Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee Dave Matthews tore into President Donald Trump and his administration within the wake of Renee Nicole Good’s deadly capturing by an immigration officer in Minnesota earlier this week.
“I don’t need my taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip households aside,” Matthews mentioned in a video posted on his birthday Friday. “We needs to be taking good care of one another. We needs to be minding one another. We needs to be housing the homeless. We shouldn’t be, you realize, throwing folks to the bottom.”
In his video, Matthews additionally criticizes the army operation in Venezuela that led to the seize of its president Nicolas Maduro, threats to different international locations, involvement within the warfare in Gaza and ICE operations.
“Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good, murdered in entrance of her fellow residents in Minneapolis, murdered within the streets, and it doesn’t matter what narrative this administration is making an attempt to promote us, we are able to see the movies,” Matthews mentioned.
A number of movies of Good’s killing confirmed the sufferer being surrounded by immigration officers whereas she was partially blocking a street. Alleged mobile phone footage taken from the standpoint of the shooter, recognized as Jonathan Ross, exhibits Good telling him, “It’s positive, dude, I’m not mad at you.”
She could be seen backing up her car, then turning her wheels and shifting ahead earlier than Ross fired a number of pictures at her. Within the video shot from Ross’ perspective, a voice could be heard saying “fucking bitch” seconds after the gun goes off.
The Trump administration has painted Good’s killing as an act of self-defense, with Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem accusing the sufferer of weaponizing her automotive to run the officer over and committing “an act of home terrorism.”
Vice President JD Vance has additionally known as the now-deceased mom of three “a deranged leftist,” claiming she “was a part of a broader left-wing community to assault, to doxx, to assault and to make it unattainable for our ICE officers to do their job.”
Matthews disputed the administration’s claims, saying that Good was “murdered in chilly blood.”
“It’s mind-boggling, and it’s deeply upsetting to me and to so many individuals, and we are able to’t simply let it slide,” Matthews mentioned.
“To Trump, to Kristi Noem, to Stephen Miller, to Pete Hegseth, to [Kash] Patel to [Pam] Bondi to all of them, simply deeply, deeply dishonest folks. Simply cowardly, shameful, dishonest folks,” he continued. “Fuck them. They’re revolting.”
The singer-songwriter went on to say he’s “deeply ashamed of this authorities, the best way they’re treating our neighbors, inside and outside this nation.”
“Fuck ICE. Yeah. If that language offends you … Come on. All of us heard it earlier than. I hope you realize the place my coronary heart is,” Matthews mentioned. “I don’t like these monsters which might be working the present proper now. They’re ungrateful, grasping monsters. I don’t prefer it. I don’t prefer it one bit.”