‘Expect to be shot:’ Central Florida sheriff weighs in on Minneapolis ICE shooting

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – After a driver was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd came out to express his thoughts on the matter.

In a video posted to social media on Thursday, Judd said he had been approached by media outlets and several others to comment on the shooting.

“You have to be accountable for your conduct,” Judd stated. “And that starts with the mayor. Did you hear his filthy talk? Did you hear his filthy, uninformed talk?”

Judd’s statement appears to be in reference to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who said after the shooting that immigration agents had acted recklessly and were causing “chaos in our city.”

Judd said that the mayor’s comments lacked “professionalism,” pointing out that the investigation into the shooting is not yet complete.

Instead, Judd said he would just discuss a video clip he saw of the shooting.

According to DHS officials, the incident happened after a “rioter” attempted to run over an ICE agent with her vehicle, which the agency dubbed an “act of domestic terrorism.”

“ICE agents were trying to take the occupant of the car out of the vehicle,” Judd said. “During this encounter, the vehicle backed up, and then drove directly at the ICE agent. That is a deadly weapon.”

Videos taken by bystanders show an officer approaching an SUV, which is stopped in the middle of the road, demanding that the driver open her door.

Meanwhile, the SUV begins to pull forward, and a different ICE agent in front of the vehicle pulls out his weapon and fires into the SUV, jumping to the side as the vehicle moves toward him.

“(The driver) should’ve expected to be shot when you commit a deadly assault on a law enforcement officer,” Judd continued.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Judd urged Mayor Frey, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and local law enforcement leaders to “send out the message” that residents should cooperate with law enforcement.

“Don’t violently resist them,” Judd added. “If you do violently resist them — if you do felonious assaults with 2-ton weapons — expect to be shot."

The driver in this case was identified as Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who described herself on social media as a “poet and writer and wife and mom” who was from Colorado.

The shooting itself has already driven plenty of controversy, with some claiming that the ICE agent had no valid reason to shoot Good, and others arguing it was an act of self-defense.

“How dare ICE label this woman a domestic terrorist,” Florida State Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-District 10) said. “You wanna know who’s terrorizing our communities? ICE agents, from Orlando to Minneapolis. That ice agent needs to lose his job, be arrested and charged for the murder of this woman.”

“This woman who was in a place she shouldn’t have been, who made it her mission to bother and distract and hinder legitimate law enforcement operations, butted (...) she drove her car at him. He fired back,“ said U.S. Rep. Randy Fine (R-District 6). ”100% of the blame for what happened here rests on the wacky leftists who are fighting and hurting themselves in order to keep illegal invaders in our country. We don’t need more body cameras to show us anything different.”