Verdict with Ted Cruz - BONUS POD： Woman Killed After Attempting to Ram ICE Officer

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00:00:04.840 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car

00:00:08.380 and to stop obstructing law enforcement,

00:00:11.520 but she refused to obey their commands.

00:00:13.720 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, 0.97

00:00:16.060 and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. 1.00

00:00:19.820 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents,

00:00:25.040 an act of domestic terrorism.

00:00:27.400 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

00:00:31.440 Good Thursday morning.

00:00:32.400 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update,

00:00:34.700 and we've got one major story for you.

00:00:37.060 It deals with the events in Minnesota.

00:00:39.540 A woman who decided to use her car as a weapon to run over ICE agents.

00:00:44.640 The ICE agent's shooting back, and unfortunately, she lost her life.

00:00:48.880 So why is the left weaponizing this and calling for more individuals

00:00:53.000 to put their lives at risk as well?

00:00:55.100 We'll break it all down for you, plus the facts of actually what happened.

00:01:00.280 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.

00:01:03.680 Story number one.

00:01:04.820 There is one major story that we are going to deal with extensively.

00:01:08.860 It deals with a woman who was fatally shot in Minneapolis by ICE,

00:01:13.320 and she was shot through the front of her windshield

00:01:16.720 as she tried to drive over an ICE agent.

00:01:20.220 There are a lot of lies online claiming that the ICE agent shot her

00:01:26.580 through the passenger window.

00:01:28.420 That did not happen.

00:01:30.220 As the car wrecked, you can clearly see a bullet through the front window.

00:01:35.860 That bullet hole is extremely important when it comes to evidence

00:01:40.660 because it shows that that car was driving directly towards the ICE agent

00:01:45.320 when he had no other choice but to shoot to protect and save his own life

00:01:50.720 and others around him.

00:01:53.140 This was preventable.

00:01:54.840 It is also tragic when someone loses their life.

00:01:58.260 But what also is preventable is the anarchy that is being advocated

00:02:03.780 and taught by the left.

00:02:05.680 To be clear, this woman and others had, in essence, joined together

00:02:10.440 to follow, to stalk, and to stop ICE agents from doing their job.

00:02:16.560 If I don't want to pay my taxes, it doesn't mean that I can drive my car

00:02:22.280 into, well, the IRS building.

00:02:26.600 If I think my tax rate is too high, it doesn't mean that I can just go after

00:02:31.520 IRS agents.

00:02:33.180 You go to your members of Congress.

00:02:35.540 You plead your case.

00:02:37.460 You vote on election day.

00:02:39.740 You get involved and pick people that you believe are going to side with you.

00:02:43.980 But what the left has done is they have told their followers that they can go out

00:02:49.060 and just do whatever they want to do without any accountability.

00:02:53.440 Which brings me back to what I said.

00:02:55.740 This was a preventable death.

00:02:58.360 A death that was inspired by the anarchists on the left who are advocating for people

00:03:04.460 to literally be vigilantes.

00:03:06.460 And when you do this, it can cost people their lives.

00:03:10.240 What's also really sick about this woman losing her life is the fact that the left is actually

00:03:17.020 excited over it.

00:03:19.120 They wanted something like this to happen so that they could then use it to attack Donald

00:03:24.800 Trump and ICE agents.

00:03:26.660 They were looking for a flashpoint or as Democrats have said, you never let a crisis go to waste.

00:03:33.880 Which brings me to Kristi Noem.

00:03:36.480 Kristi Noem, the woman in charge of the Department of Homeland Security, was in Minneapolis and

00:03:43.560 she had very clear message for the men and women in uniform and actually the facts around

00:03:49.540 this case.

00:03:50.780 I want to play that for you in a moment.

00:03:52.720 But before I even do that, I want you to also hear what J.D. Vance said.

00:03:56.180 He put out a tweet a couple hours ago saying, quote,

00:03:59.060 I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration

00:04:06.460 stands behind them.

00:04:08.400 To the radicals assaulting them, doxing them, and threatening them,

00:04:13.780 But congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.

00:04:19.540 Secretary Noem detailing the self-defense shooting in Minneapolis.

00:04:23.380 And here is what she had to say.

00:04:25.880 Any loss of life is a tragedy.

00:04:28.560 And I think all of us can agree that in this situation, it was preventable.

00:04:32.420 I've spoken to the president today on the situation here on the ground.

00:04:36.020 I also just got off the phone a little while ago with Governor Walz and spoke to him as well.

00:04:40.240 I want to reiterate first with all of you the facts of what happened today.

00:04:45.220 At 10.25 a.m. Central Time, Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carrying out lawful

00:04:50.400 operations here in Minneapolis.

00:04:52.420 Because of the adverse weather that Minneapolis has seen in recent snow, one of the vehicles

00:04:56.700 became stuck and ensnared in the snow.

00:04:59.400 Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle.

00:05:02.540 And when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in, shouting

00:05:08.340 at them, and impeding law enforcement operations.

00:05:11.740 ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question, who was blocking

00:05:16.820 the officers in with her vehicle.

00:05:18.880 And she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.

00:05:23.040 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement,

00:05:29.620 but she refused to obey their commands.

00:05:31.380 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement 0.98

00:05:36.780 officer over.

00:05:38.780 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism.

00:05:46.940 The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him, and the safety

00:05:51.800 of the public, fired defensive shots.

00:05:54.260 He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.

00:05:57.240 He was treated at a local hospital, has been released, and is now with family.

00:06:02.060 I encourage the American people at this point in time to pray for him, but also to pray

00:06:06.400 for the deceased's family and her loved ones.

00:06:09.780 Today alone in this country, there have been four different domestic terrorist attacks on

00:06:15.320 federal officers by the ramming of vehicles.

00:06:18.220 Three of them happened here in Minneapolis.

00:06:20.900 We've seen over 100 of these vehicle ramming happen in just recent weeks, and this must stop.

00:06:27.860 Ice alone is facing a 1,300 percent increase in assaults against them, and an 8,000 percent

00:06:34.140 increase in death threats against all of them.

00:06:37.120 In fact, the very same officer who was attacked today had previously been dragged by an anti-ICE

00:06:42.700 rioter who had rammed him with a car and drug him back in June.

00:06:47.420 He sustained injuries at that time as well.

00:06:49.440 And let me remind you why we're all here in this city today and why we've been here.

00:06:55.360 In communities across this country and here in Minneapolis, we're just enforcing the laws

00:07:00.180 that we have in this country.

00:07:01.780 For years, under President Biden, tens of millions of dangerous criminal illegal aliens, terrorists,

00:07:07.960 and suspected terrorists were allowed to invade our country over our southern border.

00:07:12.400 They were allowed to steal, to defraud, and to perpetuate violence against American citizens. 0.80

00:07:17.180 Regardless of who your mayor or who your governor is, President Trump promised every single

00:07:23.640 American that he would make America safe again.

00:07:26.180 He promised every single American that he would work to protect them from dangerous criminals.

00:07:31.740 Since Governor Walz has been in charge of Minnesota, we have seen homicides go up by over 50 percent.

00:07:39.040 That's also during Mayor Fry's tenure as well.

00:07:42.340 Since President Trump took office, Governor Walz has released over 470 violent criminals

00:07:48.180 back onto the streets here in Minneapolis.

00:07:51.040 He has another 680 of them still within his jurisdiction that he could give to us today

00:07:56.520 to face the consequences for their crimes.

00:07:59.720 Because Governor Walz and Mayor Fry refused to protect Minnesotans, and instead, they protect

00:08:05.340 these criminals, that's why we are here.

00:08:07.860 And we didn't just show up yesterday, we've always been here.

00:08:11.160 But we're surging operations because of the dangerous situation we see in this country,

00:08:15.360 and because we're no longer going to allow illegal criminals to damage and harm, to kill,

00:08:21.160 to sexually abuse, to proliferate drugs, and to steal American taxpayers' dollars.

00:08:26.740 Let me just stop there for a moment.

00:08:29.620 You listen to what happened in this situation.

00:08:34.120 The woman is ordered out of her car. 1.00

00:08:37.480 She refuses.

00:08:39.180 She then uses that car and backs it up. 1.00

00:08:42.940 She then drives forward, literally into an ICE agent. 1.00

00:08:47.020 The ICE agent pulls out his gun only when she starts moving towards his body, into his body. 0.64

00:08:57.680 This is self-defense.

00:09:01.160 That should be a simple case close.

00:09:04.480 But you have these radicals on the left who are sitting there,

00:09:09.400 and they are saying that somehow this was not a justifiable shooting.

00:09:14.340 She proceeded to weaponize her car. 0.99

00:09:18.580 I want to go back to that with Kristi Noem.

00:09:20.620 Listen again carefully.

00:09:23.080 At 10.25 a.m. Central Time,

00:09:25.840 Immigration and Customs Enforcement were carrying out lawful operations here in Minneapolis.

00:09:30.920 Because of the adverse weather that Minneapolis has seen in recent snow,

00:09:34.300 one of the vehicles became stuck and ensnared in the snow.

00:09:37.780 Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle,

00:09:40.120 and when a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day began blocking them in,

00:09:46.400 shouting at them, and impeding law enforcement operations.

00:09:50.120 ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question

00:09:54.120 who was blocking the officers in with her vehicle, 0.99

00:09:57.060 and she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.

00:10:01.080 ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car

00:10:04.580 and to stop obstructing law enforcement, but she refused to obey their commands.

00:10:10.400 She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, 0.97

00:10:12.940 and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. 1.00

00:10:17.160 This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents,

00:10:22.500 an act of domestic terrorism.

00:10:25.040 The ICE officer, fearing for his life and the other officers around him,

00:10:29.620 and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.

00:10:32.160 He used his training to save his own life and that of his colleagues.

00:10:35.820 He was treated at a local hospital, has been released, and is now with family.

00:10:40.220 I encourage the American people at this point in time to pray for him,

00:10:44.040 but also to pray for the deceased's family and her loved ones.

00:10:47.920 That is compassion.

00:10:50.920 By the Department of Homeland Security telling compassionately,

00:10:56.460 pray for this woman. 0.56

00:10:58.080 Apparently, the wife of this woman was outside the car 0.88

00:11:02.580 and filming her while she was actively blocking ICE vehicles.

00:11:07.860 Apparently, after the shooting, it's being reported she ran back to check on Renee.

00:11:12.700 She tells a nearby man,

00:11:14.180 that's my wife, when asked if she can call family, 1.00

00:11:16.660 she says, we're new here.

00:11:17.800 I don't have people.

00:11:18.780 I can't even breathe right now.

00:11:20.120 It is incredibly sad to see that the left has decided to weaponize

00:11:27.180 their own followers and put them in harm's way.

00:11:33.120 But this was a domestic terror attack in Minneapolis against ICE agents.

00:11:38.620 Hundreds of ICE agents have been rammed by cars, which are deadly weapons.

00:11:43.880 Where do you think they learned to do this to impede, to stop law enforcement,

00:11:50.500 who, by the way, are just doing their jobs?

00:11:55.980 Senator Mullen put it this way, saying, quote,

00:11:58.300 ICE agents aren't Disney villains.

00:12:00.780 There are neighbors, friends and loved ones.

00:12:02.620 These immigration and customs enforcement officers

00:12:05.040 are red blood American patriots doing a tough job to keep our nation safe.

00:12:09.820 Assaults against ICE agents because of the Democratic Party,

00:12:13.700 because of the left, are up 1,300%.

00:12:16.900 He then said, I stand with DHS.

00:12:19.800 Congressman Andy Barr, ICE agents are enforcing America's laws

00:12:23.240 and delivering exactly what the people voted for.

00:12:28.780 Secure border and the deportations of dangerous illegal criminals.

00:12:33.100 Targeting ICE agents will never end well for anyone who tries.

00:12:36.740 Homeland Security putting it out this way, saying this,

00:12:40.880 Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations

00:12:45.460 when rioters began blocking ICE officers

00:12:48.400 and one of these violent rioters weaponized their vehicle,

00:12:51.980 attempting to run over law enforcement officers

00:12:54.140 in an attempt to kill them, an act of domestic terrorism.

00:12:58.120 An ICE officer fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement

00:13:01.540 and safety of the public fired defensive shots.

00:13:04.520 He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.

00:13:09.700 The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased.

00:13:12.400 The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.

00:13:16.820 This is the direct consequence of constant attacks

00:13:20.140 and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians

00:13:26.080 who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement

00:13:30.600 who are facing this 1,300% increase in assaults against them

00:13:35.360 and an 8,000% increase in death threats.

00:13:40.980 I couldn't agree more.

00:13:43.060 I could not agree more.

00:13:45.580 With the law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security saying,

00:13:49.720 We are just enforcing the law.

00:13:52.160 We're doing our job.

00:13:53.600 Why was this woman in a situation where she thought she could do this? 1.00

00:13:59.360 It's very simple.

00:14:01.200 She didn't want to be held accountable

00:14:02.980 for blocking the Department of Homeland Security and ICE agents.

00:14:07.860 And she decided,

00:14:09.360 she decided to go after and use her car as a deadly weapon. 0.99

00:14:15.700 The driver refused to get out,

00:14:18.540 accelerated towards the agent directly in front of the car.

00:14:21.340 He fired rounds, killing her.

00:14:22.920 And the leftists are then promising violent retribution towards ICE agents, 0.96

00:14:27.980 wanting to kill more ICE agents. 0.77

00:14:30.500 By the way, they've already shot ICE agents.

00:14:34.080 I'll give you an example of what the left's putting online.

00:14:36.880 One person on X wrote, 0.98

00:14:38.400 All ICE agents must be put down like the dogs they are. 0.99

00:14:42.200 This is the Democratic Party. 1.00

00:14:44.120 This is the party of violence.

00:14:47.240 Look no further than how they reply online to this.

00:14:52.920 Let me say one final thing.

00:14:55.880 God bless our men and women who are willing to go do these jobs.

00:15:00.480 They are getting more and more dangerous.

00:15:03.720 Tim Waltz, the governor of that state,

00:15:05.720 he called the ICE agents months ago the Gestapo.

00:15:10.440 This is exactly why stuff happens like this.

00:15:13.480 This woman and around the country,

00:15:16.700 we've seen hundreds of ramming of ICE agents this year.

00:15:21.800 In the last month,

00:15:23.080 we've seen more than 100 ramming with cars of ICE agents.

00:15:27.160 It resulted in her life being lost

00:15:29.820 because of the left who is inspiring her to go do this

00:15:34.180 and trying to make her believe that somehow this is acceptable.

00:15:38.340 What's also shocking is the mayor there.

00:15:43.000 The mayor saying disgusting things about our men and women in uniform after this happened.

00:15:49.400 The mayor saying this,

00:15:52.360 and I want you to listen carefully to the words that he decided to use.

00:15:56.420 There's little I can say, again, that'll make this situation better,

00:16:00.460 but I do have a message for our community,

00:16:03.540 for our city,

00:16:05.040 and I have a message for ICE.

00:16:09.200 To ICE, 0.99

00:16:11.060 get the f*** out of Minneapolis. 0.99

00:16:12.340 That is the Democratic mayor, 0.94

00:16:15.760 Jacob Fry's message to our brave ICE agents in Minneapolis

00:16:19.000 who are getting the worst criminals off of his streets. 0.98

00:16:22.640 And this deranged lunatic of a mayor 0.99

00:16:25.820 who is inspiring other lunatics to try to murder those ICE agents, 1.00

00:16:30.340 he says, 1.00

00:16:31.340 get the f*** out of Minneapolis. 0.99

00:16:34.540 The Democratic Party's violent rhetoric 0.99

00:16:37.280 is what is fueling these attacks on ICE agents.

00:16:40.700 And they do not care about this woman 0.97

00:16:43.340 because if they did care about this woman,

00:16:47.240 they wouldn't be telling her to go out and to do this.

00:16:51.620 Period.

00:16:52.820 And by the way,

00:16:53.580 if you think that the mayor of Minneapolis

00:16:56.600 is going to come to his senses

00:16:58.820 and ratchet this down,

00:17:01.540 this rhetoric,

00:17:02.460 which is calling for the attacks on ICE agents,

00:17:05.320 I want you to listen to the second part of what he had to say carefully.

00:17:09.100 People are being hurt.

00:17:10.700 Families are being ripped apart.

00:17:13.500 Long-term Minneapolis residents

00:17:15.500 that have contributed so greatly to our city,

00:17:18.460 to our culture,

00:17:19.660 to our economy,

00:17:20.780 are being terrorized.

00:17:21.940 And now somebody is dead.

00:17:25.280 That's on you.

00:17:27.400 And it's also on you to leave.

00:17:29.320 It's on you and it's on you to leave.

00:17:32.780 It's amazing how they care so much about the life of this woman

00:17:36.660 who tried to run over an ICE agent,

00:17:39.920 but they don't care about the lives of those in Minneapolis

00:17:43.600 who have been murdered by the same exact criminals

00:17:47.600 or raped or beaten or stolen from.

00:17:51.580 They do not care about those people's lives.

00:17:59.020 They don't care about the countless people in Minneapolis

00:18:01.960 that have been murdered by illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:18:05.440 And there have been countless. 0.67

00:18:07.680 There have been people that have been killed by illegal immigrants

00:18:10.680 who were driving drunk or under the influence of drugs

00:18:14.520 or people that have died at the hands of illegal immigrants 0.70

00:18:17.340 because they sold them fake pills laced with fentanyl.

00:18:21.280 This is the reality of the situation.

00:18:24.520 Scott Jennings,

00:18:25.280 good friend of mine over at CNN,

00:18:27.220 he went on there and he said it this way

00:18:29.580 and I couldn't agree with him more.

00:18:30.940 What strikes me is,

00:18:33.080 first of all,

00:18:33.740 it's extremely sad and unfortunate that someone died.

00:18:36.220 I mean,

00:18:36.720 the political fighting and disagreements aside,

00:18:39.640 it's terrible.

00:18:40.680 You don't want people to die in law enforcement situations or otherwise.

00:18:44.380 But it strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic

00:18:47.700 of political vigilantism right now.

00:18:51.660 Why are people showing up in vehicles,

00:18:54.160 in convoys,

00:18:55.380 not just in Minneapolis,

00:18:56.840 but all over the country

00:18:58.080 in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?

00:19:03.660 This is not an isolated incident.

00:19:05.320 We have had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents

00:19:07.860 all over the country.

00:19:09.740 According to DHS,

00:19:11.180 this lady in this car today,

00:19:12.760 along with other vehicles,

00:19:13.960 have been tracking ICE agents around.

00:19:16.740 Why are people believing

00:19:18.120 that they can drive their car

00:19:20.380 into a federal law enforcement situation

00:19:22.320 and that is an appropriate thing to do?

00:19:24.460 I understand they don't like the fact

00:19:26.400 that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law.

00:19:29.840 But that's not how we change laws in this country.

00:19:32.160 If you don't like a law,

00:19:33.420 you talk to the politicians.

00:19:34.760 You don't drive your car

00:19:35.940 into the middle of a building

00:19:37.740 or a law enforcement situation

00:19:39.280 that's being occupied by the people

00:19:41.220 who are simply there to enforce the law.

00:19:43.520 If I don't like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes,

00:19:46.280 I don't drive my car into the Treasury Department

00:19:48.600 and try to run somebody over.

00:19:49.860 I call my congressman.

00:19:51.480 Political vigilantism

00:19:52.400 vigilantism is being encouraged

00:19:54.180 by Democratic officials

00:19:55.760 like the lieutenant governor of Minnesota,

00:19:58.040 Peggy Flanagan,

00:19:58.760 who earlier this year

00:19:59.580 told people to, quote,

00:20:00.620 put your bodies on the line

00:20:03.180 and Tim Walz calling these guys

00:20:04.940 Gestapo all year.

00:20:06.600 What do you think happens

00:20:07.520 when you radicalize

00:20:08.640 a base of people about this?

00:20:10.180 It does strike me.

00:20:10.460 I couldn't agree with him more.

00:20:12.340 Thank you for listening

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 08, 2026

BONUS POD： Woman Killed After Attempting to Ram ICE Officer

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