Ben & Jerry’s co-founder calls for ICE to be 'defunded and disbanded': 'This is not freedom'
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be "defunded and disbanded" after the second fatal shooting this month of an American in Minneapolis involving...
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Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be "defunded and disbanded" after the second fatal shooting this month of an American in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents . Cohen said he initially planned to create an ice cream honoring Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old woman shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, but that he did not have it in him to make the treat after Border Patrol agents on Saturday fatally shot Alex Pretti, also 37, while he was recording immigration enforcement operations in the same city. Pretti, an ICU nurse, appeared to be attempting to assist a woman agents had knocked down when he was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the ground and beaten, according to video and witness accounts. An agent was later seen pulling Pretti’s lawfully owned firearm from his waistband before other agents fired several shots, killing him. "I was prepared to make a special ice cream today to memorialize and celebrate the life of Renee Good, but now that Alex’s murder makes it clear that the murder of Renee and the government’s lies were not a mistake but standard operating procedure, I just don’t have it within me," Cohen said in a video posted to X. JUDGE THREATENS CONTEMPT FOR ICE LEADER, ORDERS HIM TO APPEAR IN COURT "We all live in Minneapolis now, because Minneapolis is only the beginning of what they have in mind. They’re coming for anyone, anywhere who doesn’t submit," he continued. "A brazen, arrogant, masked militarized force loyal only to Trump and immune from prosecution." Cohen asserted that people in the U.S. must "submit" to the Trump administration or risk being killed by federal agents for exercising their First Amendment rights. "Submit or be murdered. Video them and be murdered. Protest and be murdered, or at least be placed on a list of domestic terrorists and investigated," he said. TIM WALZ COMPARES MINNESOTA ICE ACTIONS TO HOLOCAUST AND ANNE FRANK: 'HI…