"I find that to be an incredibly irresponsible statement, Sandweg told co-anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar. First of all, the information you get even at [DHS] the initial information is almost always wrong. It is very hard to know in Washington, D.C. what exactly happened. That is what investigations are for, Sandweg continued. But there is no way that you can make those conclusions that this was an act of domestic terrorism, that this woman was targeting I.C.E. Agents."
"There's no way that you can make those judgments at this time, given the absolute dearth of information that's available, even to the secretary of DHS. Sandweg added her comments do a disservice to everyone, including both ICE and the person who was shot. This undermines the credibility of the agency when you rush out and reflexively say, We know what happened. We were right, they were wrong, he said. This is politicizing this. Not everything is political."
Kristi Noem described a Minneapolis incident in which an ICE agent shot a woman in her car as an act of domestic terrorism after agents were allegedly rammed. John Sandweg, former acting ICE director, criticized that characterization as irresponsible and premature. Sandweg emphasized that initial information, even within DHS, is often wrong and that investigations exist to determine facts. He warned that rushing to label the incident undermines agency credibility and politicizes the event. Noem said agents were stuck in snow and acted defensively when an officer shot to protect himself and others; DHS called it a ramming incident.
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