now!”
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, D-Maine, speaks at a city corridor on the Franco Middle, in Lewiston, Maine. (Libby Kenny/Solar Journal by way of AP)
Platner is searching for the Democratic nomination to unseat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine., in 2026.
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