Vice President JD Vance spoke at length on the Wednesday morning shooting targeting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas.
“The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike,” the VP said during an event in Concord, NC.
“It is time to stop the rhetorical assaults on law enforcement — because here’s what happens when Democrats, like [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government; when the left-wing media lies about what they’re doing; when they lie about who they’re arresting; when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they’re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.
Here’s what we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooting
- A gunman identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE van at a detention center in Dallas, Texas, in the early hours of Sept. 24.
- Jahn began shooting while detainees were being transferred and the portcullis to the facility was open, reports claim.
- One person died and two were wounded, according to reports. Jahn was found dead on a nearby rooftop from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
- There was writing on the bullets, with one reading “ANTI-ICE,” according to the FBI.
- The shooting is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence,” the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Joe Rothrock, said in a press conference.
“You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies, you don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.”
One person was shot dead and at least two others injured at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas early Wednesday morning, authorities say.
The victims were migrant detainees, officials said, confirming that no law enforcement officers were hurt. From the roof of a nearby building, crazed sniper Joshua Jahn shot at an unmarked van that was transporting the migrants to the short-term ICE facility, according to police.
Jahn turned the gun on himself as police closed in, they added. The message “ANTI-ICE” was scrawled on unspent shell casings found near his body, officials revealed
